How to put a timer to turn off the music on the iPhone

The iPhone has become our "device for everything" and one of these functions may be to accompany us at night. If you are one of the ones you like fall asleep listening to music or radio on your iPhone you probably don't want the device to be working all night, for that exists a way to turn off the music, or what you are playing, automatically on your iOS device

It doesn't matter if you are listening to Apple Music, Spotify or a radio app, in iOS you can choose when you want the playback to end After a while. It is also a native iOS feature, so it is also available on the iPad and works with video playback apps.

So you can turn off playback on your iPhone

This hidden iOS feature allows us to program when we want a playback to end on the iPhone or iPad. Which means that we can program the shutdown time of any app that plays content on the iPhone such as Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Prime Music, a radio app, a TV app or any other application that plays music or video.

To stop setting a timer to the music or video of your iPhone just follow these steps:

  • It is a function available natively on iOS so we must go to the Clock app.
  • Down at the far right we have the section Timer, we enter it.
  • Above we see a dial with the hours, minutes and seconds, what we configure to our liking.
  • Just below the option appears At the end, press to enter it.
  • Very bottom the option appears Stop playback We must activate.
  • Now we just have to click on save up to the right.
  • To program the music shutdown or iPhone video click on Start.

iPhone music timer

Now we can go to our favorite music app and start a playback, the same with a video or radio app. When the timer reaches 0 the Playback end and the iPhone or iPad will lock, a good option if you use them to watch TV and want them to turn off at a certain time.

This is how easy it is to program the shutdown of the playback of any content on our iOS devices, a native function that is available for any type of app that plays music or video on our iPhone or iPad. If you liked this trick do not forget to go through our special section where you will find many more that will help you discover all the secrets of your Apple devices.