BlackyHawky
Add ability to Pause Alarms (for vacations)
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Sometimes there are temporary changes to a schedule, such as vacation, school breaks, or illness.
Describe the solution you'd like I'd like to be able to pause alarms for specific dates. This is preferable to disabling the alarm, because it will automatically resume when your schedule resumes.
Use case For example, my child has spring break with no school for a week. For that entire week, I will need a different alarm. I want to disable my usual alarm for the week without having to remember to manually turn it back on when school resumes.
Describe alternatives you've considered Manually checking alarms each night before bed works, but is error prone.
Additional context I've added a screenshot from the Google clock app on a Motorola phone. Note how it shows a dot on the calendar view to show which days the alarm is currently set for.
I would also really appreciate this feature. Since #4 is closed, I suggest reopening this issue.
Hi,
Great App.
I would also appreciate this feature. I know it like pause alarm for 24 hours so if i want to get up at another time the next morning but still have the original alarm on for the day after. Sometimes I forget to switch it on in the evening and then I oversleep.
EDIT: I researched on the other app (non-free) If I switch off an alarm it asks me if I just want to skip the next one and that comes in pretty handy.
Thanks.
@florom
Great App.
Thanks a lot. 😉
Indeed, this is a major feature that needs to be implemented, but it requires a lot of time and work.
I'll be working on this in the near future.
On Samsung Clock, one can skip the next instance of a recurring alarm, and then the alarm will automatically become active again after that. Super helpful!
And thank you for the great app.
@eddddddddddddd
On Samsung Clock, one can skip the next instance of a recurring alarm, and then the alarm will automatically become active again after that. Super helpful!
You can also do this in this application, either from the notification when it appears, or directly on the alarm (I advise you to set the "Notification reminder" setting to 12 hours).
And thank you for the great app.
Thank you for your kind words. 😉
Hi @BlackyHawky ,
I am monitoring this feature too, so thank you for your suggestion.
You can also do this in this application, either from the notification when it appears, or directly on the alarm (I advise you to set the > "Notification reminder" setting to 12 hours).
I have to admit this is an idea but my psyche is not good for that. I have tried it now and now the notification comes up. I just got home from work and it tells me that I have to get up in 12 hours. I really do not like when a clock timer tells me how much time I have left when i set the alarm but unfortunately there is no clock as comfortable as a cell phone which do not do that so i have to stick with it. Sad but true. Getting a notification every day 12 hours before the alarm is even worse.
Still I appreciate an open source app more then the samsung clock app. That's why I am using it. I hope this is understandable.
Again thank you for developing and maintaining an open source clock App :)
@florom Hi,
I have to admit this is an idea but my psyche is not good for that. I have tried it now and now the notification comes up. I just got home from work and it tells me that I have to get up in 12 hours.
You can disable notifications for upcoming alarms, but only once they have appeared.
This is the case for you so in the app:
- Go to the Permission Management setting;
- Click on the Enable notifications card;
- After confirming the dialog box (even if it says that permission will be revoked), you will access the app's notification settings;
- Finally, on this page (which varies depending on the brand), you can disable only notifications for imminent alarms.
It works on my three devices.
Please, keep me informed.
Thanks @BlackyHawky ,
That is a good Idea. I don't get a notification on the phone itself just the "Dismiss" does appear on the clock and there i can pause the next alarm. You could add up to 24 hours for the "Notification appearance" which of course is not what it was intended for but I think this workaround is good enough to be used regularly. That is quite good for pausing the next alarm.
Thank you very much for the suggestion. 😊
Hi @BlackyHawky ,
That is a good Idea. I don't get a notification on the phone itself just the "Dismiss" does appear on the clock and there i can pause the next alarm.
Unfortunately this did not work. Cause there are no notifications i could not turn off the alarm. I had to restart my phone for that. 😔
@florom Hi,
Unfortunately this did not work. Cause there are no notifications i could not turn off the alarm. I had to restart my phone for that. 😔
Can you show me what exactly you disabled?
@BlackyHawky Android Settings -> App Notifications -> Clock -> Allow Notification Switch to OFF.
@florom
Android Settings -> App Notifications -> Clock -> Allow Notification Switch to OFF.
I understand better now. You've turned off all notifications...
As I mentioned, you only need to turn off notifications for upcoming alarms.
@BlackyHawky Thanks for your precious time first.
I am not getting to see this:
| First Step Opening Management Permissions | Second Step Clicking on the middle One | After Clicking OK -> Third Step |
|---|---|---|
@florom Very strange; I tested on my 3rd device (Samsung - Android 14) and I have another menu that appears at the bottom of the settings that is similar to yours: Notification categories.
From what I know, to make this menu appear, you need to create events on the app:
- Set an alarm that will go off before the time defined in the "Notification reminder" setting
- Snooze an alarm
- Trigger an alarm and a timer
- Start a timer and minimize the app
- Start the stopwatch and minimize the app
Once the menu appears, you click on it and you can disable notifications for each event separately.
Can you test this please?
FYI: Tested on 3 devices with Android 9/12/14 and it works.
@BlackyHawky Thanks for clarification But unfortunatly if i click on Notification Settings then it does not appear as seen in your screenshot above. It seems android 15 (and/or One UI: 7.0 is not so forgiving 😒
| All Opened | All Opend with details |
|---|---|
@florom Another test: When the upcoming alarm notification appears, can you swipe it to the left to reveal a settings icon? Or what happens if you long-press the icon?
@BlackyHawky Swipe left or right: Notification is gone. Long Press: There is a Button for Dismiss Alarm and a gear wheel (settings icon) if ich press the gear wheel (settings icon) i am at the android notification settings again Short press: Entering app.
@florom I need to research the notification behavior on Android 15 which has been changed. I also need to test on emulator. I'll let you know soon.
@florom Sorry for my late reply; I was working on other topics. So I tested it on an emulator with Android 15, and here's what you should get:
| First install (no notifications posted) | After an alarm is about to go off (when the notification appears) |
|---|---|
This is the default behavior of Android notifications even for Android 15.
@BlackyHawky I would really like to use it like that but on my phone this really does not come up like that. If there is something not right in my handling please tell me:
@florom
Thanks for the video. I think I found out on a forum how to disable certain categories of notifications for OneUI:
Settings => Notifications => Advanced Settings=> Manage notification categories
Do you have the same thing on your device?
@BlackyHawky Thanks that settles it. It does not look exactly like in the screenshots but it finally shows the options which we were looking for. It seems just like the solution. Will test it out tomorrow in real and give feedback in the evening.
Hi @BlackyHawky , Thank you very much for the new upgrade of the app. I appreciate it a lot.
One tiny thing I still want, even if I dont want to open a new thread is, that the timeframe for dismiss an alarm should be greatly increased. At least to 24 hours or even indefinitely. Then you can really pause any alarm for once.
Thank you for consideration.
In Samsung Clock, when we pause an alarm (which repeats every day), the app displays a button that asks us if we want to reactivate it for tomorrow.
Can you add this feature ?
@guguss-31 Hi
You can also do this in this application, either from the notification when it appears, or directly on the alarm card (I advise you to set the "Notification reminder" setting to 12 hours so that the "Dismiss" button appears).
Currently, this button appears depending on the "Notification reminder" setting, but in the next version a new setting will be added to allow this button to appear as soon as the alarm is enabled.
Great App.
Thanks a lot. 😉
Indeed, this is a major feature that needs to be implemented, but it requires a lot of time and work.
I'll be working on this in the near future.
I also would like this feature! Another idea, much more limited, but which I belive is much simpler to implement, is to allow a "SKIP NEXT" for each alarm. It would be exactly like the "DISMISS" option, but "DISMISS" is only available to the next alarm, and only when it is close enough. With "SKIP NEXT", we could skip the next occurrence of any alarm, no matter how far it is. This function is implemented in AMDROID, Alarm Clock for Heavy Sleepers, from Smart Alarm Clock Team (in Google Play Store). AMDROID only let us skip the next occurrence of each alarm. If possible, you could implement skipping multiple occurrences. This should solve (sort of) the issue EchoWaffles2 reported, with less coding.
