Alarm Clock is not playing downloaded songs from Apple Music

Why make a simple process so difficult…. Try this…. Go to Alarms… pick a song…..set Alarm time….Wake to song !

I see post of 12 and 14 steps to do something that should be EASY

no mater what I pick, even other sounds, it keeps playing sonar! I’m so frustrated!

Yep. That totally seems to be the easier fix. I totally forgot they even had the option to switch to Dolby atmos or Lossless types. Makes sense. Saves money too instead of having to buy the song as a ringtone, etc.

I would’ve totally picked up on That but didn’t even take it into account. I was kinda in a rush to get a solution because I needed the alarms to work ASAP and they weren’t, but the loseless audio and Dolby Atmos and etc makes total sense.

you can also change your settings to not download or stream music on the higher quality settings if preferred so you don’t have to tweak this with every new song you download. Just makes things easier.

R.L.H. wrote:

Apple, if you're monitoring these posts... fix the problem please.. I shouldn't have to be writing this and I definitely shouldn't have to be fixing this problem with work-arounds either.

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Seraphine458 wrote:

I love that this post is dated June 2021 and until now there has not yet been a fix. Instead of playing the selected song, my phone just buzzes in silence 😂

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Struggled a while with this but figured out a solution that works for me.

1. Delete from downloads and library
2. Download again, add to library but NOT to any of your created playlists.

The latter was the culprit for me. I kept “lossless” on also.

If you want them in a playlist, find an alternate from another album of the same artist and add that one separately to the list.

Hope this can solve issues for other users. Good luck.

1. Un-download the song you want.
2. In settings, turn off "Download in Dolby Atmos"
3. Download the song(s)

You can turn Dolby back on for other music downloads, but any song you want for an alarm, it'll need to be off.

First. As far as I know, the alarm volume is controlled by ringer volume using the side buttons (even if on vibrate).

As for the radar, which is default, best guess is just to make sure you hit save after choosing the sound. Then make sure it reflects it.

Before being rudely awakened in the AM, test it out 1 min from setting it to make sure.

I've chosen songs that played on my last 2 iphones. Why not on my SE 14 new iphone … tried several times.

The only way to “fix it” is by purchasing the song on iTunes. If you hit the “tunes store” button on the alarm options and then buy the song it will play

Thank you sooooo much!

I have tried at least 10 different suggestions from Apple and Reddit and this is the only thing that has worked.

YOURE awesome!!!! 😊

I followed what someone on here talked about.

the 3 dots by the song

click on those

select download.

it worked.

thank you to who typed that worked.

👍🏻🤦‍♀️👏🙌🏼

Solution that worked for me: go to Music, find the song being used in alarm setup and download it to your phone.

You’re welcome! It’s because i am an iOS Dev-e-loper (spaced out because they flag those words too often and delete the posts), and they delete any information or help from us if it’s not posted in the forums specific for us. Since technically we get access to iOS versions and etc that aren’t public yet. Hopefully that solved your problem! You’re very welcome.

The reason your new songs aren’t playing on your alarm is because the alarm can’t play songs which are downloaded in Lossless audio. The fact that it can play older songs though means that thoes songs aren’t being listened to and weren’t download on lossless audio since lossless audio is kind of a new feature. You will have to go in to settings on music and mess around with the lossless audio settings for your music to figure that out. Hope this helped.