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How can I change the default alarm sound when I ask Siri to make an alarm for me?

Another user ID: hareza on 02/14/2023, asked a similar question and was answered that whatever sound she last set will be the default for the next time until she changes it. Not with my iPhone 12. When exploring my iPhone12 I came to a screen that offered me to change my default sound to whatever I want and foolishly

(I might have been drunk) chose the dog bark. So now when I ask Siri to set an alarm for me it is now always the dog bark. I regret this. How can I change my default alarm sound? Please.

iPhone 12, iOS 16

Posted on Oct 8, 2023 3:03 PM

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joefiesta

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Posted on Jan 24, 2024 8:27 AM

After exhaustive study and hours on the phone with Apple--who were useless--I figured out this:

Set an alarm MANUALLY. Specify the SOUND value you want. SAVE. Now all MANUALLY created alarms will use that sound (assuming, of course, you don't again change it).

that default is only used when setting the alarm manually.
that default is not displayed ANYWHERE (other than in the alarm you just created).
Undocumented advanced stuff:

a. You can NAME an alarm

b. You can CHANGE an alarm: Hey siri, "change alarm JOE to 15 hundred" (I use military time to avoid ambiguity). (Hey sir, "change alarm JOE to 3 p.m." is the same.)

c. You CAN NOT specify a sound using siri.

"hey, siri. Set alarm 10:15 am sound Ripple" will create an alarm with the NAME

"sound ripple".

"hey siri. Set alarm 10:15 am name Joe1" creates alarm NAMED JOE1 (using the default sound--that is, the one used when you last MANUALLY created an alarm).

suggestion

Manually create a few alarms, names something like JOE1, JOE2, JOE3.... You won't need any more than the number of alarm you want SIMULTANEOUSLY set.

Now, each time you want to set an alarm with SIRI, say "Hey, siri. CHANGE ALARM JOE3 to 4:35 p.m." This changes alarm JOE3 ****WITHOUT*** changing it's sound!!!

After JOE3 goes off, you can just change it again.

Voila! (I hate workarounds, but this is what we're left with. Thx APPLE.)

Summary: Basically, the problem is not ALARM, but SIRI. Setting an alarm using SIRI uses default sound. In my case it is RADIAL. HOWEVER, I can not find RADIAL listed as a sound ANYWHERE in any sound or ringtone SETTING I have.

Joe P

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Dec 2, 2023 11:44 AM in response to Sirinotworkib

I'm having the IDENTICAL problem since the most recent update. I ALWAYS had a certain tone for my clock alarms. Every thread I've checked has NOT had a correct way to change the default. It shows a certain tone with (DEFAULT) beside it. No way to change it there. Created a new alarm, changed the tone to what I wanted and THAT tone worked. Added another alarm and it kept the **** default sound. I CAN NOT FIND WHERE THE **** WE CHANGE THE DEFAULT ALARM TONE!!!!

Jan 20, 2024 6:41 AM in response to arner737

I’m having the same problem. Every time I set a new alarm the app defaults to Radial. Apple really screwed this up. I usually have Siri set an alarm for me so it’s not convenient to open the app and manually change the tone.

However, I found sort of a workaround. I had Siri set a bunch of alarms then manually changed them. If you simply Stop an alarm it’s still there “shut off”. Then tell Siri “activate my 5:30 AM alarm” Siri turns it on with the tone previously used. The default isn’t changed.

It’s ridiculous that Apple screwed this up. The airheard who imposed an unchangeable default should be fired.

In my opinion it’s a crappy default. Unpleasant and annoying.

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Apr 15, 2024 2:11 AM in response to arner737

I don’t know of anyone mentioned it, but this functionality was originally working exactly the way we want it through many versions of iOS. One of the recent updates removed this basic feature. No good.

May 23, 2024 12:44 AM in response to DugFreez

This is exactly what happened to me. Set a Siri alarm, and it was at a time I’ve never set before, and it sounded with a god-awful alarm tone.

so since I had to scroll to find it, and there were hundreds, I asked Siri to delete all alarms.

now all alarms go off with that awful alarm tone.

setting an alarm by “touch” correctly uses the last chosen sound. Siri always uses the “default” sound, but there is no way to change the default! (Anymore, I think in the last Siri used the same “default” as touch)

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