iPhone alarm volume low

These changes mentioned below were the same prior to iOS 16 and after.

"If the alarm volume is too low or quiet...

Do Not Disturb and the Ring/Silent switch don’t affect the alarm sound. If you set your Ring/Silent switch to Silent or turn on Do Not Disturb, the alarm will still sound.

If your alarm doesn’t sound or is too quiet, or if your iPhone only vibrates, check the following:

• Set the volume on your iPhone. If your alarm volume is too low or too loud, press the volume up or volume down button to adjust it. You can also go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics and drag the slider under Ringtone and Alert Volume.
• If your alarm only vibrates, make sure your alarm sound isn’t set to None. Open the Clock app, tap the Alarm tab, then tap Edit. Tap the alarm, then tap Sound and choose a Sound.
• If you connect headphones to your iPhone, the alarm will play at a set volume through the built-in speakers on your iPhone as well as wired and wireless headphones.

Manually adjusting the time on your iPhone in Settings to change app behaviour, such as game timers, isn’t recommended and can affect alarms."

settings>sounds &haptics >turn OFF change with buttons. I’m not sure why no one said that yet!

DEDGirl5150 wrote:

Right. I read all of that. But the volume slider does, so if I’m on my phone late with my volume down, my alarm volume will also be down. So, suddenly, with the update, the alarm volume goes to nothing & unless I want to watch videos at full volume in the middle of the night, my iphone alarm is no longer useful.

Turn your volume up when you finish watching videos before you go to sleep. Or, set the alarm using Health, as I suggested.

Or buy a cheap alarm clock.

Copied this from a Reddit discussion, I had the same problem and was late for work because of it ‘just found a fix , you need to goto Face ID & passcode in settings and turn off attention aware !’ I’ve just tried it and it works, made me jump out of my skin as I had my volume full blast

Hi - I’ve had the same issues with those later iOS updates (13 Pro). I manually adjusted this slider in the sounds menu and it’s much better.

The side volume keys didn’t adjust it, have to drag it. When I opened it, it was down at minimum for some reason. Set max it’s fire alarm loud, middle to 2/3 is ok.

Hope that helps, found this thread googling the issue after sleeping because of it.

AngryPolishMan wrote:

Bring back the “Alarm Volume” slider you can adjust within the alarm.

There has never been a separate Alarm Volume slider. People have been asking for one for years but Apple hasn't provided one. The only place you'll find one is if you set up a Sleep tracking schedule. That alarm has a separate slider.

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Turn off Attention Aware in the Face ID/Passcode settings function. This is the answer!!! Thank you to original poster🙌🏼🙌🏼

Settings -> Sounds and Haptics -> Ringtone and Alerts : turn it all the way up and make sure change with buttons is turned off.

DEDGirl5150 wrote:

Why doesn’t anybody understand the separation of ring volume & audio volume from apps?

I completely understand it. Separate ringer and alarm volumes have been a feature on Android phones for years. But it has never been a feature of the iPhone.

However, if you are watching a video, you should be able to turn the volume down within that app without it affecting the ringer volume. I just tested this with YouTube. Adjusting the volume in the YouTube video had no effect on the ringer/alarm volume. Therefore, what you need to do is use the mute switch or Focus at night so that you don't hear the ringer but you can still adjust the volume of the video.

DEDGirl5150 wrote:

Just wanted to clarify that they were not the same prior.

It has been this way since the iPhone was released.

I have never had to adjust my volume slider for my alarm volume. It has always been very loud, even when my volume is very low. I use my phone a lot when I wake up in the night, and so I don’t disturb others, I have my volume very low. I fall asleep & am awakened by my loud alarm. I updated 2 days ago & now my alarm volume is the same as my volume slider. Since I’m disabled & on medications, I will always be up throughout the night & fall asleep without changing the volume slider. Thus making the phone alarm now useless. That’s a main feature of the phone for me.

I have explained to you how to make it work the way you want. It's very simple and, as long as you only adjust the video volume within the app, it should have no effect on your alarm volume. But, if you don't want to take my advice based on 20 years working in the cell phone industry, fine by me.

Best of luck.