[koeselitz]

That's exactly what I do. Every night, I carefully set the settings on my iPhone so that I won't be disturbed by email notifications or other stuff. Every morning, I carefully set the settings on my iPhone so that I'll know when I get emails or texts or other messages. If I forget to do this, I miss a lot of stuff, but I really have no choice but to rely on myself.

Does it really make sense that it takes so much effort? These are otherwise such effortless machines; it just seems weird that I can't make this part of using them easier.

[kingnothing]

If you mute your iPhone, alarms will still make noise. I mute my phone when I go to sleep and un-mute it when I wake up.

[glhaynes]

I think it's exactly this pain that iOS 6's Do Not Disturb mode is meant to alleviate.

[koeselitz]

I hadn't heard about that until this thread - nice! I am looking forward to that. Seems like a great thing.