Iphone update 16 makes alarm volume same as ringer volume, making my alarm pointless!
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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:
Manually adjusting the time on your iPhone in Settings to change app behaviour, such as game timers, isn’t recommended and can affect alarms."
Thats not true. I have had my iPhone for years & exclusively use the clock alarm as my alarm, every day! I always have my ringer volume down, and my alarm is always the same, wry loud volume. I just updated 2 days ago & now it’s not!! Making my iPhone alarm, which I e used exclusively for years, pointless!!
Why doesn’t anybody understand the separation of ring volume & audio volume from apps? I’m talking about the volume slider! I understand I can turn the ringer off. I’m talking about using apps with the volume down, so I don’t disturb others. I can no longer use my phone with the volume down & fall asleep. That makes the alarm useless to me.
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.
Note also the alarm is now viewer aware. with the end result it won't go off at full volume if you're looking at your phone when it goes off.
🙄 Right. The super expensive device I purchased that I have used as my alarm for years gets an update that changes it’s functionality to non-functional for people & I shouldn’t contact support. 👍
Just wanted to clarify that they were not the same prior. 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.
Is it going to be difficult for me to get used to using a clock alarm again, not really. I don’t travel much anymore, so I don’t need to rely on it away from home. However, this & other changes in update 16 take away functions that matter to me & make me want a different phone manufacturer & I never have before. Apple may want that feedback.
i read this and thought, "huh. that sounds dumb. there's no way that's why it's so quiet."
THIS IS SO DUMB. why would ALARM VOLUME be tied to attention? it makes no sense. most people will be sleeping when it goes off, so it defeats the purpose.
Debbie9566 - Thanks, that worked for me on IPhone 15. Can now depend on it waking me up. Don’t know why I can’t use a song for my alarm as I did on my previous phones though. Can’t seem to get an answer to that.
i’m reading about the lack of separation of our alarm and our ringer we should be able to turn our ringer off on the phone turn it on silent so nobody calls us in the middle of the night and still have our alarm go off at seven in the morning to wake us up for work, why is that not an option? I turn my ringer volume down or I turned the ringer off. My alarm does not work and android has the option
This doesn’t work for me. Since the update, I sleep through my alarms too. I have an iPhone 8, so no Face ID. Alarms just don’t work anymore. I went through settings & used slider. I’ve used buttons. Everything is all the way up, but can’t hear the alarm.
👀 And I have explained to you that isn’t helpful! I’m not talking about YouTube! I appreciate your comments, but insisting your way is solving my issue, when it’s not, isn’t helpful.
It doesn’t work , I have it turned off , the alarm volume at full, but yet it’s still being controlled by my main audio volume , this is such a terrible system
I don’t know how or when it’s gonna be fixed. Please fix this. Media/ringer volume should not effect alarm sound level.
It helped, but still not loud enough!
iPhone alarm volume low
