Practical when you forget your baby monitor at home and you go on the weekend or to visit friends, during baby’s nap time or at night… We’ll explain how to do it!
When we go on a weekend or vacation with a baby, or when we are invited for an evening with friends, we tend to prepare all the things without forgetting anything and without taking on too much unnecessarily. So, when the time comes for a nap or to put baby to sleep at night and we would like to enjoy it with everyone on the terrace, we say to ourselves that in the end, the baby monitor would have been very useful, in order to avoid getting up from table every five minutes to check that her child is sleeping soundly. Rest assured, barbecue evenings and relaxation in the garden in spring are yours, thanks to this tip which allows you to transform your iPhone into a baby monitor.
In short, you just need to place your phone in the baby’s room (we avoid putting it too close to him because of the waves), and you can then choose to receive an alert, such as an SMS, on your child’s phone. choice (that of the dad for example). But before that, you should follow these few steps:
- Go to your phone’s settings, then to accessibility
- Then click on “Sound recognition”
- Activate the option and select “baby crying”
- Go to the shortcuts on your iPhone, in the bottom menu
- Select “sound automation”, click on the top right of your phone
- At the bottom of the screen, tap “sound recognition and check “run immediately”
- Choose the “baby crying” sound and click “next”.
To define the action to do when baby cries, go to “new automation” to add an action. For example, you can choose to send a personalized message (example: “Arthur is crying”) by SMS by choosing the recipient number.
From now on, when baby takes a nap or sleeps at night, you will receive a message to alert you if he starts to cry. This can be useful if you are a little away from their room or want to enjoy a dinner with family or friends. Of course, this works if you are with at least one other person since it is necessary to leave your smartphone next to the baby’s bed. Also remember to leave your phone in silent mode so as not to wake it up at the slightest call or notification. It would still be a shame to receive a “baby crying” alert because grandpa or grandma is trying to contact you for news.