Help and questions

Yes. The Alarm uses AlarmKit, Apple's system for alarms: your alarms ring in silent mode, with a Focus on and on the Lock Screen. The first time you save an alarm, iOS asks whether The Alarm may schedule alarms and timers – tap “Allow”.

First check that The Alarm may ring: if not, the Alarms tab shows a card with “Allow Alarms”, and you can also look in the Settings app under Apps › The Alarm.

Turn on the safety net: it adds a notification at the same time as each alarm. The evening check tells you every evening when tomorrow's first alarm rings, and a trial run lets you hear how loud your alarm is.

If it happens again, write to us with your iPhone model, your iOS version and the time of the alarm.

In Settings under Public Holidays, choose your country and state – or tap “Find by City”, and The Alarm picks the region for you. Repeating alarms with “Skip Public Holidays” then stay quiet on those days; alarms for set dates always ring.

Public holidays are available for more than 200 countries.

Yes – in the app, with the widget, with the control in Control Center or on the Action button, or with Siri. “Undo” brings it back, including what you had changed for that day.

The Alarm comes with 15 sounds of its own. With Pro, you can also record a sound, import a file or load one by link, and then pick the part that should ring – up to 28 seconds.

Create an alarm and choose “Shifts” as its schedule. Start with one of twelve shift systems or set your own shifts with wake-up time, start and end. You can also read your roster from a photo or PDF – Apple Intelligence does that on your iPhone. Shift plans come with Pro.

Yes, as a link, QR code or file. Everyone sets their own wake-up times. Saving a new shift plan – a shared one too – needs Pro.

Yes. The week view shows your sleep around every shift. With Pro, the sleep plan suggests a nap before the first night and a short sleep after the last – a suggestion following common advice for shift work, not medical advice.

Touch and hold an alarm and choose “Share”: you get a QR code for someone next to you and a file for Messages or Mail. Whoever opens it sees the alarm in The Alarm and saves it.

A running timer or the stopwatch is shared as a link or QR code. A shared timer rings for both of you at the same moment. Sharing is free, and nothing goes through a server.

Not yet – the other person gets their own copy. Alarms you share and change together are planned for later, with a LaCodea ID.

With Pro, tap + on the Stopwatch tab. All your stopwatches are listed below the big one: tap one to show it at the top, and start or stop it with the round button – no need to switch first. “Start All” starts them at the same moment, handy for a group start.

Swipe left to delete a stopwatch – “Undo” brings it back for a few seconds. To change the order, choose “…” › “Sort”.

Yes. While a stopwatch runs, it shows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with Lap and Stop.

You can also add the “Stopwatch” control to Control Center or the Action Button: the first press starts the stopwatch, every press after that takes a lap.

Yes. Swipe left on the lap and delete it: its time counts toward the next lap, so the total stays the same.

The fastest and slowest laps are marked with a hare and a tortoise, and every lap shows how much faster or slower it was than the one before.

No. The Alarm works without an account and keeps everything on your iPhone. Backups, if you set them up, go where you choose – encrypted with a password if you like.

Only anonymous usage statistics with Atriya, LaCodea's own service: which screens you open, how long The Alarm is open and whether it crashes. Never your alarms, events or places, and nothing that identifies you. You can turn it off in Settings › Privacy.

Details are in the privacy policy.

In The Alarm, go to Settings › Privacy › Delete all data. It removes your alarms, plans, sounds and settings from your iPhone. Backups you saved elsewhere stay where you put them.

More in the privacy policy.

€4.99 a month, €29.99 a year with 14 days free, or €49.99 once – see The Alarm Pro.

Everything you set keeps ringing. You just can't turn Pro settings on again without Pro.

Yes, The Alarm Pro works with Family Sharing.

In the Settings app: tap your name, then Subscriptions › The Alarm. Cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the period.