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Sleep Goblin

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A bedtime reminder that cannot tell whether you're on your phone — and never tries. It only starts bothering you after you admit you're still awake.

The notification arrived, but there are no buttons on it

Press and hold the notification and the two buttons appear. iOS never shows them on a collapsed banner — that's a system behaviour, not a bug in the app.

While the banner is still sitting at the top of the screen you can pull it down instead. But once it has moved into Notification Centre or onto the Lock Screen, holding is the only thing that works — which is why the notification itself tells you to hold.

You can also just tap the notification itself. It opens the app, and the same two buttons are right there on the home screen.

Nothing happened at my bedtime

Check three things, in this order:

1. Notification permission. Open Settings inside the app — the Notifications row shows On or Off. If it's Off, tap it.

2. Sleep Focus. If iOS Sleep Focus is on, it can suppress notifications, including these. The app does not promise to break through your phone's own settings.

3. The time itself. Settings → Bedtime. The picker moves in five-minute steps.

I ignored it and nothing happened at all. Is it broken?

No — that's the whole design. The goblin cannot detect whether you're awake, so it treats silence as "already asleep" and does nothing. Waking a sleeping person is the one thing a sleep app must never do.

The 63 notifications only ever start after you press I'm staying up.

Make it stop right now

Any of these works:

• Press and hold any of the goblin's notifications, then tap the button on it.
• Open the app and press Okay, I'm going to bed.
• Do nothing. The chain ends by itself after 28 minutes.

Will it wake me up?

Every notification the app sends is silent — no sound, ever. If you admitted you were up and then fell asleep, the rest of the chain will arrive quietly and you'll see it in the morning.

Changing the language

Settings → Language. English, 日本語, and 简体中文 are each written separately rather than translated, so the goblin's voice changes a little between them.

Where is my data?

On your phone, and nowhere else. There's no account, no server, and no network connection. Deleting the app deletes everything. See the privacy policy.

Still stuck? Bug reports and complaints both welcome.

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