How to change the alarm sound on your iPhone

Setting a different sound for your daily wake-up alarm on your iPhone is a great way to change up the sound that wakes you up daily, especially if you’re prone to sleeping through it. Not to mention, you can use different sounds for different alarms as a way to keep you on track while at work, remind yourself to take something out of the oven, or whatever the case may be.

The point is – you’re not stuck with the default alarm sound on your iPhone, and it only takes a few seconds to switch it out to a different sound. Below, I’ll walk you through the steps you’ll need to take to change your iPhone’s alarm to a custom ringtone, a song from your Apple Music library, or even one of the ringtones that are preinstalled on the iPhone.

How to change your iPhone’s alarm sound

Changing your alarm sound is really easy and doesn’t require any tech-savvy on your part.

1. Open the Clock app on your iPhone
2. Tap the Alarm tab at the bottom of the display
3. Tap Edit at the top left of the display
4. Select the alarm you want to edit
5. Tap on Sound

How to change your iPhone alarm’s vibration

The next screen will show you several different options for the sound you can use for an alarm, including the ability to customize how your phone vibrates when a given alarm is going off, if it does at all.

To change the vibration pattern:

1. Select Haptics from the top.
2. In the haptics section, you’ll find options to have the vibration match the sound that’s playing, select from a list of pre-made patterns, or create a custom pattern of your own.
   • As you select each option, your iPhone will preview the pattern.
3. After you’ve found a haptic you like, tap Back in the corner of the screen.

How to set a purchased tone as your iPhone alarm

On the Sound settings page, you’ll also find a section labeled Store that you can use to browse and purchase pre-made tones, which can be used as alarm sounds or ringtones, directly from Apple.

1. Tap on Tone Store to view the various sound effects and song clips that are available to purchase.
   • If you’ve previously purchased a tone, but it’s not showing up in this section, you’ll see a button that lets you download all of your previously purchased tones.
2. Once a tone is downloaded to your phone, select it to set it as your alarm sound.

How to set a song as your iPhone alarm sound

Below the Store section is a section labeled Songs.

This section is where you’ll go to a set from your Apple Music library as your alarm sound. I’m not entirely sure why my iPhone prefilled this section with the classic songs Friday and Never Grow Up, but here we are.

1. You can select any of the prefilled options, or if they aren’t anything you can see yourself waking up to, tap on the Pick a song button.
2. Your Apple Music library will launch, showing you all the artists, albums and songs currently in your library.
   • You can search your account for the song you want to use.
3. Once you find it, tap on the “+” sign next to the song’s title to add it to the Clock app as an option for your alarm.
4. Select the song you want to use from the list of options, it will play a preview of what you’ll hear, and when you’re all done, tap on the Back button at the top of the screen.
5. Finally, make sure to tap the Save button on the screen that shows you all of a specific alarm’s options.

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How to use a different ringtone as your iPhone alarm

The final section of sound options in the settings page for an individual alarm is a list of all the preinstalled and custom ringtones you have on your phone.

1. Tap on one to preview it.
2. When you’ve found the right one, tap on the Back button at the top of the screen.
3. Of course, make sure to tap the Save button on the screen that shows you all of a specific alarm’s options.