Combining sleep cyle and ipod or how I tricked my iphone into multitasking
Sleep cylce is an iphone app that's topping the charts in itunes at the moment. I heard al lot about it from my friends so I decided to give it a try! I didn't realize however that I have a bit of a ritual when i fall asleep. That is I usually listen to music or an audiobook when I fall asleep. Currently that's not a feature Sleep cycle supports and given that I rather listen to the ipod app than have insight in my sleeping patterns I havn't used sleep cycle once..
Today I decided to have a look at the sleep cycle site to see if I could post a feature request. To my delight the faq already stated they are working on it: "Planned in future versions: Listen to music or audio books when going to sleep". So that's great, but then I suddenly realized that it's already possible to trick the iphone and sleep cylce into this! :D
- enable ipod controls (settings > general > home > ipod controls > on)
- go to the clock app, set a timer and use it to "Sleep iPod" when it elapses (you don't wan't to have yourself brainwashed all night ;)
- start your ipod music or audio book
- start sleep cycle and WHILE it's booting double tap the home button! <-- this is the trick part
- a window with ipod controls pops up now, wait for the app to completely boot up and stop the music
- now you can click the play icon in the pop up window, the music starts playing. Close the pop up and use sleep cylce!
It's great to outsmart your iphone ;)