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watchOS 11.4 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Alarms
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Thing is, the alarm on the Apple Watch USED TO WORK LIKE THIS by default, and they changed its behavior at some point. It drove me nuts for some time, then I just accepted it as a "feature".
It blows my mind it's taken years to bring back what probably 99% of the people setting up a wake up alarm want; an alarm that SOUNDS.
It blows my mind it's taken years to bring back what probably 99% of the people setting up a wake up alarm want; an alarm that SOUNDS.
Is there a way to stop my Apple Watch from asking “start your day?” if I use the bathroom at 5am? Like I set my sleep focus to end at 6am for a reason, let me get an extra hour of sleep lol.
I hope this works well. I use the sleep focus but want a sound in the morning so I have a separate alarm that goes off with early riser at the same time I get the sleep focus alarm tap. Now, maybe I can have the single alarm. My original idea was for the phone to make a sound while the watch tapped but it's fine if the watch makes the sound. We will see if it's fine anyhow.
If you use the sleep alarm, make sure to change the breakthrough setting for the 'Full Schedule' and not just the 'Next Schedule'.
There should be an option to require use of Siri to turn it off, and there’s only a 25% chance that Siri understands you.
I'm amazed this weren't an option right at the start. Like someone said before, this is basic stuff Apple
Nah I want iPhone, iPad, Mac, watch and HomePod to make sound at the same time and here is why : if the alarm is only on my watch, I press ok and might continue to sleep (especially if the alarm is like in the middle of the night like the eclipse we had) but if it makes sound on every device, then I am forced get up...
Is this why the last few days it’s like my iAlarms are turned off when I wake up?
Of course, to be honest, my Apple Watch only mirrors alarms from my iPhone when I wear it. How about mirroring alarms from my iPad and Mac, everyone? The only alarm that gets mirrored is the sleep tracking one, haha.
I wish I could set it to where it went off on my phone instead. The watch alarm wakes me yes but it’s so easy to dismiss and fall right back asleep…
I have a second non-sleep alarm set on my iPad on my desk so I have to get up to turn it off. Kinda defeats the purpose of the sleep alarm.
I have a second non-sleep alarm set on my iPad on my desk so I have to get up to turn it off. Kinda defeats the purpose of the sleep alarm.
I think this feature would be bigger/better than this new one ! (haptic alarm)
Probably not 99%. I definitely prefer it as is - I'd actually like the watch to be able to do haptic taps for more than just the wake up alarm in the schedule but for also the other alarms set on the iPhone. Otherwise I have to set alarms directly on the watch in order to get the tap function. Always nice to have additional options to mold these devices to fit your life and not the other way around.
And it's a really good choice. I much prefer coming out of sleep to the watch doing that ("Early Riser", both the tune and tapping in rhythm), versus any other sort of alarm. It wakes me up quite reliably without being jarring.
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I’m in the same boat! I might just dust off my old Apple Watch Series 1 and use it with my silicone Elago Macintosh inspired Apple Watch dock. I usually only bring this one for travel, but I also may use it as an alarm clock while I wear my Apple Watch Series 6 (my current one) to track my sleep. I’ll probably take it out of the drawer, charge it, and set a few alarms that are the same as my current Apple Watch in the morning. Then, I’ll set it down on my desk. That sounds like a great idea, right?
That’s why! Ain’t nothing to worry about having to go back and forth between devices to turn on and off alarms on our Apple devices y’all! Sync it across with handoff as long the Mac, iPhone or iPad is under the same Apple account!
That is a great explanation, and... another throwback to the past that they absolutely should do away with.
There's no reason to keep it at 9 (or 9m3s) rather than rounding it to a number like 10. Just as the complications on the Apple Watch that fall within the sweep of the hands should absolutely not get covered up by the hands passing overhead. Sure, it mimics the way analog watches look, but it was done in that case because of mechanical limitations of the device - limitations that don't exist when you're drawing it all on a screen - there's no earthly reason that you shouldn't be able to check the day/date, for instance, when the hour hand is at 3 or the minute hand is at 15, "covering up" the complication. Make the complication "float over" the hands, so it's readable all the time (yes, it's not all of the watch faces, but there are a number of them that are totally impractical because of this).
I can not get my alarms to work correctly with the watch... I think it's something to do with "mirror iphone alarms when watch is on wrist" but it does it on the CHARGER (and clearly not on my wrist), and can't turn it off no matter what settings I change?? I'm so annoyed.
They must have read the email of complaint I wrote.
I bought a series 10 at launch, tried the sleep tracking once, noticed there was no way to have the alarm to play loud, or at least to play loud on your phone, unless you wanted to go with loud notifications going off all night long, stopped using it for sleep tracking and sent an email telling them they are basically retarded.
Glad they listen to feedback every now and then. I thought I was wearing it wrong or something like that….
I bought a series 10 at launch, tried the sleep tracking once, noticed there was no way to have the alarm to play loud, or at least to play loud on your phone, unless you wanted to go with loud notifications going off all night long, stopped using it for sleep tracking and sent an email telling them they are basically retarded.
Glad they listen to feedback every now and then. I thought I was wearing it wrong or something like that….
I think if it's the same alarm going off on all devices, then stopping it on the watch will stop it on all devices. If you want to force yourself to get up to stop the sound, what you need is a separate alarm that can only be stopped from the other device(s), not the watch, as other posters have said they are doing now.
Same. I have 2 watches and sometimes the alarm goes off on one of my watches. Sometimes it is one on the charger, sometimes not. I just want an alarm on my phone.
Agreed. I don't mind the option being there for those who want it, but I certainly wouldn't want it as the default behavior. My watch wakes me up silently with the haptic taps every morning (and lets my wife stay asleep), I don't want it making a sound. If I wanted my watch making sounds, I wouldn't have it muted in the first place.