How to Set a Vibrate Only iPhone Alarm

Often, an iPhone alarm needs to be loud enough to ensure you’ll wake up in the morning. But in some cases, you might prefer your iPhone alarm to vibrate only. For example, when you’re sharing a room with someone else or if you find the alarm ringtones unpleasantly disruptive.

So, let’s look at how you’re able to set a vibrate-only alarm on your iPhone.

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How to Set an iPhone Alarm That Vibrates Only

Setting a vibrate-only alarm is pretty straightforward in the native Clock app for iOS. So, follow these steps to set up an iPhone alarm that vibrates silently without a ringtone:

These steps will set an alarm with the iPhone’s default vibration setting. However, you can also make one that lets you use your own custom vibration pattern. Here’s how.

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If your alarm activates but doesn’t vibrate at your set time, again check that you have turned on System Haptics, Vibration, and Play Haptics. But if your alarm doesn’t go off at all, you might need to use othersolutions to fix your iPhone alarm.

Unfortunately, there is currently no way to increase the intensity of your iPhone’s alarm vibration. If you’re concerned that you might not notice a vibrate-only alarm, you’re able to tryalternative iPhone alarm clock apps, which offer different ringtones that you may find more suitable than Apple’s default ones.

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Use a Vibrating iPhone Alarm for Gentler Alerts

Your iPhone alarm volume is the same as any incoming call alert volume. Since almost all default tones in an iPhone are pretty loud, fast, or upbeat, the alarm sound can sometimes feel quite jarring. However, by making your iPhone alarm vibrate only, it can serve as a gentler alert for any task you want to carry out.

The iPhone alarm is fixed at a nine-minute snooze, but here are some workarounds you can use to change the snooze time.

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