Your phone buzzes at 2AM because someone's timezone math was off, or a delivery app decided now was the moment to ask for a review. You reach over, silence it, and now you're awake enough that falling back asleep takes another twenty minutes.
IFTTT can mute your phone the moment your bedtime hits and turn the sound back on when you wake up, so you're never the one remembering to flip the switch. If you don't already have an account, you can sign up for IFTTT free in about a minute.
How the mute-and-unmute cycle works
Every Applet below runs off a single trigger, a time, a calendar event, a button press, your phone connecting to a bedroom Bluetooth device, or arriving home, and flips one setting in response. None of them know whether you're actually asleep; they just react to whichever signal you've picked.
Muting the ringtone and turning on Do Not Disturb aren't quite the same setting. Muting silences the ringer specifically, while Do Not Disturb (used in a couple of the Applets below) can also suppress notification banners and vibration depending on how your phone has it configured. Worth checking your own Do Not Disturb exceptions once, most Android phones let you allow alarms and repeated calls through even while it's on, so you're not accidentally blocking the one alert you actually want.
Step 1: Mute your ringtone at bedtime
Every day at the time you choose, this Applet mutes your Android Device's ringtone, so incoming calls and notification sounds stop the moment your bedtime hits.
Step 2: Turn Do Not Disturb back off at wake time
Every day at your chosen wake time, this Applet turns Do Not Disturb back off, so you're not the one remembering to un-silence your phone every morning.
Step 3: Automatically unmute when you get home
Instead of waking up muted, some people fall silent for a shift, a trip, or a long day out and want their phone back to normal the moment they walk in the door. This Applet takes your phone off mute and sets the ringtone volume to 80% as soon as your location shows you've arrived home, no clock involved at all.
Extra automations to layer in
The three steps above cover mute, unmute, and arriving home. These four are optional, alternate triggers for anyone whose schedule doesn't run on a fixed clock, plus a running log of when the routine ran.
Mute your phone from a calendar event instead
If your bedtime shifts around more than a fixed time can handle, this Applet mutes your phone whenever a Google Calendar event named 'Sleep' starts instead, so moving one event handles it rather than resetting a time each night.
Turn on Do Not Disturb with one tap
Some nights don't follow any schedule at all. Press this Button and Do Not Disturb turns on immediately, no waiting on a trigger.
Keep a running log of your muted nights
Every night at your bedtime, this Applet adds a row to a Google Sheets spreadsheet with the date and time, a simple, honest log of when the routine ran. It's not tracking anything beyond that single event each night, but a few weeks of rows is enough to spot if your actual bedtime has been drifting later than you think.
Mute your phone when you connect to your bedroom speaker
If you've got a Bluetooth speaker or device that lives in your bedroom, this Applet mutes your ringtone the moment your phone connects to it, a presence-based trigger instead of a fixed time or calendar event, useful if walking into the room is a more reliable signal than any clock.
Try these other focus and screen-time services too
Muting your ringtone handles calls and notifications, but it doesn't stop you from opening the phone yourself. These two cover that other half of the problem:
RescueTime can start a FocusTime session at your bedtime, and RescueTime's own app puts the phone into Do Not Disturb for the duration of that session, a second layer on top of anything built here.
QualityTime tracks screen unlocks and app usage, and can trigger an alert once you've crossed a daily limit, useful if late-night scrolling is the actual problem, not incoming calls.
Here's what those two look like:
Stop being your own alarm clock's snooze button
None of these Applets need each other to work. The three core steps cover mute, unmute, and arriving home, the extras are there if none of those triggers quite fit your situation.
FAQs
Does this work on iPhone?
No, and it's worth knowing that upfront. iOS doesn't give IFTTT a way to toggle silent mode or Do Not Disturb, Apple keeps that control locked to the device itself. This entire pipeline is Android-only.
Will I still get emergency calls or alarms while muted?
That depends on your phone's own Do Not Disturb settings, not on IFTTT. Most Android phones let you allow repeated calls or starred contacts through even while muted, check your phone's Do Not Disturb exceptions to set that up.
What if my bedtime changes night to night?
Use the Bluetooth or Calendar-based version instead of the fixed-time one, both react to something that actually changes with your schedule rather than a static hour.
Can I use a different action than muting the ringtone entirely?
Yes, Android Device's actions cover more than mute, if you'd rather just turn on Do Not Disturb and leave alarms audible, swap the action when you build the Applet.
Why does the arrival Applet set volume to 80% instead of just unmuting?
That's how this specific Applet is built, a full unmute plus a sensible default volume in one step. If you'd rather set a different volume, you can adjust that field when you create it.
