Best Two Ways to Use Apple Music as Alarm on iOS

"I am a new user of the iPhone. Recently I used the iPhone as my alarm clock but tired with the default Radar alarm tone in every morning. Can you help me to set an Apple Music song as alarm on my phone?" asked by an iPhone X user in Apple Music forum.

In fact, you will able to set any song in your iPhones music library as alarm to wake you easily since iOS 6. Apple Music provides more than 50 million songs to users, once you subscribed Apple Music successful, you don’t need to own the song to use it. Here in this article, we will introduce the best two ways to set Apple Music as alarm on iPhone or Android devices effortlessly.

Solution 1. How to Set Apple Music as Alarm on iPhone

Step 1. Open up the Apple Music app on your iPhone and locate the song you intend to set alarm.

Step 2. Tap on three dots icon next to the track’s name and then choose “Make Available Offline” to download this tune to your mobile phone.

Step 3. Touch on the Clock app on your screen, then if you have set alarm ever, simply hit on the edit. You can also touch the + to create a new one.
Step 4. You will see the time setting, scroll down and select sound option, it will show sound settings: Store, Songs, and Ringtone.
Step 5. Just select Pick a song from songs, then tap on songs it will display all the Apple Music tracks you have downloaded from your library.
Step 6. Choose a song and it will be set as your iPhone alarm. Once you’ve set a song as your alarm, it will be played whenever the alarm is set.

Solution 2. Another Alternative Way to Use Apple Music Song as Alarm (Both iOS and Android)


The first method is really convenience for Apple device users, you don't need any third-party program to set Apple Music as alarm easily. However, when you want to set a certain part of a song as an alarm, this way is unavailable. More importantly, this feature of setting Apple Music as alarm can't be used for Android.

You may consider that clients can download Apple Music firstly and then make use of the ringtone maker program to split Apple Music tunes as alarm. But keep in mind that Apple Music files are protected with the M4P file extension. It’s an encoding format can be used on Apple authorized devices only. Therefore, you can’t directly edit Apple Music on third-party programs or Android phones. Before using Apple Music tracks for the personal use, you need to decode Apple Music to unprotected format. AudFree Apple Music Converter is professional program support to convert M4P format Apple Music to MP3, WAV, AAC, FLAC losslessly.

Now, please follow this easy tutorial to see how to set Apple Music as alarm on Android and iPhone.

Part 1. Converter Encoded Apple Music to MP3 with AudFree

Step 1. Import Apple Music to AudFree

Open up the AudFree Apple Music Converter on your computer and Click on the fist “Add” icon to import protected Apple Music to AudFree. Alternatively, you can directly drag and drop downloaded Apple Music to AudFree main interface to add them.

Step 2. Customize Output Format as MP3


To set Apple Music songs as alarm on any device, tap on the “audio” icon next to the “Convert” button. Then you will enter output settings window, where you can set output format as MP3, also you can customize codec, sample rate, bit rate, and other parameters.

Step 3. Remove Protection and Convert Apple Music to MP3

Once all settings are ready, tap on the “Convert” button to launch the converting progress. AudFree will start to remove protection and convert Apple Music songs to MP3. After the converting finished, you can click the “history” button to locate the well converted Apple Music files.

Part 2. Use the MP3 Format Apple Music as Alarm on iPhone or Android

Now, you will capable of setting unprotected Apple Music as your phone alarm freely without limitation. Here you are suggested to use the Syncios Manager Free as Android or iPhone alarm maker.

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