If you are someone who has trouble sleeping, listening to your favorite songs or podcasts on Spotify helps a lot. However, there's a good chance you'll snooze as the music streaming service plays all night. Your phone's battery backup will understandably take a bit of a hit. That's exactly where the Spotify sleep timer comes in handy. With this feature, you can choose to pause music playback after a certain amount of time. So if you want to learn how to use this feature on Spotify, here is a detailed guide.

The sleep timer feature only works with the Spotify mobile app for Android and iOS. It doesn't work with web or desktop apps. However, you can schedule your Mac or Windows PC's built-in screen sleep timer to work like this feature.

So for those who use their phones to listen to music before bed, we've outlined the steps to set the sleep timer on the Spotify app. We're using the Android app for this demo, but the steps remain the same on the iPhone as well.

With that, you have successfully learned how to set a sleep timer and save battery juice while you sleep. Also, if it takes you longer to fall asleep, you can simply repeat the steps to extend the timer or turn it off.