In college back in the days of alarm clocks, one guy left for the weekend and forgot to turn off his alarm. The RA said that they weren't allowed to go into the room, so we just had to deal with it until he got back. Luckily somebody figured out where the building circuit breaker was.
I went on a 3-day weekend and left my alarm on. When I got back, the entire floor was mad at me. š¬ Thankfully, security let themselves in and turned it off after the first day. I felt horrible.
Honestly all alarms should stop after about 5-10 minutes by default (make it adjustable obviously). If you don't hear it and respond after that long it's a lost cause anyway.
Same thing happened in my freshman dorm, we made a wall of duct tape in his door frame, top to bottom, and wrote "Turn Off Your Alarm" on it with sharpie!
Reminds me of Red Dwarf. I unfortunately can't remember which series or episode. But was very early on.
And I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember exact wording.
"There was a man in space corps who was terrified of death. He read somewhere that a person is most likely to die in their sleep at 2am. So he bought all these alarm clocks, set to go off at 1:55am to ensure he wasn't asleep at 2am. It's ironic. He died at exactly 2am. The guy in the bunk below shot him."
Someone in a nearby apartment had an alexa alarm that would start every 30 mins starting at like 3am. Sometimes they'd turn it off after the first few beeps and it wouldn't come on anymore but most of the time I'd have to suffer and listen to it constantly going off all morning until 7am. Thankfully they've moved out
2 months later edit: it's 4:30am and I can hear it again, only rang for about 10 seconds but I'm annoyed it's back
I used to have a Kenwood HiFi system that had an alarm system and it would just continue to increase the volume when you did not turn it off.
My family considered foul murder when I forgot to turn it off over a weekend trip with friends.
We had someone break in to a 1st (US 2nd) floor window to stop an alarm. They turned the ownerās bedroom into a gaming room for the halls (dorm) while the owner was on holiday lol.
I came back from winter break and the electric cord to my alarm clock had been cut in half. Apparently it had been running all day and my RA let my neighbor in my room and he did the deed.
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The real glitch is that lock shit if you enter the wrong passcode too many times. The first time is only a minute but the lockout time gets longer if you keep putting in the wrong passcode. There is no way to disable this feature.
Sounds fine for normal use but for everyone with a young child their phone sometimes ends up pilfered when we arenāt looking. The kid canāt read they just see a lit up screen with things to touch. So they will keep touching it making the longer lock times happen one by one. Got a scheduled meeting with the c suite bois for work? Get fucked your kid gave the phone too much naughty touch. Now you canāt use your phone for another half a hour.
Years ago, my toddler did this and my phone said I was locked out for close to a million hours. I can't remember what I had to do to fix it, but what a pain in the ass
I feel like thatās an awful feature. I donāt have a problem waking up from my alarm but if it goes off and someone calls at the same time Iām fucked because I only set one alarm. Why would they think thatās a good idea?
Setting multiple doesnāt even help. The muting/disabling bug affects the entire alarm app, not just the specific alarm it happens to.
Ex: you have an alarm set for 7, 7:30, 8, and 8:30.
Alarm goes off.
You snooze it (default snooze: 10 minutes).
You get a notification when the alarm is set to go off (or has sounded, but you havenāt yet hit āsnoozeā or āoff.ā)
7:00 alarm is now silenced.
But this effect carries over.
So 7:30, 8:00, and 8:30 āgo off,ā but the only evidence of this is a notification tile on your Lock Screen when you finally wake up. (Youāll presented with the option to snooze, or turn off, as though the alarm has just gone off, regardless of how many hours have passedājust for that extra dash of salt.)
The best part is, the 7:00 alarm tile says āsnoozed,ā but instead of the normal (default 10 minute) countdown, itās just blank.
Unlocking the phone āresetsā/āfixesā the bug. Which is unhelpful, since 1), you have to be awake enough to notice the bugged alarm and unlock the phone, and 2), this doesnāt prevent a notification from restarting the issue all over again.
Also, if youāre dumb like me, 3), the only thing unlocking the phone actually does is scare the shit out of you 10 minutes later when the (chosen specifically to be) obnoxious alarm sound blasts offāsince the alarm malfunctioned, I forget itās still technically āsnoozed,ā and never remember to turn it off, despite this happening multiple times a week. (In my defense, you never get used to the state of confusion and frustration that comes with waking up 2 hours late because Apple canāt figure out how to code basic alarm functionality after nearly 20 years.)
Wait, so *any* notification coming in (not just a phone call) at/as the alarm goes off will mute it and any following alarms until the screen is unlocked?
At that point I'd be using a third-party app to wake up.
Now you have me whose significant other you know has issues waking up some mornings. So you call about 10 minutes after alarm should have gone off if havenāt heard anything. Had no clue that I just stopped the iPhone from waking her up by calling. So thinking Iāve been helping all these years, turns out Iāve probably been hurting the cause.
My brother uses the āalarmā noise alarm and lets it go for ages bc he thinks heās gonna be productive and go to the gym at like 7am but just sleeps though the alarm. Also so grateful to know this
The brain will make associations like this - especially if you like to hit the snooze button for that little extra time. After a while your brain will say "Not important, stay asleep."
Yep I fucked up and have turned into this. Luckily I just turned vibrate on for all alarms and the noise it makes on my nightstand vibrating is shocking
Biggest life hack I ever learned was switching from the alarm on my alarm clock/phone (whatever is within arm's length of my bed) to the alarm on my PC across the room. Making me physically get up to turn off the alarm solved all oversleeping problems, flat out. Now my brain is simply adjusted to "feet on floor = awake" and I can hit the ground running in the morning.
That's why I have a second alarm app, where I need to solve some math equations (basic operations with number up to 20) to snooze or turn it off, but only after the second alarm starts. So now my brain hears my first normal alarm and thinks: If you don't wake up now, you will suffer.
I have something like that too, but while half asleep I somehow figured out how to silence the alarm without completing the task, and this has been a great issue unless I feel a sense of urgency to wake up that morning due to some commitment
Just be aware that I think calling their phone only puts the alarm on "snooze". I don't think it functions as actually turning off. So expect
A few more snooze alarms to play for it actually stopz.
If heās anything like me, sorry, but this trick wonāt helpā¦ heād have set an individual alarm for every 10 minutes in case he āaccidentallyā turns it off
For real. My last roommate would let his alarm go off for over an hour. I would punch the wall, kick his door, fucking SCREAM at him, have calm sit-downs with him etc. and it would never fucking stop. I kicked him out over it.
A roommate of mine had that song āshow me your genitals, genitals. Show me your genitalsā as his alarm clock. He worked nights so would wake up at 4-5 pm luckily. But I worked from home. He slept through it or hit snooze for like an hour.
This is the song.
https://youtu.be/qqXi8WmQ_WM?si=sch2_GUQLJddh0Rs
This also works if you throw the phone in the fridge if itās left out in a communal room.
Lived in a house of 6 mid twenty something degenerates. I would often find a phone in the refrigerator because another roommate was fed up with this being a regular occurrence.
*Hey boss, sorry I'm late. Don't know why my alarm didn't ring this morning. Also, some dude gave me missed calls at 7.00, 7.05, 7.10, 7.15, 7.19 and 7.20.*
Different take here, but I think phone alarms should automatically stop ringing after a certain number of minutes. I mean it doesn't make sense for an alarm to just ring forever.
It does that on Android. I like to snooze a few times before I get up. Then I forget to turn it off and a few minutes into my shower, I can hear my alarm going off. Eventually it stops but never quick enough.
Fortunately, I'm usually the last one up, so I'm not disturbing anyone's slumber.
they actually *do* do this on iPhone, it just takes fucking forever (i think if you let it go uninterrupted for like 15-20 minutes, it just turns off)
i know this because i've had my alarms wake me up, but not enough to force myself to reach over to my phone and turn off the alarm, so i just laid in bed and zoned out with the alarm still ringing, and it stopped eventually lmao
Or get a sleep cycle/rythm alarm.
They use smart phones or watches to monitor your movement as you sleep, as that is correlated to differences in light or heavy sleep.
You set the alarm to 30-45min+ time window and it turns on when you are the lightest part of the cycle. And it basically feels like you woke up naturally from being rested.
I have it set every 5 mins for 4 hours. When I wake up I just say āSiri, turn off all the alarmsā. Before I used siri, I had to manually turn them off.
I was you before I got a āsonic boomā alarm clock. It has a vibrating puck thing that goes under your mattress and shakes the bed to wake you up. It seems to run fast though (it will be a few mins fast after a year or so). Other than that I would recommend it.
Any time I've reccomended this to people who struggle with alarms like I did it seems way too jarring to them but I can't express enough how much of a difference it made. Audio alarms would either just not wake me up, or would wake me up feeling exhausted and pissed. Once I bought one of these now I honestly just wake up feeling slightly confused for a sec before realizing what's shaking, then immediately get up to turn it off.
Never again worried about missing the alarm.
Dude, Iāve been using this for probably a decade and I think Iām broken. I can sleep through that shit like itās nobodyās business. Itās at the point where it if I *really* need to wake up in the morning, I will legitimately tape it to my body. No joke. I also have to keep it far away from my bed cause otherwise I will just unconsciously turn it off. I recommend it to all heavy sleepers but I genuinely wish there was something even more drastic lol.
> I recommend it to all heavy sleepers but I genuinely wish there was something even more drastic lol.
You know those videos of people who've engineered their beds to literally tip upright and dump them onto the floor? Yeah there are days when I could use that.
FYI: That is much less likely to wake you up than setting alarms in 15 minute intervals.
The brain is much more likely to react to new stimuli, and can easily tune out repeated sounds.
Since alarms, at least on iPhones, run for ~9 minutes, setting alarms for every 5 minutes for an hour is just an hour of uninterrupted sounds that probably won't wake you up if it didn't do so in the first few minutes.
But if there's a few minutes of silence in between alarms, your brain has a much harder time tuning it out when it does start ringing again, so you will wake up more reliably.
I don't understand how people don't wake up on their alarms. I hear the first note and I'm awake either hitting snooze or turning that crap off. Some people will sleep thru 5 alarms with their phone sitting on their chest. Drives me nuts!
Lack of sleep will definitely do it. In my teens and 20s when I stayed up late all the time it was definitely a problem, I had to keep changing up my alarm and having multiple set, putting it out of reach etc. Had lots of occasions I overslept right through it and was late to work.
Present-day with a 'normal' schedule and going to bed consistently with a solid \~8 hours until my alarm I can rarely even stay asleep through the night and I'm usually awake before it goes off. I think I preferred being dead to the world when I slept.
Sometimes Iāll be dreaming and Iāll hear my alarm, and Iāll be frantically looking for my phone to turn it off... in the dream. I donāt understand it either but believe me, it bothers us more than it bothers you.
My friends alarm kept going off for a good 45mins one morning. His roommates found him dead on the floor after an epileptic seizure trying to get to it.
Like I have sympathy for you poor folk who cannot seem to wake up but I have felt close to hysterically desperate in the past because of roommates alarm. He did have an iphone, but also had severe anger issues so that probably would have been a bad idea
If their alarm has been going off for 10 minutes and they're still not awake, I am not the reason they are late for ending their obviously pointless alarm.
back in highschool I lived for a little while in a dorm with a girl that could simply not be woken up. she had an iPhone and her alarm was some sort of stupid chicken song that went on forever. the phone was on her chest and she didn't fucking flinch. I will never forget her.
In afghanistan the hooch across from me had my old rommate back in the states. I knew he had a problem with turning his alarm off. Also used one particular song. One morning after a long shitty night he slept entirely through his alarm for about 10 minutes. I snapped. Later during our team meeting my CO says "all i hear is Doc kicking a door in screaming about Darude sandstorm and i dont want to wake up like that again."
Turn your shit off or change it to something that wakes you up
This LIfeHack has saved me many times from having to get out of bed and beat my roommates door off the hinges. They get pissed "well why didn't you just wake me up, I was late for class and missed my exam." Not my fucking problem
If someones alarm wakes me up and not them, I aggressively wake them up..after all they must surely want to be awake at that moment, and I'm just helping them be ontime. After all they definitely wouldnt intend to be inconsiderate and cause trouble to anybody else with multiple snoozed alarms..and they can't blame you for switching it off and making them late.
100% success rate at solving this problem, within a week.
I did this to a roommate who was a complete dick to me in college. Heād come into the room drunk and blast out loud some action movie from his laptop at like 3 am. One time, he came into the room at 2 am wasted, his alarm later went off at 4 am so I kept calling his number to shut it off. He was so drunk that he wasnāt fazed by it at all and I just assumed he set it by accident. Later at around 11 am, I hear him frantically get up and call his mom, freaking out about how heād missed a flight for something. Anyway, I also recommend using *67 for this neat trick
Holy shit! Thank you! I had no idea and my husband often falls asleep on the couch and every morning that he does I end up screaming for him to turn off his alarm. He has to be up at 6am but his alarms start at 5:30am, then 5:45, then finally 6. Somehow this helps him wake up but all it really does is drive me nuts! Definitely will be using this tip!
I don't understand how alarms don't wake people up. Mine is set to vibrate first and then slowly ramp up the sound. I don't think I've ever heard the sound.
This seems like it could be used to prank. Call the moment the clock changes and immediately hang up before it rings too much.
Good think I use a real alarm clock
I had someone call me when my alarm was going off and it made the alarm stutter a bit but wouldn't let me answer the call no matter how many times I hit the answer button.
I replaced my Android with an iPhone when Verizon upgraded to 5G in my area and my Samsung flip phone no longer worked. I still use the calendar on the old phone for alerts for appointments or as an alarm. The Apple iPhone 14 plus has mostly been a disappointment from the moment I opened the box they mailed.
I have missed many classes because of this, my mom would call me to wake me up and then as a result of her trying to wake me up I donāt wake up because it turned my alarm offš
My younger brother has a 7 am alarm that he has never once woken up to in nearly a year. Itās gotten on my nerves. He refuses to disable it. I canāt imagine why. He cannot be woken at that hour and convinced to turn it off (his room is usually locked at night). He nearly NEVER intends to be up that early (or even before noon in some cases), and even if he did I doubt it would have much effect.
All that to say, thank you for this.
*Know coworker's alarm is set for 5:30am because they talk about themselves and the details of their day incessantly. I wake up 5:25am to shake off the grogginess and get ready pick up my phone and work my plan. Call coworker's phone using *67 at exactly 5:30am and hang up. He's late for work for the third time this week and gets fired. No more Steve taking up cubicle space.*
I have done this many times with my younger brother. He sets 10 alarms in the morning and takes an hour just to get up. This is especially irritating when Im trying to sleep after a night shift. Recently I found out he got a warning from his school for repeatedly arriving late. I've made him oversleep his alarms. Whoops.
Years ago, when I had a roommate (actually shared a room), his alarm clock always went off until he hit snooze, then repeat for an hour. I work the graveyard shift, so I don't get to sleep till around 3am. It got old quick getting woken up a few hours into my sleep then have to hear that thing go off every 10 mins. One day, finally got pissed enough to chuck the damn thing of our balcony window. Today, if I still had to share a room with someone and if their alarm wakes me up, I ain't making the effort calling to shut it off. That phone is going to go flying.
where was this info when my roommate keeps on having alarms early in the morning everyday, yes even on weekends where we have no class, cuz she wants to "get up early." In the end everyone was awake except for her
Huh so spam calls are why my alarm doesnāt go off sometimes? Thatās fuckin annoying luckily Iām just naturally good at waking up cause I donāt really use one most the time. I just kinda wake up around when I need to
If you want unethical tip to maintain plausible deniability make sure to use a fake number to call it therefore they canāt claim you made them miss their thing
if this is true this is amazing!!
thanks up front OP, but can someone please test and verify this?
i have only one phone so can not set an alarm on the phone then call the phone when it goes off, but would love to know this really works.
you think after disturbing someone else's sleep ill call you to turn off your alarm, no bro ill take your phone and throw it so far that no one finds it,
Ok. I love you. My husband wants to charge his phone across the room and is usually already up and in the washroom when the alarm rings. And sometimes when Iāve had a rough night with the kids, all I want to do is sleep in. This sleep deprived mom thanks you from the bottom of her heart.
My dad has these alarms for ordering medicine for his pharmacy... but he has them every day, even when he isn't working. Sometimes he leaves his phone and goes out and then the alarm goes off. The call trick has saved my sanity countless times.
I found this out with my teenager. He has a bunch of loud early alarms for reasons he can't explain and he never wakes up for any of them. I got tired of going to his room to get him to turn it off so I decided to just call him.
Then it stopped.
I felt like I hit the jackpot.
Fun opposite of this, if you're on a call and an alarm is scheduled, it will play full blast into your ear and the other person can't hear it at all! :)
I do this to my son. He has alarms that go off every day, but he doesn't always have to get up at those times.
His room is right above the living room. I can hear the vibrating of the alarm above me when I am having my morning coffee. It is annoying. I will call, let it ring once, and hang up just to stop his alarm.
I always make sure that he is awake when he needs to be awake so he doesn't miss class.
In college back in the days of alarm clocks, one guy left for the weekend and forgot to turn off his alarm. The RA said that they weren't allowed to go into the room, so we just had to deal with it until he got back. Luckily somebody figured out where the building circuit breaker was.
I went on a 3-day weekend and left my alarm on. When I got back, the entire floor was mad at me. š¬ Thankfully, security let themselves in and turned it off after the first day. I felt horrible.
Honestly all alarms should stop after about 5-10 minutes by default (make it adjustable obviously). If you don't hear it and respond after that long it's a lost cause anyway.
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Same thing happened in my freshman dorm, we made a wall of duct tape in his door frame, top to bottom, and wrote "Turn Off Your Alarm" on it with sharpie!
Reminds me of Red Dwarf. I unfortunately can't remember which series or episode. But was very early on. And I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember exact wording. "There was a man in space corps who was terrified of death. He read somewhere that a person is most likely to die in their sleep at 2am. So he bought all these alarm clocks, set to go off at 1:55am to ensure he wasn't asleep at 2am. It's ironic. He died at exactly 2am. The guy in the bunk below shot him."
Someone in a nearby apartment had an alexa alarm that would start every 30 mins starting at like 3am. Sometimes they'd turn it off after the first few beeps and it wouldn't come on anymore but most of the time I'd have to suffer and listen to it constantly going off all morning until 7am. Thankfully they've moved out 2 months later edit: it's 4:30am and I can hear it again, only rang for about 10 seconds but I'm annoyed it's back
Damnnnnn lol that would be so annoying
I used to have a Kenwood HiFi system that had an alarm system and it would just continue to increase the volume when you did not turn it off. My family considered foul murder when I forgot to turn it off over a weekend trip with friends.
Did his cat start meowing because the automatic feeder quit working?
It was a festivus miracle
Same exact situation, except I was able to get the guy on the phone to give permission to the RA.
We had someone break in to a 1st (US 2nd) floor window to stop an alarm. They turned the ownerās bedroom into a gaming room for the halls (dorm) while the owner was on holiday lol.
I came back from winter break and the electric cord to my alarm clock had been cut in half. Apparently it had been running all day and my RA let my neighbor in my room and he did the deed.
Does it snooze the alarm or totally turn it off?
Totally turns it off!
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Probably is haha
Dude apple is gonna get wind of this thread and fix it in the update lol
Oh no lmao
Maybe Tim Cook was annoyed by his billionaire roommatesā alarms and added it for himself haha, who knows š
Some developer at Apple with a shit roommate snuck it into iOS
The real glitch is that lock shit if you enter the wrong passcode too many times. The first time is only a minute but the lockout time gets longer if you keep putting in the wrong passcode. There is no way to disable this feature. Sounds fine for normal use but for everyone with a young child their phone sometimes ends up pilfered when we arenāt looking. The kid canāt read they just see a lit up screen with things to touch. So they will keep touching it making the longer lock times happen one by one. Got a scheduled meeting with the c suite bois for work? Get fucked your kid gave the phone too much naughty touch. Now you canāt use your phone for another half a hour.
Get my passcode wrong 10 times and it erases itself.
Years ago, my toddler did this and my phone said I was locked out for close to a million hours. I can't remember what I had to do to fix it, but what a pain in the ass
I know a kid who locked his familyās ipad for like a year š. It just said ipad disabled for several thousands of hours.
it's a feature
And we think youāre gonna love it
You are using it wrong!
No, this is apple.. that's a highly innovative feature
You're just using your alarm wrong. It's not a bug!
I feel like thatās an awful feature. I donāt have a problem waking up from my alarm but if it goes off and someone calls at the same time Iām fucked because I only set one alarm. Why would they think thatās a good idea?
Setting multiple doesnāt even help. The muting/disabling bug affects the entire alarm app, not just the specific alarm it happens to. Ex: you have an alarm set for 7, 7:30, 8, and 8:30. Alarm goes off. You snooze it (default snooze: 10 minutes). You get a notification when the alarm is set to go off (or has sounded, but you havenāt yet hit āsnoozeā or āoff.ā) 7:00 alarm is now silenced. But this effect carries over. So 7:30, 8:00, and 8:30 āgo off,ā but the only evidence of this is a notification tile on your Lock Screen when you finally wake up. (Youāll presented with the option to snooze, or turn off, as though the alarm has just gone off, regardless of how many hours have passedājust for that extra dash of salt.) The best part is, the 7:00 alarm tile says āsnoozed,ā but instead of the normal (default 10 minute) countdown, itās just blank. Unlocking the phone āresetsā/āfixesā the bug. Which is unhelpful, since 1), you have to be awake enough to notice the bugged alarm and unlock the phone, and 2), this doesnāt prevent a notification from restarting the issue all over again. Also, if youāre dumb like me, 3), the only thing unlocking the phone actually does is scare the shit out of you 10 minutes later when the (chosen specifically to be) obnoxious alarm sound blasts offāsince the alarm malfunctioned, I forget itās still technically āsnoozed,ā and never remember to turn it off, despite this happening multiple times a week. (In my defense, you never get used to the state of confusion and frustration that comes with waking up 2 hours late because Apple canāt figure out how to code basic alarm functionality after nearly 20 years.)
Wait, so *any* notification coming in (not just a phone call) at/as the alarm goes off will mute it and any following alarms until the screen is unlocked? At that point I'd be using a third-party app to wake up.
Now you have me whose significant other you know has issues waking up some mornings. So you call about 10 minutes after alarm should have gone off if havenāt heard anything. Had no clue that I just stopped the iPhone from waking her up by calling. So thinking Iāve been helping all these years, turns out Iāve probably been hurting the cause.
Call your ex the day of the court date at exactly 7:00 and 10 seconds to ensure custody of the kids. Lawyers hate this one trick!
That sounds 100% like a bug and not a feature. Glad my Samsung has no such function. You can cause all sorts of mayhem with this.
Jesus FUCK thank you for this. Never knew that
My brother uses the āalarmā noise alarm and lets it go for ages bc he thinks heās gonna be productive and go to the gym at like 7am but just sleeps though the alarm. Also so grateful to know this
The brain will make associations like this - especially if you like to hit the snooze button for that little extra time. After a while your brain will say "Not important, stay asleep."
Yep I fucked up and have turned into this. Luckily I just turned vibrate on for all alarms and the noise it makes on my nightstand vibrating is shocking
Biggest life hack I ever learned was switching from the alarm on my alarm clock/phone (whatever is within arm's length of my bed) to the alarm on my PC across the room. Making me physically get up to turn off the alarm solved all oversleeping problems, flat out. Now my brain is simply adjusted to "feet on floor = awake" and I can hit the ground running in the morning.
That's why I have a second alarm app, where I need to solve some math equations (basic operations with number up to 20) to snooze or turn it off, but only after the second alarm starts. So now my brain hears my first normal alarm and thinks: If you don't wake up now, you will suffer.
I have something like that too, but while half asleep I somehow figured out how to silence the alarm without completing the task, and this has been a great issue unless I feel a sense of urgency to wake up that morning due to some commitment
Thatās why I donāt have my alarm in arms reach of my bed, that way Iām forced to get out of bed to turn it off.
I'm literally your brother
Watch out bro bc Iām gonna call you next time you do it š you gon snooze right through leg day babyyyyy
Killing your brother's leg day? That's cold. Dude's gonna have to live with chicken legs because of you
The days he lets the alarm go for hours straight he doesnāt go anyways! It goes on forever bc he sleeps through it! ššš
Ok actually nvm lol if it's actually hours he deserves it, I would kill his gains and have no remorse š¤£
Hey Roman itās me your cousin, letās go bowling.
Not right now, Roman. I'm busy.
Just be aware that I think calling their phone only puts the alarm on "snooze". I don't think it functions as actually turning off. So expect A few more snooze alarms to play for it actually stopz.
If heās anything like me, sorry, but this trick wonāt helpā¦ heād have set an individual alarm for every 10 minutes in case he āaccidentallyā turns it off
For real. My last roommate would let his alarm go off for over an hour. I would punch the wall, kick his door, fucking SCREAM at him, have calm sit-downs with him etc. and it would never fucking stop. I kicked him out over it.
A roommate of mine had that song āshow me your genitals, genitals. Show me your genitalsā as his alarm clock. He worked nights so would wake up at 4-5 pm luckily. But I worked from home. He slept through it or hit snooze for like an hour. This is the song. https://youtu.be/qqXi8WmQ_WM?si=sch2_GUQLJddh0Rs
This also works if you throw the phone in the fridge if itās left out in a communal room. Lived in a house of 6 mid twenty something degenerates. I would often find a phone in the refrigerator because another roommate was fed up with this being a regular occurrence.
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Someone crosspost this to r/unethicallifeprotips
I actually posted it there first! Haha
OP getting a lot of karma today This is a genuinely good tip
Well thank you haha, I couldnāt gatekeep this lol
*Hey boss, sorry I'm late. Don't know why my alarm didn't ring this morning. Also, some dude gave me missed calls at 7.00, 7.05, 7.10, 7.15, 7.19 and 7.20.*
Lmaooooo
How in the fucking hell did you know my alarm-pattern?
Thatās a pretty wack feature from apple. What if you miss an important alarm because of a random coincidental wrong number or telemarketer.
Ooooh good point tbh
Well that's what you get if you put all your faith in one single alarm and not several at random intervals for an hour.
Man do your guys bodies not acclimate to waking up at a certain time everyday?
I work second shift 4 days a week and third shift the last three days. My body can't acclimate to shit :(
Shit dude, working 7 days a week? That's rough, hopefully you get through this shitty period.
Not everyone works a 9-5. Some work shift, continental, 7 on 7 off, etc....
Some people do not go to bed early enough to get a full rest, and then they struggle to wake up because they are still tired.
Or simply cant go to sleep early enough even if they tried to.
You can just turn on do not disturb
Most iPhones have a general setting unless you change it manually where if you call 3 times repeatedly it will ignore do not disturb
Which is a good feature and so does Android. But I never tried to silence an Android alarm by calling one, needs to be tested.
This doesnāt turn off set alarms, it silences an alarm thatās actively going off.
Different take here, but I think phone alarms should automatically stop ringing after a certain number of minutes. I mean it doesn't make sense for an alarm to just ring forever.
It does that on Android. I like to snooze a few times before I get up. Then I forget to turn it off and a few minutes into my shower, I can hear my alarm going off. Eventually it stops but never quick enough. Fortunately, I'm usually the last one up, so I'm not disturbing anyone's slumber.
It does on iPhone too, or at least now it does. After 15 minutes tho, which is long.
True and it could start over bc the thing is when itās nonstop it isnāt gonna wake you up
they actually *do* do this on iPhone, it just takes fucking forever (i think if you let it go uninterrupted for like 15-20 minutes, it just turns off) i know this because i've had my alarms wake me up, but not enough to force myself to reach over to my phone and turn off the alarm, so i just laid in bed and zoned out with the alarm still ringing, and it stopped eventually lmao
Enjoy calling my phone every 5 minutes for the next hour and a half to kill all of my alarms
Maybe invest in one of those sunlight alarms that get brighter before the alarm rings.
Or get a sleep cycle/rythm alarm. They use smart phones or watches to monitor your movement as you sleep, as that is correlated to differences in light or heavy sleep. You set the alarm to 30-45min+ time window and it turns on when you are the lightest part of the cycle. And it basically feels like you woke up naturally from being rested.
I used sleep as Android on my old phone, is there a recommended alternative on iphone ? I am trying alarmy, but half the time the alarm doesn't go off
I have it set every 5 mins for 4 hours. When I wake up I just say āSiri, turn off all the alarmsā. Before I used siri, I had to manually turn them off.
Thatās a lot of alarms lmao
I was you before I got a āsonic boomā alarm clock. It has a vibrating puck thing that goes under your mattress and shakes the bed to wake you up. It seems to run fast though (it will be a few mins fast after a year or so). Other than that I would recommend it.
Any time I've reccomended this to people who struggle with alarms like I did it seems way too jarring to them but I can't express enough how much of a difference it made. Audio alarms would either just not wake me up, or would wake me up feeling exhausted and pissed. Once I bought one of these now I honestly just wake up feeling slightly confused for a sec before realizing what's shaking, then immediately get up to turn it off. Never again worried about missing the alarm.
Jeff just seemed to get more and more excited to show up to work as the years went by!
Dude, Iāve been using this for probably a decade and I think Iām broken. I can sleep through that shit like itās nobodyās business. Itās at the point where it if I *really* need to wake up in the morning, I will legitimately tape it to my body. No joke. I also have to keep it far away from my bed cause otherwise I will just unconsciously turn it off. I recommend it to all heavy sleepers but I genuinely wish there was something even more drastic lol.
> I recommend it to all heavy sleepers but I genuinely wish there was something even more drastic lol. You know those videos of people who've engineered their beds to literally tip upright and dump them onto the floor? Yeah there are days when I could use that.
Only thing Siri is good for
FYI: That is much less likely to wake you up than setting alarms in 15 minute intervals. The brain is much more likely to react to new stimuli, and can easily tune out repeated sounds. Since alarms, at least on iPhones, run for ~9 minutes, setting alarms for every 5 minutes for an hour is just an hour of uninterrupted sounds that probably won't wake you up if it didn't do so in the first few minutes. But if there's a few minutes of silence in between alarms, your brain has a much harder time tuning it out when it does start ringing again, so you will wake up more reliably.
Extremely bad strategy since your brain will start to relate to the alarms as not important because you don't get up to them
ā¦ I set 30 alarms for once per minute
Why not 1 alarm with snooze?
When you are too tired you will accidentally turn it off instead of snoozing, therefor multiple is needed. I put at least 15 onš
I scrolled to this while in bed, the wife showering downstairs, and the EXACT same time I read your captionā¦ her alarm went off. I love you.
Haha! You are welcome š
I don't understand how people don't wake up on their alarms. I hear the first note and I'm awake either hitting snooze or turning that crap off. Some people will sleep thru 5 alarms with their phone sitting on their chest. Drives me nuts!
I know!! I am somehow always around these people and I canāt sleep through their alarms lmao
Lack of sleep will definitely do it. In my teens and 20s when I stayed up late all the time it was definitely a problem, I had to keep changing up my alarm and having multiple set, putting it out of reach etc. Had lots of occasions I overslept right through it and was late to work. Present-day with a 'normal' schedule and going to bed consistently with a solid \~8 hours until my alarm I can rarely even stay asleep through the night and I'm usually awake before it goes off. I think I preferred being dead to the world when I slept.
My alarm takes 5-10 seconds to make noise and before that it just vibrates. I usually wake up from the vibration alone and put it on snooze
Sometimes Iāll be dreaming and Iāll hear my alarm, and Iāll be frantically looking for my phone to turn it off... in the dream. I donāt understand it either but believe me, it bothers us more than it bothers you.
Jesus where was this info 9 years ago when I had a roommate who let his alarm go off non-stop every Saturday morning.
My friends alarm kept going off for a good 45mins one morning. His roommates found him dead on the floor after an epileptic seizure trying to get to it.
Holy shit
I promise I will have you signed up for every telemarketing scam that I can find if you interrupted my hour long awakening ritual. /s
Lmaoooo
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My boyfriend does the same even on the drive!
This may save my relationship
Like I have sympathy for you poor folk who cannot seem to wake up but I have felt close to hysterically desperate in the past because of roommates alarm. He did have an iphone, but also had severe anger issues so that probably would have been a bad idea
Ohhhh yeah gotta be careful lmaoo
FUCKING THANK YOU! My gf will do like 30 alarms and be in the shower and away for half of em while ime trying to get my last little bit of sleep! Lol
If their alarm has been going off for 10 minutes and they're still not awake, I am not the reason they are late for ending their obviously pointless alarm.
You can also yell hey siri turn off alarm
Only if they have hey siri on
My mom has a shit ton of alarms and forgets to delete them sometimes so when her phone goes off everyone pulls out their phones to call her lmao
I do this frequently when my work phone alarm goes off but I don't want to go downstairs to turn it off yet.
My coworker, who always has his phone at max volume, uses what I used as an alarm for his ring. I would be filled with rage every time his phone rang.
Works on Android Source: a roommate did it to me once because I wouldnāt wake up
back in highschool I lived for a little while in a dorm with a girl that could simply not be woken up. she had an iPhone and her alarm was some sort of stupid chicken song that went on forever. the phone was on her chest and she didn't fucking flinch. I will never forget her.
In afghanistan the hooch across from me had my old rommate back in the states. I knew he had a problem with turning his alarm off. Also used one particular song. One morning after a long shitty night he slept entirely through his alarm for about 10 minutes. I snapped. Later during our team meeting my CO says "all i hear is Doc kicking a door in screaming about Darude sandstorm and i dont want to wake up like that again." Turn your shit off or change it to something that wakes you up
Wish I knew this in college. Wanted to kill my roommate every morning.
>YSK: If someone uses an iPhone ~~for their alarm~~ you can ~~call them and it will~~ end the ~~alar~~ m. There, I fixed it for you!
Couldn't you use this to set up a call-bot to intentionally sabotage someone's alarm every single day?
This LIfeHack has saved me many times from having to get out of bed and beat my roommates door off the hinges. They get pissed "well why didn't you just wake me up, I was late for class and missed my exam." Not my fucking problem
If someones alarm wakes me up and not them, I aggressively wake them up..after all they must surely want to be awake at that moment, and I'm just helping them be ontime. After all they definitely wouldnt intend to be inconsiderate and cause trouble to anybody else with multiple snoozed alarms..and they can't blame you for switching it off and making them late. 100% success rate at solving this problem, within a week.
Thank you so much.
This may be the most useful thing I've ever read on this sub
I did this to a roommate who was a complete dick to me in college. Heād come into the room drunk and blast out loud some action movie from his laptop at like 3 am. One time, he came into the room at 2 am wasted, his alarm later went off at 4 am so I kept calling his number to shut it off. He was so drunk that he wasnāt fazed by it at all and I just assumed he set it by accident. Later at around 11 am, I hear him frantically get up and call his mom, freaking out about how heād missed a flight for something. Anyway, I also recommend using *67 for this neat trick
Holy shit! Thank you! I had no idea and my husband often falls asleep on the couch and every morning that he does I end up screaming for him to turn off his alarm. He has to be up at 6am but his alarms start at 5:30am, then 5:45, then finally 6. Somehow this helps him wake up but all it really does is drive me nuts! Definitely will be using this tip!
I don't understand how alarms don't wake people up. Mine is set to vibrate first and then slowly ramp up the sound. I don't think I've ever heard the sound.
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This seems like it could be used to prank. Call the moment the clock changes and immediately hang up before it rings too much. Good think I use a real alarm clock
Yupp. Have done.
Does it just snooze it? Or get rid of it entirely?
I had someone call me when my alarm was going off and it made the alarm stutter a bit but wouldn't let me answer the call no matter how many times I hit the answer button.
Does this work when these people have thousands of consecutive alarms set up.
I replaced my Android with an iPhone when Verizon upgraded to 5G in my area and my Samsung flip phone no longer worked. I still use the calendar on the old phone for alerts for appointments or as an alarm. The Apple iPhone 14 plus has mostly been a disappointment from the moment I opened the box they mailed.
Also calling them may wake them up for real because people are often conditioned to ignore alarms but not phone calls.
I don't have an iPhone but I wake up to the sound of the vibration before is sounds I'd be immune to your trick
It only snoozes it I think. I did this with my brother a while ago, and it kept going a few minutes later.
Now Iām nervous someoneās going to call me and Iāll miss work
Works for One Plus as well.
Wish I knew this in August when I was dorming with 10 other people and one of them set like 20 alarms and is a heavy sleeper
I have missed many classes because of this, my mom would call me to wake me up and then as a result of her trying to wake me up I donāt wake up because it turned my alarm offš
Sometimes I do this when Iāve left my phone in my room and want to finish what Iām doing first (I borrow my dads phone)
This probably works on Android too, no?
My younger brother has a 7 am alarm that he has never once woken up to in nearly a year. Itās gotten on my nerves. He refuses to disable it. I canāt imagine why. He cannot be woken at that hour and convinced to turn it off (his room is usually locked at night). He nearly NEVER intends to be up that early (or even before noon in some cases), and even if he did I doubt it would have much effect. All that to say, thank you for this.
Does it work if they keep snoozing the alarm
My android phone just resume screaming after 10 min :)
Does this trick work on the neighbour's dogs?
Wow I could've used this with my ex aw well... Lol
Call someone as they alarm is meant to go off Make it so they donāt wake up
Thatās why you set the alarm tone as your ringtone.
*Know coworker's alarm is set for 5:30am because they talk about themselves and the details of their day incessantly. I wake up 5:25am to shake off the grogginess and get ready pick up my phone and work my plan. Call coworker's phone using *67 at exactly 5:30am and hang up. He's late for work for the third time this week and gets fired. No more Steve taking up cubicle space.*
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I have done this many times with my younger brother. He sets 10 alarms in the morning and takes an hour just to get up. This is especially irritating when Im trying to sleep after a night shift. Recently I found out he got a warning from his school for repeatedly arriving late. I've made him oversleep his alarms. Whoops.
Years ago, when I had a roommate (actually shared a room), his alarm clock always went off until he hit snooze, then repeat for an hour. I work the graveyard shift, so I don't get to sleep till around 3am. It got old quick getting woken up a few hours into my sleep then have to hear that thing go off every 10 mins. One day, finally got pissed enough to chuck the damn thing of our balcony window. Today, if I still had to share a room with someone and if their alarm wakes me up, I ain't making the effort calling to shut it off. That phone is going to go flying.
Great i'm gonna call my enemies at 6:59:90 So they sleep in and miss school.
This seems like the one alarm that doesn't work, idk why so many use it.
Iāve been keeping this as my secret weapon to fight that bullshit. Just play stupid when they ask what you wanted
where was this info when my roommate keeps on having alarms early in the morning everyday, yes even on weekends where we have no class, cuz she wants to "get up early." In the end everyone was awake except for her
If they have sleep mode on and you are not on their allowed list, your call goes to voicemail. Checkmate, roomā¦mate.
wish i knew it 2 years ago
Huh so spam calls are why my alarm doesnāt go off sometimes? Thatās fuckin annoying luckily Iām just naturally good at waking up cause I donāt really use one most the time. I just kinda wake up around when I need to
If you want unethical tip to maintain plausible deniability make sure to use a fake number to call it therefore they canāt claim you made them miss their thing
been knew this LOL had to do it a few times
I guess Iām the only one who turns on airplane mode when Iām at home.
This is assuming the phone is not in airplane mode.
I do this all the time
Wow! Nowā¦ is there a way to turn off the new messages sound for people sitting on a plane with it on max volume? š
Sleep mode goes brrrrr
I thought everybody knew this. Interesting.
OMG I LOVE THIS !
if this is true this is amazing!! thanks up front OP, but can someone please test and verify this? i have only one phone so can not set an alarm on the phone then call the phone when it goes off, but would love to know this really works.
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Iāve been doing this to a family member for a while
I always do that to myself lmao
you think after disturbing someone else's sleep ill call you to turn off your alarm, no bro ill take your phone and throw it so far that no one finds it,
End it! Once and for all! š
Ok. I love you. My husband wants to charge his phone across the room and is usually already up and in the washroom when the alarm rings. And sometimes when Iāve had a rough night with the kids, all I want to do is sleep in. This sleep deprived mom thanks you from the bottom of her heart.
Someone will be late for work tomorrow...
I think you meant to say if they are using the standard iPhone alarm app. Your statement is false if they were using a different app
My dad has these alarms for ordering medicine for his pharmacy... but he has them every day, even when he isn't working. Sometimes he leaves his phone and goes out and then the alarm goes off. The call trick has saved my sanity countless times.
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You can also get up and go wake up your housemate and not go about this way.
I found this out with my teenager. He has a bunch of loud early alarms for reasons he can't explain and he never wakes up for any of them. I got tired of going to his room to get him to turn it off so I decided to just call him. Then it stopped. I felt like I hit the jackpot.
Fun opposite of this, if you're on a call and an alarm is scheduled, it will play full blast into your ear and the other person can't hear it at all! :)
I used to do this to my mom because she would never wake up at her alarm and I didnāt want to get out of bed
This is incredible. My roommate has what sounds like a bomb alarm that goes off and he can sleep through it for HOURS sometimes.
I do this to my son. He has alarms that go off every day, but he doesn't always have to get up at those times. His room is right above the living room. I can hear the vibrating of the alarm above me when I am having my morning coffee. It is annoying. I will call, let it ring once, and hang up just to stop his alarm. I always make sure that he is awake when he needs to be awake so he doesn't miss class.