My iPhone 12's alarm won't play any songs!

I found a solution!

https://www.tuneskit.com/ios-repair/iphone-alarm-not-playing-song.html

Issue is with alarm not able to play a song downloaded as Dolby Atmos/Lossless.

Turning off Dolby Atmos and redownloading the song worked.

Thank you to Brian Davis for the solution.

Okay, so I figured it out, and simply deleting and downloading won’t help. First you have to go to “Music” in the “Settings” app. Once there scroll down to the “Audio” and “Downloads” sections. In the “Audio” section in the Music setting you can leave “Dolby Atmos” on or off, but in “Audio Quality” if you prefer “Lossless Audio” on, then make sure that “Downloads” is set to “High Quality”. Second, in the “Downloads” section in the Music setting, make sure “Download in Dolby Atmos” is set off. After all this is done, the songs you love should play and help wake you from your slumber. Hope this helps. ✌️

My fix was to go into settings/music/quality/lossless, turn it off, and then turn it back on again. After that it worked :-)

iPhone, 14 Pro Max, 17.3

YES!! FINALLY this is the solution! TY so much! I turned off Dolby atmos & lossless then downloaded a song & it worked for my iPhone 12Pro alarms!

I got a way around on this one. Instead of using alarm, I created a shortcut automation where in a time of day, play this specific music. You can even specify which days this automation will apply. It even plays the entire song.

the only cons with this method is theres no snooze button.

I just went into settings on iPhone and my lossless was turned off. Turned on, restarted alarm and songs showed up!

FTW

Thanks!

I had this issue and I fixed it. Go into the “Music” app and go to the desired song and download the song itself to your phone. Hope this works.

I have the song Centuries by Fallout Boy set as my alarm sound, but it doesn’t play the song it plays the default alarm sound. We tried it on my husbands iPhone and it worked just fine. We have the same exact iPhone (15 pro max), but for some reason mine isn’t working. I tried a different song and it worked, but this specific one won’t work. Yes, I have it downloaded, and yes I deleted the song and redownloaded it. I don’t have lossless turned on nothing works still.

The advice doesn’t help. I’ve done all things suggested and it doesn’t work.

It worked! Thank you for sharing this information. I thought I was losing my mind after a song I had used as an alarm tone for several years suddenly switched to a default tone.

When you turned off the lossless, theres a popup that lets you choose to replace lossless or to keep it. What did you choose? Thanks.

This worked for me!!

Replace, then turn it back on

Read the OP again. You shouldn’t respond if you’re an idiot.

I signed in to this just to confirm this freaking worked for me thank you man!!