I have to tend to my mother 4 times a day. So i set alarms at those points. Its tiresome to set a new alarm each time she needs her pills. I was wondering, is there a way that i can set alarms at certain points during the day, and let those come every day?
My Android (Samsung) supports recurring alarms. You can’t have multiple times in a day, but you can make an alarm recur any day or days you like. I just tap the day buttons along the new alarm to specify which days it should be triggered.
So if you need four reminders a day, this would be four separate alarms covering each time individually, set to recur seven days a week.
On my phone, there’s a “repeat” check box though it’s only daily. You’ll have to set four different alarms on repeat.
Or get a pill reminder app of some sort.
This is what I do. I have my morning work day wake up alarm, a reminder to prepare for a meeting 3 days a week and a 7 day a week reminder fo put in my eye drops at night.
My Samsung Galaxy A10e phone has a clock app (version 12.0.19.0) that allows setting of multiple repeating alarms in a day.
can you give me a link to this app?
This app was pre-installed on the phone when I bought it, but I found an APK for the app here.
I haven’t installed an APK before, and I can’t verify that the APK will work the same as mine.
Good luck!
So the goal is to set alarms for fixed times (like 8 AM, 1 PM, 4 PM and 8 PM) that will ring every day?
The Android clock/alarm component has gone through many versions over the years, and Samsung has its own variant of it. But this video is fairly representative of how to do it for one alarm (say, 8 AM daily) on a modern phone. If you need to make an exception to skip Sundays, you can deselect Sunday. To create additional alarms for 1 PM daily etc., you just need to press the + button again. At the end you’ll end up with 4 daily alarms.
Great, now i am able to set up alarms for the week! Ty!
And you can name them, so you can see at a glance when it goes off which alarm is for which med.
Yup, same here (Google Pixel). I am sure if your built-in alarm app doesn’t have this feature you can find one for free to download.
This is the clock app I prefer. I very recently went from a Motorola to a Samsung Galaxy phone. I had to search for it in the google app store.
Okey it was a bit annoying to set up in clean android style. If you got any good apps that are safe, id like to know
Would you mind saying what an APK is? Thanks.
I’m really not sure how it could be made better.
It’s a bit of a pain to setup the first time but, once setup you are done. It just works.
Sit down, put on some TV or some tunes while sitting on the porch or talk to someone, pour yourself a drink and just add all the alarms methodically. It’s not so bad.
I use the paid version of
Alarm Clock Xtreme for Android
which you can find in the app store. I wouldn’t download a random APK for a new app i wanted to try, i would install it from the official app store. That way I’m sure I’ll get a version that’s compatible with my phone, and pretty sure it’s safe, as well.
(The APK is just the package holding the software. And i have occasionally “side loaded” an APK, but only for something that’s been discontinued or there’s some other good reason i can’t get what i want from the app store.)
Most clock software lets you set alarms that are scheduled for “once” or “every day” or “these specific days”. And most clock software lets you name those alarms. So you could create “morning care” and “4pm pills”, etc., and have each of those triggered every day. It doesn’t matter a lot what the interface is to create the alarm, because you only need to do it once for each alarm, and then they just work every day.
There’s usually a way to pause an alarm (for instance, if you are on vacation) and then start it again. On my app, i can look at the list of alarms and click them on and off. So, when i commuted, i had an alarm for each commuter train i could take home (it rang enough in advance that i could catch the train) and all except my regular train were “just once”, but if i wanted to catch a different train some day, I’d go into the app and toggle that one on.
APK stands for Android Package Kit, and it’s a file format that the Android operating system uses to install and distribute mobile apps. APK files are compressed archives that contain all the information an Android device needs to install an app, including code, assets, and manifest files. These files outline the app’s features, permissions, and other details.
APK files are similar to .exe files.
Thanks!
You could also do it through the calendar app. Create four daily events with a notification on each one. However I’m not sure if it would be any easier to set up than doing it through the clock app.
You can also set an alarm for a specific future date, say if you want to get up early a week from Tuesday.