It there any way to control volume for alarm and ringer separately? I use max volume during the day in order not to miss calls and min volume at night so that alarm won't wake anybody. So I have to change volume twice a day - not very convenient.
iPhone 4S, iOS 7.0.2
uri65,
I think i'm having the same trouble. I want my alarm to ring quietly- it doesn't take much to wake me up- and nothing worse than a blaring sound to jolt me out of bed. However, I want my phone calls to ring loudly. If I set the volume low at night for my alarm to ring quietly, I forget to set it back up in the morning and then I can't hear my phone ring with a call or text message.
I found a free app called Nightstand Central. I set the alarm and volume the way I want but it doesn't change my phone volume setting so I can leave that up (I don't have an issue with getting phone calls/texts at night). Yes, I'd like that functionality directly in my clock --> alarm settings in my phone but this is an ok work around and was free.
Hi there slaterk,
I'm really sorry - I've just got home and the comments got me thinking so I tried out my landline, I apologise most profusely uri66 and MattjamesB - I would've edited my reply but the browser just won't let me for some reason!
What they've said is correct: the volume buttons, when independent, only control the audio - not the ringer or alerts (definitely not the alarm). I guess I should've phoned myself a couple of times before!
I also realised that I had left my ringer on 'low', that's why it was low.
Many apologies again, slaterk, uri66, MattjamesB and anyone else!
No problems, I just wish I had been right...it would've been lovely for everyone. Maybe ioS 8.4? 9.0? lol
Best wishes everyone - I'll keep up-to-date with this forum and hopefully someone will have the answer
SiPhone6 wrote:
and hopefully someone will have the answer
I think that person will have to be either Tim Cook or Johny Ive!!
(Curse their butlers - who do the volume adjustments for them, morning and night!)
LOL @lanicaanvenice - all this does is adjust the ringer volume...which is EXACTLY THE PROBLEM. I suggest you read the thread, starting at the top.
In Android, for example, you can adjust the RINGER volume and the ALARM volume separately. iOS should have this so I don't (1) have an extremely loud alarm or (2) have an extremely quiet ringer. Make sense?
Ok,
well err it works for me. I just tried it. Alarm and ringer volume are separated by the steps I just posted previous to this. I read from the top and that's why I was so surprised. I think you are not reading my post properly. It DOES NOT seperate the volume of each alarm, only the alarm from the ringer... You really should try it... Unless I'm the only one with the magic iphone ...
It is impossible to set low alarm volume and have it remain at that level after using the phone for other things. After you set your wake up alarm to a low volume with your process (something I've done about 1,000 times) please go back and watch a movie at high volume, and turn your ringer up.
Warn your spouse before you go to bed.
Or, do you go in every night and adjust the volume like this? That works. Having to set the alarm volume every night is not what we're after.
Cheers,
@lanicaanvenice What version of iOS are you using? On 8.3 I confirm that it is all set to 1 volume, "Ringer". I'm not mocking, just stating fact. I really meant for you to read the thread...there really is no way to set alarm and ringer volume separately at different levels in iOS.
I realised the first post is form 2013 but here is my answer anyway.
I have an iPhone 5c with iOS 8.4.1 software
If you disable the option 'Change with Buttons' on the volume menu, the volume for the ringer and alerts will be separate than the one for the alarm, which can be set with the side buttons.
Ringer and alerts (text tone, new voice mail, new mail, set mail, tweet, calendar alerts and so on)
Settings --> Sounds --> Ringer and alerts volume option: just slide it to the volume you want.
**Important, unable the 'change with buttons' options. When you do, the extra info text reads: 'the volume of the ringer and alerts will not be affected by the volume buttons'.
Alarm
Just adjust the volume to the level you want by using the side buttons. That's it.
Result
Ringer and alerts will sound at volume level set through Settings --> Sounds menu, regardless of the volume set through the side buttons.
(Morning wake up) Alam will go off at the volume set with the side buttons.
Tips
a) You can silence the in calls and alerts by using the 'silent' side slider. The alarm will still go off normally (and soundly).
b) By turing the silent side slider on and off you can check on your screen the volume the ringer is set up at.
I've tried all the above and it worked for me. Hope it works for you too.
Ok. After all the complaining for years about the alarm/ringer volume (that they cannot be controlled separately) here comes iOS9. And...... NOTHING!
Why wasn't this done with the iOS9 upgrade? It is such a basic feature and cannot be hard to fix.
In a way this is really a security issue. Since I have to get up before everybody else in the family and do not want to disturb my husband, I set the alarm on min. volume. Then later in the preparing-the-kids-for-school and going-to-work-rush I often forget to turn the volume back up. This does happen often and not only to me as I can see in this trail of comments.
And then it happened. The school called me to pick up one of my kids from school and take him to the hospital because he had an accident at school. AND I DID NOT HEAR MY PHONE. Some stranger had to take my son the the hospital. I hope you can imagine how horrible this is for a mother.
So now I will have to find an alarm app that allows me to set the alarm volume on low while the ringer volume can remain high. Really, apple? Weak.
This is not just a superfluous feature. It is important and goes back to the most basic need to have a mobile phone to begin with: be reachable in emergencies.
Apple has made a lot of effort to protect people from their own forgetfulness and - let's name it - stupidity for much less important features. Why not for this?
Thank you for posting this KatharinaWW!
You nailed my issue. And it still amazes me that there are some folks who just say, "well, deal with it. It isn't that hard to just adjust the volume" Right. It isn't. But how many times have I had similar situations as yours? I miss important notifications because I generally adjust my ringer very low for my alarm clock each night. And like you - sometimes life gets in the way of remembering to turn the dang thing back up for daytime use.
Additionally, there is the merely "annoying" aspect of having the problem the other way around. After a day in noisy environments with the ringer up high, I sometimes fall asleep first, or just forget to lower the volume for my alarm... and that starts my day off quite poorly after my wife peels me off the ceiling.
Yeah, this isn't rocket science to fix. And it can merely be an option so that those who really find great utility in having the ringer and alarm volumes tied together can continue down that blissful road.
katharinaworldwide wrote:
The school called me to pick up one of my kids from school and take him to the hospital because he had an accident at school. AND I DID NOT HEAR MY PHONE.
Sorry to hear that - and yes, i just don't get it!
If you think of it the other way round, why would they NOT implement it? What possible reasons are there?! And why would there not be people working at Apple who say to their line managers, sort this out please.
The only conclusion that i can have is that the upper echelons of Apple management don't use their phones to wake them up in the morning. Even if one or two of them did, wouldn't they have the same problems we're having; then they'd talk to their colleagues and things would get sorted - no?
It just doesn't make sense from so many different ways of looking at it!
I recently moved from Android to Apple. Thanks apple for making me miss my work today because of this. didn't realize Ringer and Alarm Volume cannot be separated. I read this whole thread and blogs, it appears there is no way to do this. It is really annoying to know that IOS is missing some of these basic functionalities. It makes more sense when you open alarm app and press the volume button, it changes just the Alarm volume. Don't even know whether Apple reads these customer discussions to make improvements.
This worked for me on solving the volume control issue for phone and wakeup alarm. Still there are some sounds I like for other stuff that are rather quite and it would be nice to have individual volume settings for each type of alert for the different phone functions.
@Meg, I did leave Feedback to Apple.
IMO they will get around to this because it is a very common use-case scenario. ****, I'll take an iOS update that preserves the old behaviour but gives you several setting toggles that will make iOS mimic Android's separate volume controls. So whoever is OK with the current/old behaviour won't have to touch a thing but the rest of us could fine-tune our iOS.
The problem with turning down the volume at night and turning it up again in the morning is that it's annoying and I don't want to have to be bothered every day, I don't want to have to think about it.
Separate volume control for alarm and ringer
