# Haptic alarm strength
**URL:** https://www.community.whoop.com/t/haptic-alarm-strength/1692
**Category:** WHOOP 5.0
**Created:** [May 23, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://www.community.whoop.com/t/haptic-alarm-strength/1692 "2025-05-23T07:46:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@RossEvans](https://www.community.whoop.com/u/RossEvans)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2026, 11:37am UTC](https://www.community.whoop.com/t/haptic-alarm-strength/1692/21 "2026-01-27T11:37:27Z")
Today I contacted support to request a downgrade to hardware 4.0 after missing another workout due to the haptic alarm. The 5.0 offers no meaningful, user-noticeable improvements beyond battery life, which is negligible for me given portable charging. While the sensors are marketed as superior, there has been no noticeable change to my data since upgrading.
There was so much buzz around the release of 5.0 and it should have represented clear progress but weakening a genuinely useful hardware feature to make an already unobtrusive device marginally smaller was a complete misstep.
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### Author:  [@TheChifo](https://www.community.whoop.com/u/TheChifo)
#### Post date: [June 29, 2026, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.community.whoop.com/t/haptic-alarm-strength/1692/22 "2026-06-29T23:10:25Z")
Same issue for me. In fact, I’ve slept through it so many times, I’ve gone back to using the iPhone alarm. Never had that issue with the 4.0.
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### Author:  [@peandrews](https://www.community.whoop.com/u/peandrews)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2026, 6:26am UTC](https://www.community.whoop.com/t/haptic-alarm-strength/1692/23 "2026-08-29T06:26:18Z")
This was my thought too. I have had Garmin vibrations wake me up which felt much more gentle. The 5.0 seems to be like a loud alarm to me. I wish there was a way to adjust the settings on this.
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