Sleep's alarm sounds only on Apple watch

Hello Groppello,

We understand you are looking for a way to have your Sleep alarm sound on both devices, or just the iPhone. You’re in the right place, we’d be glad to assist in seeking a solution.

When wearing the Apple Watch the Sleep alarm will only sound on your watch: More information here: Track your sleep with Apple Watch

To get the alarm to sound on your iPhone while wearing your watch, you would need to set up another alarm following the steps here: Set an alarm on iPhone

Have a great day.

Sorry, I should have been clearer. When nightstand mode was on, the alarm would play on my watch while it was charging. Once I turned nightstand mode off, the alarm returned to my phone.

I think I understand the community specialists reply. When you set your sleep schedule on the clock app, the alarm will make only your Apple Watch vibrate but if you have a regular alarm set, it’ll make sound on your phone at the same time. I think that’s why they’re suggesting two alarms, because one will only make your watch vibrate but the other will go off on both.

Does that make sense?

It’s definitely an inconvenience to not have the option to customize where your alarm goes off.

I’m having the same problem, try turning on ring before bed.

I have the same problem. Since the update it goes on my watch as haptic only. I charge my watch over night so this is totally useless. I haven’t seen any way to fix this in Sleep, and a regular alarm doesn’t allow the soft to loud setting like sleep does. I can’t see any way to get this back on my phone short of killing Bluetooth when I go to bed. I’m going to try that next, but this is a crappy workaround for a clear defect.

That is what they’re saying. But it’s fundamentally wrong. The sleep function worked prior to the iOS change. It would play your wake up tube quietly to louder. It was a nice gentle way to wake up. The. The iOS upgrade screwed us all by sending it to your watch only as a silent alarm. Doesn’t do a **** thing when the watch is on it’s charger! So yes, I’ve now abandoned Sleep and just set a normal Alarm. Good job Apple. Good job.

This doesn’t make any sense. Why would I want to set TWO alarms? Prior the most recent IOS update, the bedtime alarm would sound on my phone, which woke me up. However, I could control the alarm (dismiss or snooze) from either my watch or phone. Now “bedtime” only results in a mild haptic vibration on my watch, which doesn’t wake me up. We should be able to decide which device, or both, we want the alarm to sound on.

I totally agree. It doesn't make any sense. I can understand the point of having an alarm on the watch if you want a discrete alarm mode, but should have the opportunity of deciding the device or having it on both.

Everyone needs to go to Apple.com/feedback and submit feedback to Apple to fix this problem since they’re reporting this thread as solved when it’s clearly not solved. This is a really frustrating problem they created for no reason and they are ignoring. If everyone on this thread submits feedback, maybe they’ll issue a fix.

And to add to this, why aren’t the bedtime alarm sounds available for the regular alarm?

why was this ever changed in ios 14... it has constantly made me late for work. It was nice having the watch vibrate and the iphones alarm going off at the same time.

100% agree. Happens to me daily. I have to set my alexa for an alarm now. Why would I need to use a third-party device when we already had something that was working?

100% agree with that! The gentle wake up is so much nicer than a blaring sound. And sound PERIOD is better than no sound at all. I’ve reached my limit of waking up late and have now killed sleep in favor of a simple alarm. Klaxon me awake!

Check if Nightstand Mode is on in the General settings on your Watch app. I was having the same problem where the sleep alarm would only play on my charging Apple Watch and this seems to have solved the issue.