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20Alarms, Action and Reminder Notications
20.4. Sounds and Vibrations
e Omnipod 5 System uses sounds and vibrations to attract your attention to an
alarm or notication.
Caution: e Omnipod 5 app does not override any of your phone's sound
settings. If your phone is set to Do Not Disturb, Silent, or Vibrate, you may not
hear alarms and notications from the Omnipod 5 app.
Tip: To test the sounds and vibrations, see "Check alarms" on page 155.
Pod alarms
e Pod sounds an alarm tone when it detects a problem that can aect insulin
delivery.
• Pod hazard alarm tones are continuous tones broken up periodically by a set
of beeps.
• Pod advisory alarms and notications tones are intermittent beeps, which
repeat periodically until you acknowledge them.
Omnipod 5 app alarms
Omnipod 5 app alarm sounds are dependent on your controller or smartphone
sound settings, for example, silent or vibrate setting.
The Sound/vibrate button on your controller
e Sound/vibrate button, located on the upper right side of the controller,
controls whether all notications use vibrations or audible tones.
• To turn vibrations ON, press and hold the lower end of the Sound/vibrate
button until the vibrate icon (
) appears on the screen.
• To turn sound ON, press the upper end of the Sound/vibrate button until the
sound icon (
) appears on the screen.
• To increase or decrease the volume, press the upper or lower end of the
Sound/vibrate button. On the screen, you can also move the volume indicator
to the le to decrease the volume and move it to the right to increase the
volume.
20.5. Understanding Regular Tones and Vibrations
e Pod and the Omnipod 5 app can provide informational tones or vibrations
to let you know that normal activity between the Pod and the Omnipod 5 app is
occurring as expected. You do not need to do anything in response to these signals
and there is nothing on your screen to explain them.
Tip: Use the Sound/vibrate button on the right side of the controller to control
whether some of these signals sound an audible tone or vibrate.
Trouble-
shooting
Effective Date: 22DEC2020, PCO-000267