Alarm volume TOO LOUD in iOS14

Yes, I agree, Attention Aware does lower the volume - from Max Volume to the pre-set volume, once you have picked up the phone to look at the alert (eg Alarm going off).

My comments represent exactly the situation on my phone and the conversation I had with Apple support, who have escalated it to their engineers.

I don't want to get into a long argument on this, so will be stepping out of this conversation now.

appleuser3791 wrote:

Yes, I agree, Attention Aware does lower the volume - from Max Volume to the pre-set volume, once you have picked up the phone to look at the alert (eg Alarm going off).

It doesn't lower it from the maximum volume. It lowers it from whatever volume you had it set to. In my case, that's about 50%. If you don't want maximum volume, don't set it to that.

I have the same issue, but it seems to be connected to my snooze function. I checked my volume before sleep and turned it way down. This morning my alarm went off at the volume I had set my phone too, but when I pressed snooze, my volume automatically was at full blast. It definitely worked to get my *** out of bed, but it’s also really startling and agitating way to start one’s day.

vivavivaluna wrote:

For people who don’t want to have to go into the Health app to use the sleep function, I was VERY happy to see that, at least after I set my sleep schedule the first time after updating to iOS 14, it appeared at the top of the regular alarm list, AND it can be adjusted there so you don’t have to go into the health app ever again if you don’t want to!

Yeah, it's taking you to a section of Health. It's just bypassing the first couple of screens.

Exactly! Why can’t the alarms have their own volume? That’s what Android can do and that’s what I need. There is no fix for this so all the people providing solutions that aren’t actually solutions just stop ffs. I need a few alarms a day and different days of the week at different volumes and I don’t want to have to edit them all the time. I could do this on a normal phone, an Android phone and even a Windows phone... but not an iPhone sadly 😢

Same issue. It is beyond aggravating. It is independent of the general sound settings and only in the sleep app.

11 Pro Max

A few heart attacks to my normal 'sleep function' alarm re-setting to max volume and waking the whole neighbourhood (it seems at 4.35am). I have lodged a complaint re ios14 BTW.

I use Attention Aware. My phone is not and never has been at maximum volume. Attention Aware lowers the volume. It does not force it to maximum.

appleuser3791 wrote:

Apple - please fix this issue it seems to be a common complaint.

Apple is not reading here. Use the Feedback page to let them know of your (not actually very common) complaint:

Product Feedback - Apple

IdrisSeabright, I don't think it is helpful to discourage appleuser3791 from following your suggestion to directly lodge the complaint by, in the next breath, telling them that the complaint is not "very common", when in fact the bigger picture complaint is extremely common, and that is making completely unnecessary changes to remove functionality from a basic and commonly used app like the alarm. I too am frustrated that they have changed the alarm experience which is why I'm browsing these forum questions on iOS alarm functionality. In my case I USED to set my alarms every night based on what time i end up getting to bed, and often in a dazed brainless tired state, so simplicity is the key to not screwing it up and sleeping in the next day. Now, with the new "improved" version in iOS14, to edit my alarm I have to be alert enough when i set it AND wearing my glasses, to think through typing the correct number of digits for the alarm time or try and use the tiny new scroll wheel which has now shrunk down to 10mm x 4mm on my iPhone SE. Why? Just Why?? There is space in the new shrunken pane to make it at least three times that size, which would still be smaller than it used to be, but would be easier to use. I have been attempting to set alarms today after the iOS14 upgrade and had to repeat actions numerous times due to selecting the wrong part of the time or whatever, or be forced to type all the alarm time digits in. If I'm not wearing my glasses it is even harder. It was a perfectly good and easy to use alarm function before and i could quickly scroll to the selected time in about 2 seconds and now it is much harder to use, and more prone to error. So the complaint is not uncommon, if rephrased as "please stop removing functionality to the alarm app". If they must keep adding unnecessary features then for pity sake add features, but leave the simple method intact for those who need it!

Kerpie wrote:

IdrisSeabright, I don't think it is helpful to discourage appleuser3791 from following your suggestion to directly lodge the complaint by, in the next breath, telling them that the complaint is not "very common", when in fact the bigger picture complaint is extremely common,

If it were a common complaint, there would be dozens upon dozens of threads about it. There are not.

My point in noting the uncommonness of it was to temper expectations about anything be changed.

Actually I'm having this problem too and is incredibly annoying. Only started two days ago, scared me out so much in the morning when the alarm went off. I will file a Feedback too.

thanks @AppleUser__2020 for opening this thread.

I am experiencing the exact same problem! I upgraded from an iPhone 6 to a 12 a couple weeks ago. I set my alarm and turn the volume ALL the way down (exactly like I used to with the 6). It used to be perfectly quiet, just enough to wake me up without scaring me. Now with the 12... I am startled awake every morning. Very annoying.

I couldn't find the solution to this either, but I noticed that it has something to do with the surrounding volumn. For testing, I set up a timer for 1 sec. When it is quiet, the volumn of the ring is low. However, if you make some noise, presumbly talking to the phone, the sound will go up suddenly and return to normal when you stop talking. I reckon it is the AI that causes the issue, hope Apple can fixed the issue soon.