“Sunrise Alarm” is an iOS app that wakes you at the time of sunrise where you are, with natural sounds such as birdsong or a brook. It helps you build a daily rhythm in step with the sun while you look back on your sleep records and how they line up with sunrise and sunset.
The app's name on your device depends on your language (for example, “Sunrise Alarm” in English and “日の出目覚まし” in Japanese). The names of buttons, tabs and screens on this page are the ones the app shows in English.
The alarm is set one morning at a time and does not ring automatically every day. Every night before bed, tap “Start” on the Sunrise page of the Alarm tab. The alarm is set for the next sunrise, and your bedtime is logged at the same time. Then just put your phone down and go to sleep. In the morning, touch and hold “I'm Up” to open that night's Sleep Diary.
Only when you first use the app is the first alarm set automatically at the end of the initial setup. That night too, tap “Start” before bed to log your bedtime (the alarm that is already set is used as is; it is never set twice). Until you tap “Start”, you can turn this alarm off with “Turn Off”. On days when you want to wake at a set time instead of at sunrise, use the “Custom Time” page; on days when you only want to log your sleep without an alarm, use the “No Alarm” page.
Touch and hold “I'm Up”. This ends the bedtime log and also turns off any alarm that has not rung yet. Then, in the Sleep Diary that opens, choose “Delete This Record” from the “…” menu to delete that record (recordings are not deleted with it; to delete recordings, use “Listen” on the Sleep tab). To set the alarm again, tap “Start” once more.
The app calculates the time of sunrise from your current location, on your device (no network connection is used for the calculation). In “Wake-Up Time” on the Settings tab, you can set an offset from sunrise (up to 60 minutes earlier or later) and times for “Don't Wake Before” and “Wake No Later Than”.
The app uses the iOS alarm feature (AlarmKit), so the alarm rings even in Silent mode or while a Focus is on. Note that Bedtime Support notifications (see below) are regular notifications, so they may not appear while a Focus is on.
By default, “Gradually Louder” is on: the alarm starts very quietly and reaches its normal volume over about 20 seconds. Because iOS requires alarm sounds to be shorter than 30 seconds, when the sound reaches its end, it repeats the same pattern, starting quietly again. If the quiet start does not wake you, turn off “Gradually Louder” on the Settings tab, and the alarm will ring at its normal volume from the start.
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Alarm vibration is produced by iOS, so the app cannot stop it. If you want to stop vibration too, turn off Vibration in the Settings app under Accessibility > Touch (this stops all vibration, including for calls and notifications). Conversely, if you want to wake with vibration only and no sound, choose “Vibration Only” in “Alert Style” on the Settings tab.
In “Snooze” on the Settings tab, you can choose 5, 10 or 15 minutes. Choose “Custom” to set anywhere from 1 to 30 minutes in 1-minute steps. You can also turn off “Use Snooze” so that the alarm can only be stopped.
In “Alarm Sound” on the Settings tab, you can choose a song from Music. Only songs that are downloaded to your device and have no copy protection (DRM) can be used. Apple Music streaming songs cannot be used. The first 29 seconds of the song you choose are copied into the app and used as the alarm sound.
When “Record Snoring & Sleep Talk” on the Settings tab is on (it is on by default), tapping “Start” before bed starts recording at the same time as the bedtime log. The first time, you are asked for microphone permission. Sound is analyzed on your device, and only the parts where snoring or sleep talk is detected (including the few seconds before, up to about 30 seconds each) are saved. A whole night of audio is never saved. Recording stops automatically 30 minutes after your planned wake-up time (12 hours after bedtime on “No Alarm” nights), and it also stops when you touch and hold “I'm Up”.
Recordings are stored only in this app's storage on your device. They are never sent outside your device, including to us. The latest 14 nights are kept, and recordings from older nights are deleted automatically. Recordings are excluded from device backups (such as iCloud Backup), so they are not carried over to a new device when you change devices.
The voices of family members or others sleeping in the same room may be recorded. Please be considerate, for example by letting them know in advance.
In the list you open with “Listen” on the Sleep tab, swipe left on a recording to delete it, or use “Delete All Recordings” to delete them all at once. To stop recording, turn off “Record Snoring & Sleep Talk” on the Settings tab. Even with it off, you can keep logging your bedtime and wake-up.
Note that after the free trial ends, only that screen can be opened until you buy a plan or choose “Continue Free with Ads”, so you cannot delete recordings in the app. Once you choose either one (or your subscription becomes active through “Restore Purchases”), you can delete them again. If you want to delete them without choosing, delete the app.
The bedtime logged with “Start” and the wake-up time logged with “I'm Up” are stored on your device. For roughly the most recent month, you can correct the times of, or delete, one night at a time from the “…” menu in the Sleep Diary (open it from the calendar or the recent nights on the Sleep tab). Older records cannot be deleted individually; they are deleted when you delete the app. These records are included in device backups, so restoring from a backup carries them over to a new device.
If you allow it from “Connect to Apple Health” on the Sleep tab or the Solar Year tab, the app reads sleep data from Apple Health and uses it to show your sleep duration and bedtime and wake-up times. It only reads the data and never writes to Apple Health. It does not save the data it reads as files in the app, send it outside your device or use it for ads. You can change the permission at any time under Apps in your profile in the Health app.
Only to calculate sunrise and sunset times (alarm times, Bedtime Support, the Solar Year tab, showing how your sleep lines up with sunrise, and so on). The app works with “While Using the App”, and approximate location (with Precise Location turned off) is fine. The last location obtained is saved on your device; it is never sent to us and never used for ads. Note that when the initial setup shows a map of your current location, the map images are fetched from Apple's map service.
In “Bedtime Support” on the Settings tab, you can turn on notifications at sunset, 1 hour before bedtime and at bedtime (all off by default). They are cues to put your phone down and head to sleep. Notifications that arrive after sunset are shown silently, without sound or vibration.
For 14 days from the day you finish the initial setup, you can use every feature free and without ads. When the free trial ends, a screen appears where you choose one of the following:
Ads appear only if you choose “Continue Free with Ads” after the free trial. They do not appear during the free trial or while you subscribe to a plan.
Your sleep and Apple Health records, recordings and location are never used for ads. For the information sent for ads, see “Ads” in the privacy policy.
Buy the Monthly Plan or the Annual Plan from “Remove Ads (See Plans)” under “Plan” on the Settings tab. Ads stop appearing as soon as you buy. If you have bought a plan before, tap “Restore Purchases” on the same screen.
When your subscription ends (you canceled and the period has passed), the app does not switch back to ads automatically; the screen for choosing between buying a plan and “Continue Free with Ads” appears again.
Once, during the initial setup when you first launch the app, the iOS prompt appears after an explanation titled “About Ads”. Your choice is used only for ads if you choose “Continue Free with Ads” after the free trial (no ads are shown during the free trial or after you buy a plan). If you allow tracking, the ad provider (Google) may choose ads suited to you based on your activity in other companies' apps and websites. If you do not allow it, the number of ads shown and the features you can use do not change. If you have used an earlier version and have not been asked yet, you are asked after you choose “Continue Free with Ads”. If “Allow Apps to Request to Track” is turned off in your iPhone settings, the prompt does not appear, and it is treated as not allowed.
To change your choice later, go to the iPhone Settings app > Privacy & Security > Tracking and switch the toggle for the app (“Sunrise Alarm” in English). Whichever you choose, your sleep and Apple Health records are never used for ads.
If you use the free plan with ads in a region where Google requires users' consent to ads, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), the UK and Switzerland, Google's consent form appears before any ads are loaded (app version 1.1 or later). The purposes and ad partners shown in the form are provided by Google. To change your choices or withdraw your consent later, tap “Ad Privacy Options” under “Plan” on the Settings tab. This button appears only in regions where consent is required, and only while you are on the free plan with ads. Whether or not you consent, the features you can use do not change.
Tracking permission (iPhone Settings > Privacy & Security > Tracking) and ad personalization for your Google Account (My Ad Center) are changed separately. For details, see “Ad consent” in the privacy policy.
Tap “Report or Ask About Ads” under “Plan” on the Settings tab to open a draft email that includes the versions of the app and iOS. Please write where and when the ad appeared and what it showed (such as the advertiser's name), then send it. We use the reports we receive to review our ad-serving settings. The email is sent from your own mail app (the app never sends it automatically).
In the iPhone Settings app, tap your name > Subscriptions, choose the app (“Sunrise Alarm” in English) and cancel. While you are subscribed, you can also open this from “Manage in the App Store” under “Plan” on the app's Settings tab. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. After you cancel, you can keep using the app until the end of the period you have paid for. Please note that deleting the app does not cancel your subscription. After you cancel and the period has passed, you can buy a plan again or choose “Continue Free with Ads”.
Tap “Restore Purchases” under “Plan” on the Settings tab. The same button is also on the screen shown after the free trial ends. You need to be signed in with the same Apple Account you used to buy.
This app does not communicate with our servers, so none of its data, such as your sleep or recordings, is stored on our servers. You therefore do not need to ask us to delete it. For details, including the information sent to the ad provider (Google), see the privacy policy.
Please send bug reports and requests to the email address below. Including your device model, iOS version and app version (shown in “About This App” on the Settings tab), along with what happened, helps us answer smoothly.
info@primewave.co.jp
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