Choose a sound (or a song) that is soothing, positive, and that you can listen to in its entirety – so you wake up gently and don’t snooze it in a sleepy stupor.Choose a sound so jarring that it startles you awake.You might even resort to placing your alarm on a Roomba so it’s hard to catch. Though opposite, both schools of thought have some scientific merit. What happens when you’re sound asleep and suddenly hear a blaring alarm? Your cortisol levels spike, big-time. The thing is, your body already has a cortisol awakening response. Thirty minutes after you wake up, your cortisol levels rise slowly to prepare you for the anticipated stress of the day. Adding an additional jolt awake can get your heart pumping, but it’s not always good for you. One study showed that firefighters are 6.4 times more likely to have a “cardiovascular event” (read: heart attack) when the station alarm sounds in the night than they are during their daytime, non-emergency duties. So maybe try to find a sound that’s more “annoying” and less “terrifying.” Apple Alarm Sounds Ranked You want to be awake, but not that awake. Whichever camp you fall in, there’s an Apple alarm sound for you. The soothing options in the default alarm sounds are not stellar, but there is a handful worth trying: We tried them all – and then ranked our top 5 soothing sounds and top 5 jarring sounds to help you say “see ya” to the infamous snooze button. Silk. Slow and ascending, with classical Chinese sounds.Ripples. Aptly named, this one sounds watery and dreamy.Timba. A surprisingly upbeat option, but the nothing-but-drums sound is organic and satisfying and definitely registers as peaceful compared to the synthetic sounds of other alarms.Slow rise. Slow with overlapping chimes, this is peaceful but sounds more like a lullaby than a morning tune.Honorable mention: Apple alarms does come with some default “natural sounds,” like a dog barking and a duck quacking. But in our opinion, a duck quacking relentlessly in your ear at 6:00 a.m.
Why is a duck in here? Is it angry at me? These are not questions a person should have to consider before coffee. Alarm. Low, blaring, and repetitive – straight out of a Michael Bay movie.Car horn. Arguably the most obnoxious cartoon sound effect of all time.Old phone. Brings back all of the anxiety you felt before cell phones and caller ID.Radar. This is, shockingly, the iPhone default.
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