Comments on: Underappreciated: iPhone Alarm Clock

By: Frenchy182

Frenchy182 — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:48:00 +0000

I hope other people have this problem, but I have used the iphone alarm since day one and when it works it works brilliantly, the problem is that notifications from other apps, facebook, calendar etc seem to stop the alarm from sounding, does anyone know a way around this without disabling all notifications before going to bed?

By: necronomicon

necronomicon — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:17:39 +0000

In reply to danc. you can use garage band to create ringtones in spite of spending $.99

By: Christopher Rodriguez

Christopher Rodriguez — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:55:10 +0000

I'm still using my old sony tm506 phone to wake me up. Better than any iPhone alarm app.

By: Alex

Alex — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:58:04 +0000

does anyone know if the iphone can be set to "auto power-up" for the alarm? my old phone could do this (a samsung)–i could set the alarm, turn the phone off (to not waste battery at night on long trips) and the alarm would automatically turn on at the set time, and then turn the phone back off when you cancelled the alarm… this was one of my favorite features, and now I'm extremeley sad that I can't find this feature on my iphone!!! Please let me know if anyone knows about this… if it is indeed possible on the iphone. Thanks!

By: johnny85

johnny85 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:58:49 +0000

Just try Music Alarm Clock it's excellent! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa…

By: patrickj

patrickj — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:54:22 +0000

I think a lot of things Apple has stated as part of their approvals policies have proved to be very inconsistently applied.

By: Benjamin

Benjamin — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 23:44:50 +0000

You are absolutely correct. The iPhone Alarm Clock is the great!! The one limitation is that I cannot wake up or go to sleep with music from my iTunes Library. NIght Clock and Alarm Tunes don't come close the the flexibility and ease of use of the iPhone's Alarm. I think one of the reasons they don't allow iTunes compatibility is because they are selling so many iHome units. At a $100.00 a pop they are making a few bucks.

Would like to see Apple change this. I thought they said they would not allow any applications into the App Store that were being duplicated?

By: ahgates

ahgates — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:01:33 +0000

In reply to barmish. There is an alarm app coming out in the next few days http://www.iphone-alarm.com/ that plays music instead of buzzing.

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By: danc

danc — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:03:14 +0000

Great points!! Two oversights in my post–
1- I tend to set two or three different alarms spaced out five or ten minutes “just in case”.
2- The inability of the iPhone (at least currently) to use musical tracks on it is a big limitation. One of my ways around it is that I use custom ringtones that I’ve made from my music (yeah, I never believed I would actually pay an additional $.99 for a small section of a song I already own in order to create a ring tone but I have!)
One of the advantages of the iPhone as alarm clock is that I don’t have to have it docked in any kind of speaker system since it has an external speaker built in. Although the kind of redundancy you are describing never hurts, especially when you need to get to an early morning meeting!!

By: barmish

barmish — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:08:10 +0000

The iPhone is my backup alarm (rings 5 minutes after primary alarm), my iPod is my primary alarm.
While I find the iPod not as reliable as an alarm clock i hate the fact that you cannot wake up to your music on the iPhone.