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Keep your screen on while cooking

Phones dim and lock after 30 seconds to a few minutes without a touch, and nobody wants to wake a screen with floury fingers. AwakeTab asks your browser for a screen wake lock, so the display stays on for as long as you cook. It works while this tab is on screen, next to the recipe or on its own, and the pill in the tool tells you whether the lock is really held.

Sources checked Saturday, 26 September 20263 min readBy Soubhik Biswas
Try it hereTry itStart a session, switch tabs, then come back and watch the pill. No end time: it keeps the screen on until you stop it.Start this session

Set it up in 30 seconds

  1. Open this page on the kitchen device.Prop the phone, tablet or laptop where you can read it from the counter. Plug it in if the cook will run long.
  2. Tap "Keep awake · ∞".The tool is already in cook mode with no end time. In Safari, this tap is also the one the browser needs before it grants the lock. Wait for the pill to read "Screen awake".
  3. Put the recipe beside it.On an iPad, a laptop or an Android phone in split screen, open the recipe in a window next to AwakeTab. On an iPhone only one app is on screen, so keep this tab in front and use the kitchen timers here.

What to expect while you cook

Cook mode counts up from the moment the screen is held, so you can see how long the onions have had. Tap the big number to pause the count; the screen stays on while it is paused. Add up to three kitchen timers with the 5, 10, 15, 30 and 60 min buttons. Each one counts down on its own, chimes and flashes at zero, and keeps running while the count is paused. Cook mode has no end time, so no end-of-session prompt interrupts a recipe.

The pill at the top of the tool tells you what the browser is doing:

Starting…
AwakeTab has asked the browser and is waiting for an answer.
Screen awake
The browser is holding the lock, so the screen stays on while you cook.
Paused — tab hidden
You switched apps, changed tabs or the phone locked. Come back to this tab and AwakeTab asks again.
Blocked — here's the fix
The browser said no. The card names the cause, such as Safari wanting one more tap, or Firefox at 5% battery or less while not charging.

Before a long cook

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Questions

Tap the big number with a knuckle or the back of a finger. In cook mode the whole elapsed timer is one large target, so you do not need to hit a small button. The screen stays on while the count is paused, and your kitchen timers keep counting down.

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