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Android: Change the Alarm Volume

If your alarm barely wakes you up or suddenly blares at full strength, the ringtone loudness is set independently from your media and call volume. Android treats alarm sound as its own channel, so muting your phone or turning down music does not automatically affect how loud the alarm rings. A wrong setting here means you either sleep through it or get startled every morning.

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Alarm Volume Settings auf Android

Android keeps the alarm volume separate from media, call, and notification volume. That is why turning your phone to silent or lowering the music level does not change how loud your alarm rings in the morning.

To adjust it, go to SettingsSound & vibration ➔ and move the slider under Alarm volume. Dragging it left lowers the loudness, dragging it right increases it. The change applies immediately to every alarm you have set, including recurring ones.

When this setting is not enough

If the alarm still does not ring at the level you expect, check whether a specific alarm app overrides the system volume with its own internal setting. Some alarm clock apps ship with a separate loudness control that ignores the system slider.

Also confirm that Do Not Disturb is not set to block alarms, since some custom configurations mute even the alarm channel during quiet hours. If the slider itself appears greyed out, a connected accessibility profile or a media session from another app might be holding the audio focus.

Frequently asked questions

Alarm volume in Android is a separate channel from media and call volume. Check SettingsSound & vibrationAlarm volume and raise that slider specifically, independent of the music volume.