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
Wow that was an incredibly helpful explaination. It's as if you didn't notice that everyone here is asking HOW to separate alarm volume from ring volume...not asking if you CAN separate the two.
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Like seriously dude. Why did you even comment.
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.
hop2semar wrote:
Don't even know whether Apple reads these customer discussions to make improvements.
No, they do not. Use the feedback link:
Thank you very much I had the same problem and apparently this app will fix it
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.
Right, this discussion has been going on for over 8 years and they have yet to fix it. It appears the discussion board is for customer amusement only.
Espinoza_JB wrote:
Right, this discussion has been going on for over 8 years and they have yet to fix it. It appears the discussion board is for customer amusement only.
I think your math is a bit off. This thread started in December of 2013, just over two years ago. The purpose of this forum is for users to provide other users with technical support. As has been noted, Apple doesn't read here for suggestions. If you have a suggestion, use the Feedback page:
And, just because some customers want a particular feature doesn't mean a) that Apple considers it a problem that needs to be fixed and b) that Apple will chose to make a change in the interface. We don't always get what we want in this world.
@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.
ibeeMe wrote:
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.
I know! Thinking is so icky and annoying.
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Exactly, I want to focus my brain on being creative rather than stupid process, otherwise I would have got a Samsung
My Samsung does have the ability to set a separate volume for the alarm. You may want to consider one.
Separate volume control for alarm and ringer
