Oversleeping because of Apple Watch

Why isn’t it an option to have Apple Watch play sound with the wake-up alarm? A lot of people have their watch silenced throughout the day, because constant dings are annoying. The haptic wake up is pretty weak and maybe does work for lite sleepers but not everyone. Having an audio alarm on the watch even when silenced would greatly benefit the population of heavier sleepers (that need to wake up on time!). And it would be consistent with the way the iPhone handles alarms / sleep alarms.

Posted on Oct 11, 2021 7:50 AM

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Oct 19, 2021 10:09 AM in response to crs338

I had this same exact problem recently. This morning I overslept when I didn’t notice the haptic alarm. I then se a timer for 10 seconds and noticed there was no sound or haptic despite haptic being on in the watch app haptic settings, along with high speaker volume. The problem resolved after restarting the watch.

-In your case if the haptic is working, but not intense enough, there is setting again on the phone’s watch app under accessibility that you can change haptic touch to prominent from default. I don’t think there is a way to just make alarms be more prominent.

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