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iPhone= TERRIBLE alarm clock?

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CavemanMike

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Nov 8, 2013
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Am I missing something?

Settings | sounds | ringer and alerts volume appears to govern the alarm clock volume.

I'd like to keep notification volume low, but have a max volume alarm.

I'm not willing to jail-break, and I don't want to use a 3rd party alarm clock if that means having to remember to launch the alarm clock manually each night before bed time.

Should I go to walmart and just buy a $7 old fashioned alarm clock?

What do you folks do?

Thanks,
Mike
 
Thanks. That sounds like a double-manual process: 1) I need to remember to flip the mute switch, and 2) I need to turn up the notification volume before bed because it will be low during the work day.

Hmm.
 
Jessica Lares said:
Can you not use Do Not Disturb on a schedule? That's what I do.
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That's what I do. My phone goes into Do Not Disturb mode automatically from 11PM-7AM. I have the option set so that it will ring if anyone calls, so that's the only sound I'll hear, other than the alarm in the morning.
 
aristobrat said:
That's what I do. My phone goes into Do Not Disturb mode automatically from 11PM-7AM. I have the option set so that it will ring if anyone calls, so that's the only sound I'll hear, other than the alarm in the morning.
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Same! Though I am a 10:30 - 6:30 kinda guy!
 
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CavemanMike said:
Am I missing something?

Settings | sounds | ringer and alerts volume appears to govern the alarm clock volume.

I'd like to keep notification volume low, but have a max volume alarm.

I'm not willing to jail-break, and I don't want to use a 3rd party alarm clock if that means having to remember to launch the alarm clock manually each night before bed time.

Should I go to walmart and just buy a $7 old fashioned alarm clock?

What do you folks do?

Thanks,
Mike
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I used my iPhone all through high school for my alarm even before DND. I got used to the routine and didn't know any other way. I would mute my phone and the alarm would still go through.I usually kept the ringer at about 50%.

Now in my sophomore year of college I just use my Apple Watch for alarm. Seems easier to me. Just don't forget to watch the AM and PM because I totally screwed myself this morning.
 
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Question for the OP
Did you switch from android?
Reason I ask is android app alarm clock extreme is the cats meow for clocks. Does everything a modern clock should do and then some.
I switched to Apple only to be ticked that not one app, that I could find would do half of even stock android
I every wrote the developers and they said no for an apple app
Anyway like others I learned to live with the primitive dnd, it works but options are very limited
 
Same here. DND from 11 to 6, ringer volume on max, phone set on silent 24/7 (since I have my pebble watch to receive notifications).
 
I would love to see configurable snooze and ascending volume. Hate the blaring especially when you're not in a deep sleep when it goes off.
One neat feature I found out yesterday was that the stock app has a sleep timer so I can use it to stop my music at a set interval when I'm asleep.
It works with Google Play Music since the app itself doesn't have a sleep timer built in like Songza did.
 
Between the alarm clock and DND there are a good few fairly straightforward and reasonable improvements and additions/options that Apple could and really should provide, especially with it all coming up for years now with plenty of feedback that has been submitted about it all...and yet years later we are still where we were.
 
No DND does not produce the desired outcome

"notification volume low, but have a max volume alarm."

Beibg able to set alarm volume distinctly from the ringer is the solution. And actually a further distinction between ringer and notifications vokune would be appreciated by me too.

Come on Apple.
 
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Off topic, but my friend actually set a custom alarm on his Android phone. He has to solve a simple math question in order to turn it off. Quite a way to get him up and ready in the mornings.
 
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...reasonable improvements and additions/options that Apple could and really should provide, especially with it all coming up for years now with plenty of feedback that has been submitted about it all...and yet years later we are still where we were.
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Amen!

As long as I have had a Mac, I've been able to create Calendar events that have more than two alerts, assign timezones to events, and do custom repeats (eg. "On the last Saturday of the month..."). iOS, it took until iOS 8 to get all but one of these features added to their stock Calendar/Reminders apps. And yet, still cannot add more than two alerts to a Calendar event.

And yes, I keep filing requests.
 
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