Separate volume control for alarm and ringer

So turning down the volume at night doesn't seem like it would cause a problem. It doesn't sound as if you're saying you need the ringer low and the alarm high at night bu rather that you just need the volume low at night. I'm not sure why it matters, then that they're not separate.

So use DND and put it on a schedule. The ringer will be muted, except for those people you want to allow through, at a set time every night, then turned off every morning.

DND will turn the ringer off for everyone who you don't want calling you. So, in theory, you won't need to adjust the volume at all. The alarm will still sound. As you can put DND on a schedule, it will deactivate in the morning and then you'll hear all of your calls.

If you get lots of calls at night and want to be able to hear them but not have someone else hear them, then, no, this won't be a solution. For that, there is nothing to be done but, perhaps, set yourself a reminder to adjust the volume.

Exactly the problem I have. My sympathies! I am constantly forgetting to either turn the "ringer" down for my alarm, or back up so I can hear it during day-time activities. This is most certainly an oversite that I hope will be fixed once one of the engineers gets woken up by a 100% volume alarm. :-) There needs to be separate alarm and a ringer volume controls!

Using an aftermarket app is likely the only way to get around this, but as others have pointed out (and the same reason that I sometimes use Safari) is that the native apps just play nicer with the rest of the phone.

Man, I hope they fix this. For the first few months of iPhone5 ownership, I thought for sure that I was just confused. Nope. The phone is confused.

Set your alarm to some sort of quiet tone. You can use any song for the alarm sound. Chose a song (or make a recording) that's soft. I use bird sounds from an album of nature sounds I bought.

Chosing the proper tone is certainly the way to do. But it will STILL vary with the ringer volume. And I change the ringer volume to different things throughout the day depending on the specific situation. Yet EVERY morning I want my alarm tone to be the same volume. So even with the "right" tone, it'll come out at a different volume depending on where I last set the ringer volume. Nope... I've still got to check that ringer volume EVERY night before I turn in. And then remember to set it back to where I want the ringer in the AM.

This capability should be added to iOS. I agree with the poster...without this you are forced to fiddle with your volume every night and every morning if you don't want to wake up the baby. Android has this baked in, so it should be easy for Apple to implement, right? 🙂

"But I need the alarm to be quiet and ringer to be loud. How can I do this without adjusting the volume (once before going to sleep and once after waking up)?"

You cannot. This is it an option in iOS

Suggestions here -> http://www.apple.com/feedback/

There are literally hundreds of alarm apps which allow different volumes.

Personally, I use Nightstand Central. I have different alarms for weekdays & weekends, set the alarm to fade in over 10 minutes. Can select various sounds and music from your library.

Free version is a available

Hi Chris,

I was just researching this same issue and have to say I agree with slaterk. Every app should have a separate ringer control and it's simply not acceptable Apple offer this functionality.

I miss calls almost daily because the alarm is low and the last thing I have on my mind when I rise is changing anything on my iPhone other than to shut off the alarm.

Thanks for all your posts.

Jeffrey

jeffreydavila wrote:

Hi Chris,

I was just researching this same issue and have to say I agree with slaterk. Every app should have a separate ringer control

Only 1 app uses the ringer. The Phone app for phone rings.

and it's simply not acceptable Apple offer this functionality.

You don't want Apple to offer this?

I miss calls almost daily because the alarm is low

So go to Settings > Sounds, and set the ringer volume and turn off Change ringer volume with buttons.

I miss calls almost daily because the alarm is low and the last thing I have on my mind when I rise is changing anything on my iPhone other than to shut off the alarm.

With the settings above, turning off an alarm will not change the ringer volume.

HHi.

i have the same issue here. Every night I set the alarm volume via the clock app to the lowest weakest sound possible to be waken up by a blasting sound .

Not cool. To me or to my husband.😕

HOw ow is it possible for apple to "forget" such basic feature in a device as PERSONAL as an iphone?!

are they not offering that new wrist watch phone thing.... ? Is that as inconvenient when it comes to the simplest of features like it is an alarm clock?!

It is just absurd!!!

TheMHorn wrote:

HHi.

i have the same issue here. Every night I set the alarm volume via the clock app

???
There is no option to set the alarm volume (or any other volume) in the Clock app.

You set the Alarm volume in Settings > Sounds - Ringers & Alerts slider.

Yo bro try investing sometime on the "do not disturb" work its exactly what you need 🙂 ( thru settings)