Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On this episode let's look at how you can set your alarm on your iPhone to use a song
from your music library or even a piece of audio that you recorded.
So I love using my iPhone as an alarm clock.
When you travel your iPhone is usually right there and it's right there with you at home.
You can use it as an alarm clock wherever you go and have a lot of different options.
If you've never done it before you go to the Clock there and you can go between the different
things in the Clock like world clock, alarm, stopwatch.
It's alarm that you want.
You can set multiple alarms which is really nice.
So you can have a regular alarm for regular work days, an alarm for weekends, you can
have a special alarm if you need to get up early to catch an airplane flight, or something
like that.
It is very easy to set these alarms and then turn them on or off.
You can edit them, go into edit the time of the alarm, things like if it is going to repeat
any days, that kind of thing.
The cool thing is that you can set the sound for the alarm.
Now you can choose from all these different rings tones that you've got there.
You can choose None and just have the phone vibrate.
But you can also pick a song.
You can pick any song that you have in your library and that includes songs that you may
have from Apple Music.
So if you have a song from Apple Music and you've added it, it will appear here and you
can add any song that you want and then it will appear there and now it will play that
song as the alarm when you wake up in the morning.
In addition, of course, you can also create your own sound.
You can do it as a ring tone which you can create in GarageBand or you can just drag
and drop any audio file you get into your iTunes collection and sync it with your iPhone
through iTunes, or add it to your music collection in iTunes and have it automatically appear
through iTunes match or something, and then select that because that will appear as a
song that you can then use as your alarm sound.
So let's say I wanted to record my own alarm sound.
It would be very easy to do on your Mac.
I would just use QuickTime Player and then do New Audio Recording and then record something
like this: It is time to get up and remember to make that phone call first thing this morning.
So I've saved this as an audio file here.
Just six seconds long.
I'm going to save it out to the desktop.
Let's give it a better name like that.
Now I'm going to go into iTunes here and how you get this to your iPhone really depends
on how you have things setup.
I've got my iPhone selected but I have iCloud Music Library turned on.
So it is going to very easy.
But if you are using the older ways, say you are syncing directly from iTunes, you are
going to have to add it to your music library in iTunes here and then sync it over to your
iPhone however you normally sync songs.
In the case of the iCloud Music Library since everything is being synced all you need to
do is go to music here.
I've got all of my music, here's all the songs.
I'm just going to drag and drop this file here.
You can see it adds Alarm sound here.
It will eventually upload this to my iCloud Music Library and I'll have it available on
my iPhone even if I don't sync or backup or do anything because my iPhone now, in a few
minutes, this should appear in my music library on my iPhone.
So now you can see back in the Clock app I've got that alarm sound there.
If I go to Pick Song and select songs and I scroll down to Alarm Sound, there it is.
There's the sound I just recorded and it will play for me when that alarm goes off.