This is how you turn on the new (silent) alarm function on your Apple Watch

The Apple Watch has a new function for the alarm since Watchos 11.4. That way you can hear the alarm even if you are wearing the silent mode.

This is how you turn on the new (silent) alarm function on your Apple Watch

The hassle around Watchos 11.4 is finally over and the function is now available to everyone. The update contains three new functions, one of which is very useful.

This option has to do with silent mode. The silent mode ensures that you do not hear any sounds when you receive a notification on your Apple Watch, for example. Instead, you can set a soft vibration so that you still know that a message has been received for you.

This function also made an alarm that you set up. But that is now changing with Watchos 11.4. By switching on an option you can hear an alarm in the morning, even if you have the Apple Watch standing still.

You set this in the following way:

In addition to the App Wekkers, you can also switch on the quiet alarm on your Apple Watch via the ‘Sleep’ app. In the Sleep app you then tap the icon with the alarm clock at the top left. Then switch on the ‘alarm clock’ option (if necessary). Then you tap ‘Hearing and feeling’ and turn on the function at ‘Breeken Brake Modus’.

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