Around 2-3 months ago, my alarms stopped playing the selected sound and has only been playing the default Radar sound.
Yes, the songs selected are downloaded - quadruple confirmed, even tried deleting and redownloading.
No vibration is selected, no alarm sound is selected - the songs were playing a few months ago and it stopped.
iOS update bug I guess but very annoying - about to buy a plug in alarm clock at this point
iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 16
I had the same problem and here's the fix that worked for me. Go to Music and then Library, find the song you want to use for an alarm, click the ... next to the song, and then click Download (if Download isn't an option in the menu, then this song might work for an alarm already). Even though the song was already on my phone and I could play it in Music, clicking download did something to "reload" it and now when I select it for alarms, it plays the song when the alarm goes off. Note that once I did this, when I went back to the song in Music and clicked ..., the Download option was no longer in the menu.
I had the same problem and here's the fix that worked for me. Go to Music and then Library, find the song you want to use for an alarm, click the ... next to the song, and then click Download (if Download isn't an option in the menu, then this song might work for an alarm already). Even though the song was already on my phone and I could play it in Music, clicking download did something to "reload" it and now when I select it for alarms, it plays the song when the alarm goes off. Note that once I did this, when I went back to the song in Music and clicked ..., the Download option was no longer in the menu.
Hello Lb23lb,
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Alarm will not play music - only Radar sound
