When I use silent mode, I expect no sound and hence I expect alarms to be silent as well but they don t, silent button has no effect on alarms! On IOS 5 this used to work and in silent mode alarms did just vibrate. How can i put alarms in silent mode without reconfiguring each of them one by one when I need silent mode? Thanks
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In your situation where you would like the vibration, but just not the sound the solution may require a bit of an investment. If you go into iTunes and search for "Silent iPhone" they have ringtones that you can set as the default for your alarms. I think that would give you your desired result of vibration with no sound. The only downside being if you are expecting more than just a vibration if you are out of silent mode. |
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This is one thing about the iPhone that I've never really figured out. The truth is there is NO way to change that behavior in iOS (as of iOS 6). Do not disturb doesn't even do this. I suppose the theory is that if you were relying on an alarm to wake you up, or the like, you would want it to go off no matter if your phone is muted or if the ringer is on. This also allows you to mute messages, calls, and such during the night, for example, while still relying on the alarm to go off in the morning. Still, seems like there could be a setting in the Clock app for each alarm that would go like - Silence when muted? Yes/no. As a result of there being no customization along these lines it will take a little more effort on your part. One thing you could work at doing is setting particular days for the alarm to go off instead of the default. This can be changed by Editing the alarm, and then changing the "Repeat" settings. Biggest problem with this is it will then repeat every week, instead of just once. |
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Don't know if this will do but for me (iOS6), setting to silent and then turning the ringer down as far as it will go makes the alarm vibrate only. Just remember to turn your volume back up later. |
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Here's the solution that worked for me: search online (Google) or create (GarageBand, Audacity, etc) a 20-25 second clip of silence. Save it in your iTunes as a "song" (I just called it Silent Ringtone), and then sync your phone so it's now on your phone. Now, when you create an alarm, use Pick a Song from your library, and select your "Ringtone" song. If you have your settings elsewhere set to vibrate on silent or whatever, then you should now have a song that "plays" while your phone happily buzzes. Hope that helps! p.s. Lots of people seem to wonder why one would needed this workaround, but as someone who only recently switched to iPhone from a phone that could do the vibrate-only alarm thing easily, I would use these alarms to set myself private reminders for lots of things. Such as when I was in a lecture or meeting and needed to remember to leave 5 minutes early but didn't want to be watching the clock constantly. Or if I had to remember when to go back and put more money in the parking meter. Or basically a multitude of things to alert myself that I didn't need to whole world to know about! Just a simple buzz in the pocket was enough. |
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