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.

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

The alarm volume also goes way down when you touch it. I've found that when I punch in the alarm time on the clock that I get the alarm sound I want but if I tell Siri to set my alrm it slips back to one I dont' like and can't really hear. I need a loud annoying alarm that doesn't stop. And that is a good clue about it recognizing your face. Why do they change these things? I dont' see any of these changes as an improvement.

I think i figured it out. If you are using the phone when your timer goes off, it will ring quietly since Face ID is detecting you are looking at the screen, therefore you see the timer go off. Try setting a timer, lock your phone and wait for it to go off. You will definitely hear it.

The face id making the timer go quiet isn’t great. Apple needs to change that!

I was having the same issue. I found that the suggestion to go to Settings -> Sounds & Haptics slider worked for me. Of course, when I pick it up while it's ringing loudly then it gets quiet, as others have noted.

Unsure if it’s too late to comment and you guys figured out a solution, but I just realized the alarms automatically come up now with the “snooze” option toggled on. You have to turn that off in each alarm you set and the volume goes back up :)

I, too was experiencing the volume of my alarms being automatically turned down by my phone which therefore made them too low in volume for me to hear them — all of them.

This is what I did to prevent my phone from automatically lowering the volume on my alarm alerts.

Navigate to: Settings > Accessibility > Face & Attention > Attention Aware Feature ... this feature needs to be ticked off.

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.

Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:

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• It's NOT a matter of simply sliding the Sounds and Haptics slider to a louder setting!
• If your alarm only vibrates [or is far too soft], you likely do not have a "sound" selected in the alarm clock setting, i.e., make sure that your alarm sound isn't set to None.
• Open the Clock app, tap the Alarms tab, then tap Edit. Tap the alarm, then tap Sound and choose a Sound.

Set it and lay it flat. And ur done.

The moment u pick up the phone and hold it upright it goes quieter. and If u set it and keep it upright (in a stand) it instantly is quiet.

How stupid!

That does not work for alarm only. That changes the ringtone volume for the entire phone.

I want my ringtone on the lowest volume, but the alarms on the loudest.

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.

Hello, have you tried setting an alarm and wait for it to go off? Waiting for it while the phone is on can make it quiet since the phone knows you’re there. Try turning off the phone while waiting for the alarm. You’ll notice that it’s going to be loud.

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!!!😊

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. 🙄