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hey I'm Donnell Bell and I have a love-hate relationship with the iPhones default alarm clock sound marimba sounds like a cuckoo clock that Jimmy Buffett would use to remind him that it's margarita time on the other hand at this point I've heard it so many times it actually works as a kind of Pavlovian trigger to get me out of bed but if you can't stand to listen to the marimba one more time here's a quick tip for setting the iPhone to play your own music as your alarm now if you're starting from scratch head into the iPhones clock app and hit the plus button to create a new alarm set the alarm down here at the bottom and then up here where it says sound click marimba and you'll be taken to another screen where you can choose from other ringtones or pick a song from your music library to do that tap pick a song and then you'll be taken to your music library which you can sort by song or artist or album to find something that you like now once you find the right song tap it and you'll hear a preview of what it will sound like raise the volume level to get a sound this can be loud enough to wake you up and then pop the back button to stop the freedom the sound selection should now show the title of the song you selected now to set the alarm tap the Save button and then you're all set now what if you want to change an existing alarm or you've gotten used to setting alarms through Siri here's what to do open up the clock app and make sure you're in the alarm tab hit the edit button at the top and then find the alarm you've already set tap it and it should take you to that same menu we saw before we can select the sound and then hit save that's all there is to it now instead of waking up to this you can wake up to this I just made your life more awesome from our how-to tips and tricks head over to how to cnet.com Donal bell now go take a nap