Alarms are way too quiet on new iPhone 15

I found that whatever your media volume is set to is what your alarm volume is going to be. So if you watch videos but you turn the sound down because you don't want to blast everyone in the room, it turns down all media including the alarm. The alarm needs its own slider just like the Media has one. Really you should have enabled a mixer for ringtones, text tones, all alerts, alarms, and media. It doesn't make sense to have your alarm volume match your media volume. What if you're trying not to disturb anyone while walking around the house so you turn the slider down, then you crash and now you don't wake up because it's not that loud like normal.

Thank you! Wow! this is the most ridiculous glitch. I am notorious for oversleeping and I am notoriously paranoid. So it just took me ONE HOUR+ to figure this out. My phone was literally laying on my bedside table and I was sitting upright in bed waiting to “check” if my alarm was set correctly… when it went off the sound was so low I could barely hear it. Which means it was detecting me as being “awake” but, in some instances I could literally sleep upright against my headboard, which means my alarm would never have saved me in those cases.

So much for my smart phone being “smart” … I guess Apple does not account for people who are either paranoid and need to double check their alarms or for those that sleep like a bear and are difficult to wake. 🙄

It drives me crazy that they won't let us choose the default alarm. I cannot hear the one they have set and get tired of having to manually set the alarm sound every time to get a different one. If I set an alarm orally, it sets it back to Radial!!! Grrrr. So maddening that I had a special 1 Terrabyte iPhone 15 Pro Max made and I hate this phone! It keeps doing all sorts of things I don't require and don't understand and I have spent hours trying to figure out this alarm thing. It is at least loud enough now for the alarms I have manually set to go off at certain times if I don't touch it and don't let it see me, but it is a real aggravation not to be able to set one-time alarms orally using anything but their annoying Radial default alarm that cannot be heard!!! Why doesn't Apple do something about this? Enough people have complained.

jubob2 wrote:

It drives me crazy that they won't let us choose the default alarm. I cannot hear the one they have set and get tired of having to manually set the alarm sound every time to get a different one. If I set an alarm orally, it sets it back to Radial!!! Grrrr. So maddening that I had a special 1 Terrabyte iPhone 15 Pro Max made and I hate this phone! It keeps doing all sorts of things I don't require and don't understand and I have spent hours trying to figure out this alarm thing. It is at least loud enough now for the alarms I have manually set to go off at certain times if I don't touch it and don't let it see me, but it is a real aggravation not to be able to set one-time alarms orally using anything but their annoying Radial default alarm that cannot be heard!!! Why doesn't Apple do something about this? Enough people have complained.

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Yeah I was real thrilled when my phone updated in the middle of the night, and for the second **** time made me late for work. This time because they changed the default alarm, and it's way too low to hear even if you're right next to it. Last time they just turned it off.

I have made sure the volume is turned all the way up multiple times and if my phone is locked it doesn’t make a sound when I get a message. This is terrible. The volume also seems to adjust on it’s on because I can go back later and check and the slider has moved to a lower volume again. I need to be able to hear my alerts. I use my phone at work and home. Is there going to be a fix for this problem?

How is this even a possibility. 15th revision of the iphone....what meeting were people sitting around brainstorming where someone said "I have it--we make it so that alarms are very quiet!."

"Interesting idea Carl. The user will still be able to make the alarm loud by turning the volume up though, right? I mean, people use these to force themselves awake from a sleep."

"No John, that's the beauty of it. The alarms are ALWAYS quiet. That's the default. Turning the volume up only makes non-alarm noises incredibly loud."

I tried the suggestion to increase volume on my alarm by using the left side buttons. My slider always appears on the top, never on the left side (as suggested to make louder), no matter what left button I use. Still need the alarm louder to wake me up. Almost inaudible as it is. Thanks for any help.

No. We've been late for work, late for events, and turned to the internet for help, but none of us have tried the first thing anyone would try. We've all used iphone as an alarm for 15 years, this is a new issue.

THANK YOU…THANK YOU…THANK YOU…!!! It FINALLY works!!! What a frustrating experience that was. I had no problem since getting my new iPhone 15 a week ago until this morning when I slept through my alarm. I only later found out why……because the volume level was soooo low that you wouldn’t be able to hear at any time!!! How on earth did that happen????? Never mind…. I am just thrilled that the problem is solved!!!

AGAIN I SAY……THANK YOU!!!😊

My alarm was loud for about a second then went so quiet I couldn’t hear it, so I left it to see if it did it again and nope when the alarm went off again it was so quiet I couldn’t hear it, my iPhone 15pro max is my very first iPhone this is not the first problem I have had with this phone, I am beginning to think leaving android was a mistake

That setting has been turned off for months, yet the alarm is still so quiet. That doesn’t work to solve the actual volume of the alarms.

The phone can be face down in an empty room & it doesn’t help the alarm sounds

This is exactly how I feel scout this iPhone 15! I HATE IT!!!!

I have had many Genius Bar appointments, I’ve had Apple senior support help calls more than 15 times…. no one can fix or troubleshoot the problems. The phone has been exchanged for a new one, just different problems now, it’s been reset to factory settings, helped some, not others, made new problems.

It is ridiculous!

Thank you, thank you thank you this worked amazingly tested the alarm out for my first evening with the phone making sure it was gonna wake me up in time for work and I panicked. I tried to few things but then doing exactly what you said it worked immediately. Thank you again.

I’ve been setting up my alarm. For two nights in a row I’ve been late to work on May 5—May 6 2024. I usually always come early/on time. I decided to test out my alarm on the iPhone 15 plus. My alarm goes off quiet.