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Make a Vibrate-only iPhone Alarm

Posted on Friday 6 February 2009

For such an amazing device, the iPhone sure does lack some features. Forwarding text messages, copy and paste, and background applications come to mind. But there’s been one thing that’s been bothering me lately: Vibrating alarms.

Select the Vibrate ringtone in the iPhone alarm settings page.The iPhone’s clock application is great, allowing you to set timers, use a stopwatch, and have unlimited alarms. But even if you put the iPhone on silent mode, when an alarm goes off it still plays the ringtone you selected at full blast. This is very inconsiderate if you’re trying to set an alarm at night without waking other people up!

Luckily, there is an easy solution:

• Download the Vibrate ringtone from the free ringtones section of my home page. (Check out my other free ringtones and music too!)

• Drag Vibrate.m4r file to iTunes.

• Connect your iPhone, and under iPhone>Ringtones check “Sync ringtones > All ringtones”.

• Click sync.

Now, when you set an alarm, choose Vibrate as your alarm.

Voilà!


13 Comments for 'Make a Vibrate-only iPhone Alarm'

  1.  
    Kate
    April 25, 2009 | 8:28 am
     

    just got my iphone today and was so dissapointed with the lack of vibrating alarm!
    you saved my mornings! thanks!

  2.  
    Jen
    August 10, 2009 | 7:21 pm
     

    I completely agree with not having a vibrate ringer! Thanks! This is awesome!

  3.  
    Jason
    August 13, 2009 | 1:55 pm
     

    Thank you!

  4.  
    Beeci
    September 13, 2009 | 3:52 pm
     

    Awesome! Thanks!

  5.  
    Joe
    September 19, 2009 | 6:59 pm
     

    Worked pretty well! Thanks!

  6.  
    SK
    September 25, 2009 | 5:27 am
     

    You saved my iphone and morning!

    apple may be thankful to you.

    Works perfectly what I wanted. Thanks!!!!!

  7.  
    Gabrielle
    September 29, 2009 | 12:02 am
     

    I’m sure there are many of your compositions that make you prouder, but I will be listening to this one every single day. Thank you so much, what a great service to all iPhone users!

  8.  
    September 29, 2009 | 12:43 am
     

    Ha, I stole the compositional idea from John Cage!

  9.  
    Jordan
    November 5, 2009 | 11:42 pm
     

    Thank you so much for this. Add me to the list of people who were disappointed by the lack of a vibrate-only ringtone. I’ll be getting a whole lot of use out of this one.

  10.  
    Celeste
    November 20, 2009 | 10:04 pm
     

    Thank you sooo much!! It works GREAT!! I have been trying to figure out a way to get the iphone to vibrate for an alarm! I go to the apple store and say, but I don’t want to wake up eveyrone around me just cause I have to wake up! They told me to go on google! and I found this! thank you !!!

  11.  
    David
    December 6, 2009 | 11:35 pm
     

    Thanks for saving me the hassle!

  12.  
    jenn
    January 24, 2010 | 6:51 pm
     

    thank-you sooo much! i too was very disappointed to not have this feature! whoohoo!

  13.  
    Ellis McLaughlin
    February 18, 2010 | 6:10 pm
     

    Thank you thank you thank you!

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