Iphone Alarm not playing songs

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Iphone Alarm not playing songs

This used to work. The challenge that I am having is when I set the Iphone alarm, it displays a list of songs to choose from when the alarm goes off. I can test and hear the song, however when my alarm goes off it plays the default ringtone. It is not clear to me why when I choose the sounds in the alarm setting it shows a list of songs that I am unable to play. Inconvenient and it seems like a design flaw. Hopefully this can be fixed.

Thank you and Please advise.

iPhone 11, iOS 17

Posted on Dec 20, 2023 04:24 PM

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Adam2011

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May 17, 2024 12:48 PM in response to p-m-edh

I had the same problem and here's the fix that worked for me (iPhone 15, version 17.5 - hopefully you have the same Music app). Go to Music and then Library, find the song you want to use for an alarm, click the ... next to the song, and then click Download (if Download isn't an option in the menu, then this song might work for an alarm already). Even though the song was already on my phone and I could play it in Music, clicking download did something to "reload" it and now when I select it for alarms, it plays the song when the alarm goes off. Note that once I did this, when I went back to the song in Music and clicked ..., the Download option was no longer in the menu.

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