We know getting up in the morning isn’t the best thing in the world, but to make it a little more bearable, here’s how to set any Apple Music song as your alarm on iPhone.
Apple Music launched with the launch of the iOS 8.4 update last week, unveiling Apple’s new music streaming service that aims to take on the rest of the pack, including Spotify and Pandora.
Currently, users can take advantage of a free three-month trial of the new service to take a test drive and see if it’s worth paying for, as Apple Music will normally cost $9.99 per month or $14.99 per month for a family plan.
Apple Music lets you listen to almost any song on demand, listen to live radio with real DJs, and even play a pre-selected music station from a specific genre. You can also watch music videos and listen to your own locally stored music.
However, something many users don’t know is to use Apple Music as a morning alarm. Actually, you can use any song as an alarm as long as it is available on Apple Music. Here’s how to set it up.
Using Apple Music as Your Alarm
Apple’s built-in alarm sounds aren’t terrible by any means. In fact, there are some soothing sounds that are great for waking up, but if you want to give yourself more support when you wake up in the morning, there’s nothing better than hearing your favorite song first thing in the morning.
To set any song in Apple Music as your alarm, just follow the simple steps below.
First, you need to open Apple Music and add the song to your library. So search for the song, tap the little ellipses to the right of the song, and then tap .
Now exit Apple Music and open the Clock app and go to the bottom tab.
Add or edit an alarm by tapping or respectively. Tap on the section and select below.
From there you can navigate to the song and select it. At this point, the song will now be used as your alarm when it rings in the morning.
If you want different songs to play on different days, you can set multiple alarms with different songs and name the alarms after the song name to know which is which. To name an alarm, tap during creation and type your own name for the alarm.
Not many iPhone users might use Apple Music as their preferred music streaming service, but having the ability to listen to almost any song and set it as your morning alarm and use it as a built-in feature in iOS is pretty cool. truly extraordinary.
Of course, you can do this with locally stored songs you have on your iPhone, but it’s really cool to not have to sync the music to your iPhone in the first place to use the music as an alarm, and that’s great for me. I didn’t expect Apple to allow it.
That said, Apple Music isn’t without problems, as many users have complained about some minor details about the service making it a bit cumbersome to use, but hopefully Apple will sort out these confusions in the next few months and make Apple Music a solid competitor in the music streaming market.
