Saturday, February 28, 2026

Sync iPhone Alarms to an Apple Watch

Glenn Fleishman:

And yet. And yet. When you desperately want the digital jingle bell to sound off on a particular device, my goodness, what a fuss that might be.

Quick: Without picking up your iPhone, tell me how you configure an alarm in the Clock app to trigger on your Apple Watch when you’re wearing it? I can’t remember, and I just looked it up.

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“Push Alerts” isn’t my first thought for syncing alarms and timers, but at least it’s there.

It always confuses me that the Notifications section of System Settings seems like an auto-generated list of the same settings for each app, but then a few system apps get special options sprinkled in there.

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And when you leave your iPhone in another room but leave Apple Watch next to your bed it won’t ring the alarm.

I am very annoyed by this issue as using sleep schedule I have to keep my phone in my bedroom. I don’t want to sleep with the watch on me.

The only way is to use regular alarm on Apple Watch but then I can’t change alarm sound and I can’t do things like skip or modify time just for the next day.

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