How to set a custom alarm sound on your iPhone
Key takeaways
- You can use any sound you want for an i Phone alarm, and here's how to set it up.
- Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash There's an art to picking a good alarm sound.
- If you'd like to use a certain song, the easiest way to do that is to be an Apple Music subscriber.
You can use any sound you want for an i Phone alarm, and here's how to set it up.
Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash There's an art to picking a good alarm sound. It can't be too pleasant that you happily listen to it for a few minutes instead of doing what you're supposed to. Nor can it be too annoying, as that can put you in a bad mood as you scramble out of bed to shut it off (you do keep your i Phone out of reach while you're in bed, right?). Some of the default ringtones and alarm sounds on i OS can veer in the latter direction, unfortunately. Thankfully, it's relatively easy to set up a custom alarm sound on an iPhone.
If you'd like to use a certain song, the easiest way to do that is to be an Apple Music subscriber. The service has more than 100 million songs and you can set one as an alarm sound. First, you'll need to add the song to your library. To do that, open the Apple Music app, search for the song you want to use as an alarm and tap the plus (+) icon next to the relevant result to add it to your library.