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Sleep timer

The sleep timer stops the book when you have fallen asleep: it fades the sound out, pauses and rewinds half a minute, so in the morning you find the place where you drifted off.

The timer counts playing time, not clock time: a pause stops it, and at 1.5× a half-hour timer ends in twenty minutes. If you would rather have real minutes: Settings → “Sleep timer” → “Counts” → “By the clock”. The countdown survives seeking, a change of file and the app going to the background. A timer to the end of a chapter always counts playing time and follows the book.

The timer is free. You can turn it on for your usual half hour, or off, without opening the app: with the “Sleep timer” button in Control Center, on the Action button or by voice, “Sleep timer in Akoue”. The remaining time shows in the lock screen widget.

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Turn the timer on

Seven durations and a one-tap start. The sheet stays open so you can see the countdown.

  1. In the player tap “timer”, the button with the moon icon in the second row.
  2. Pick a duration: 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60 or 90 minutes — or set your own with the “…” button, on a wheel from 1 to 240 minutes. The countdown starts at once.
  3. The remaining time appears at the top with the “+10 min” and “Cancel” buttons. Tap “Done” to get back to the player.
  4. Next time the sheet offers a “Same as last time” row with your last choice.

There is no “Off” item in the sheet: the timer is turned off with the “Cancel” button.

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Remaining time, extending and cancelling

While the timer runs, it is visible right in the player: the button is highlighted and shows the remaining time.

  1. Look at the “timer” button: instead of its caption it shows the remaining time, for example 14:58.
  2. Tap it to open the sheet. “+10 min” adds ten minutes, “Cancel” turns the timer off.
  3. Tapping a duration again restarts the countdown.
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To the end of the chapter or file

Falling asleep at a chapter boundary is better than in the middle of a sentence.

  1. In the timer sheet, below the durations, choose “To the end of the chapter” or “To the end of the file”.
  2. The same choice is in the chapters sheet: the “To the end of the chapter” button at the bottom of the list.
  3. The end of the chapter follows where the book is playing: skip into another chapter and the timer stops at the end of that one.

If the book has no chapters, the row is disabled and captioned “the book has no chapters”. “To the end of the file” remains.

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What happens when the timer fires

The sound does not cut off, it fades. The book stops and the position rolls back. No notifications, no sounds.

  1. Twenty seconds before the end the volume fades down to zero. The length is set in Settings → “Sleep timer” → “Fade out at the end”: Off, 10, 20, 30 or 60 s.
  2. At the end the book pauses, the volume comes back at once, and the position rolls back — by 30 seconds unless you say otherwise. The amount is set in the same place, in the “Rewind when it fires” row: Off, 10, 30 or 60 s.
  3. Not quite asleep? Within a minute, shake the phone — the screen can stay off: the book continues and the timer restarts for the same length. While a timed countdown is running, a shake sends it back to the start. Turned off with the “Extend by shaking” switch.

The player’s volume fades, not the device’s: the system volume stays yours.

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Auto timer in the evening

If you turn the timer on by hand every evening, let it arm itself.

  1. Open Settings → “Sleep timer” and turn on “Auto sleep timer”.
  2. Set the “From” and “To” window, for example from 22:00 to 6:00. The window may cross midnight.
  3. Choose what to “Arm”: 15, 30, 45, 60 minutes or “to end of chapter”.
  4. Start a book inside the window: the timer turns on by itself. A timer turned on by hand is not overridden.

With Pro sync, the auto timer travels between iPhone and iPad along with the other sleep timer settings: fade-out, rollback, counting and shaking.

What the timer does not do

  • A preset set of its own: 5, 10, 15, 30, 45, 60 and 90 minutes are fixed, and your own length goes in through the “…” button.
  • A counter of its own in the Dynamic Island or a button in CarPlay: see the remaining time in the player and in the lock screen widget.
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