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# AlarmKit

Schedule prominent alarms and countdowns to help people manage their time.

## Overview

Use `AlarmKit` to create custom alarms and timers in your app.
`AlarmKit` provides a framework for managing alarms with customizable schedules and UI.
It supports one-time and repeating alarms, with the option for countdown durations and snooze functionality.
`AlarmKit` handles alarm authorization and provides UI for both templated and widget presentations.
It supports traditional alarms, timers, or both, and provides methods to schedule, pause, resume, and cancel alarms.

## Topics

### Alarm management

[Scheduling an alarm with AlarmKit](/documentation/AlarmKit/scheduling-an-alarm-with-alarmkit)

Create prominent alerts at specified dates for your iOS app.

[`AlarmManager`](/documentation/AlarmKit/AlarmManager)

An object that exposes functions to work with alarms: scheduling, snoozing, cancelling.

[`Alarm`](/documentation/AlarmKit/Alarm)

An object that describes an alarm that can alert once or on a repeating schedule.

### Buttons

[`AlarmButton`](/documentation/AlarmKit/AlarmButton)

A struct that defines the appearance of buttons.

### Views

[`AlarmPresentation`](/documentation/AlarmKit/AlarmPresentation)

An object that describes the content required for the alarm UI.

[`AlarmPresentationState`](/documentation/AlarmKit/AlarmPresentationState)

The system managed content state of an alarm Live Activity.

[`AlarmAttributes`](/documentation/AlarmKit/AlarmAttributes)

An object that contains all information necessary for the alarm UI.

[`AlarmMetadata`](/documentation/AlarmKit/AlarmMetadata)

A metadata object that contains information about an alarm.


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