Alarm Clock is not playing downloaded songs from Apple Music

I was having the same problem on the iPhone 13Pro. Now 'Good To Have You Back' (the reworking of the 'OHMSS' Theme from 'No Time To Die' plays like a dream. It's a dark, brooding track to wake up to. Thank you. It was driving me nuts. I wonder why the Dolby Atmos stops it from playing?

delete the song you want as an alarm. Go to settings, then music, then audio quality, and set downloads to high quality. Then re-download the song you want as an alarm and it should work… just did it for myself right now. Alarms don’t like high res lossless 🤷🏻‍♂️

Kinda ridiculous to have to repurchase something you already paid don’t you think? I understand this fixed the issue but what this is telling me is all they want is more of your money. All of it… smfh

For years I was able to use this feature, but now recently no yellow links come up that normally would allow me to go to the tone store or pick a downloaded song. I only have the basic alert tones even though I have an iPhone 8+ and it's worked many times before...

How about if Apple quits indiscriminately changing things that are NOT broken and which create a bunch of annoying work for users?!? I am seriously considering going Android when this phone dies because I have HAD IT with this BS. My alarm doesn’t even show the option to choose songs anymore, at all. WHERE DID IT GO?

For me switching off Dolby Atmos downloads in Settings/Music solved it.

Still don’t understand why songs that can be played by Music, and are playing as a preview when setting alarms, do not play at alarm time. Seems an omission, or maybe a license thing. But then the Clock app should warn the user that the Dolby Atmos song will not play.

to get it to work is super simple. All you need to do is make sure that song is added to your library not just to a playlist but to your library now when you go to Clock under songs it’ll show that song when you click on it and go back it’ll show the title of the song under the sound I hope this works

to get it to work is super simple. All you need to do is make sure that song is added to your library not just to a playlist but to your library now when you go to Clock under songs it’ll show that song when you click on it and go back it’ll show the title of the song under the sound I hope this works

Finally found a fix that worked that someone else in this thread mentioned. In your settings, go to the music app settings, scroll down to "download in Dolby Atmos" and turn that option OFF. Then delete the song from your downloaded library, and download it again. Worked perfectly. Hope this helps.

I have an old iPad Pro running iOS 15.3.1. I was having the same problem. I would set an alarm, choose a song, the name of the song would appear as the sound in the alarm setup panel. Looked dandy. However, when the alarm went off at 6 am the following morning, one of the Apple sounds played instead of the song I had selected. The song was still listed as the alarm sound in the iPad Clocks app.

I opened Music on my iPad, scrolled to the song in question. There are three horizontal dots on the far right. I clicked that to see a drop down menu. I then scrolled to Download and clicked. An open gray circle appeared just to the left of the song length time. In a few seconds it was filled with a down arrow. Then I closed Music. I set a test alarm, selecting the song I had just “downloaded?’ and it worked! The alarm went off and played my chosen wake-up song!!

ever since I switched from the iPhone 10xs to the 12 max pro my alarms will not play music I’ve tried deleting alarms, downloaded music, deleted music you name it. So now I just wake up in awful moods lol

Yes, I am having the same issue but with all my songs that I download it from my Apple Music! Instead of my downloaded songs it beeps the standard alarm with vibration. Example- beep beep beep beep! I hate it

Go into the Music App, find the song you’re wanting your alarm to play, and ensure it’s downloaded to your phone. If the song isn’t downloaded to the phone, a default alert will play.

MAKE SURE the song you download is the SAME version you’re trying to play on your alarm (single or EP or album or remix or whatever).

I had the same problem and this resolved it for me.

So what you have to do is download the song you want to use. Essentially what you do is go into the music app and touch the song. Then at the top of the screen there should be two circular buttons side by side. The one on the left is the one you need to press. It should look like a down arrow. Press it and it should look like an app that’s downloading. When it’s ready to use it should look like a checkmark.

I’m having the same issue. Songs are downloaded in music. Chosen songs from weeks or months ago always work. When adding new song they work only intermittently. I too am thinking a software issue but unsure how to proceed. The weirdest thing is when have multiple alarms with multiple chosen songs my list of songs in the alarm settings changes. For example, the list shown for my 6am alarm differs from the list shown at noon etc. Plus one day 6am plays my chosen song but at noon the chosen song goes missing and the default radar alert goes off. I continue to tinker but it seems either a software issue is the cause or I’m missing a step in setup. Please respond if anyone can problem solve.