How to make a custom alarm clock on iPhone

The native Clock app on Apple iOS provides the ability to set instant alarms, select different dates and times, add labels to alarms, and customize alarm sounds. Even if you don't often use alarm clocks on your iPhone, you can learn how to set a new alarm clock or customize the alarm clock to your personal preference through the following articles.

How to Create a New Alarm on iPhone
Apple allows you to create as many alarms throughout the day using the built-in Clock app on your iPhone.

If you want to create a custom alarm clock from scratch, open the “Clock” app on your iPhone. In "Clock", click the "Alarm Clock" tab at the bottom. On the next screen, you should see a list of all existing alarms configured on your iPhone. To create a new alarm, click the icon in the upper right corner. You should now see the Add Alert screen with options for customizing your new alert. On this screen, use the hour and minute dials to set the alarm time for your custom alarm. If you enable the 12-hour clock, you must also choose between AM or PM depending on the time you want to set. Once you set the time, you can make other modifications to your alarm with the following options: Repeat: If you want this new alarm to sound repeatedly at the set time on a specific day, you can click Repeat in the Add Alarm screen. On the next screen, you can tap to select the days you want the alarm to repeat. You can select multiple days of the week so that the alarm goes off at the set time on the selected days. When you select your preferred dates from this screen, they will be marked with a tick icon to the right. After selecting your recurring dates, click Back in the upper left corner to return to the Add Alert screen. Tags: You can create a name for a specific alert and use a custom name/message as a reminder to complete the task. Instead of naming it "Alert," you can add a label like "Take Medication" to set a recurring alert when you have to take your medication. To add a label to an alert, click the text box to the right of the Labels section of the Add Alert screen and enter a name for the alert. Sound: By default, all alarms you set on your iPhone sound the "Radar" tone, but Apple lets you change this to something else when you create or edit an alarm. To change the alarm tone, tap Sound. In the next screen, select the ringtone you want to set for your alarm from the "Ringtone" section. When you select an alert, a checkmark should appear to the left of it. Once setup is complete, you can return to the Add Alarm screen by clicking Back in the upper left corner. Snooze: If you want to see the Snooze option every time the alarm you want to create goes off, you can turn on the Snooze switch within the Add Alarm screen. This way, you can delay the alarm for 9 minutes each time it goes off. After configuring the alert as per your requirements, you can enable it by clicking Save in the upper right corner. Any alarm you create opens within the Alarms screen by default and can be disabled by turning off the switch on the right.

How to make a custom alarm ringtone
iOS itself does not allow you to set a music file or recording as a ringtone. If you want to use a custom alarm ringtone, you must use Apple's GarageBand app for this to work. The app comes pre-installed on all iPhones, but if you've deleted it in the past, you can re-download it from the App Store.

You can use GarageBand to import audio files in any of the following formats – MP3, WAV, AAC, AIFF, CAF, or Apple Lossless. If you saved a recording in the Voice Memos app on iOS, you must convert the M4A file to a supported format (such as MP3) before you can use GarageBand to create a ringtone. It's important to note that you can only create a 30-second ringtone using GarageBand; there's no way to extend it to longer.

Step 1: Create a custom alarm tone from an audio file

First, open the GarageBand app on your iPhone. In GarageBand, select any instrument from the screen by swiping left or right and clicking its box. It doesn't matter which instrument you choose, as we'll be importing our own audio files to set as our custom alarm clock tone. If you have used the application to create projects before, you will see a different screen that displays your old GarageBand projects. Here, click on the icon at the top and select an instrument as shown in the previous step. When the selected instrument loads, click the project icon in the upper left corner. This will open the Tracks view within GarageBand. On this screen, click the Loop icon in the upper right corner. Now, select the File tab from the top of the screen. On this screen, click Browse Items in the Files app. You should see the Files app open on the next screen. Here, navigate to the folder where you save the audio file you want to use as your alarm tone, and click on the file you want to load into the GarageBand application. When you select the audio file you want, it should appear in the Files screen within the GarageBand application. To add this file as a track in your GarageBand project, long-press the audio file you just added and start dragging it. When you start dragging, the Tracks view should appear, where you can drag audio to the upper left portion of the track. Now that the audio has been added to your project, you can play it within the app by clicking on the Play icon. By default, the app also plays a metronome, which can be annoying when testing audio. You can disable the metronome by clicking on the metronome icon at the top (the one highlighted in blue to the right of the recording icon). When you add an audio file in GarageBand, it won't be able to host the entire track, only a portion of it. You can change the length of the track by increasing the section bar accordingly. If the alarm you want to set is longer than a few seconds, you can increase the length of the section by clicking the icon in the upper right corner. In the "Song Parts" screen that appears, tap "Part A." You can now increase the section length by clicking the up arrow in the value box under Manual. In this example, we modify the section length from 8 bars to 30 bars. After adjusting the value, click Done in the upper right corner. Track view will now provide more space for your audio files. Now you can trim the audio to the desired length by clicking on it. This will highlight the track with two yellow bars on either side. You can drag the left and right bars to include the alarm ringtone audio you want. If you trimmed the left portion of the track, be sure to drag the audio clip toward the beginning of the track to prevent silence at the beginning of the track. After making changes to this audio clip, you can save the project on GarageBand by clicking the down arrow icon in the upper left corner and selecting My Songs. The project will now be saved in your GarageBand library with the title "My Song" and a .band file format. To change the name of an item, long-press the item on the GarageBand recents screen. In the overflow menu that appears, click Rename. Now, use the on-screen keyboard to enter a new name for this project and tap "Done." Once you've given your project a name, it's time to save it as a ringtone on your iPhone. To do this, long-press an item on the GarageBand recents screen. From the overflow menu, select Share. In the Share Song screen that appears, select Ringtone. If you encounter the prompt "The length of your ringtone needs to be adjusted," click "Continue." On the Export Ringtone screen, tap Export in the upper right corner. GarageBand now saves projects as ringtones on iPhone. When you see the "Ringtones exported successfully" prompt, click "OK".

You have now created a custom ringtone for your alarm clock.

Step 2: Set alarm with custom ringtone

To set a custom ringtone you created as your alarm, open the Clock app on your iPhone. Within Clock, click the Alarms tab at the bottom. On this screen, you can create a new alarm by clicking the icon in the upper right corner, or select an existing alarm to edit. In the Sounds screen that appears, scroll down to the Ringtone section. You should now see the ringtone you created using GarageBand in this section. To set it as your alarm tone, tap New Ringtone and you should see a checkmark appear to the left of it. After selecting a ringtone, click "Back" in the upper left corner. On the next screen, tap "Save" in the upper right corner to activate the alarm.

The selected alarm will now play the custom ringtone you created on GarageBand.

How to Set an Apple Music Song as an iPhone Alarm
Apple provides a series of ringtones that you can choose as the default ringtone for your alarm clock. In addition to the native options, you can also set a song from your Apple Music library as your alarm tone. This option only works if you have previously purchased songs from the iTunes Store or have an active Apple Music subscription on your Apple ID.

To set a song from Apple Music as an alarm tone, open the “Clock” app on your iPhone. Within Clock, click the Alarms tab at the bottom. Now you can set a new song alarm by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner. If you want to edit your existing alarm with a new alarm tone, just tap on it to go to the next screen. Now, click on Sound in the Add Alert or Edit Alert screen. On the sound screen, tap under "Songs" to select a song. You should now see the Library screen, where you can select a category (playlist, artist, album, song, genre, etc.) from which to select the song you want to use as your alarm. When the selected category opens, find or search for the song you want to set as your alarm.
Note: The song you selected in the iTunes store should automatically load as a ringtone. When you want to set a song from Apple Music as an alarm ringtone, you need to download the song before you can apply it as a ringtone. To download a song from Apple Music, navigate to the song, click the three-dot icon to the right of it, and select Download. Once you've selected the song you want to use as your alarm, it should appear under "Songs" within the sound screen and be highlighted with a checkmark to the left.

From now on, the selected alarm should sound to the selected song.

How to Make a Custom Alert to Stop Playing Music/Video
The iOS Clock app allows you to set a timer to stop any media from playing after the countdown reaches zero. While this isn't technically an alarm clock, it works similarly to an alarm clock, but instead of ringing a tone, the timer stops your iPhone from playing the media you started playing when you set it. For example, if you play a song before bed, you can use this custom alarm to stop the music after a few minutes or an hour so you don't have to wake up and stop the media manually.

Open the Clock app on your iPhone. Within Clock, click the Timer tab in the lower right corner. When the timer screen appears, use the dials at the top to set the desired number of hours, minutes, and seconds after which you want the timer to go off. After setting the timer duration, click "When timer ends." On the next screen, scroll down to the bottom and select "Stop Playing." This will replace the timer beep and be able to stop the current media from playing on your iPhone. Now, click on “Settings” in the upper right corner. You will now return to the timer screen. To activate this timer, click Start. When this timer reaches the duration you set, it will automatically stop playing the music or media that is playing at the time. You can use this timer to stop media playback at any time in the future, but if you want to use it for another purpose and want it to remind you, you'll have to switch it to a ringtone.

That’s all you need to know to create a custom alarm clock on your iPhone.

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