Ideally, an alarm should wake you up from your sweet dreams to let you start a new day. However, if the alarm doesn’t go off when it should, it could be your worst nightmares. You might be late for work, an important meeting or appointment, or miss your flight. So why is my iPhone alarm not working?

What to do to fix the "iPhone alarm clock not working" problem?

Check your ringer volume

Sometimes the alarm does go off, but the volume is just too low to wake people up. To check the ringer volume, go to Settings>Sounds, and use the slider to increase the volume of ringer. You can also change it with buttons if you have Change with Buttons on, but make sure that you are changing ringer volume, not media volume.

iPhone Alarm Clock Not Working

Check individual alarm’s ringtone

In another case, it could be that very alarm’s ringtone’s problem. iPhone’s stock Alarm app allows the ringtone to be set to none, so when it goes off, it is just an silent notification. Go to Alarm — Edit — individual alarm — Sounds to change that.

iPhone Alarm Clock Not Working

Check if 3rd-party alarm clock is running

You might find your iPhone alarm not working when you have a third-party alarm clock running. So go check if there's a 3rd-party alarm clock running that you forget about. They might conflict with the stock Alarm app.

3 Alternatives to iPhone’s stock Alarm app

If you find this "iPhone alarm not working" problem to be unsolvable or it just keeps appearing randomly, try replacing it with a third-party alarm clock app. There are a lot of alarm clock apps available. Here are some alternatives for you to choose from. However, some of them don’t come without a caveat, like you have to leave it on the foreground or keep your iPhone charged overnight so it doesn’t drain the battery.

Sleep Cycle

Sleep Cycle is one of the best alarm apps that tracks sleep quality and wakes you up during light sleep, which makes you feel waking up naturally rested without an alarm clock. Sleep Cycle uses sound analysis to identify sleep states by tracking movements in bed. Sleep Cycle uses a wake up phase (30 minutes by default) that ends at your desired alarm time. During this phase Sleep Cycle will monitor signals from your body to wake you softly, when you are in the lightest possible sleep state.

Alternative to the Default iPhone Alarm Clock

Examples of sleep graphs generated by Sleep Cycle alarm clock:

Sleep Cycle

Sleep Cycle detects your sleep quality in two methods. You can choose either microphone or accelerometer. And another great thing about Sleep Cycle is that it works in Do Not Disturb mode and in background. If you find your iPhone alarm clock not working, try using Sleep Cycle and see if it works better.

Rise

Rise is an alarm clock praised for its beautifully coloured minimal design. the main screen of Rise is simply a gradient of colour and time for the next alarm. You can slide up and down to set the time for your alarm, while the background gradient will also shift along with it to represent different time of the day. Swiping left or right to turn on or off the alarm.

Rise only comes with one alarm for free and you can unlock more alarms for 1 USD. Note that Rise works with "Do Not Disturb" and the silence switch as long as it's in the foreground and / or auto-locked when using those two features. When you find your iPhone alarm not working properly, give this a shot and you'd be surprised.

Wake

Wake is another alarm clock alternative on iOS with splendid UI design. The landing screen is similar to Rise, however you change your alarm’s time by clicking the perimeter of the circle or tapping the hour / minute to change the number one by one. Swiping up gives you the settings for this specific alarm, which includes the tone, weekdays and how you snooze or silent your alarm, for example, slap & flip, shake, or swipe.

Wake

The settings screen of the app can be accessed by swiping from right to left, where a variety of common preferences are available.

Wake

Wake supports up to 16 alarms with no additional in-app purchases. It also includes a number of interesting tones themed by SciFi Movies, Nature, Minimal and so on.

According to official support guide, wake will get you up no matter what, but to use the slap & flip alarm styles you’ll need to leave Wake running onscreen and charging overnight. Set Wake to Night Mode and place your iPhone face up next to your bed. Do not lock your screen as this feature uses the proximity sensor. In conclusion, it's a great alternative to the default alarm clock when you find your iPhone alarm clock not working properly.

For the most of the time, the stock iPhone app is trustworthy and robust, but nothing is certain when it comes to electronics. If you find your iPhone alarm not working properly, we hope the troubleshooting guide we wrote can help you out. In addition, there are also a number of quality alarm app alternatives to the stock Alarm app, if you need more features on alarms.

How to transfer custom ringtone from PC to iPhone

If you are bored with the custom ringtone from iPhone, it is time to change it with your favorite ringtone now! It is not difficult to add custom ringtones to your iPhone and basically it takes two steps, download music to PC and transfer music to iPhone. With Leawo iTransfer, this job can be done effortlessly. As a powerful iPod, iPad and iPhone transfer program, Leawo iTransfer provides perfect solutions for iPhone transfer, iPad transfer and iPod transfer issues. It’s quite nice to transfer 12 kinds of files, like apps, photos, music, videos, SMS, contacts, and so on between iOS devices, iTunes and PCs. It can also back up iPhone, iPad and iPod (touch) files to computer. Furthermore, with the advanced scanning and transferring technology, Leawo iTransfer helps users transfer music, videos, photos, SMS, etc. between iPhone/iPad/iPod, iTunes and computers seamlessly.

To transfer your custom ringtone from PC to iPhone using Leawo iTransfer, follow this tutorial to fulfill your task.

Step 1: Download and install the app
Click the button below to download and install the app. This app is compact and does take much space to install.

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Step 2: Connect your iPhone to PC and the app detects the iPhone automatically
Launch the app and connect your iPhone to the PC. The app will read and recognize the iPhone automatically. Once it detects the iOS device, the interfaces looks like below.

leawo itransfer main interface

Step 3: Put the custom ringtone to the app
Simply drag and drop the custom ringtone from PC to the app or click the button Add to add the custom ringtones to the app. You may also click File > Add > Add File/Add Folder to import the custom ringtone.

Add File

Step 4: Transfer the custom ringtone to iPhone
When your custom ringtone is added to the app, the app will automatically transfer your custom ringtone to your iPhone. Stay there until the file is transferred to your iPhone before you disconnect the USB from PC.

transfer progress

Now you have your custom ringtone in your iPhone, proceed to set the ringtone to make it your morning wake up tone or ringtone when you receive a call. Go to Settings and hit Sounds, where you will see sound and vibration patterns shown below. You can choose Ringtone and set the input ringtone as your default ringtone in this iPhone. To make it funnier, you can even set different ringtone for different calls. In this way, you won’t miss any important calls as your ringtone is nothing like others.

set ringtone

Note that besides transferring custom ringtone to iPhone, Leawo iTransfer also acts as a music library manager, which will help organize the music playlist so that they look more intuitive and organized when you launch the music player.

Conclusion

This article is a small but comprehensive guide to show people what they can do when iPhone alarm does not go off. As you may read from above sections, the reasons causing your iPhone alarm not going off vary, even a late update of iOS may lead to this problem. You may diagnose the problem and fix it according to the solutions mentioned above. Apart from that, iPhone has its custom sound and vibration patterns for us but sometimes we get bored with the default sounds, we might need something unique to set as our ringtones. In this way, we can be unique and we are able to enjoy more of our own ringtones. To do this, we can download what we need from the internet, such as YouTube music to our PC and use Leawo iTransfer to transfer the downloaded music file to the iPhone. By doing so, we can set the music to be our personal ringtone.

What’s more, Leawo iTransfer can also be a backup tool for iPhone, which will enable users to back up the data from iPhone to PC so that they can use the data easily from the computer. Also this helps if we accidentally get the data lost in iPhone. At least we know where to get them back. We can use Leawo iTransfer to transfer the backup data to iPhone again. Just imagine how important this would be!