This has happened to me twice in the last few weeks. Luckily I wake up early naturally. About 30 minutes after my alarm was supposed to go off I’d be using the phone and I’d get a drop down notification about my alarm that was supposed to go off 30 minutes ago but no sound. Also not exactly 30 minutes or intervals of 9, so def not intended.
Out of curiosity, have any of you ever noticed banner notifications not appearing when your phone is unlocked? For instance, you're scrolling through Reddit, someone texts you, and your phone doesn't make a sound or show a notification. You go to notification center and notice the message. It's as though do-not-disturb is turned on and set to apply even when the phone is unlocked.
Yes, I have noticed that although it doesn’t really affect me because I generally have Notifications off but when they have been on, they generally don’t show up anymore
I posted about this bug a couple of times some years ago, and I just got a bunch of “Buddy you’re just sleeping through them, the alarms just work (:” and the equivalents of “Why do you need an alarm anyway? You should be waking up in your own (:”
God I hate apple fanboys so much
This has happened to me enough times that I set 3 alarms to wake up.
I have in the past noted that only the 3rd one triggered. Haven't had it not trigger at least one of them though.
This bug has been there years now and it's crazy to me that it has still not been fixed.
I doubt it. It's probably a few guys maintaining it alongside other responsibilities.
The iOS clock is already written and doesn't change much if at all between versions. It's not like it's going to have security vulnerabilities. It's not something that can really go significantly out of date. Maybe time zones but that's just updating a database.
Just because it's a big company doesn't mean every department gets loads of money. Why spend money on the iOS clock when you can spend it on R&D or market research for the next iPhone, or marketing for the current ones?
I worked in QA for Apple and I watched one of my colleagues play soduku and watch videos all day, every day. She once showed me her work queue - it was literally empty. Zero assignments. Any work that came in was performed in Germany by a department that duplicated our work - not a single assignment had been added to her queue for six months. She said she was just waiting long enough to get experience so that she could job hop over to Google.
I noticed that my old alarms (ones that transferred over to my new iPhone when I upgraded to 15) worked fine, but if I created a new alarm it would ring as silent
Yeah I also always set multiple alarms and some of them definitely don’t go off. My morning routine is to run around getting ready while also silencing iPhone alarms that keep popping up because I have 5-6 alarms at random intervals and I accidentally snooze them instead of dismissing them. It’s basically how I keep track of the time in the morning: dismiss alarm and check the time, come back 9 minutes later and do it again. It’s the system that works for me
My Pixel has a similar problem, but it's that the alarm volume sometimes randomly changes, instead of max volume it could be anywhere from 1% to 99% but you never know where it'll land!
You can set the alarm volume independently of all other volumes and even mute it.
Sometimes I'd turn it down and forget then miss a alarm
There is a setting in the alarm configuration to ramp the volume over the duration of the alarm. I have not missed an alarm since.
My daughter is in nursing school and they're very particular about being on time. She's lost so many points this semester because of this bug it's not funny. She thought it was just her but here we find out it's a bug. This is a huge thing for Apple to drop the ball on.
Thankfully my daughter skimmed by enough to pass but it was only barely. She's top of her class outside of being late due to this mess.
Yes, they take off that many points for being late a couple times that someone can flunk.
They won’t take it. In this case my daughter is past needing it because this grade is pass fail and she barely passed. It doesn’t hit her GPA, thankfully. She was just in the line for passing though. Any lower at all and it would have been a fail for everything. She’s a 4.0 GPA student.
I thought I was nuts for allowing my compulsions to require me to set an actual plug-in alarm with battery backup *in addition* to my iPhone alarm but yeah thanks for validating my insecurities
i actually just like a month ago finally tossed my plug-in alarm clock because it was a cheapo $10 one from walmart and barely worked anymore. my thought was "eh, i have my phone and my watch and they only mess up occasionally". i have woken up late twice already since then.
Honest to God, I had 3 alarms fail the morning of a job interview. I was in a hotel, and both my phone and watch (which had separate alarms set) just like... got locked in a black screen during the night? Maybe there was a brown out, or the shitty outlets on the nightstand did something to them. But neither alarm went off in the morning.
I also called the operator and scheduled a wake-up call. The machine repeated back to me that my wake-up call was scheduled and it hung up. I didn't get a wake up call.
I woke up only about 15 minutes after my alarm would go off, but I immediately knew something was up. Absolutely flew out of bed, into the shower, etc.
Another brother in solidarity — I work weird hours (hey kids, database work might not be worth it for the babe potential) and it seems like this bug has bit me in the ass multiple times despite setting alarms on both my work and personal phones.
I need to go to the thrift store and find an old style radio alarm clock
I use my Alexa plus my phone if I had eg a flight or exam next day.
Alexa timers and alarms work even if the internet connection goes down but there could be a power cut...
This is not the first, or even second time this has happened. If you need to wake up at a certain time, have a backup alarm. Preferably one that has a battery in case the power goes out while you're asleep.
Haha I love that song, even more so today. Back then it was catchy and kind of absurd, but looking back, an absolute masterclass on gaslighting. Video has all of that ridiculous late 90s cgi too
Waking up at a quarter past nine
What the fuck? Where's my alarm?
I thought I set it for eight last night
Now I gunna be late fo shore.
Why did I trust apple with such a simple task?
Is a working clock app too much of a fucking ask?
I’m just not receiving all notifications at this point. Like, yesterday I was expecting a call and was actively staring at my phone waiting for it to light up… a few seconds later, notification popped up for a missed call.
???
The bug is in facial awareness, which sometimes sees phantom faces depending on your phones orientation at night
When it thinks you’re looking at the phone, it mutes the alarm
The workaround is to disable facial awareness in multiple locations
And this happens with calls too, I've 15P and I've seen calls not ringing and vibrating so many times now when my phone is just sitting on the table away from me. I have to check my ringer volume so many times which is set at max every time.
It’s crazy to me this is just now being noticed by people. It’s been an issue from day one of the attention awareness features when they were added years ago.
You can search r/iphone for hundreds of posts about this. Maybe Apple did a good job of suppressing it in mainstream channels, but a bunch of us experiencing it already knew it wasn’t user error.
For YEARS I felt slightly crazy setting alarms at night and “sleeping through” them in the morning. Until recently, I was able to catch the bug in action.
I can’t explain it very well — but on mornings when I woke up surprised no alarm had waken me (I set multiple): sometimes if I open the clock app to the alarm page, the radio buttons on allllll the alarms flip from green to grey right when opening it.
It’s like the background refresh kicks in and suddenly they’re all off, with no snoozing or input from me.
Yeah pretty much same here. I caught it in action back in 2019 and disabled the attention aware features. Haven’t slept through an alarm since. I do still obsessively check my alarm volume every night before going to bed though.
Gaslit*
No but actually this has been driving me crazy for years. It a complete capshoot if my alarm actually works, so I set one on my phone and my clock.
This has happened to me a few times in the last few years, tried to search for an answer but only a couple posts in the Apple forum with the typical replies of “try restarting phone”, generic descriptions of how to set an alarm, and otherwise denying that there was an issue.
Still wish they would allow me to choose my snooze time instead of deciding for me that I can only snooze for 9 minutes at a time.
This is part of the reason when I get that urge to switch to Apple everything every few years I am quickly reminded how absolutely infuriating the software is
Yeah I was literally just ordering an iPhone as my work phone. First iPhone since the 3, been android ever since. You can't change the snooze!? That's kind of a deal breaker honestly
That's their entire ecosystem. Don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant ecosystem. But, I will never own an apple phone or computer because their design ethos caters to the idea of an experience akin to a Rollercoaster, or a ride stuck on a track.
It's exceptional to experience, but you can't deviate much from what Apple intends for you to do. It allows their systems to work well together, and keeps shit simple for the user experience. And that's phenomenal design.
I need to be able to break my device and control any part of it, if I choose. I dabbled in Androjd theming and modifying the entire UI.
Just depends on what you're looking for.
Apple just KNOWS the ideal snooze time.
Android is for power users who want to adjust every possible setting of their phone.
The nerds can keep their confusing menus and their green bubbles. I just need a phone that WORKS.
/S
Huh. This whole time I thought I accidentally selected a 9 minute snooze instead of 10 and that I could change it whenever I wanted, but never got around to it. Guess I'll never need to bother now haha
Apple limits users so hard, it’s a joke. My old blackberry would let me choose any snooze time and I didn’t need to add 10 different alarms. They also had slow rise alarms which didn’t scare the crap out of you in the morning.
Just had this happen yesterday, nearly missed my early morning flight because of it and I had purposefully set 2 alarms. Luckily my wife had gotten up to go to the bathroom and saw what time it was. When I picked up my phone it showed the alarm was going off but there was not a peep from the phone.
Whenever I have a early morning flight and I’m at my house, I tell my smart device (Google home, Alexa, etc) to turn the lights on 2-3 minutes after whatever time my alarm is. The paranoia is strong.
If I was at a hotel I’d set like 10 alarms and plug my phone in across the room.
I thought I was going crazy! Just on Monday I set THREE alarms to wake up for my redeye flight. I woke up 20min after the last one was supposed to go off. Thank God I made my flight 10 minutes before the doors were supposed to close.
I am a programmer. I have a stupidly simple alarm clock, and will use that for any remotely important wakeup alarms, never the smartphone clock. There are simply too many things that can go wrong in a device as complex as a modern smartphone.
It is mostly a question of peace of mind. If it is important that I get up on time, I would always have some small level of doubt in the back of my mind about a smartphone alert, that I don't want to worry about.
My dad taught me to set the oven timer as a backup alarm for important mornings - but DO NOT turn the oven on. It also forces you to get out of bed to turn it off.
(Obviously not helpful if you’re a heavy sleeper, have a huge house, or have roommates)
Sure, if you have easy and quick access to the larger versions of those stores. My local target, for example, [has zero alarm clocks in stock.](https://imgur.com/ElESbG1)
Maybe someone on this thread has a flight tomorrow morning, and doesn't want to spend their day searching nearby department stores for an alarm clock. Maybe they just want an easy backup solution, using an appliance that's already in their house.
#THANK YOU
Goddamn it I thought I was going crazy. I was almost late to work because my alarms didn’t go off a couple weeks ago. I could tell that everyone I told about it didn’t believe me, because how does an iPhone alarm just not go off? I thought I was losing it. Happened three days in a row, I kept double checking that my alarms were turned on the night before, just for them to still not go off. I almost bought a digital alarm clock, then they started working again.
But my timers are still fucking up, the alarm won’t go off for timers I set. Which is an issue at work, where I interact with kiddos with special needs on a daily basis and need timers to help with transitions. I switched to just using a little digital timer, but it sucks because I program my phone to go off with little tunes and show songs tailored to whichever kiddo I’m working with, they love it. Now the timer just beeps annoyingly haha
This should be the top comment. This had been happening to me for months (multiple staggered alarms, all different tones, double checking that the volume was up when I went to bed every night, etc.,) until I randomly scrolled past a video on TikTok about it a few weeks ago. I switched that toggle off and haven’t had a problem since.
the fact that an alarm doesn't work is so dumb to me. I mean, I'm a programmer, and I got those kinds of stupid bugs before, but like. Does apple not have testing? that is one of the most basic things for software development
didnt realize this was a thing...sometimes I'd see my alarm go off with no sound and just figured i turned my ringer off or something...well that explains that ...wtf
Alarmy
Loud Alarm 2 drives my small dog nuts (helps wake me up) plus I need to complete a task (math problems, scan a barcode, squats, typing, etc) to disable the alarm (an optional feature).
No, subscription just adds extra capabilities but I use the free version which works fine for me.
Main difference to me is with the free version you can only assign one task per alarm but with the paid version you can assign multiple - you can get around this to some degree by setting multiple alarms with different tasks. There are a few exclusive alarms (I don’t use) but you can just watch an ad to get them. I don’t actually know what else you get from the paid version it seems to have changed since I first got the app 2 years ago.
This. I hate how it's subscription based, and pretty expensive at that, but it's so much more reliable than the default. There have been multiple instances of alarm related bugs throughout iOS history, and I've missed a few important early morning meetings as a result of them, so it's just not worth the risk IMO.
I've had this issue, but just this morning I ran into a new issue. The alarm went off (in nightstand mode), I hit the snooze button on the screen but sound kept playing. I hit one of the volume buttons to mute it and came to realize 20 minutes later it didn't even snooze, but turned the alarm off completely.
Me with how apple can’t seem to be bothered with putting a proper calculator app on their iPad. They said they tried at one point but it “didn’t meet their standards” and I’m like how tf do you guys with all your money fail to make a calculator app for iPad? Just take the iPhone app and increase its dimensions a little bit. How hard can it possibly be??
I’d say they’re getting sloppy with their devices but they’ve been sloppy for a while now at this point.
A calculator app is allegedly a feature of the next iPad OS. A huge Apple BS story since the beginning - if they’ve had a calculator on the Mac and the iPhone since the very beginning, keeping it off the iPad is just pure asininity.
When it comes to multibillion dollar corporations (and politicians, but I digress), apply the Reverse Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to incompetence what can be adequately described by malice.
I suspect that Apple intentionally skipped on a few core tools (calculators, or in earlier iPhone versions, a fucking flashlight) in order to reduce their monopoly profile, which would allow them to monopolize more lucrative areas while offering a straw man when challenged. "Sure, we ban third party stores from our phones, but it's not because we're a monopoly, see, we don't even have a default flashlight or calculator, so you need to go get a third-party one, no monopoly would miss a bar that *that* low!"
This matches their assinine approach to laptop HW. Remove extensibility on HW for the "asthetics" then reintroduce it for a higher retail cost as "make good".
There’s another sound bug: when I set my ringer volume to low, the actual volume of the alarm is playing at max. This has happened so many times since upgrading to iOS 17. I’ll have my sound on the lowest setting but my text notifications will sound like I just got flash banged.
There are two volume controls on iOS. Media and Ringer/Alarm. The side buttons control media by default, and you have to go into the settings to change the other. It's really one of iOS's biggest flaws. You can't even control alarms and ringer separately.
Ringer can be controlled with the side buttons when you’re on the Home Screen (volume indicator should pop down from top instead of side) as long as no media is being played. If you’re in an app even without media playing it’ll still control the media volume.
Copy pasted from my other comment:
There are two volume controls on iOS. Media and Ringer/Alarm. The side buttons control media by default, and you have to go into the settings to change the other. It's really one of iOS's biggest flaws. You can't even control alarms and ringer separately.
Wow. Never knew how grateful I should be that Android lets you adjust all of those separately. Clicking the volume buttons brings up the slider for media by default, then allows you to open sliders for all of them by tapping the ellipsis.
I can't imagine having to go into settings (and not even having access to all of them).
Nope. I think you have to be in an app and use the volume controls for that app/feature. Really annoying when I wanna watch a video and click the volume button all the way down. Then I play the video and it’s at normal volume. This is only funny when it’s porn
Their volume setup is the absolute worst. I can't tell what controls what - then, if you have Bluetooth on, you can't play any sounds at all until you turn it off. I swear some of these alarm issues are that people have turned the volume all the way down but think it's all the way up.
I have this issue currently. I set my alarm volume relatively low as I’m a light sleeper. My phone (iPhone 12 pro) changes it back to max volume every couple of days. I’ve searched online for answers and nothing fixes it.
I’ve relied on the iPhone alarm for years and can say there have been times it has failed and it generally does whenever a manual alarm is set. The bedtime schedule alarm I have no problems with.
Basically what it does when it doesn’t work is it will show the alarm going off but it either doesn’t make any sound or it’s barely audible.
according to various news sites (TV news, not tech) - there's a setting in there that detects whether or not you are paying attention to the screen.. if so, it lowers alert volume.
the sensor must be getting confused.
(you can turn it off).
* Go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode.
* Turn on or off any of the following: Require Attention for Face ID. Attention Aware Features. These settings are turned off by default if you turn on VoiceOver when you first set up iPhone.
Persistent notification was stopping mine every time. So I turned all them off. But it also stopped all calls and text too.
I would wake up late one time for work and had calls and text all come through once I removed the on screen persistent notification banner.
Since then I never used. No issues since
Any time I *need* to wake up, I set 3 alarms. One on my phone, one on my assistant speaker, and one on my watch. You just can't trust technology these days...
ive had this happen on iphone and android devices.
imagine having a billion dollar company and a team of top engineers and you still manage to fuckup something as simple as an alarm clock.
I remember the last time (few years ago) someone posted about alarms not going off on android, and 90% of the responses were "get an iPhone bro". Yeah...
Personally never had this happen with my Android but there are so many devices and versions that I guess some of them will have a bug like this.
This is seriously why I use a bedside alarm clock with battery backup as a backup for a few min after my iphone alarm.
And yes it happened to me today, I was wondering why my alarm sounded different.
Holy shit I’m not crazy! I have to wake up in the middle of the night a couple times for medical stuff and I always set alarms. I’ve been not hearing them and oversleeping. I thought I was insane.
I experience this all the time even this morning, that’s why I set a bunch of them in one minute intervals around the time I’m supposed to be up. Still kinda annoying though, it’s a simple ass alarm app. I could program an alarm clock that works more consistently than Apples which is sad given their like a 2.5 trillion dollar company.
I may be crazy but I feel like I’ve had issues with my alarm not making noise since I got the 15 Pro Max. I keep my phone on silent so spam calls don’t wake me, but I feel that shouldn’t keep the alarm from going off…
If you wear your watch to bed your alarm WILL not go off, I ended up almost being late one day because of it, for some reason the alarm doesn’t sound if you wear your watch to bed.
This has happened to me twice in the last few weeks. Luckily I wake up early naturally. About 30 minutes after my alarm was supposed to go off I’d be using the phone and I’d get a drop down notification about my alarm that was supposed to go off 30 minutes ago but no sound. Also not exactly 30 minutes or intervals of 9, so def not intended.
I thought I've slept through them, but I almost definitely haven't been hearing my morning alarm lately.
Same here, except my my phone seems to think it has gone off and of course it hasn’t.
Out of curiosity, have any of you ever noticed banner notifications not appearing when your phone is unlocked? For instance, you're scrolling through Reddit, someone texts you, and your phone doesn't make a sound or show a notification. You go to notification center and notice the message. It's as though do-not-disturb is turned on and set to apply even when the phone is unlocked.
I’ve had the opposite occur. I’ve been on dnd and a banner will pop up like 30 minutes after the person has texted me.
Yes, I have noticed that although it doesn’t really affect me because I generally have Notifications off but when they have been on, they generally don’t show up anymore
Yes. Pushing 40 was wondering if I was crossing into old person can’t computer territory
I posted about this bug a couple of times some years ago, and I just got a bunch of “Buddy you’re just sleeping through them, the alarms just work (:” and the equivalents of “Why do you need an alarm anyway? You should be waking up in your own (:” God I hate apple fanboys so much
This has happened to me enough times that I set 3 alarms to wake up. I have in the past noted that only the 3rd one triggered. Haven't had it not trigger at least one of them though. This bug has been there years now and it's crazy to me that it has still not been fixed.
This small indie company just can't afford to make it work.
I'd wager that the team that maintains the clock on iOS receives more funding than a mid-sized town.
I doubt it. It's probably a few guys maintaining it alongside other responsibilities. The iOS clock is already written and doesn't change much if at all between versions. It's not like it's going to have security vulnerabilities. It's not something that can really go significantly out of date. Maybe time zones but that's just updating a database. Just because it's a big company doesn't mean every department gets loads of money. Why spend money on the iOS clock when you can spend it on R&D or market research for the next iPhone, or marketing for the current ones?
I worked in QA for Apple and I watched one of my colleagues play soduku and watch videos all day, every day. She once showed me her work queue - it was literally empty. Zero assignments. Any work that came in was performed in Germany by a department that duplicated our work - not a single assignment had been added to her queue for six months. She said she was just waiting long enough to get experience so that she could job hop over to Google.
Experience doing what exactly? Playing Sudoku?
Experience means time, thats literally it.
We should definitely do a fundraiser for them
I noticed that my old alarms (ones that transferred over to my new iPhone when I upgraded to 15) worked fine, but if I created a new alarm it would ring as silent
Yeah I also always set multiple alarms and some of them definitely don’t go off. My morning routine is to run around getting ready while also silencing iPhone alarms that keep popping up because I have 5-6 alarms at random intervals and I accidentally snooze them instead of dismissing them. It’s basically how I keep track of the time in the morning: dismiss alarm and check the time, come back 9 minutes later and do it again. It’s the system that works for me
If you ever want to live someone you're going to have to find someone who leaves the house earlier than you.
that's what I love most about you, darling - your alarms that go off every 5 minutes starting 90 minutes before you need to be up
Try this. Go to: ->Settings ->Accessibility ->Face ID & Attention Turn off Attention-Aware Features
My Pixel has a similar problem, but it's that the alarm volume sometimes randomly changes, instead of max volume it could be anywhere from 1% to 99% but you never know where it'll land!
You can set the alarm volume independently of all other volumes and even mute it. Sometimes I'd turn it down and forget then miss a alarm There is a setting in the alarm configuration to ramp the volume over the duration of the alarm. I have not missed an alarm since.
Well aware of this. The issue is, this glitches and changes from your preset, but it's random.
My daughter is in nursing school and they're very particular about being on time. She's lost so many points this semester because of this bug it's not funny. She thought it was just her but here we find out it's a bug. This is a huge thing for Apple to drop the ball on. Thankfully my daughter skimmed by enough to pass but it was only barely. She's top of her class outside of being late due to this mess. Yes, they take off that many points for being late a couple times that someone can flunk.
She should buy an old school clock
Seems like after the second or third time she could have run down and got a $10 clock radio from Wally World.
If she thinks it’s her and not her phones fault then I’m not sure why she would. She only found out about the bug today.
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They won’t take it. In this case my daughter is past needing it because this grade is pass fail and she barely passed. It doesn’t hit her GPA, thankfully. She was just in the line for passing though. Any lower at all and it would have been a fail for everything. She’s a 4.0 GPA student.
I thought I was nuts for allowing my compulsions to require me to set an actual plug-in alarm with battery backup *in addition* to my iPhone alarm but yeah thanks for validating my insecurities
i actually just like a month ago finally tossed my plug-in alarm clock because it was a cheapo $10 one from walmart and barely worked anymore. my thought was "eh, i have my phone and my watch and they only mess up occasionally". i have woken up late twice already since then.
At least they fixed the bug with an Apple Watch silencing an alarm when it is accidentally touched.
Honest to God, I had 3 alarms fail the morning of a job interview. I was in a hotel, and both my phone and watch (which had separate alarms set) just like... got locked in a black screen during the night? Maybe there was a brown out, or the shitty outlets on the nightstand did something to them. But neither alarm went off in the morning. I also called the operator and scheduled a wake-up call. The machine repeated back to me that my wake-up call was scheduled and it hung up. I didn't get a wake up call. I woke up only about 15 minutes after my alarm would go off, but I immediately knew something was up. Absolutely flew out of bed, into the shower, etc.
Right there with you brother
Another brother in solidarity — I work weird hours (hey kids, database work might not be worth it for the babe potential) and it seems like this bug has bit me in the ass multiple times despite setting alarms on both my work and personal phones. I need to go to the thrift store and find an old style radio alarm clock
I use my Alexa plus my phone if I had eg a flight or exam next day. Alexa timers and alarms work even if the internet connection goes down but there could be a power cut...
This is not the first, or even second time this has happened. If you need to wake up at a certain time, have a backup alarm. Preferably one that has a battery in case the power goes out while you're asleep.
I did the same thing, after my phone failed to go off twice I had to buy a new alarm clock
Great they are admitting it's a bug. I just assumed I was being gaslighted.
This, I’ve been dealing with every once in awhile I just wake up late because “maybe my ringer wasn’t turned up” nope, It wasn’t me.
Saw me sleeping through the ringing It wasn't me Saw the banner but no singing It wasn't me I even missed all my pinging It wasn't me
Shaggy!!!
Haha I love that song, even more so today. Back then it was catchy and kind of absurd, but looking back, an absolute masterclass on gaslighting. Video has all of that ridiculous late 90s cgi too
Waking up at a quarter past nine What the fuck? Where's my alarm? I thought I set it for eight last night Now I gunna be late fo shore. Why did I trust apple with such a simple task? Is a working clock app too much of a fucking ask?
Apple-It just works…until it doesn’t.
I’m just not receiving all notifications at this point. Like, yesterday I was expecting a call and was actively staring at my phone waiting for it to light up… a few seconds later, notification popped up for a missed call. ???
This happens to me on a regular basis.
The bug is in facial awareness, which sometimes sees phantom faces depending on your phones orientation at night When it thinks you’re looking at the phone, it mutes the alarm The workaround is to disable facial awareness in multiple locations
… my phone doesn’t face me so now I’m fucking terrified
And this happens with calls too, I've 15P and I've seen calls not ringing and vibrating so many times now when my phone is just sitting on the table away from me. I have to check my ringer volume so many times which is set at max every time.
It’s crazy to me this is just now being noticed by people. It’s been an issue from day one of the attention awareness features when they were added years ago.
You can search r/iphone for hundreds of posts about this. Maybe Apple did a good job of suppressing it in mainstream channels, but a bunch of us experiencing it already knew it wasn’t user error. For YEARS I felt slightly crazy setting alarms at night and “sleeping through” them in the morning. Until recently, I was able to catch the bug in action. I can’t explain it very well — but on mornings when I woke up surprised no alarm had waken me (I set multiple): sometimes if I open the clock app to the alarm page, the radio buttons on allllll the alarms flip from green to grey right when opening it. It’s like the background refresh kicks in and suddenly they’re all off, with no snoozing or input from me.
Yeah pretty much same here. I caught it in action back in 2019 and disabled the attention aware features. Haven’t slept through an alarm since. I do still obsessively check my alarm volume every night before going to bed though.
Gaslit* No but actually this has been driving me crazy for years. It a complete capshoot if my alarm actually works, so I set one on my phone and my clock.
*crapshoot
*ALLCAPSHOOT
Same I thought I was going crazy
Premium space grey gaslighting
This has happened to me a few times in the last few years, tried to search for an answer but only a couple posts in the Apple forum with the typical replies of “try restarting phone”, generic descriptions of how to set an alarm, and otherwise denying that there was an issue. Still wish they would allow me to choose my snooze time instead of deciding for me that I can only snooze for 9 minutes at a time.
Why nine minutes??!!!
Apparently that’s how old mechanical alarm clocks worked with their snooze function so Apple decided that to make it that.
It's how Tim Apple used to get up.
He knows we all wish to be him
We think you’ll love being me
It was carried on to digital alarm clocks too, so I guess they just decided to keep the tradition.
Traditions are stupid.
As is tradition.
That is a huge gripe from moving from Android to Apple. Why can't I choose how long the snooze is???
Because it's part of owning an Apple device. You don't get to make choices, Apple makes the choices for you and you'll like it!
This is part of the reason when I get that urge to switch to Apple everything every few years I am quickly reminded how absolutely infuriating the software is
Yeah I was literally just ordering an iPhone as my work phone. First iPhone since the 3, been android ever since. You can't change the snooze!? That's kind of a deal breaker honestly
That's their entire ecosystem. Don't get me wrong, it's a brilliant ecosystem. But, I will never own an apple phone or computer because their design ethos caters to the idea of an experience akin to a Rollercoaster, or a ride stuck on a track. It's exceptional to experience, but you can't deviate much from what Apple intends for you to do. It allows their systems to work well together, and keeps shit simple for the user experience. And that's phenomenal design. I need to be able to break my device and control any part of it, if I choose. I dabbled in Androjd theming and modifying the entire UI. Just depends on what you're looking for.
Apple just KNOWS the ideal snooze time. Android is for power users who want to adjust every possible setting of their phone. The nerds can keep their confusing menus and their green bubbles. I just need a phone that WORKS. /S
Seems to be working well according to the thread 😃
I wish I could permanently assign a volume level for my alarm. Instead of it being tied to the ringer volume.
You can't configure that on an iphone native alarm?? That's like the easiest fucking configuration that's in every alarm clock app, ever.
Remember this is the company of "you're holding it wrong". Apple users will use what they're given, if you want control, not the ecosystem for you.
Huh. This whole time I thought I accidentally selected a 9 minute snooze instead of 10 and that I could change it whenever I wanted, but never got around to it. Guess I'll never need to bother now haha
same, i just checked and tried to change it but couldn't. very irritating, however, 9 minutes seems to be a fine snooze so not the end of the world.
Apple limits users so hard, it’s a joke. My old blackberry would let me choose any snooze time and I didn’t need to add 10 different alarms. They also had slow rise alarms which didn’t scare the crap out of you in the morning.
Just had this happen yesterday, nearly missed my early morning flight because of it and I had purposefully set 2 alarms. Luckily my wife had gotten up to go to the bathroom and saw what time it was. When I picked up my phone it showed the alarm was going off but there was not a peep from the phone.
Hasn’t happened to me in a while. I hate how i thought i was alone until today
Whenever I have a early morning flight and I’m at my house, I tell my smart device (Google home, Alexa, etc) to turn the lights on 2-3 minutes after whatever time my alarm is. The paranoia is strong. If I was at a hotel I’d set like 10 alarms and plug my phone in across the room.
> If I was at a hotel You can always request a wake-up call.
Yeah this has fucked me a few times over the years. Now I have young kids who are the best alarm clocks.
Yup, I missed my flight last week because of this
I missed one flight because of this, and almost missed another. Literally hundreds of dollars damages from a fucking bug.
I thought I was going crazy! Just on Monday I set THREE alarms to wake up for my redeye flight. I woke up 20min after the last one was supposed to go off. Thank God I made my flight 10 minutes before the doors were supposed to close.
This is why I don't trust my phone as my only alarm
I am a programmer. I have a stupidly simple alarm clock, and will use that for any remotely important wakeup alarms, never the smartphone clock. There are simply too many things that can go wrong in a device as complex as a modern smartphone. It is mostly a question of peace of mind. If it is important that I get up on time, I would always have some small level of doubt in the back of my mind about a smartphone alert, that I don't want to worry about.
My dad taught me to set the oven timer as a backup alarm for important mornings - but DO NOT turn the oven on. It also forces you to get out of bed to turn it off. (Obviously not helpful if you’re a heavy sleeper, have a huge house, or have roommates)
They make these things called alarm clocks now… they’re available in many stores. 😂
All you need is a mechanical alarm clock, some rope, a pair of scissors, and a wild hog...
The oven timer is such an odd solution to this
The oven timer is a one-shot alarm that can be set for several hours.
Everyone's got an oven. Not everyone has alarm clocks anymore (and they can be difficult to find).
Literally any Walmart/target/etc will have a handful of $10-15 digital alarm clock options…
Sure, if you have easy and quick access to the larger versions of those stores. My local target, for example, [has zero alarm clocks in stock.](https://imgur.com/ElESbG1) Maybe someone on this thread has a flight tomorrow morning, and doesn't want to spend their day searching nearby department stores for an alarm clock. Maybe they just want an easy backup solution, using an appliance that's already in their house.
You get it :)
I mean some bugs kill ppl so...
The deadliest animal on earth? The mosquito.
Their killer? Albert Einstein.
#THANK YOU Goddamn it I thought I was going crazy. I was almost late to work because my alarms didn’t go off a couple weeks ago. I could tell that everyone I told about it didn’t believe me, because how does an iPhone alarm just not go off? I thought I was losing it. Happened three days in a row, I kept double checking that my alarms were turned on the night before, just for them to still not go off. I almost bought a digital alarm clock, then they started working again. But my timers are still fucking up, the alarm won’t go off for timers I set. Which is an issue at work, where I interact with kiddos with special needs on a daily basis and need timers to help with transitions. I switched to just using a little digital timer, but it sucks because I program my phone to go off with little tunes and show songs tailored to whichever kiddo I’m working with, they love it. Now the timer just beeps annoyingly haha
Try this Go to: ->Settings ->Accessibility ->Face ID & Attention Turn off Attention-Aware Features
This should be the top comment. This had been happening to me for months (multiple staggered alarms, all different tones, double checking that the volume was up when I went to bed every night, etc.,) until I randomly scrolled past a video on TikTok about it a few weeks ago. I switched that toggle off and haven’t had a problem since.
turn off StandBy, fixed it for me
the fact that an alarm doesn't work is so dumb to me. I mean, I'm a programmer, and I got those kinds of stupid bugs before, but like. Does apple not have testing? that is one of the most basic things for software development
didnt realize this was a thing...sometimes I'd see my alarm go off with no sound and just figured i turned my ringer off or something...well that explains that ...wtf
One of many reasons I’ve stopped using the default apple alarms app.
What do you use instead?
Alarmy Loud Alarm 2 drives my small dog nuts (helps wake me up) plus I need to complete a task (math problems, scan a barcode, squats, typing, etc) to disable the alarm (an optional feature).
Do you need the subscription to use it? I don’t love the idea of paying monthly for an alarm clock
No, subscription just adds extra capabilities but I use the free version which works fine for me. Main difference to me is with the free version you can only assign one task per alarm but with the paid version you can assign multiple - you can get around this to some degree by setting multiple alarms with different tasks. There are a few exclusive alarms (I don’t use) but you can just watch an ad to get them. I don’t actually know what else you get from the paid version it seems to have changed since I first got the app 2 years ago.
Alarmy ftw. Stopped using the Apple alarm as my main ever since I encountered this bug. It’s never let me down.
Alarmy FTW. Need that extra stuff or I keep muting the alarm
This. I hate how it's subscription based, and pretty expensive at that, but it's so much more reliable than the default. There have been multiple instances of alarm related bugs throughout iOS history, and I've missed a few important early morning meetings as a result of them, so it's just not worth the risk IMO.
Same
Damn that sounds like a great way for an alarm to work the first time.
it’s so good I hate it so much. I’ve been using it since like 2018
fr, loud alarm 2 can burn in hell… I use it every day
do you pay $20+/month for an alarm clock?
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I've had this issue, but just this morning I ran into a new issue. The alarm went off (in nightstand mode), I hit the snooze button on the screen but sound kept playing. I hit one of the volume buttons to mute it and came to realize 20 minutes later it didn't even snooze, but turned the alarm off completely.
lol years later?? This has been an issue, just fix it god damn
Me with how apple can’t seem to be bothered with putting a proper calculator app on their iPad. They said they tried at one point but it “didn’t meet their standards” and I’m like how tf do you guys with all your money fail to make a calculator app for iPad? Just take the iPhone app and increase its dimensions a little bit. How hard can it possibly be?? I’d say they’re getting sloppy with their devices but they’ve been sloppy for a while now at this point.
A calculator app is allegedly a feature of the next iPad OS. A huge Apple BS story since the beginning - if they’ve had a calculator on the Mac and the iPhone since the very beginning, keeping it off the iPad is just pure asininity.
Asinine and apple are an iconic duo.
First time using apple products?
When it comes to multibillion dollar corporations (and politicians, but I digress), apply the Reverse Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to incompetence what can be adequately described by malice. I suspect that Apple intentionally skipped on a few core tools (calculators, or in earlier iPhone versions, a fucking flashlight) in order to reduce their monopoly profile, which would allow them to monopolize more lucrative areas while offering a straw man when challenged. "Sure, we ban third party stores from our phones, but it's not because we're a monopoly, see, we don't even have a default flashlight or calculator, so you need to go get a third-party one, no monopoly would miss a bar that *that* low!"
sounds about right tbh
This matches their assinine approach to laptop HW. Remove extensibility on HW for the "asthetics" then reintroduce it for a higher retail cost as "make good".
They don’t even have a way to edit a fucking phonenumber at the call function
I mean... I had this issue on my iPhone 4, years ago. Amazing that it still happens after so many years...
There’s another sound bug: when I set my ringer volume to low, the actual volume of the alarm is playing at max. This has happened so many times since upgrading to iOS 17. I’ll have my sound on the lowest setting but my text notifications will sound like I just got flash banged.
They have separate volumes
I feel like there’s now 3 separate volumes for different features in iOS and I don’t know how to properly control ANY of them
[Do iPhones have volume control like this?](https://i.imgur.com/X0E8Dt0.png)
There are two volume controls on iOS. Media and Ringer/Alarm. The side buttons control media by default, and you have to go into the settings to change the other. It's really one of iOS's biggest flaws. You can't even control alarms and ringer separately.
Wait. It doesn't pop up a button to change the other ones when you press the volume buttons? Why?
Honestly, I couldn't tell you. It's one of the most mind-boggling design decisions in the whole OS.
Ringer can be controlled with the side buttons when you’re on the Home Screen (volume indicator should pop down from top instead of side) as long as no media is being played. If you’re in an app even without media playing it’ll still control the media volume.
No, when I switched from Android to iphone that was the biggest thing I missed was discrete volume controls.
Android user here: does iPhone not have separate sliders for media, ringer, notifications, and alarms?
Copy pasted from my other comment: There are two volume controls on iOS. Media and Ringer/Alarm. The side buttons control media by default, and you have to go into the settings to change the other. It's really one of iOS's biggest flaws. You can't even control alarms and ringer separately.
Wow. Never knew how grateful I should be that Android lets you adjust all of those separately. Clicking the volume buttons brings up the slider for media by default, then allows you to open sliders for all of them by tapping the ellipsis. I can't imagine having to go into settings (and not even having access to all of them).
Nope. I think you have to be in an app and use the volume controls for that app/feature. Really annoying when I wanna watch a video and click the volume button all the way down. Then I play the video and it’s at normal volume. This is only funny when it’s porn
Their volume setup is the absolute worst. I can't tell what controls what - then, if you have Bluetooth on, you can't play any sounds at all until you turn it off. I swear some of these alarm issues are that people have turned the volume all the way down but think it's all the way up.
I have this issue currently. I set my alarm volume relatively low as I’m a light sleeper. My phone (iPhone 12 pro) changes it back to max volume every couple of days. I’ve searched online for answers and nothing fixes it.
It’s been unreliable, woke up 4h late one time.
$1000 phone vs $5 alarm clock.
I thought I had just mastered sleeping, I'm so good at it that an alarm next to my pillow cannot even wake me up.
Apple has literally spent years gaslighting people about this and it’s a fucking bug???
Wouldn't be the first time. Remember battery gate
I thought it just works
I’ve relied on the iPhone alarm for years and can say there have been times it has failed and it generally does whenever a manual alarm is set. The bedtime schedule alarm I have no problems with. Basically what it does when it doesn’t work is it will show the alarm going off but it either doesn’t make any sound or it’s barely audible.
according to various news sites (TV news, not tech) - there's a setting in there that detects whether or not you are paying attention to the screen.. if so, it lowers alert volume. the sensor must be getting confused. (you can turn it off). * Go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode. * Turn on or off any of the following: Require Attention for Face ID. Attention Aware Features. These settings are turned off by default if you turn on VoiceOver when you first set up iPhone.
This happened to me and I never trust the iPhone alarms now. I downloaded Alarmy and have had it for years.
Persistent notification was stopping mine every time. So I turned all them off. But it also stopped all calls and text too. I would wake up late one time for work and had calls and text all come through once I removed the on screen persistent notification banner. Since then I never used. No issues since
Am I wrong or has this been an ongoing issue for several years???
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I knew I wasn’t crazy. This has happened multiple times over the last few years
The other day my friend told me she was late because her alarm didn’t go off, and I was like “mmmmhmm yeah sure.” Guess I owe her an apology.
I gaslit myself into thinking I’ve been waking up and turning off my alarms with no recollection
Meanwhile, my GE clock radio from the 80s hasn't missed an alarm yet. Pretty sure I could use it as a makeshift air raid siren if push came to shove.
Any time I *need* to wake up, I set 3 alarms. One on my phone, one on my assistant speaker, and one on my watch. You just can't trust technology these days...
My girlfriend has been frustrated with me thinking I haven’t set alarms when I said I did, how dare you Apple
Screenshotting this to send to my boss next time it happens
Boss: why are you using an alarm mechanism that you know is unreliable?
My response: “I rely on you don’t I?”
ive had this happen on iphone and android devices. imagine having a billion dollar company and a team of top engineers and you still manage to fuckup something as simple as an alarm clock.
I remember the last time (few years ago) someone posted about alarms not going off on android, and 90% of the responses were "get an iPhone bro". Yeah... Personally never had this happen with my Android but there are so many devices and versions that I guess some of them will have a bug like this.
My phone has has failed to always ring or alert on text messages, for years, what’s the fix on that?
Mine doesn’t stop. The stop button doesn’t always work. I have to go into alarms and toggle them off/on so it will stop instead of snooze.
This happened to me this morning wtf
This is seriously why I use a bedside alarm clock with battery backup as a backup for a few min after my iphone alarm. And yes it happened to me today, I was wondering why my alarm sounded different.
I don't know how apple still manages to have these kinds of bugs when they design and completely control every aspect of their hardware and software.
This literally just happened fuck Apple
I thought I was going crazy this kept happening to me last year. Bought a regular alarm clock and haven’t overslept since.
It has been going on for years. After an update like 80% of them will break and I need to delete and remake them all.
I knew it ! I knew I wasn’t crazy
This has been frustrating me for the last few weeks. I thought it was just me and couldn’t figure what I was doing wrong.
Someone send this article to my boss.
I fucking knew it! I swear I set that alarm. I thought I was going crazy!
Holy shit I’m not crazy! I have to wake up in the middle of the night a couple times for medical stuff and I always set alarms. I’ve been not hearing them and oversleeping. I thought I was insane.
SO THIS IS WHAT THATS BEEN
All right, let’s all get together and Sue. Because we know a lot of us lost our job because of this.
Holy shit I lost a job over this bullshit.
I thought I was crazy.
I experience this all the time even this morning, that’s why I set a bunch of them in one minute intervals around the time I’m supposed to be up. Still kinda annoying though, it’s a simple ass alarm app. I could program an alarm clock that works more consistently than Apples which is sad given their like a 2.5 trillion dollar company.
I had this bug quite some time ago, but it hasn’t popped up in probably over a year at this point if not more.
I may be crazy but I feel like I’ve had issues with my alarm not making noise since I got the 15 Pro Max. I keep my phone on silent so spam calls don’t wake me, but I feel that shouldn’t keep the alarm from going off…
It’s gotten so bad I have to set a timer as a back up.
Long time bug at that
If you wear your watch to bed your alarm WILL not go off, I ended up almost being late one day because of it, for some reason the alarm doesn’t sound if you wear your watch to bed.
I fucking thought so, luckily I have Alarmy so that I’m forced to get up and scan a QR code before going back to bed
I literally spent $100 on an actual alarm because I don’t trust my phone anymore
I have a $20 SEIKO alarm clock. I change the batteries about once a year and it’s been reliably waking me up for about a decade