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.
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!
just got my iphone today and was so dissapointed with the lack of vibrating alarm!
you saved my mornings! thanks!
I completely agree with not having a vibrate ringer! Thanks! This is awesome!
Thank you!
Awesome! Thanks!
Worked pretty well! Thanks!
You saved my iphone and morning!
apple may be thankful to you.
Works perfectly what I wanted. Thanks!!!!!
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!
Ha, I stole the compositional idea from John Cage!
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.
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 !!!
Thanks for saving me the hassle!
thank-you sooo much! i too was very disappointed to not have this feature! whoohoo!
Thank you thank you thank you!
I tried to set my alarm to vibrate and it didnt work, hate being woken up with noise so was so happy when i just did this and it worked! No horrible wake ups thanks!
That’s AWESOME! I just bought an iPhone 4 and the alarm is very important to me while I am at work. I keep my phone ini silent mode but I found out the stupid alarm didn’t offer VIBRATE mode!!!! That’s not cool at all! I finally found your site today and download the Vibrate.m4r. IT WORKS! I am not sure how it works because the ringtone itself is music. (I clicked and played) Anyway, I appreciate you for creating this riingtone and share to all of us. You made my day!! Thank you!
Thankyou. Well done
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! You are seriously my 5:05 am hero!!!!!
you are my savior!!! thx a lot of for this great achievment!!!!
And I’m also suprised that you’ve compromised Yi soon shin theme! I’m proud of him as one of koreans. anyway thank you again!
Jordan –
I just switched to an iPhone and couldn’t believe it wouldn’t vibrate for an alarm. So silly. Thanks for creating a quick, easy-to-use fix. I know a lot of others appreciate it too.
This is fantastic. Solved my problem!
Thank you SOOOO much! I need to set two daily alarms throughout my day and I can not have my actual alarm going off and blaring while I’m at work! You’re amazing!
Thanks sooo much! I run a bible study and have to have an alarm to alert me to the next portion of the meeting. The regular alarms are just too jarring!
Thanks sooo much!
Nice job. Now I can ride on the quiet car to Philadelphia, sleep, and not bother anyone before it’s time to wake up. Never will miss my stop again!
Thanks heaps
Jordan-
Bless you for this Vibrate-only app!!!
Carol Lynn
The tone is not working in the new OS 5. Any work around?
Genius! Thank you!!
Hi Sara, it works fine for me in iOS 5.
Hello, This used to work for me but no longer in ios5. Can anybody help please??????
Just tried in iOS 5 and it works well, thanks!
it’s not working for me in OS5 either. Now I can’t seem to find the ringtone on my actual iPhone. Any thoughts?
Hi Lisa,
When I upgraded to iOS 5 and enabled wifi syncing, I had to go back into iTunes and click on my iPhone > Ringtones and recheck “sync ringtones”. Maybe try that?
I did sync ringtones and in my iTunes the vibrate ringtone appears. But when I disconnect the phone from my computer, the vibrate ringtone doesn’t appear in the options to select for alarm ringtone. Any thoughts?
Thanks so much for your help on this! Up til now, your ringtone has been a life saver!
iPhone 4S + iOS 5. Thanks! It works perfectly.
FYI people: when previewing the sounds for your alarms, vibrat.m4r WILL NOT vibrate. You have to set a test alarm to actually test it out. I thought it didn’t work, but it does 🙂
I just got an iPhone 4S and I did what you said and it is not working with my phone for some reason. Please, help!
just wanted to check in again. any chance you’ve figured out this issue?
thank you!
SAVED MY MORNINGS
@lisa
In iTunes: Drag it from your library to your iPhone section then sync
You just saved me $30. I was about to buy a vibrating pillow alarm clock, but I won’t need to now. Thank you!
Thank you. This is great, yet slient.
I used your vibrate ringtone and works great, except, I would also like the alarm to beep at the same time. Do you have an iPhone ringtone with a 30 second beeping like a regular side-table alarm? This solves a simple problem, where your alarm rings/vibrates for 30 secs and then snoozes automatically, if not dismissed. And, if you turn off the sound with the hardware button, then it just vibrates for the 30 secs. This would work exactly as a Palm Treo does and super convenient when you need to be notified/woken up silently. Have not been able to find this anywhere on the web. Thanks