The fact that we can’t separate ringer and alarm volumes is asinine

I sleep like the dead and need a blaring alarm to wake me up in the morning. I’m a university student and was in a lecture hall of 15 out of 150 (end of year and no one shows up to class) when I got a scam call and it was blaring unnecessarily loudly. I was so startled I fumbled trying to get my phone to shut up (as everyone was staring), and dropped my Apple Pencil I use for taking notes which smashed in the tip. Now I have to order a replacement pack.

Googling it makes it seem like I’m not missing anything and there is in fact no way to change this. I apologize if I am wrong. In the meantime it seems like my options are to try to remember to manually increase/lower my ringer, and any mistakes I make will result in me not waking up on time or causing an unnecessary distraction when I get a call.

Edit: I am aware that silent mode exists. I admit that, in a lecture hall, I should’ve had my phone on silent. However, my point is that forgetting silent mode shouldn’t mean my phone turns into a siren. Not wanting to have my location constantly tracked to do it for me shouldn’t mean my phone turns into a siren. Wanting to hear calls outside of class shouldn’t mean my phone should turn into a siren. A ringer on absolute max volume is quite obnoxious and I’d really like to just be able to set my ringer volume to be low/subtle/close to the left without risking making my alarm useless. Thank you to the people who were polite and offered relevant workarounds.

I’m totally aware that this actual scenario was kinda my fault, but the lack of a basic feature just made a human error 10x worse than it had to be. And this feature lacking still affects other situations as well.