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Fall asleep to music, or let the TV go quiet on its own. The sleep timer stops the room playing after the time you pick. It is your Sonos® speaker’s own timer, so it keeps running when Somos is closed or your iPhone is locked.

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Set a sleep timer

1

Open the room

The timer is for the room you have open.
2

Open the menu

Tap the menu button in the top-left corner. Sleep timer has its own row, just under Rooms.
3

Pick a length

Tap Sleep timer. The pop-up has Off, 15 min, 30 min, 45 min, 60 min and 90 min. Tap one and the timer starts.
To stop it early, open the pop-up again and tap Off. To change it, tap another length. When the timer ends, the room stops playing. The sound stops; it does not fade out.

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See the time left

While a timer runs, you can see how long is left in three places:
  • On the menu row — Sleep timer shows the minutes left.
  • In the pop-up — the time left sits at the top, above the choices.
  • On the room page — a small moon and the minutes, for example ☾ 23m. On a soundbar it sits on the source row, right after the connection (TV · eARC ☾ 23m, for example). A room without a soundbar shows it on the row with the Music button. The music page shows it too. The moon is yellow and the minutes are grey. At 5 minutes or less, the minutes turn red.

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Grouped rooms

Sonos® keeps one sleep timer for a whole group. Set it on any room in the group and the whole group stops together.

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On your Apple Watch

The Sleep Timer complication shows the time left on your watch face, or Off. Tap it and the Watch app opens on the timer choices: Off and the same five lengths. The time left shows at the top, with the same yellow moon, and turns red at 5 minutes or less. See Watch Face.
The timer lives on the speaker, so Somos also shows a timer that was set somewhere else, such as in the Sonos® app.