Sleep To Pause

Fall asleep to a podcast, audiobook or music, and let your Apple Watch pause it for you. SleepToPause gives your wrist a gentle buzz every few minutes. If you are awake, a small movement of your wrist tells it so. If you do not respond, it buzzes once more a minute later. Still no response? You have fallen asleep, and whatever your iPhone is playing is paused right where you stopped listening. No more waking at 3am to find your audiobook three chapters ahead. HOW IT WORKS • Open SleepToPause on your iPhone once. The watch app installs with it. • Start playing something on your iPhone and tap Start on your watch when you get into bed. • Your watch buzzes at the interval you choose, from 3 to 15 minutes. • Move your wrist within 5 seconds to show you are awake. • Miss two buzzes in a row and your audio is paused. • Your place is kept, so you can pick up where you left off. WORKS WITH YOUR AUDIO APPS Pausing uses the iPhone's own audio system, the same way a phone call interrupts music, so it works with any app that plays sound on your iPhone: music, podcasts, audiobooks, sleep sounds, video. Headphones and Bluetooth speakers are fine. Audio sent to another device with AirPlay or a cast is not playing on your iPhone, so it cannot be paused. WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT IS PAID The app is free. Pausing and resuming your audio by hand from your watch is free, always. Automatic pausing when you fall asleep is a single one-time purchase in the iPhone app. There is no subscription. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No heart rate. No health data. No body sensors. • No account and no sign-up. • Nothing is sent to the internet. Your watch talks only to your own iPhone. • The watch uses its movement sensor only to notice your wrist response. GOOD TO KNOW • Needs watchOS 10 and iOS 17 or later. • For a buzz you will feel in bed, set your watch's Settings, Sounds & Haptics, Haptics to Prominent. • The watch asks for Health access so it can keep checking with the screen off. Nothing is read from or written to Health. • SleepToPause is not a sleep tracker or a medical device. It does not record or analyse your sleep.