Alarm

How to set a song as your alarm tone in iOS 6

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Sep 27, 2012 a 6:45 pm

One of iOS 6's hidden gems is the ability to use a song from your music library as an alarm to wake you up. Before iOS 6 was released, you could only use ringtones or one of the default alarm tones as your wakeup call, which was less than thrilling, but now you can set anything in the Music app to jolt you up out of bed. Progress!

Timegg for iPhone review

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Apr 18, 2012 a 6:39 pm

If you've been on the hunt for an app to replace Apple's Clock app, Timegg for iPhone is a beautiful choice. It features a very stylish, easy to use UI and allows you to set up to 8 custom alarms, 8 custom timers (with intervals), due date reminders, and interval reminders.

Top 10 best alarm tones to make sure you wake up in the morning

By Georgia, Friday, Jan 13, 2012 a 12:09 am

If you have ever found yourself pressing the snooze button too many times on your iPhone in the morning, then here are best alarm tones to ensure you get up right away. They're all YouTube clips, but you can easily sample sounds from youtube and turn them into custom tones all your own.

Nap during your commute with TravAlarm

By Leanna Lofte, Monday, Aug 22, 2011 a 11:29 am

TravAlarm is an iPhone app that allows you to set a location-alarm. Now you can kick back, close your eyes, and take a quick power nap during your morning commute and relax knowing that you won't miss you stop because TravAlarm will alert you when you've reached your stop.

Even if you don't want to take a nap, TravAlarm is fantastic for closing your eyes, relaxing, and listening to music during your commute. Unfortunately for me, my commute involves me behind the wheel, but once I'm able to to take advantage of Denver's light rail, you bet I'll be using TravAlarm!

Talking Weather Alarm for iPhone speaks weather conditions and news

By Leanna Lofte, Wednesday, Jun 15, 2011 a 8:54 am

Here's an interesting twist to an alarm clock: once you stop the alarm, it literally tells you today's weather conditions and the latest news. All you have to do is listen.

Live Weather conditions for the current day
Live Temperature for the current day
iPhone 4 ready. High-definitions graphics for retina display
40 beautiful and different sounds.
Background alarm enable
Alarm with iPod music
5 actions for gesture: Snooze, stop alarm, stop weather voice, light on/off
4 different colors for clock numbers and images
13 different backgrounds.

If you pick this one up, let us know what you think! Screenshots after the break.

[$0.99 - iTunes link]

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iPhone hit by yet another daylight savings time alarm bug

By chrisoldroyd, Monday, Mar 28, 2011 a 9:09 am

Seems like Apple just can't get their alarms to work consistently following time changes. The bug struck again, according to BBC News, as some iPhone owners in the UK were late for work this morning after the clocks moved forward an hour for British Summer Time. Similar problems occurred during the switch to and from standard time in North America, and following New Year.

iPhone bugs: Alarms still not working properly for some users

By Brian Tufo, Monday, Jan 3, 2011 a 11:51 am

Well it's January 3 and some iPhone alarms are still not been going off at their correct times. We first told you about the alarm bug on Friday as Australia hit the new year and started noticing the issue. Apple promised us over the weekend that on January 3rd things would fix themselves and users would wake up on time.

Warning! iPhone bugs: Alarms not working in 2011

By Georgia, Friday, Dec 31, 2010 a 9:32 pm

One of our Australian forum members, TrAJik let us know that his iPhone alarm failed to wake him up this morning, January 1, 2011 (Australia time) and doing a quick look around the web it seems like he is not alone.

The iPhone had trouble with repeating alarms back during the change to Standard Time ~~so this could be the same bug rearing its ugly head again~~.

UPDATE: According to comments below, this affects **ONE TIME ALARMS* rather than recurring ones, so the opposite fix should work: