You can also use this method to “ping” their phone if it gets lost. “Hey Siri, ping Anna’s iPhone”
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How to Silence An Alarm on a Family Member's iPhone Using Your Own iPhone
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I am already using my bedroom's HomePods to silence my iPhone's alarm since I am too weak in the morning to reach for it and stop the alarm 
Thats cool but it would be much cooler if I could add an alarm to their phone 😂
I wonder how long this feature has existed? This is the core problem with voice interfaces in their current state of "sometimes some things will work if you ask the question correctly" - you ask something once and it doesn't work, when that feature is eventually added in, you never ask again because it didn't work the first time.
Amazon's attempt is to pester users with suggestions after they ask their normal "what is the weather today?" But there has to be something better, especially when you have a device with a display.
Amazon's attempt is to pester users with suggestions after they ask their normal "what is the weather today?" But there has to be something better, especially when you have a device with a display.
This has worked for a long time now and the way I've used it, I just say "stop alarm" and Siri automatically recognizes and confirms to stop alarm on another device.
I was blown away the first time it happened as both devices were in the same room. I said stop alarm hoping my iCloud device would pick it up but the other iCloud account device was closer, and also trained to my voice, so it responded instead.
I was blown away the first time it happened as both devices were in the same room. I said stop alarm hoping my iCloud device would pick it up but the other iCloud account device was closer, and also trained to my voice, so it responded instead.
That would be hilarious but no I get along with my mother-in-law. Just as a joke to confuse people and yes I tested and it does allow you to set alarms on other people’s phones
You actually can. I just tried it and it did allow me to turn on an alarm on my wife’s phone
OK. False alarm. I was so excited that it did something that I assumed that it set it on my wife’s phone it turns out it just created an alarm named her name on my phone for the time I asked for so no it didn’t do what I thought it did
This just happened to me and I tried it for the first time since reading this and it didn’t work. My daughter has a bedtime alarm set on her iPad for 8:30. We are sick today and she went to bed earlier and my wife and I are laying in bed and hear it going off in the living room. No combination of phrasing it different ways would get this alarm to stop. I can confirm I used the correct name, it’s assigned to her, it’s in the iCloud family as I can see the location in Find My and it’s named appropriately to the name I was using to tell Siri to stop the alarm. She kept saying she couldn’t find anything.
And two months later, I've finally had the opportunity!
"I couldn't find any alarms", says Siri, as the phone on the next desk blares. Sigh.
