iPhone Alarm Sound Not Working When I Wear my Watch

Spent almost an hour on phone with Apple yesterday---on my IPhone15 Pro there is no sound when the alarm Yesterday goes off if I am wearing my AppleWatch 9 and it is turned on. I finally was told there is currently no way I can get the alarm on my IPhone to ring if my AppleWatch is turned on.

I use my IPhone for many reasons, but got the AppleWatch so it would call 911 or let me call someone for assistance in case of a fall/stroke/etc.--I intended to wear it constantly, except for charging at the breakfast table (someone my age fell recently, was very badly injured and credits her AppleWatch with saving her life)--aside from that, and the time of day, I want all other functions available on the Apple Watch turned off.

Apple used to make great products---I hope there will soon be an update so I can have full use of my IPhone and limit my Apple Watch use to "only" protecting me in case of a severe health event. (I believe that I will gradually learn more uses for the Apple Watch, but right now I want to keep it simple. Many years ago I wrote programs in machine language for an IBM7094 computer--that was much more simple than adding and removing settings on my AppleWatch.)

anneon wrote:

Spent almost an hour on phone with Apple yesterday---on my IPhone15 Pro there is no sound when the alarm Yesterday goes off if I am wearing my AppleWatch 9 and it is turned on. I finally was told there is currently no way I can get the alarm on my IPhone to ring if my AppleWatch is turned on.

I use my IPhone for many reasons, but got the AppleWatch so it would call 911 or let me call someone for assistance in case of a fall/stroke/etc.--I intended to wear it constantly, except for charging at the breakfast table (someone my age fell recently, was very badly injured and credits her AppleWatch with saving her life)--aside from that, and the time of day, I want all other functions available on the Apple Watch turned off.

Apple used to make great products---I hope there will soon be an update so I can have full use of my IPhone and limit my Apple Watch use to "only" protecting me in case of a severe health event. (I believe that I will gradually learn more uses for the Apple Watch, but right now I want to keep it simple. Many years ago I wrote programs in machine language for an IBM7094 computer--that was much more simple than adding and removing settings on my AppleWatch.)

Since the Apple Watch first appeared Apple has taken the position that if you are wearing the watch and have wrist detection enabled then alerts will appear only on the watch, unless the iPhone is unlocked. This is considered a feature, as it deals with complaints like “Why am I getting alerts from TWO devices? HOW ANNOYING! Apple, what were you thinking?"

jmalpass wrote:

I sleep with my Apple Watch on and my iPhone alarm does not make a sound when it goes off. The phone and the watch both vibrate, but no sound. If my watch is on the charger, it works.

If you are wearing the watch, and it's in Sleep mode, that's expected behavior.

aviduser wrote:

Apple should offer a more thoughtful array of options here, unless there is a setting that has been changed through the update process. But I’m pretty sure you understood that.

You can certainly let Apple know what you'd like to see. But, I don't work for Apple and neither does anyone else participating in this thread.

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jackfromcorpus christi wrote:

This is why I find these “discussions” useless. This is not Apple help this is only Apple users.

That's correct. Apple is quite clear about that in the Terms of Use to which we all agreed when we signed up:

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anneon wrote:

And if I fall and am injured when I get up in the middle of the night, what good will my Apple Watch be then?

If you turn on the fall detection, it will call 911 automatically.

aviduser wrote:

This may be “expected behavior” but it is a significant change from iOS 16.x.

No, it has always been this way.

You are going to make me oversleep after conditioning me to use Apple Sleep and Wake!

It is hardly my responsibility to make sure you, an adult, get up on time. I don't even know you so how could I make sure you got up on time?

davidmatas wrote:

I doesn’t work for me even disabling that StandBy mode and alarm keeps sounding only in the watch. Any other idea?

If you are wearing an Apple Watch, the alarm will only sound on the watch unless the watch is locked. That is working as designed. You can, before you go to bed, take the watch off, then put it back on but don't unlock it with the password. The alarm will sound on your phone.

My iPhone plays the sound ONLY on the first alarm of the day, any set after that do not play the sound but do display the alarm silently. I seem to be having success by disabling Standby mode on the phone but the watch doesn't vibrate now. I'll see how this works tomorrow morning.

My first apple watch stopped notifying me and in standard apple fashion I was forced to spend a few hundred to upgrade the watch. So, I did and I'm getting the same thing. I am done with apple watch and I'm done with the iPhone once I can upgrade. I'm so over the iProprietorship and iExpense and constant iUpgrades. I want my calls and text and notifications to ring and ding on my phone not just vibrate on my wrist and me not feel it 98% of the time.

etownAndy wrote:

Are you saying the expected behavior is if I’m wearing my my watch to bed my morning alarms won’t sound?

The alarms will sound on your watch. They will not sound on the phone. That's expected behavior.

You can kind of trick things into having the alarm sound on the phone. Before going to sleep, take your watch off and then put it back on but do not unlock it. Make sure that, if you have your phone set to unlock the watch, you don't play with your phone (or turn that feature off). As the watch is locked, notifications will sound on the phone, not the watch.

The person to whom you are replying appears to be copying and pasting answers from ChatGPT. The accuracy of such answers is frequently less than one might like.

I doesn’t work for me even disabling that StandBy mode and alarm keeps sounding only in the watch. Any other idea?

right my apple watch alarm keeps going off but i don’t know the password or i don’t know what phone i prepaid it with

Thats the thing though. For myself and at leats one other person who's responded, the watch doesn't go off either.