Alarm volume is too low

OK I see that this is a typical answer. However, this is not a SOLUTION! I should not have to lose access to one feature to work around a flaw in another feature.

APPLE - THIS IS HAPPENING TOO FREQUENTLY IN YOUR O/S NOW! So many little annoying bugs creeping up.

Someone needs to solve this the correct way - so that I can have awareness features ON and still have the alarm, whilst sitting on a nightstand NOT looking at a face, play at the correct volume. Please help Apple support!

iPhone 12mini, updated to latest as of 2/9/21.

Same issue. My husband is having same issue on his phone as well. Went thru all steps to resolve but since update, alarm volume is at lowest setting when it goes off no matter how I set it.

I discovered that this is solved on my iPhone 11 by going to setup > FaceID and disable the mute function (Attention Aware Features) when FaceID notices your are nearby. Drove me crazy too.

I just acquired the iPhone 12 2 days ago and experienced this identical issue with my “Timer” alarm.

Go to Settings—>Face ID & Passcode—>Attention Aware Features, and toggle to the “Off” position. Then, shut your iPhone off and reboot. It worked fine after that.

At first, I didn’t shut my iPhone off and reboot and the Timer alarm did NOT increase in volume. Only after shutting down rebooting did the alarm sound at full volume.

@ rickscsc

This worked!!! Thank you! Although; I lose my anti-dim feature while I’m looking at my phone—which was nice...

However; at least I’ll wake up in the morning!

Following up here for those who do not want to disable the Awareness features to make their alarm work:

My scenario is: Alarm worked correctly for months, but after latest update, it was going off at the much lower "aware" volume, while sitting in the same position on my nightstand (next to my charging Apple Watch, in case that is a common trigger for this bug.) No volume setting would change this - all volume settings (ringer, normal) at max and have not been touched.

Additionally: my alarm is set through the "Sleep" function (found in the Health app) and controlled there, so not a "regular" alarm set directly in the alarm/clock app. (Although it is represented in that list.)

So yesterday, I manually set an alarm using this sleep function a few times to test. Doing this, I was able to have it trigger at the correct volume. I returned my sleep settings to the regular time before going to bed. Shazam - it went off correctly for the first time in weeks this morning!

Before turning it off, I "looked" at the phone, and it correctly recognized the awareness and the volume dropped.

So - features worked correctly today. I will report back tomorrow morning if it stays working - if not, we may have a repeatable set of steps to initiate the bug! (The activation of the awareness when acknowledging the alarm the day before.)

Know it here --> How to set and manage alarms on your iPhone - Apple Support

This HELPED me also! A very obscure setting re: FACEID that needs to be turned OFF. My alarm volume was way too soft. So glad I texted/chatted with Apple Support to resolve it.

Doesn’t work with older models that don’t have face recognition. I have not been able to fix the volume problem. I have an 8 and nothing has worked.

Thanks for this information. That feature was messing up all attempts to trouble shoot the problem since I am literally staring at the phone while testing it. All is working as it should now. 👍🏼

Yeah, so, @SravanKrA is right! Just realized the Attention Aware setting prevents the alarm from screaming at you when you’re looking at your device! In retrospect, this is a smart feature.

The reason why my alarm column was too low was because I was looking at my device while waiting for the alarm to go off to assess its volume level.

TRY THIS: set an alarm with your desired features, but set the time to 1 minute from now. Then, lock the device, and set it down so it’s not looking at you (as would probably be in a typical setting when one is, for example, asleep). I’ll bet the alarm volume will be loud once it goes off. 😉

Thank you so much. I missed so many meeting due to this. Was thinking of buying an old alarm clock :)

The volume is very low for my alarm. And some of my phone calls are not coming through. It tells me silenced call without me doing them!!

Thank you! Literally had no clue why it was doing this.