How to set the alarm clock on your iPhone 4

Ever wondered how to set the alarm clock on your iPhone? I got one at Christmas and spent ages browsing through the settings looking for the alarm setup.

It turns out that the clock's where the configuration settings are. On my iPhone the clock's inside the Utilities folder. 

iPhone Utilities Folder

Here's the alarm config screen - I've already added an alarm in this example, but you can add a new alarm by clicking the plus button on the top right hand side.

iPhone alarm config screen

Also, look along the bottom of the screenshot above - there are other cool gadgets like a stopwatch and timers. Never overboil an egg again!

Here's the Add Alarm screen - you can configure the time of the alarm, the ringtone to use and a bunch of other options. 

iPhone add alarm

When you click save, you'll move on to configure which days you want the alarm to work on. You need to click each day individually. 

alarm repeat settings

And that's it, you should have your alarms fully configured. The hardest part was finding where the clock programme was in the first place!

published by gerard on 24 January, 2011 - 21:29

Comments for How to set the alarm clock on your iPhone 4

By Anonymous (not verified) on 22 July, 2011 - 12:22

I mean this earnestly and humbly: is this tutorial at all necessary?

By gerard on 22 July, 2011 - 12:27

I also mean this earnestly and humbly - it took me forever to find this functionality on the iPhone, that's why I wrote this to help other people out. If you're coming to the iPhone from a conventional mobile, your first instinct is to look in the system settings or perhaps the calendar.

And if you look around the rest of this blog, you'll know I'm fairly tuned into tech stuff. That's why I haven't written a post on how to use the iPhone calculator (for example).

By Tabitha McFall - Ray (not verified) on 19 September, 2011 - 04:44

thank you SO much!!

By Brenda Childers (not verified) on 10 March, 2013 - 03:59

Thank you so much . Was almost ready to believe I didn't have an alarm. Thanks again

By Marsh (not verified) on 10 March, 2013 - 22:33

Thank you. I don't have an iPhone but my sweetheart has one; he doesn't have much time to futz with it, so I like to learn all I can to help him. Myself, I have just a simple little LG flip phone that does what I need (make calls, get calls and have an alarm clock!)

Bless all the techies and their mounds of information!

By Anonymous (not verified) on 22 September, 2011 - 14:55

I mean this earnestly and humbly, as a National Merit Scholar who had the highest SAT score in my HS graduating class:  it's VERY necessary.

 

I used to do iPhone tech support for AT&T, (more phone stuff than app stuff, but still), and I still needed this.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 23 July, 2011 - 05:58

Thank you! Didn't see it under Utilities when I first checked.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 27 July, 2011 - 06:13

Thanks. I couldn't find it.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 1 August, 2011 - 06:43

Thanks!! Been looking everywhere.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 10 August, 2011 - 01:09

I cant even find the utilities!!  but when I do - this post is very handy xx do you have to download the utilities? xx

By Anonymous (not verified) on 10 August, 2011 - 01:12

Sorry I have found the utilities now - thank you xx


 

By kyle (not verified) on 10 August, 2011 - 19:53

Thanks a million. I've been looking for this for weeks now! I got mine set but honestly forgot where... I knew I would get it on the inter web though.
cheers!

By Carol (not verified) on 15 August, 2011 - 11:39

Thank you so much, I started looking around and Im fairly techno savy but couldnt find the alarm clock so I googled it and followed your advice and yay Im set to get up in the morning =) have to say I am quite disappointed with the booklet that came with the phone not at all helpful so thanks!

By Heather (not verified) on 22 August, 2011 - 04:46

Thanks so much for this post. Could not figure it out without it!

By Anonymous (not verified) on 10 September, 2011 - 02:48

I remember that I set it once, but when I wanted to use it again, I really had a hard time to find it.  It's ironic that as a "Computer Science" graduate, I could not figure out this silly thing!  Go figure!

Apple did not have to change the convention as everyone knows this should have been a feature of calendars!!

So, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

By Mommy&techgenious (not verified) on 6 November, 2011 - 22:08

Thank u so much for a very necessary post! I have spent hours on this iPhone trying to figure out how to set what should be a very easy feature.. Coming from other "smart" phones I had no idea how to use what should be a very easy feature. Thank you again.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 16 November, 2011 - 10:04

I already found how to do it but only after viewing all the other dumb procedures that 'expected' me to have the clock icon on the front page. Your instructions are great. I wish I'd found yours first.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 24 November, 2011 - 11:29

hey.

I Have a Samsung Galaxy S II. one od my friends has a Iphone 4. she has somehow set an external alarm clock on my phone, so it sets of at 6 a clock in the morning. I was wondering is some one knew how she did this and if it is possible to turn it of, or if i can set an alarm in on her mobil, externaly?

I know this is a page for Iphone, but I am desperat.

By Anonymous (not verified) on 25 November, 2011 - 08:55

Awesome post! Thanks so much, I have been looking for this function way too long! Ty

By NF (not verified) on 19 November, 2012 - 12:11

I can't seem to find this answer anywhere else, but do you also know how I would clear songs I have selected to use in clock? I don't want them cluttering there forever and seems odd swiping does nothing.

By ron (not verified) on 5 January, 2013 - 02:52

Hopefully you can answer this. I just switched my Samsung 3 for my wife's iPhone4, took it to Verizon and had all the contacts etc transferred.
She has a whole bunch of alarm settings and what I want to do is clear the alarm settings completely. I know how to set the alarm and how to turn them off, but I just want a clean page instead of having my new alarm settings at the bottom of all the previous settings. (the reason I switched with her is hers is smaller and more convenient for me to handle when I am driving. The Samsung, while is a great item, it is for me too big to handle with one hand and keep your eye on the road, especially with that upper side sweep to activate it.)
Thanks in advance....Just want to clean the page....already have turned the old ones off.

By Jo (not verified) on 5 February, 2013 - 16:46

Go into the alarms - press the edit button top left then click the red warning sign by the alarms you want to delete.

:) Took me a while to work that our for texts

By Duncan (not verified) on 7 January, 2013 - 11:04

Also the spotlight function swiping right will find anything on your iPhone. I actually want to set it so it still works when the phone is switched off, all previous mobiles I've had did this anyway, but the iPhone doesn't seem capable of turning itself on at the alarm set time.

By Bruce (not verified) on 11 January, 2013 - 12:23

THANK YOU!!! Being an Android user I couldn't find the clock on my wifes iPhone, this little gem helped immediately.

By Loll (not verified) on 13 January, 2013 - 14:42

Thank you! I couldnt find it without your assistance - as with MANY what should be simple functions on my IPhone - much appreciated!

By Anonymous (not verified) on 17 January, 2013 - 13:05

Still looking for alarm on 4s! Not in utilities! Have to use Siri

By Jo (not verified) on 5 February, 2013 - 16:44

BUT . . . how do you turn vibrate off for the alarm and how do you adust the volume ot it?

Seems to me there is not vibrate off option and you have to have your phone on 'volume up' for the alarm to work :( bit crap

By Mary Turzillo (not verified) on 18 February, 2013 - 21:12

Finding the alarm function was the least of my issues. I downloaded the newer OS for my iPhone, and now when I attempt to turn an alarm on or off, it switches me over to the timer page. I get up at different times depending on what I have to do, and having to poke randomly at the screen for five or more minutes is NOT what I want to do when I'm dead tired and have to get up far too early the next morning. I still can't figure out how to turn the alarms on and off. I just wish there were a very explicit tutorial to tell me how to set a ONE-TIME alarm. I don't care what the tone is; I figured that out once, although I think they changed the algorithm for setting it in order to drive us all crazy. I just want to pick what time I'm going to wake up tomorrow. I am seriously thinking of going back to my sweet little mechanical alarm clock that weighs only an ounce and snuggles in my luggage just fine.

By Cheryl (not verified) on 20 February, 2013 - 20:43

Extremely necessary, I have been trying to figure this out since July 2012.

By Frank Seviour (not verified) on 22 February, 2013 - 02:19

Thanks a lot for the info. Very helpful.

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