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AI in The Alarm

Last updated: November 11, 2026

In short

  • The Alarm only uses artificial intelligence on your iPhone, and only for two features of The Alarm Pro: reading your roster and alarms in your own words. For this, it uses the Apple Intelligence language model and iOS text recognition.
  • What The Alarm reads for this doesn't leave your device. The Alarm uses no AI services on the internet, has no chat assistant and doesn't train AI models with your data.
  • AI can make mistakes. You see what it recognizes before you save it, and you can change it.

With this notice, we inform you under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689) about where The Alarm uses AI.

Where The Alarm uses AI

Reading a roster

If you take a photo of your roster, choose a screenshot or open a PDF in The Alarm, The Alarm reads it on your iPhone: the writing with iOS text recognition, PDFs through their text. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, the language model on the device then finds the days you work in it – with the name of the shift and, if the roster says so, when it starts.

After that, you see every day found in a list. You deselect days that aren't right and set how long before the start of your shift you want to be woken. Only when you confirm does The Alarm create one alarm per shift for the matching days, all together in a group of their own. The app tells you there that AI can make mistakes.

Alarms in your own words

In the editor, you can describe an alarm in a sentence, such as “every other Monday at 6:15, not on holidays”. The language model on the device turns it into the settings: the time, the kind (weekdays, specific dates or monthly), how often – such as every other week –, whether the alarm skips public holidays, and a short name. It only fills in the editor. You see all settings and “Rings next”, change what doesn't fit and save it yourself.

Without Apple Intelligence

On iPhones without Apple Intelligence – or if you've turned it off in the iOS Settings – The Alarm only looks for lines with a date and, if there is one, a time in your roster, following fixed rules. Alarms in your own words aren't available then.

What isn't AI

The Alarm works out when an alarm rings by fixed rules – with exceptions, public holidays, vacations, shifts, the sun and your calendar. The snooze coach, bedtime and the sleep plan, the shift count with rest times, the weather lead and the duration of the steps in your morning routine also follow fixed rules and counts on your device. The Alarm uses no language model for them.

The Alarm puts together the announcement of the talking alarm from fixed parts – the time, the alarm's name and note, your first event and the weather. iOS speech output reads it out.

What happens to your data

The Apple Intelligence language model runs on your iPhone. What The Alarm gives it – the text of your roster or your sentence – doesn't leave your device for this. The Alarm doesn't keep the photo or the file of your roster; only the alarms you create are saved. The Alarm passes nothing on to AI services on the internet and uses none of it to train AI models.

Labeling

The Alarm doesn't generate any text, images, audio or video that it passes off as made by a person. What the AI recognizes are details from your own roster or your own sentence, and you see them before you save. The voice of the talking alarm is the computer voice of iOS.

Questions

Write to us at contact@lacodea.com. How The Alarm handles your data is explained in the privacy policy.