Disable Sleep Schedule Wake Up Alarm on Apple Watch

Recently I have been having an issue with my Apple Watch & my Wake Up Alarm where the Alarm will ring too quietly (arm is under pillow, covers, or far away) and won’t wake me. This wouldn’t happen, of course, if the alarm would just ring on my iPhone instead, but there doesn’t seem to be an easy fix to this.


Several solutions were provided in a similar post’s answer here: Disable/Un-sync Sleep/Wake Up Alarm on Ap… - Apple Community, but they aren’t really good solutions to the issue, the first one recommends turning off the alarm from the sleep app on the Apple Watch, which actually ends up turning off the alarm for the entire sleep schedule, which means it won’t ring on the iPhone either. The other solution suggests going into the Watch app to Settings > Sleep and pressing “Don’t use this Watch for Sleep”, which also disables sleep tracking, which I don’t want to do. I’ve also tried the “Push Alerts from iPhone” option in the Apple Watch Clock settings, which doesn’t seem to apply to the Wake Up Alarm.


Are there any other solutions that could work? I feel like this should be an easy fix, I can’t imagine there only being a few people who only want Wake Up Alarms on their iPhones and not their watches.


Thanks in advance!


Apple Watch Series 7

Posted on Feb 5, 2023 08:47 PM

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Posted on Feb 7, 2023 02:14 PM

Hello Odog000,


It sounds like what you're trying to do is something that is not a current feature/function of the sleep schedule.


If you've set up a sleep schedule in the Health app on your iPhone and you wear an Apple Watch when you go to bed, the sleep alarm is going to play through the watch. If you don't want the alarm to play through the watch, then your only option is to take the watch off when you go to bed.


Set up a schedule for a Sleep Focus in Health on iPhone


If you'd like to see more customization options for the sleep schedule alarm, you can submit those suggestions to Apple through their feedback site here: Product Feedback


Alternatively, if you want an alarm sound to play from your iPhone while you're wearing an Apple Watch, you can just set up a normal alarm in the Clock app on your iPhone.


1. Open the Clock app, then tap the Alarm tab.
2. Tap the Add button .
3. Set a time for the alarm. You can also choose one of these options:
• Repeat: Tap to set up a recurring alarm.
• Label: Tap to name your alarm.
• Sound: Tap to pick a sound that plays when the alarm sounds.
• Snooze: Turn on to see a Snooze option when the alarm sounds.
4. Tap Save.

How to set and change alarms on your iPhone


Cheers!


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Feb 7, 2023 02:14 PM in response to Odog000

Hello Odog000,


It sounds like what you're trying to do is something that is not a current feature/function of the sleep schedule.


If you've set up a sleep schedule in the Health app on your iPhone and you wear an Apple Watch when you go to bed, the sleep alarm is going to play through the watch. If you don't want the alarm to play through the watch, then your only option is to take the watch off when you go to bed.


Set up a schedule for a Sleep Focus in Health on iPhone


If you'd like to see more customization options for the sleep schedule alarm, you can submit those suggestions to Apple through their feedback site here: Product Feedback


Alternatively, if you want an alarm sound to play from your iPhone while you're wearing an Apple Watch, you can just set up a normal alarm in the Clock app on your iPhone.


1. Open the Clock app, then tap the Alarm tab.
2. Tap the Add button .
3. Set a time for the alarm. You can also choose one of these options:
• Repeat: Tap to set up a recurring alarm.
• Label: Tap to name your alarm.
• Sound: Tap to pick a sound that plays when the alarm sounds.
• Snooze: Turn on to see a Snooze option when the alarm sounds.
4. Tap Save.

How to set and change alarms on your iPhone


Cheers!


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Disable Sleep Schedule Wake Up Alarm on Apple Watch

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