Ransom field guide

Better mornings start with understanding the alarm you already own.

Free, practical iPhone guidance first. Ransom appears only where a mission solves a problem the standard Clock app was not designed to solve.

How to Set an Alarm on iPhone—and Choose the Right Kind

Clock alarm or Health sleep schedule? Here is the short path for each, plus the settings worth checking before bed.

The alarm volume is not the same as your music volume. Work through this short checklist before replacing the app—or the phone.

Yes—regular Clock alarms should still sound. Here is what Silent mode does not change, and which settings still matter.

Work from the simplest settings to schedule conflicts. Test each change instead of stacking five unproven fixes at once.

Separate hearing the alarm from acting on it, then design the smallest wake-up system that addresses the real failure.