How To Set A Timer Clock

Your Android device's built-in Clock app can serve equally an alarm clock, a kitchen timer, and a stopwatch for timing activities. You can create multiple alarms and timers, adjust the snooze times for your alarms and record lap times using the stopwatch.

We'll evidence you lot how to utilise these tools and point out some of the cool features of each tool. To admission the Clock app, either tap the Clock icon on the Home screen, or open up the App Drawer and open up the Clock app from there.

This article covers Google's Clock app, which you can download from Google Play for any Android phone. Your phone's built-in Clock app may piece of work a flake differently—that'due south up to your Android phone's manufacturer.

How to Use the Alarms

By default, the Clock app initially opens to the world clock. After the commencement time you open the Clock app, information technology will open to the whichever tool was open last time. To access the alarms, tap the alarm icon at the top of the screen.

To add together a new warning, tap the plus icon push at the bottom of the screen. This button can be used to add together multiple alarms.

To set the fourth dimension for the alert, tap the hour on the time on the left so tap the hour on the clock on the right. And so, tap on the minutes on the left and tap the desired minutes on the clock. You can choose minutes in v-minute increments. Tap "AM" or "PM" to choose 1, then tap "OK" to set the time.

If you're creating a recurring alarm, tap the "Repeat" check box.

By default, all vii days of the week are selected, indicated with white circles. De-select the days you don't want. For our alarm, we desire it to go off on weekdays only, so we tap on the first "S" (Dominicus) and the terminal "South" (Sat). You tin modify which day starts the week in the Settings, which we'll discuss later.

Notice that the deselected days exercise not accept white circles on them. The Oxygen ringtone is selected as the default ringtone that will sound when the alert goes off. However, if you want to employ a different ringtone, tap "Default ringtone (Oxygen)".

A popup dialog box displays asking yous to choose how you lot want to consummate this action. To access a list of available ringtones, tap "Media Storage" and then tap "But Once" to use that option this time only. If you lot desire to use this selection all the time (which we recommend), tap "Always".

A list of Ringtones displays on a popup dialog box. Tap the one yous want to use and and then tap "OK".

If you program to create multiple alarms, you lot may want to name each i so you know what y'all're using each for. To add together a label to your alert, tap "Label".

Enter a characterization on the "Label" dialog box and tap "OK".

To hide the options for the alarm, tap the up arrow.

When the alarm is on, the slider push button on the right is red and sits on the right. To turn off the alarm, tap the slider push button…

…and it turns white and slides to the left. To plow if on again, simply tap the slider button over again.

When you turn on the alert, a message briefly displays at the lesser of the screen telling you how much fourth dimension is left until the alert goes off. To get dorsum and edit the settings for this warning, tap the downwardly arrow.

If you don't demand the alarm anymore, prove the settings by borer the down pointer on the right then tap the trash can icon to delete the alarm. Note that there is no confirmation for this action.

Unlike the alarm on iOS, you lot tin can adjust the snooze time for alarms on Android. You cannot set a custom snooze time for each alarm separately, only you lot can change the snooze time for all alarms. To do this, tap the menu button in the upper-correct corner of the screen.

Tap "Settings" on the popup carte du jour.

In the Alarms section of the Settings screen, tap "Snooze length". The default snooze time is 10 minutes.

Swipe up and down on the number of "minutes" on the Snooze length dialog box so tap "OK".

To return to the main Clock app screen, tap the back button in the upper-left corner of the screen.

When you lot set an alert, you lot must brand sure your device is non prepare to silent mode or Do Not Disturb. Notice on the image below the alert clock icon on the status bar is grayed out because we have Full Silence fashion on (the icon to the left of the warning clock icon). Make certain the volume is adjusted accordingly and that alarms are immune to sound if you're using the Do Non Disturb setting in Android half dozen.0 Marshmallow.

Once you turn up the volume or adapt the settings and so the alarm will sound, the alarm icon on the condition bar will be white, non gray.

If you lot're going to use your Android device as an alarm clock on your nightstand, you can set the screen to nighttime way so it's not too brilliant and doesn't keep you awake. To do this, tap the bill of fare push button in the upper-right corner of the screen and and so tap "Night style" on the popup menu.

The screen goes black and the time and date displays in a light gray.

Yous tin can fix other settings for the alarms, including the warning book, whether or not to gradually increment the book of the alarms, and which twenty-four hour period you want to commencement the week on. You can also specify after how much fourth dimension the alarms should be silenced automatically (1, 5, x, fifteen, 20, or 25 minutes, or Never). The volume buttons can be set up to activate the snooze, dismiss the alarm, or to non do anything (default).

How to Use the Timer

Y'all can set upwardly multiple timers in the Clock app, making this more than useful than your standard kitchen timer, which can unremarkably, at most, only time two things at the aforementioned time. To use the timer, tap the timer icon at the acme of the screen. Set the amount of time for the timer using the number pad on the right. Be sure to enter zeros every bit needed. For example, to set up a timer for ten minutes, tap "1000" on the number pad. If you lot only tap "ten" you lot volition end up with 10 seconds on your timer, not 10 minutes. You can see the number of hours, minutes, and seconds on the digital readout on the left every bit you blazon the fourth dimension. To start the timer, tap the red Start button at the bottom.

Merely similar with the alarms, you can accept multiple timers, so you might want to requite them names then you know which timer is timing which action. To add a label to the current timer, tap "Characterization".

Enter a name for the current timer on the Label popup dialog box and tap "OK". If the onscreen keyboard doesn't display immediately, tap on the edit line on the dialog box to actuate it.

You can add together time, in increments of one minute, to whatever timer while it'due south running by tapping the "+1'" button below the fourth dimension.

Once yous start a timer, the Offset push becomes the Pause push, which you can tap to temporarily stop the timer.

While a timer is paused, the time blinks on and off and the Pause button becomes the Start button once more. Tap the Start button to continue timing from where you left off.

To add another timer, tap the timer plus icon in the lower-right corner of the screen. You can only add together i more timer at a fourth dimension and only from a electric current timer screen (whether information technology's running or paused).

Enter the fourth dimension for the new timer equally nosotros discussed earlier and tap the Start button.

Observe the dots on the correct side of the screen. That indicates there are multiple timers. Swipe up and down to access the different timers currently available.

To delete a timer, swipe up or down to access that timer and so tap the trash icon.

When you lot but accept one timer, the dots on the right side of the screen get away.

There are a couple of settings you can change for timers. To access these settings, tap the card push and tap "Settings" on the popup carte du jour as described earlier. The Timer Expired ringtone is prepare by default as the sound used when the timer expires. If yous want to change the ringtone, tap "Timer ringtone".

If you changed this setting before either for the timers or the alarms in the Clock app, y'all volition exist prompted to use the same method you used before. If this is the example, tap "Merely Once" or "Always" below the Complete activeness using message. If you lot take not changed ringtones in the Clock app before, tap on "Media Storage" then tap "But Once" or "Always".

The first ringtone, Default alarm audio, is the Timer Expired ringtone. Tap on a dissimilar ringtone from the list, or tap "None" if you don't desire the timer to audio when information technology expires. Then, tap "OK".

Once again, if you lot want the timer to sound when the time expires, make certain the volume is not on mute and you don't have Total Silence or Practise Not Disturb on such that alarms are ignored.

How to Utilise the Stopwatch

The Clock app has a simple merely useful stopwatch you can use to time activities. To admission it, tap the stopwatch icon at the top of the screen. The stopwatch does not need whatsoever set up earlier use, so tap the Kickoff push button to kickoff it.

The stopwatch allows you lot to record lap times, which is basically stopping the stopwatch as specific points, recording each time you stop the stopwatch. Tap the lap button each time y'all want to tape a lap time, for case, when someone your timing completes a lap around a rails.

Each lap fourth dimension is recorded either next to the running time (landscape mode) or below it (portrait mode). While the stopwatch is running, the Start button is the Pause push, which you tin can utilise to temporarily stop the stopwatch.

To reset the stopwatch to aught, tap the circular arrow icon. While the stopwatch is paused, you tin tap the Share push on the bottom-correct to share the time and lap times with someone, upload to a deject service, or i of many sharing options.

In that location are besides many apps on the Play Shop that add together more than features to alarms, timers, and a stopwatch, such as Timely Warning Clock, Alert Clock Plus, or Alarm Clock Xtreme Gratuitous. Some of these apps combine some or all of these tools into one app.