Do you keep your cell phone on at night?

Of course it’s on. Suppose it rang? Suppose I had an emergency. A powered down cellphone is useless for communications.

@elbanditoroso If someone texted you would it wake you?

I would hear it <ding> but I wouldn’t get out of bed.

If it rang (phone call), I would get up and answer it. So far that has never happened.

Yes, it is in the charger and, sometimes, used as an alarm. And, What @elbanditoroso said. It has rung on occasion and I have answered it but I have an elderly mother who lives with my sister.

My phone is always on but set to vibrate. I am over 50 so I don’t always have it in the same room with me. You can call at night and not wake me.
Now where did I put that darn thing…?

No, I do not.

Mine is off most all the time. I don’t want anyone calling me at odd hours. If you need to I can be called on the land line.

Mine is on when it’s not dead. It’s dead a lot. It doesn’t make noise for texts. My few friends and family who might call or need to reach me know to call my home phone. I am “old school” in that my home phone is my primary way of being reached when I’m home and friends, family and job have my home phone and they know if they need me and I don’t answer cell, try the home phone.

I’m not one for big chatting on the phone at night, or when I’m out shopping however. If someone wants to communicate and it’s not urgent, I prefer email or pm on FB or something. When I talk on the phone (pleasant conversation with friends to catch up), to me the time for that is not when I’m shopping or out. The time for that is when I am at work or home.

Mine is on and with the current weather forecast (it is also has “Wireless Emergency Alert”) I’ll receive an Alert for a Tornado in my immediate area.
Texts do cause a sound on my mobile phone.

My mom had an aneurysm at 4 in the morning when I was a junior in college. After that, I will never cut my phone off at night. She had another scare about two years ago, and I would rather know than not know, even from all the way across the country.

My friends and I text accidentally at odd hours sometimes. It has gone both ways, so I don’t think it bothers any of us. Sometimes it wakes me, sometimes it doesn’t. I can see how it would bug some people, but not me.

When I was recovering from a serious injury and very depressed I called my mom at all hours. She listened to me cry or just let me fall back to sleep with her on the phone. I’m glad she leaves her phone on for me, too.

Yes, it’s on. Yes, the ringer is on. Yes, it’s on a high volume. My cell phone serves as my alarm clock, so I have to be able to hear it. Everyone I know is well aware that my husband and I are an old married couple that hit the sack around 9PM (yes, to sleep), so I rarely get late-night texts. When I do, it’s usually from my step-brother. But hey, I guess it’s hard to text before lights out in prison – with cell phones being contraband and all.

Yes, but it’s set so that when the GPS detects that I am home, the time is when I am normally asleep, and the phone is on the charger, there are only certain numbers that will ring through. However, that only affects the ringer, and has no impact on the alarm clock.

It is always on. I don’t sleep well, and if someone calls or texts me, I am usually awake.
Plus, being far away from the kids makes me feel the need to be always available.

I’m wondering if there might be two factors that are skewing the answers:

1) Is the cell phone the ONLY phone in the house, or does the house have a land line as well? My guess is that the people who turn off their Cell phones ALSO have a land line in the house as their primary means of access, and that the cell is seen as a phone to use when going out of the house.

2) Age: Younger people (say, 35 and below) tend to be more closely connected with their cell phones all day and all night. Older folk (which is where I fall) tend to not have that save need for 24/7 connectedness.

My ringer is loud on my cell phone, but my text is just a single tone. I just checked, the text tone is called bamboo. It would be unlikely a text would wake me. A phone call would wake me. I guess I just assumed everyone is exactly likely myself. LOL.

My cell phone turns itself to silent ringer at 9:30pm, and turns the volume back on at 6:30am. I use the phone as my alarm, so the alarm is not affected.

Our home phone (FIOS) is also set to this schedule. If it’s an emergency, it will have to wait until morning. But in reality, I don’t really sleep, so I would likely get the message even though the ringers are silent.

My cell phone is not much more than a camera and navigational device. Do not text or call it and expect a timely reply as it is usually locked in my car.

Yes, it is on the charger. A text would wake me up so it’d better be important.

@elbanditoroso Well, 40 here, and no landline. Thing is, unlike older folks who regard a cellphone as granting others the ability to hassle them 24/7, I regard my phone as being for my convenience, not for the convenience of others, and have it configured accordingly. Custom ringtones, and the right app(s) can make all of the inconvenience go away.

Oy am I confused! I got new glasses and I’m seeing double!

Yes, I leave my cell phone active 24/7. Yes, if you called or texted me in the middle of the night for a non-emergency, it would annoy me. I treat my cell phone as a more convenient version of my land line.

I just told one of the kids that work for us to call if he needed an adult and didn’t want to call a parent (i.e. bail money). What good would that do if My phone was off?

My cell phone is on 24/7. It is also my primary line. With all the moves we’ve had, we’ve kept our cell phone numbers the same. We have a landline, but it is more for the children than us. I have a different ringtone for calls (and some people have their own ringtone so I know it’s them right away), texts, emails, and voice mails. Each one wakes me, but that’s because I’m a light sleeper. I also have had times I’m on call overnight for work.

@elbanditoroso: I have home phone (as described above) and that is my primary phone.

I am in my late 40’s.

I leave it on at night, but my phone is always on silent. The only time I turn the ringer on is if I’m expecting a phone call and have the phone on the charger.

Absolutely not. If it’s an emergency they can reach me at my P.O. Box.

Yes, I leave it on loud at night. I figure if someone was to ring me in the middle of the night it would be important and I’d want to hear it!!

Yes, I keep my cell phone on at night in case family needs me. There have been emergencies in the past. I do not have a landline. I also use it as an alarm to wake up in the morning and a flashlight if I need to get up in the middle of the night and I don’t want to trip over the dog.

I turn my notifications to silent when I go to bed so any texts of facebook messages don’t wake me up in the middle of the night, but my ringer for phone calls is turned up to the max.

I keep mine on my bedside table all night just in case.

What @turtlesandbox said. I haven’t had a land line for years and years. I have family and friends overseas that do not get the concept of time differences. They never actually call, just text and facetime it does not disturb my sleep.

Yes, because it’s also my alarm clock. But no one ever calls me that late, so it’s neither an annoyance nor a temptation. I’m more likely to sit up in bed with my laptop than with my phone.

But actually, having read your details… I have received texts in the wee hours on a few occasions. My text ring is more subtle than my phone ring, so I know which it is when it rings. It did wake me up and cause me to grumble. I’m not the “ohmygodwho’sdead” type, so no panic either way.

I need my cell for work,and it is for me to get out,could care less about people trying to get me,leave a voice mail, I hate the freakin thing but when your broke down 70 miles from the nearest town it does come in handy.

Oh sorry, and to answer your question NO it is not on at night.

It is on, on the nightstand, on vibrate. I use my phone as an alarm clock. If someone called or texted, it would vibrate which may or may not get my attention — depending how asleep I am.

And if there’s a true emergency, don’t call me, call 911. Everything else can wait ‘till morning.

My cellphone is also my alarm clock so it’s on all night (plugged in and charging up too). I sometimes get texts late, but it just makes a little ping and it doesn’t wake me up.

I am in my late 40s and my fiancé is early 50s. We do not have a land line.

My smartphone is on 24/7. I use the “Do Not Disturb” feature a lot, because it only allows communications from my VIPs to come through. It automatically activates between 10pm-7am daily, and I activate it manually when I am at work, or out to eat, or at the movies, etc. It’s also silenced the majority of the time, and notifications and sounds are disabled for all but the most important people and apps.

An older smartphone of mine is in airplane mode and on the iHome alarm clock – I have that playing soothing sound from an app while we sleep and it has the alarms set according to my work schedule.

My fiancé‘s smartphone is on his side of the bed and he silences it at night (most of the time) and uses it as his alarm clock, as well.

Mine is on all the time. I set my alarm on my cell and even though I’m most likely to sleep through a phone call or text, I like to see the activity first thing in the morning!

Mine is on at night but volume turned down.

Yes I leave my cell phone on in case of an emergency. I turn the volume down. It’s always on the pillow next to me. Sometimes I am charging my cell on the pillow. As for texting, I turn the sound down on that too. I use my cell phone as my Alarm clock. I am a light sleeper so Yes the phone ringing or receiving a text will wake me up.