Alarm sounds ios without critical alerts

Hello guys,

i need a little help. Im building an alarm clock app, pretty good one, and i have my own sounds i want to use as the alarm ring but notifications on apple cant work when the phone is turned off or the device is in silent mode (Or at least thats how i understand it) unless they have this feature called critical alerts that lets you have notifications even when the phone is turned off or silented. Without this, the phone can do just one beep and only when you open the notification, then it starts ringing but how is this supposed to wake you up? Alarmy has this worked out fine and i cant figure out how, maybe someone here knows. Im thinking maybe they have the critical alerts enabled but then i dont know why Apple would approve theirs and not mine. I tried to submit for the critical alerts feature but apple didn’t approve it saying the app is not the use case and im kinda lost. The whole app could be ruined because of this. So my question is. is there any way how i can use my custom sounds as a notifications on ios even if the phone is turned off or in silent mode+turned off and the app is not straight up running without being approved for critical alerts? Somehow like alarmy does it but i dont know if they have the critical alerts or not.

Thank you very much for any kind of help 🙏. For everyone whos reading this, take care!

Thanks for the post, have you used AlarmKit?

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.

Extract from documentation here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/AlarmKit

I would recommend to start there and see if fulfills all your requirements.

Albert Pascual
  Worldwide Developer Relations.

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