Verification Tips

• Make the bed before taking the verification photo.
• Keep the full bed in frame.
• Use enough light to see bedding and pillows clearly.
• Avoid blurry, dark, overexposed, or partial photos.
• Take a fresh photo from the camera. The saved reference itself, screenshots, old-photo replays, selfies, and non-bed scenes do not complete verification.
• Bed Verification in Settings offers Standard Bed for regular beds and mattresses, with no reference required, and Custom Setup for sofas, floor beds, or unusual sleep surfaces. Custom Setup can store one to five protected local views from guided angles; users can add, replace, or reset them.

Sleep Calculator

The Sleep tab provides simple bedtime and wake-time suggestions using 90-minute sleep-cycle estimates plus about 15 minutes to fall asleep. Select a suggestion, then create the alarm you choose. The calculator does not read Apple Health or monitor sleep stages.

Alarm Safety

TrulyUp alarms do not offer snooze. A passing bed photo is the normal completion path.

Emergency Bypass is a free optional safety setting. It is off by default; when enabled before an alarm fires, it appears during verification and records the session as bypassed, not verified.

If the system Stop action is used before verification, TrulyUp records an unverified stop and re-arms the next system alarm in about two seconds until the session is verified or a previously enabled Emergency Bypass is used.

During bed verification, TrulyUp plays user-audible alarm audio through the in-app camera and if the app is briefly locked or backgrounded. This audio runs only while that alarm remains unresolved and stops after verification or Emergency Bypass. The default-on Max volume during alarm setting restores in-app media volume if it is lowered during verification. Lock-screen alarm volume is controlled separately by Settings > Sounds & Haptics > Ringtone & Alerts; Face ID Attention Aware Features may reduce alert loudness while you look at the screen.

Privacy

Verification photos are processed on device and discarded after scoring. They are not uploaded, saved to Photos, or stored in history. Bed references are stored only on this device and can be set, changed, or reset from Settings. While verification is pending, the app keeps only a bounded set of compact retry fingerprints for local session bookkeeping; they never override a passing on-device verification and are cleared when the session ends. Completion metadata can include timestamp, result, confidence, and attempt count.

See the privacy policy for more detail.