The volume of the alarm on my iPhone XS won’t go down?

Set the alarm's volume

Tap Settings > Sounds & Haptics. Under Ringers And Alerts, drag the slider left or right. As you drag, an alert will play, so you can hear how the volume changes. Using the Volume buttons on the side of your iPhone won't change the alarm's volume unless you turn on Change with Buttons.

How to change the settings

1. Open the Clock app and tap the Bedtime tab.
2. Tap Options in the top-left corner.
3. Here's what you can change:
   • Choose which days your Wake alarm goes off. Your alarm goes off on days that are orange.
   • Set when you're reminded to go to bed.
   • Choose a Wake Up Sound for your alarm.
   • Change how loud the alarm is.
4. Tap Done.

I've changed this but the Alarm volume changes. It will sometimes go off loud and then 2 seconds go to quiet. It will sometimes go quiet even if the volume is set loud. My wife has the iPhone XS and hates the alarm sound volume changes. Later I will produce a video to demonstrate the differing volumes even though the sound (alerts and ringers) is set to high.

Same here on XS Max. Alarm sound is way too soft. I use same settings and song but sounds way more quiet compared to my old 7 Plus.

The alarm sounds loud initially but volume is lowered automatically it seems after a fraction of a second.

This is how I solved the problem on my wifes phone. I deleted all alarms then restarted phone.
Made an Alarm and deleted it again. Restarted the phone.
Now the volume seems correct when she makes an alarm. She is no longer complaining.

I think it has to do with the vibration setting, if you have your alarm set to vibrate as well as make a sound turn the vibrate off and it should solve your issue...worked on my xs max. Go to the alarm, select a time to edit...where you would go to set the alarm sound, volume etc...at the top you should be able to tick the vibrate off. Hope this helps!

Hi Alex,

I do not believe you have resolved the issue at all.

I have tried everything you said (no I don’t use bedtime) and nothing worked.

Shaunfromaustrtalia - his idea didn’t work for me either.

The phone picks its own volume to start the alarm and not until you move the phone or it recognises your ID does it play at the volume YOU have chosen.

Can you please ask someone how to over come this?

Cheers

I tried each of the solutions, alone and in combination (erasing the alarms and restarting, and disabling Face ID > Attention Aware). None worked consistently, or more than once. Often, the alarm tone would reset to the default alarm sound as well as the default volume.

I even downloaded an alarm app from the App Store, but the alarm volume on the app defaulted to a medium volume after the phone screen went to sleep.

Has Apple acknowledged the issue? Also, some people don’t have the issue. Is this only for people who restored a new iPhone XS from a backup of an older model? I restored from an iPhone 6.

Has as anyone found a good fix?

I have experienced the same rude awakening this morning to one of my favourite Icelandic songs. Very disappointing I must say, especially after just switching to iPhone after years with Samsung where you can select “increasing volume” with wake up alarms. I read through the reply regarding changing volume of tones etc, however would that not change EVERY tone?

Thank you in advance

So I have tried all of these answers after my husband went nuts and nothing worked.

my volume is always set on medium (half way)...

I went into alarm, pressed edit, pressed sound, clicked again on the selected sound, pressed the volume down button until desire volume and finally pressed back to exit.

I pressed again on a volume button to double check if my volume was still half way or as low the alarm sound I wanted & to my surprise, still on medium.

I have now edited all my alarms to the desired volume... 🙃

Have the same issue.

I have the volume set to 1 Bar, and the alarm goes at half volume.

-Tried changing volume buttons with “change volume with buttons.”

-Tried deleting and then re-adding alarms.

-Tried turning off vibration.

-Tried turning off the accessibility setting with the Face ID that recognizes you looking at the phone

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Way I go you nailed it....if you turn on “require attention for Face ID” it will won’t lower u til you open your eyes so it doesn’t mistake you rolling over as being awake.

Great job figuring this out and what a neat feature from Apple knowing when you’re actually awake!

I’ve also tried the same things everyone else has tried: deleting the alarms and rebooting the phone, adjusting the volume within settings instead of with the buttons, and no matter what, the alarm BLASTS at full volume no matter where the ringer volume is. My alarm does not need to be that loud in order for me to wake up and it’s quite jarring.

This is very obviously a bug and not a feature.

You are correct, in that the Face ID is triggering the alarm to be quieted. There is a way to fix this, though.

Go to: Setting>General>Accessibility>Face ID & Attention

In here, turn off the toggle that says “Attention Awareness Features” and now your alarms should stay at the volume they start playing at.