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With iOS 6, you can roll out of bed to a mellow reggae beat or leap out of bed to thrash metal -- your choice.
If you use your iPhone as your alarm, you likely have grown tired of starting your day to the same marimba tone. You may not have noticed yet that after installing iOS 6 you can set the alarm to play a song instead of a tone.
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Open the Clock app and choose Alarm. When you add a new alarm or edit an existing alarm, tap Sound. Here, you'll see a new Songs section. Tap "Pick a song" and you'll see a list of the songs in your music library. Choose a song and that's what you'll hear to start your day or end your nap.
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If you use iTunes Match and have it set to display both locally stored songs and those in iCloud (Settings > Music > Show All Music), you can choose a song from iCloud as your alarm. Be careful, however, with choosing a song from the cloud -- if you lose Internet connectivity while sleeping, your alarm will be silent. I tested this by selecting a song that I hadn't downloaded to my iPhone, set the alarm, and turned on Airplane mode. When the alarm went off, it was silent. A best practice here would be to download a song to your phone before using it as your alarm.
This new feature is available on the updated Clock app for the iPhone and the new Clock app for the iPad.
For more on Apple's new mobile operating system, check out our complete guide to iOS 6.
The bottom line: The transition to Apple Maps is rough, but new features and a ton of tiny tweaks make iOS 6 a must-have update. Read Full Review
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It's about time. No pun intended...
Correct me if i'm wrong because I've never had an iPhone, but how is this different what most other OS do?
It is not an exclusive feature, or meant to be one. CNET just wanted to share a tip...
It's not. iPhone never had this feature, so CNet was just sharing it so iPhone users can know this feature is now available.
when Nokia invented its first Symbian phone they have same future in it.Apple you need to think more and stop adding stupid future like map.let expert do their work don't try to be over smart.
dont forget that during the song that plays, the phone vibrates the entire time which is really stupid. i need vibrate turned on for both silent and ringtones when i get calls, emails, txts and other notifications but for an alarm there should be an optin to not vibrate if its playing music. 4 minutes of vibrating to a song is very annoying and probably bad for the phone too to be vibrating continuously for that long
does anybody know if there is a way to remove the song if you change your mind and don't want to use it as an alarm? Or do the songs stay in the alarm function for good?
this feature doesn't work for me? i tried different songs and nothing plays when the alarm goes off (luckily my husband turned his on as well so I wasn't late for work!). Any idea why this might happen? using the iphone 5 so assume its not the phone!
