Separate volume control for alarm and ringer

It's unacceptable! Where can we complain?

The only place I found was http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html.

Everybody should send a feedback requesting very basic features:

- separate volume control for alarm

- increasing volume for alarm

- same access to APIs by 3rd party apps

tots63 wrote:

His issue is the same as mine. I need to the volume for my alarm to stay consistent and the volume for my calls to stay consistent. But, I don't need them to be the same. Therefore, I need them to be separate.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Meanwhile, try using the Bedtime feature of the clock. It has a separate volume for the alarm.

It's surprising that after 3 years IOS still didn't fix this problem. Arrogance or stupidity, don't know what it is.

It's surprising that you didn't read the other messages in the thread that you posted to.

Hi Chris,

Any means any. If there is only one product that offers an alarm then saying there aren't any that offer separate volume control remains correct.

Ken

why would you make comment like this ? are you working for Apple and he touched your feelings ?

Yes, Apple is enjoying with that setting and ******* a off a lot of people

Hi there uri66 - I'm sorry if my contribution is rather late but I have only just got an iPhone in my defence lol. I stumbled across this when I was having the EXACT same problem with the phone volume linking up with the alarm volume

I've just tried this out and it seems to work. It'd be good to hear what everyone else thinks about this.

http://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/1my19q/detach_alarm_volume_from_its_depe ndence_on_phone/

DETACH alarm volume from its dependence on phone volume in iOS 7!(self.iphone)

submitted 1 year ago by NEKKHAMMA

The complaint is simple:

1. IOS sounds (like new email, tweet, keyboard sound, facebook post, etc) occur mostly while you use your device and have your attention to it. They do not need to be too loud.
2. The Phone ringer and the Clock alarm sounds, occur while you are in another room, while driving, while having the phone in your pocket, while in a loud bar, while you sleep and snore.

Currently, these two classes of sounds share the same volume slider.

I very often lose phone calls because of the low volume. If I increase the (one) volume I have to hear in an uncomfortable loud level the sounds for every sent email, keyboard tick, facebook post.

Not very logical.

I tried the trick to untick "Change with buttons" but this does not separate the two classes of sounds. They are still either too low (losing phone calls) or too loud (non-important sounds at unreasonable level).

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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 ** rather that you just need the volume low at night. I'm not sure why it matters, then that they're not separate.

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.

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? 🙂

You can set the alarm volume separate from the ringer volume.

slaterk wrote:

No, there's no way to do it! Personally, it's the most annoying thing about ANY Apple product,

You're annoyed that all Apple prodcuts have alarms you cannot set separate from the ringer?

AirPort, Aperature iTunes, iMac, MacBook, AppleTV, (etc...) do not not have alarms/ringers.

It's insane, stupid or pathetic - take your pick

Some of the posts in these forums?

Agreed.

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.