Yep. While reading this I opened the camera to take one picture, came right back and Liftoff was back at the top of the feed…
If turning it off or leaving it in another room isn’t an option, you could let a podcast lull you to sleep.
I like to listen to The Unbelievable Truth for example. Relatively quiet, not demanding enough focus to keep you awake, but requires some attention so that if you’re doing something else on your phone you’re going miss what’s going on.
Usually takes me a couple of nights to get through one ~20min episode.
And at least in most of the nations’ navies, your life as a grunt was pretty much like that. Dragged into service by press gangs and treated like shit.