Do you use your iPhone/Touch as an alarm clock?

[SFStateStudent]

Oh most certainly; being on the ABS Diet for the past year, I can set my iPhone for my meals and snacks. Great reminder for those tee times (God forbid that I should forget my tee times), that I've made two weeks in advance or that final exam that I forgot to study for, AGAIN!

 

[brandonzar]

Oh most certainly; being on the ABS Diet for the past year, I can set my iPhone for my meals and snacks. Great reminder for those tee times (God forbid that I should forget my tee times), that I've made two weeks in advance or that final exam that I forgot to study for, AGAIN!

All Beer & Sausage Diet?

 

[MSD401]

I have been using awaken on my MBP or my current phone as my alarm but I think I will prolly be testing my new iphone out

 

[MSD401]

I really like my nokia bh-900 alot great noise reduction tech...

 

[/dev/toaster]

Yes ... because I am a bastard when it comes to waking up in the morning. I have to set my self 5 - 8 alarms that start going off 1 hour before I need to get up. Since I need to slide it to shut if off, it makes me sit up instead of pounding on snooze.

 

[Danraad]

Yes

 

[brandonzar]

Yes ... because I am a bastard when it comes to waking up in the morning. I have to set my self 5 - 8 alarms that start going off 1 hour before I need to get up. Since I need to slide it to shut if off, it makes me sit up instead of pounding on snooze.

My wife used to do the same thing and it drove me nuts, I don't know why people don't just wake up when the alarm go's off, but to each his own, as long as they're not in my bed.

 

[MacLadybug]

Use it everyday...

I had a Motorola Krazor before my iPhone and the alarm function was undependable. Love the iPhone alarm and I can sleep peacefully cause I know it will work in the AM.

 

[ivtecDOu]

how the hell do you use it as an alarm clock. tried it and i slept right through the alarm because its so quiet made me late for work

 

[SFStateStudent]

All Beer & Sausage Diet?

You had me at BEER...(sorry for the late response, but I was setting iPhone alarm for 5:30am tee time)

 

[elbirth]

can anyone that's used the iPhone as an alarm tell me if there are any caveats to using it docked into an alarm clock? I want to think I had heard complaints that, although you could use songs for the alarms on its own, once docked, it couldn't use a song as the alarm and play it through the speakers of the device it was docked in.

Also, I know someone that had shown me how some devices required him to put his iPhone into airplane mode before it would recognize it as an iPod and actually play music... which would mean that you can't get calls during the night

 

[chimpboy74]

how the hell do you use it as an alarm clock. tried it and i slept right through the alarm because its so quiet made me late for work

Hi there
I would recommend using the 'alarm' tone that is preprogrammed. First time I set the iphone as an alarm I put it on bedside table (right level with my head and right at side of the bed).

When it went off I about sh*t myself. The missus was none too pleased either and still gives me grief when i go to bed about setting the alarm!!!

 

[mavis]

definitely, that is one of my favorite features. The many alarms you can set. I have a couple weekday alarms, one weekend alarm and one everyday alarm. They are for various items and are not always turned on, but nice to have them saved and ready to go. I do use one weekday alarm regularly.

Same here. I use a daily alarm to wake me up before my obnoxiously loud alarm clock goes off, and I also have an alarm set to go off two minutes before my train arrives at my station - nothing like oversleeping on the train and missing your stop! iPod Touch/iPhone: problem solved.

 

[JZ Wire]

Yup! I use the alarm almost every day. That and the countdown timer because I like to fall asleep to music so I just set it for about 1/2 hour and the let the music play. Definitely two very useful features!

 

[hierobryan]

When you set an alarm there is an option to have snooze available, I don't use it though. Why not just set the alarm for when you have to get up and get up (sorry my wife and I fought about this a lot when we first got married ).

I know! My ex-GF would hit snooze for like 30 minutes before she'd get up. It would piss me off like crazy. I left her.

 

[sneeks]

I use my iPhone as my alarm clock. Having ability to setup multiple alarms for different things is fantastic!

Same here

 

[JZ Wire]

how the hell do you use it as an alarm clock. tried it and i slept right through the alarm because its so quiet made me late for work

Actually this is one "feature" im looking forward to in the new 3G iPhone. Uncle Steve said that the new iphone has improved audio so I assume its going to be louder that the original.
I spoke to an employee I know at the genius bar and he said the volume/loudness was the most requested/complained/talked about thing on the iphone at the store.

 

[thechidz]

nope not loud enough... hopefully the new one will be better..

 

[slapguts]

Yup, I do. Works great. I have a couple different alarms set for a couple minutes apart in the morning, with the original 'Alarm' ringtones and an air raid siren sound effect as another. I also created a silent ringtone, that has no audio for the times I need an alarm to just vibrate in my pocket.

The 'sleep iPod' function of the timer is pretty damn cool, too. I use it for lunch breaks. When the music stops, its back to work.

 

[brandonzar]

Hi there
I would recommend using the 'alarm' tone that is preprogrammed. First time I set the iphone as an alarm I put it on bedside table (right level with my head and right at side of the bed).

When it went off I about sh*t myself. The missus was none too pleased either and still gives me grief when i go to bed about setting the alarm!!!

hee hee hee.... I'm not sure why but reading this made me giggle like a school girl.

I know! My ex-GF would hit snooze for like 30 minutes before she'd get up. It would piss me off like crazy. I left her.

I hope you didn't leave her just for the alarm thing. I trained my wife to get up on the first alarm and it worked great. The secret is using the correct motivating factors, like ice cubes and a squirt bottle.

 

[hierobryan]

I hope you didn't leave her just for the alarm thing. I trained my wife to get up on the first alarm and it worked great. The secret is using the correct motivating factors, like ice cubes and a squirt bottle.

No, I left because she turned into a grumpy, complaining, nit-picky, smoking beeatch. She was just no longer attractive in any way whatsoever. Her negativity stuck to me whenever I was around her.

 

[born4sky]

I used to have all my cell phones as an alarm clock, however iPhone is most comfortable one

 

[WPB2]

I hate the alarm clock it always wakes me with a kick in the leg, I don't know haw it does it, but it wakes my wife up too. I don't know if it kicks her though.

 

[ivtecDOu]

Actually this is one "feature" im looking forward to in the new 3G iPhone. Uncle Steve said that the new iphone has improved audio so I assume its going to be louder that the original.
I spoke to an employee I know at the genius bar and he said the volume/loudness was the most requested/complained/talked about thing on the iphone at the store.

yea tell me about it

Hi there
I would recommend using the 'alarm' tone that is preprogrammed. First time I set the iphone as an alarm I put it on bedside table (right level with my head and right at side of the bed).

When it went off I about sh*t myself. The missus was none too pleased either and still gives me grief when i go to bed about setting the alarm!!!

thanks i will have to try it. i just used one of my own ringtones and it just kept playing over and over and i didnt even hear it

 

[brandonzar]

No, I left because she turned into a grumpy, complaining, nit-picky, smoking beeatch. She was just no longer attractive in any way whatsoever. Her negativity stuck to me whenever I was around her.

Oh in that case congratulations!

Never Date a Smoker!

I hate the alarm clock it always wakes me with a kick in the leg, I don't know haw it does it, but it wakes my wife up too. I don't know if it kicks her though.

Really?, I didn't see that feature during the keynote.

Announcing the new iPhone 3G with super karate kicking action. ​