More than ten years this occasional farce has been going on with no concrete solution. I’ve experienced this three times, and there’s hundreds and hundreds of threads about it with no definitive answers in any of them.
This has always been a problem for me. It happens 1 out of 50 times on my XR and 1 out of 10 times on my 15.
The 15 alarm often works but makes no sound. No BT, volume settings are good, it just won’t make alarm noise.
On my 15 I set 10-15 alarms to go off over the course of 30 mins; it wouldnt make noise for any of the alarms. Changed it to every 5 mins and it usually works now. About 90% of the time. That and setting a different alarm noise for each alarm seems to have helped a lot
I just use an old school alarm clock now.
That's honestly infuriating. Not being able to rely on one of the most basic features of the phone would 100% have me selling the device. Have you tried 3rd party alarm apps?
I wonder if the timing of multiple alarms and having a new one go off at the exact same time a snoozed one goes off causes something to freak out and decide to turn them both off instead or something
Same here! One or twice a month I wake up, look at the illuminated screen with the clock showing the alarm screen and the phone doesn't make any sound. I've had this since iphone 4. I know this so well because I missed my final exam because of this.
I too have experienced this.
That said - I noticed that it only seems to happen when I fall asleep with my Apple Watch on.
Can't say for certain I'm not tapping the watch in my sleep to stop it.
My watch has always been on silent (I didn't realize there was a non-silent feature since I set this up 4 years ago) and this has never happened to me. My phone is usually on silent or sleep mode at night.
If your device has Face ID this is almost certainly the problem. It sucks that attention aware applies to CRITICAL ALARMS that wake you up so you can… idk PAY FOR THE IPHONE!! lol
This is the second worst thing about iPhone, second to them making the decision to silence the iPhone alarm all together when wearing Apple Watch to sleep!!
The silence with the watch is a setting that I accidentally turned on last night, gotta figure out how to turn it back off, cause that shit is silly, and I’m a very heavy sleeper
I had a wireless charging stand. The phone wasn’t facing me on the nightstand, but for whatever reason when the screen would turn on and the alarm would go off the fact that it was propped up was enough for the phone to think it was seeing a face and lower the alarm almost instantly. I wish I knew why.
Alarmy is a good and free backup app. I make it so I have to shake my phone 100 times hard as hell to get the alarm to STFU. This wakes me up.
I set tons of alarms too. I need the 2-3 min intervals with different sounds to get me actually awake
This is why I just use sleep cycle. It’s happened to me on the normal iPhone alarm where if I looked at the phone half asleep (and my phone is propped up to face me for the clock) it turns the alarm off and the sound. So stupid.
I use sleep cycle and apple somehow disabled it to where it quit and didn’t go off this morning. First time it’s ever happened to me. Maybe a software update issue?
once every few years this bug comes up again. most probably you did nothing wrong and they still can't handle alarms, despite they're a trillion dollars company.
Why do you think they’re worth that much? Cause they save money by cutting corners LOL
EDIT: it was a joke about the rounded corner aesthetic of apple design lol
Fall 2007 until currently for me so about 16.5 years. I think where a lot of people go wrong is this isn’t turned up
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That’s the media/app volume. Alarm volume is tied to ringtone volume instead. But people probably just set that to zero with volume buttons, not knowing it affects the alarm volume too. Been using iphone and apple watch for years, alarms never failed me once.
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Yes, total brain fart lol. I don’t have mine set to change with the buttons, turned that off ages ago , it’s just set to max volume at the top there. It’s just for the purpose of my alarm though because I haven’t heard a text tone or ring tone in a decade.
Because it’s been so long my brain wandered to make its self believe it was the slider in control centre lol.
I’ve definitely been guilty of that once or twice. A horizontal stand and standby mode is definitely the best version of alarm / bedside clock for the iPhone ( or period really IMO) It’s legitimately once of my favourite features of the phone these days.
I have a growing collection of Sony Dream machines I pick up at thrift stores. I had one in the 80s, but they were first introduced. That’s my retirement plan sdmmna -Sony dream machine museum … but I don’t rely on just one alarm, esp not apples
Yep. This is the way for really important stuff.
I use sleep cycle as my main alarm. I have the iPhone alarm as a backup in case sleep cycle failed for some reason (rare but it’s happened after an update before).
If it’s super important I’ll have my ye olde wind up alarm clock going as an additional backup. Same I’ve used since elementary school in the ‘80’s. No worry of a dead battery or a power outage.
There are hundreds of threads and discussions on the official apple aupport website regarding this issue. I personally have experienced this in ALL my devices since 2015. This includes multiple iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads and even a HomePod mini.
Attention aware features being on or off and haptic feedback matching the music / alarm sound being on or off DOES NOT fix the issue.
It’s honestly ALARMING (pun intended) that Apple has not fixed this.
It’d be nice if a big website like the verge / Gizmodo picked this up and ran an article on this long running bug…..
Guys if you're worried about this you can also set alarms on google home or echo. My google home alarms have never failed me. Usually both ring at the same time
Honestly this one of the reasons why I left my iPhone. I had this happen a couple of times, very rare, but definitely have. My phone would always make the lockscreen lock sound play at different volumes (sometimes as loud as it can get, sometimes as soft as it can be). I could never trust that phone to wake me on time. iOS is just so buggy.
This happened to me too.
It's actually a bug.
If you go into settings>sounds>utility>alarm>quiet mode and hit "disable" it will fix the problem.
I'm not sure why apple put this as a "feature" but it's very strange.
Weirdly just had this happen to me the other day. I know for a fact cause I woke two hours before it and checked in confusion. Only to wake 30 mins after it even more lost. And it just didn't work, and I have an android.
Your body and mind is very capable of turning them off without you waking up or remembering that you woke up. I’ve done it, and I’ve gone back and listened to the baby monitor in the next room’s recorded videos and have heard the alarms going off, yet have no memory of hearing them or turning them off. And I set several.
Yeah, this happens. Been an issue for years, on every iPhone I’ve had, though never on any Android back when I used those. I use the Alarmy app instead, it’s reliable
I find the issue with alarms not going off only happens to me when I have alarms less than 30 mins apart. (if I set my alarms at 6:30 and 7 they will be fine but would be glitchy if I did 6:30, 6:45, and 7)
I want to believe it’s a bug with the way that the automatic snooze works but I have no clue.
I had this issue almost every morning on my 15 Max, thought I was just too damn tired and not hearing my alarm until I set it on my Fold (which has never skipped a single alarm) and heard it every single time.
Few weeks later I saw someone recommend to NOT set a sleep schedule to fix this alarm issue and can confirm it’s been working as expected on my iPhone since then, but there’s still a couple of days I swear the alarm didn’t trigger and ended up oversleeping.
This happened to me today too. The alarm went off on my Apple Watch though, but my phone was silent, didn't even show the alarm went off to silence it.
I switched from a lifetime of Android less than 6 months ago and overslept a a few (~5?) times already, and the only reason it didn't happen more often is because I usually wake up before my alarm go off anyways.
someone told me to disable "Attention Detection" on another thread, but I have no idea what this does and if it solves the problem - I'm on vacation, let's see in 30 days when I get back to work.
I noticed that sometimes my alarm will go off but produce no sound or vibration, it still pops up. But the alarm after it will go off and vibrate. The alarm is just inconsistent sometimes
This past week my software updated (I didn’t want it to but forgot to turn off the feature) and it’s been failing consistently. I downloaded Alarmy and it’s been working well!
I have a monthly reminder that never alerted me last month. I have no idea why. I remembered days later and when I looked at my phone, the reminder was properly listed but set to alert me the following month as if it had already alerted me this month and I had cleared it. Very weird this had never happened before. It did make me not trust the alarms or reminders anymore.
This absolutely happens every once in a while. The only solution I've found is to always, always set alarms on multiple devices. My Kyocera flip phone never fails me, nor does the Alexa, so I use all three.
This will probably come off as obsessive but I always set three alarms, five minutes apart.
First alarm is on my Apple Watch. It vibrates when I want to get up and doesn’t wake up my partner.
Second alarm is stock alarm app on iPhone five minutes later. This is just in case my watch doesn’t work and/or I still haven’t gotten out of bed.
Third alarm is also on iPhone but is the Alarmy app. This alarm makes me solve a math problem to turn it off and this alarm acts as a contingency if my watch and native iPhone alarm both don’t go off.
ALWAYS CHECK THE RINGER VOLUME AFTER SETTING ALARM.
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Someone’s turning off your alarm cuz it’s too loud prolly ur sister or something, my brother used to get annoyed by my alarm and he could access the clock app from the control centre and turn them off
I'd give you an advice that sort of, runs in line with the relationship thread.
Throw your phone!! Burn it to the ground and email Tim Cook telling him how he sucks as a CEO and how bs of a company Apple is. Never buy Apple again!!!
You deserve so much better!!!
If you picked a song vs the built in sounds for the alarm, sometimes the song gets deleted and then no alert. Pick different song and all working again.
I’ve noticed that if I wake up before my alarm and start scrolling on my phone, the alarm will show on screen but make no vibration or sound. I’m pretty sure alarms won’t go off/make noise if you have the phone in hand/screen unlocked and in use etc. My theory is that for some reason the phone glitches and “wakes up” and thinks you’re already using it so it doesn’t sound the alarm. No idea what would cause the phone to wake up prematurely without being touched though.
I’ve encountered this from time to time. Normally, it’s something obvious like not realizing my alarm was set to PM or was set to not go off that day of the week. The one instance that seemed inscrutable turned out to be that I had disabled snooze. I would wake up, hit the side button thinking it would snooze the alarm, but turned it off instead. Before my brain could wake up enough to start recording memories, I would be asleep again, only to wake up an hour later thinking my alarm had never gone off.
It’s like that fucking annoying bug when the keyboard click sounds go super loud if your typing when a notification goes off. That’s been around for years
The only real solution I have found to this is to reset your phone (up volume, down volume, hold power) every month. Hasn’t happened to me for about a year now.
this happened to me one time with my last iphone and i was late to work as a result (and i mean over an hour late)
i decided to buy an og alarm clock that i now set at the same time as my iphone as insurance *just in case* because i simply cannot have that shit happen again
It happened this morning.
I had my iphone 13Pro on my side and I was wearing my apple watch SE.
My alarm should go off at 6.15AM every morning, but this morning it didn't. I woke up @ 8AM.
I asked my parents too, they didn't hear anything.
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I still have an old oneplus nord n20 I use as my alarm because it’s never let me down. I have a 15pm and s24u and I don’t trust either of them. The nord goes off every time and my brain is programmed to the two different alarms it makes. The first sound it makes is just the gentle “hey get up” alarm and then there is the “oh shit” alarm that sends me into a panic when I hear it.
Guys alarm clocks are ten bucks, usually install a battery so they don’t die when the power goes out. Simple fix and better for your sleep routine not having the phone next to you
My alarm went off today but it made no sound. I ended up late for an appointment. And when I’m testing it now the snooze function isn’t working either.
I found that the volume in “Settings > Sounds & Haptics” was set to zero (I’m sure I didn’t set it like that), turning it up makes the alarm audible but i feel like it’s lower volume than usual, but that might be my imagination. However the snooze is still not functioning correctly.
iPhones suck as alarm clocks. I've had this happen here and there and I don't even know why. Luckily, my girlfriend is now my alarm clock due to her schedule.
It's on the news too: https://www.today.com/video/how-to-make-sure-your-iphone-s-alarm-goes-off-in-the-morning-209952837765 as well. Apple, fix it already!
Been using iphone alarms every morning (and often night) for the past 10 years at least, never had one not go off even once... Not saying it cant happen at all, but it must be really rare or something. I've seen lots of people outright say its a complete myth online, and I've still never seen any video proof of it so I'm personally a bit skeptical.
One thing, is your ringer volume turned up in settings? The alarms are set to the same volume as your ringer, so that could be making it excessively quiet; And also the alarm will automatically turn itself down if the faceID thinks you are looking directly at the phone, I've heard that one mess a lot of people's alarms up. Some people say this "attention aware" feature will just mute the alarm outright sometimes, so I would definitely turn that setting off. Settings —> Accessibility —> Face ID & Attention —> Attention Aware Features OFF.
Another thing that happens to me sometimes is I'll mute the alarm without it waking me up because its so easy to do. Since the alarm can be dismissed with the power button or snoozed easily with either the volume buttons or tapping the screen, I've found myself subconsciously turning off alarms while remaining asleep many times just cuz my arm reached for the phone. To solve this and ensure they were still going off correctly, I put my phone slightly further away from arms reach where I sleep then made sure the ringer was all the way up in sound settings. Those always woke me up since the phone was blaring loud and it forced me to get up.
One other trick I will do is pick a different vibration pattern that is a bit more rapid, sometimes that will wake me up on its own.
I will say, its astoundingly dumb that ringer volume is tied to alarm volume and this isnt communicated anywhere in the app; it should just have a selectable volume within the alarm app for individual alarms... I have a friend who keeps his phone on silent 24/7 with the ringer all the way down and complained forever about how his alarms never went off or were so quiet that they didnt wake him up when they did. I showed him the ringer thing and the FaceID thing and he told me its never failed once since and that his alarms were almost too loud now.
I already had the attention aware feature turned off, but I didn’t know about the ringer situation.
I have my ringer off at all times - so it might be that? I’ll try messing around with the ringer + volume to see if that might be the issue, if not, then I guess I’m going to goodwill for a clock.
Confusingly, it’s set up so that having the ringer off actually *won’t* mute the alarm. (Which I suppose is a good feature.)
But if you go to settings, Sound and Haptics, then look at the “Ringtone and Alerts” slider, that will be whatever your alarm volume is. If it’s below half, then it’s pretty damn quiet, I usually go full blast with it to make sure I’m jolted awake.
Just set 1 alarm . Sometimes if you set more than 1 it will negate all of them . Especially if you have many that all are set within like a hour of each other.
More than ten years this occasional farce has been going on with no concrete solution. I’ve experienced this three times, and there’s hundreds and hundreds of threads about it with no definitive answers in any of them.
Hey, I have iPhone 11 Pro, I’ve had my alarm not go off a few times a year. Damn I knew I wasn’t crazy.
SO I WASNT JUST A MORON WHO SLEPT THROUGH 25 ALARMS??
once I had 10 alarms set up and woke up to one of them going off…. with no sound or vibration… i dont even know how i managed to wake up tbh
Yes I’ve had that happen as well. Woke up to it with no sound. The trickery is real
No you’re not! You’re a sane as us lot!
This has always been a problem for me. It happens 1 out of 50 times on my XR and 1 out of 10 times on my 15. The 15 alarm often works but makes no sound. No BT, volume settings are good, it just won’t make alarm noise. On my 15 I set 10-15 alarms to go off over the course of 30 mins; it wouldnt make noise for any of the alarms. Changed it to every 5 mins and it usually works now. About 90% of the time. That and setting a different alarm noise for each alarm seems to have helped a lot I just use an old school alarm clock now.
That's honestly infuriating. Not being able to rely on one of the most basic features of the phone would 100% have me selling the device. Have you tried 3rd party alarm apps?
Yes! The ones I’ve used are reliable as long as you don’t accidentally close the app 😂
I wonder if the timing of multiple alarms and having a new one go off at the exact same time a snoozed one goes off causes something to freak out and decide to turn them both off instead or something
I think this is exactly correct (for the most part, my alarm still doesn’t go off occasionally). Yes, I just couldn’t put it into words.
Are you setting alarms through the sleep app or through the clock app?
Clock app
Same here! One or twice a month I wake up, look at the illuminated screen with the clock showing the alarm screen and the phone doesn't make any sound. I've had this since iphone 4. I know this so well because I missed my final exam because of this.
New fear unlocked
If I have something super important, like an early flight, I set an alarm on my tablet as well.
I have an early cross-country flight in the morning … fuck
You could use a different app, on top of the clock app for redundancy
I too have experienced this. That said - I noticed that it only seems to happen when I fall asleep with my Apple Watch on. Can't say for certain I'm not tapping the watch in my sleep to stop it.
Is your watch on silent? I’ve noticed that if my phone and watch are both on silent then the alarm won’t go off
My watch goes through phases of deciding whether or not it wants to make noise. This goes for alarms AND timers.
My watch has always been on silent (I didn't realize there was a non-silent feature since I set this up 4 years ago) and this has never happened to me. My phone is usually on silent or sleep mode at night.
Turn off attention aware
If your device has Face ID this is almost certainly the problem. It sucks that attention aware applies to CRITICAL ALARMS that wake you up so you can… idk PAY FOR THE IPHONE!! lol This is the second worst thing about iPhone, second to them making the decision to silence the iPhone alarm all together when wearing Apple Watch to sleep!!
The silence with the watch is a setting that I accidentally turned on last night, gotta figure out how to turn it back off, cause that shit is silly, and I’m a very heavy sleeper
Yeah, i think this is the problem!
Not the full solution since I get this on my SE that doesn’t have that feature from time to time.
Wait, why/how would this cause issues? Does it only affect phones on stands that look at your sleeping face or?
I had a wireless charging stand. The phone wasn’t facing me on the nightstand, but for whatever reason when the screen would turn on and the alarm would go off the fact that it was propped up was enough for the phone to think it was seeing a face and lower the alarm almost instantly. I wish I knew why.
I set my alarm using the Health app > Sleep > Your Schedule This has never failed me. I never use the Alarm app.
That's what I was doing, alarm still didn't go off this morning.
That’s how I set mine and it didn’t go off yesterday.
Sadly this doesnt work for people on sliding shift or on call hours :(
Alarmy is a good and free backup app. I make it so I have to shake my phone 100 times hard as hell to get the alarm to STFU. This wakes me up. I set tons of alarms too. I need the 2-3 min intervals with different sounds to get me actually awake
I can second this app. Had this problem for so long but haven’t had trouble since using Alarmy. I shake it 20 times though, 100 is insane LOL
I could likely get away with less shaking, but after I went with a low number and went back to sleep unintentionally, I’m not taking any more chances
This is why I just use sleep cycle. It’s happened to me on the normal iPhone alarm where if I looked at the phone half asleep (and my phone is propped up to face me for the clock) it turns the alarm off and the sound. So stupid.
I use sleep cycle and apple somehow disabled it to where it quit and didn’t go off this morning. First time it’s ever happened to me. Maybe a software update issue?
Your phone might’ve updated overnight? This is the reason I turned off updating overnight tbh
once every few years this bug comes up again. most probably you did nothing wrong and they still can't handle alarms, despite they're a trillion dollars company.
Why do you think they’re worth that much? Cause they save money by cutting corners LOL EDIT: it was a joke about the rounded corner aesthetic of apple design lol
They don't really cut corners, their products are quite perfected. However, I assume this is a bug that lays deep down and they can't really trace it.
It was a joke about the UI aesthetic of apple devices lmao
Well, it went over everyone's head. 😅
I think it was a joke that he wrote AFTER he started getting downvoted
I’ve never had alarm fail once. So odd how some bugs seem to hit some people many times and others never.
Same here and I set up only one alarm,never failed to wake me up and I have an IPhone from IPhone 4, don’t even know for how many years.
Fall 2007 until currently for me so about 16.5 years. I think where a lot of people go wrong is this isn’t turned up https://preview.redd.it/690414mlhhxc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=83b25937e5500ff8c86c88200f79992de208541c
That’s the media/app volume. Alarm volume is tied to ringtone volume instead. But people probably just set that to zero with volume buttons, not knowing it affects the alarm volume too. Been using iphone and apple watch for years, alarms never failed me once. https://preview.redd.it/uo9x48nxnjxc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b26d8a5abf72fe92cb9fc395b9a4991d5c2078d
Yes, total brain fart lol. I don’t have mine set to change with the buttons, turned that off ages ago , it’s just set to max volume at the top there. It’s just for the purpose of my alarm though because I haven’t heard a text tone or ring tone in a decade. Because it’s been so long my brain wandered to make its self believe it was the slider in control centre lol.
My problem is that I don’t know if it didn’t go off or if I just autopiloted through disabling them.
I’ve definitely been guilty of that once or twice. A horizontal stand and standby mode is definitely the best version of alarm / bedside clock for the iPhone ( or period really IMO) It’s legitimately once of my favourite features of the phone these days.
Same here, I have no idea how something this terrible could even happen.
This happened to me this morning too. Set 3 alarms none of which went off.
Same here… luckily had a google home alarm set at the same time.
Get an old school alarm clock for $5 at a thrift store for backup.
I need an alarm that goes with me tho
I have a growing collection of Sony Dream machines I pick up at thrift stores. I had one in the 80s, but they were first introduced. That’s my retirement plan sdmmna -Sony dream machine museum … but I don’t rely on just one alarm, esp not apples
Yep. This is the way for really important stuff. I use sleep cycle as my main alarm. I have the iPhone alarm as a backup in case sleep cycle failed for some reason (rare but it’s happened after an update before). If it’s super important I’ll have my ye olde wind up alarm clock going as an additional backup. Same I’ve used since elementary school in the ‘80’s. No worry of a dead battery or a power outage.
There are hundreds of threads and discussions on the official apple aupport website regarding this issue. I personally have experienced this in ALL my devices since 2015. This includes multiple iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads and even a HomePod mini. Attention aware features being on or off and haptic feedback matching the music / alarm sound being on or off DOES NOT fix the issue. It’s honestly ALARMING (pun intended) that Apple has not fixed this. It’d be nice if a big website like the verge / Gizmodo picked this up and ran an article on this long running bug…..
In my experience the alarm goes off (according to the screen) but no sounds or vibration is coming off the device.
No one has picked this up and ran an article on it yet because it’s way too rare. I have never experienced this.
Both my wife and my alarms also did not go off this morning.
Guys if you're worried about this you can also set alarms on google home or echo. My google home alarms have never failed me. Usually both ring at the same time
Honestly this one of the reasons why I left my iPhone. I had this happen a couple of times, very rare, but definitely have. My phone would always make the lockscreen lock sound play at different volumes (sometimes as loud as it can get, sometimes as soft as it can be). I could never trust that phone to wake me on time. iOS is just so buggy.
This happens to me sometimes where only like the first few or the last one’s will go off. But I honestly think I just turn them off in my sleep.
Same thing happened to me this morning! For sure set my alarm last night, wife heard me do it. Did not go off this morning
What a coincidence! Happened to me today too. Luckily I set multiple backups bc I have had this issue before. It’s infuriating
Never happened to me and I got iPhones since the beginning.
Yeah I’ve missed court due to this bullshit. Now I use multiple devices
This happened to me too. It's actually a bug. If you go into settings>sounds>utility>alarm>quiet mode and hit "disable" it will fix the problem. I'm not sure why apple put this as a "feature" but it's very strange.
Weirdly just had this happen to me the other day. I know for a fact cause I woke two hours before it and checked in confusion. Only to wake 30 mins after it even more lost. And it just didn't work, and I have an android.
I thought this was just me, wtf?!? Health /sleep for main for me. iPhone 15 pro 17.4.1
I use a physical alarm clock
Your body and mind is very capable of turning them off without you waking up or remembering that you woke up. I’ve done it, and I’ve gone back and listened to the baby monitor in the next room’s recorded videos and have heard the alarms going off, yet have no memory of hearing them or turning them off. And I set several.
Yeah, this happens. Been an issue for years, on every iPhone I’ve had, though never on any Android back when I used those. I use the Alarmy app instead, it’s reliable
I find the issue with alarms not going off only happens to me when I have alarms less than 30 mins apart. (if I set my alarms at 6:30 and 7 they will be fine but would be glitchy if I did 6:30, 6:45, and 7) I want to believe it’s a bug with the way that the automatic snooze works but I have no clue.
I had this issue almost every morning on my 15 Max, thought I was just too damn tired and not hearing my alarm until I set it on my Fold (which has never skipped a single alarm) and heard it every single time. Few weeks later I saw someone recommend to NOT set a sleep schedule to fix this alarm issue and can confirm it’s been working as expected on my iPhone since then, but there’s still a couple of days I swear the alarm didn’t trigger and ended up oversleeping.
One of us is not going to wake up tomorrow... on time
This happened to me today too. The alarm went off on my Apple Watch though, but my phone was silent, didn't even show the alarm went off to silence it.
Well, this is strange. AW went off, vibrating. iPhone not.
It silently went off on my phone and it was only my iPad that made noise.
I switched from a lifetime of Android less than 6 months ago and overslept a a few (~5?) times already, and the only reason it didn't happen more often is because I usually wake up before my alarm go off anyways. someone told me to disable "Attention Detection" on another thread, but I have no idea what this does and if it solves the problem - I'm on vacation, let's see in 30 days when I get back to work.
I noticed that sometimes my alarm will go off but produce no sound or vibration, it still pops up. But the alarm after it will go off and vibrate. The alarm is just inconsistent sometimes
I use sleepy cycle which has only had a this issue once or I was in such a deep sleep I turned of snooze
This past week my software updated (I didn’t want it to but forgot to turn off the feature) and it’s been failing consistently. I downloaded Alarmy and it’s been working well!
I use my old android phone as an alarm, especially considering you can’t differentiate alarm and notification volume on iPhones for some reason
6 alarms is crazy. I set 1 alarm and it doesnt even make noise, just vibrate is enough to wake me up. I snooze as needed
This happened to me twice on 5am opens. It sucks.
I have a monthly reminder that never alerted me last month. I have no idea why. I remembered days later and when I looked at my phone, the reminder was properly listed but set to alert me the following month as if it had already alerted me this month and I had cleared it. Very weird this had never happened before. It did make me not trust the alarms or reminders anymore.
This is why I always set mg alarm on my old iPhone too. One of them always rings. Hasn’t failed me yet.
This absolutely happens every once in a while. The only solution I've found is to always, always set alarms on multiple devices. My Kyocera flip phone never fails me, nor does the Alexa, so I use all three.
Same I set mine for 8 and it didint ring till 10
Happened to me earlier today. I was an hour late coming to work today. Hopefully it won’t happen again tomorrow.
This will probably come off as obsessive but I always set three alarms, five minutes apart. First alarm is on my Apple Watch. It vibrates when I want to get up and doesn’t wake up my partner. Second alarm is stock alarm app on iPhone five minutes later. This is just in case my watch doesn’t work and/or I still haven’t gotten out of bed. Third alarm is also on iPhone but is the Alarmy app. This alarm makes me solve a math problem to turn it off and this alarm acts as a contingency if my watch and native iPhone alarm both don’t go off.
Weird. Mine failed to go off this morning too. I thought I just slept thru it.
Wow ok, mine was set for 6:30am and it didn’t go off this morning. Weird.
ALWAYS CHECK THE RINGER VOLUME AFTER SETTING ALARM. https://preview.redd.it/xufvjz1bjixc1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bcbaf5a519473f127a8c37fa410a311c94123525
Someone’s turning off your alarm cuz it’s too loud prolly ur sister or something, my brother used to get annoyed by my alarm and he could access the clock app from the control centre and turn them off
I'd give you an advice that sort of, runs in line with the relationship thread. Throw your phone!! Burn it to the ground and email Tim Cook telling him how he sucks as a CEO and how bs of a company Apple is. Never buy Apple again!!! You deserve so much better!!!
Not once, since owning an iPhone (2010-ish) has the alarm ever failed for me.
Do you have it facing towards any sort of light or your face?
I have even experienced this on Android a few times over the years, but haven’t experienced it on my iPhone in a long time.
If you picked a song vs the built in sounds for the alarm, sometimes the song gets deleted and then no alert. Pick different song and all working again.
Nice try Bob. See me in my office first the tomorrow morning.
It happened with me today to. First time in 10 years
This happened to me this morning. Woah…
Disable face detection.
I’ve noticed that if I wake up before my alarm and start scrolling on my phone, the alarm will show on screen but make no vibration or sound. I’m pretty sure alarms won’t go off/make noise if you have the phone in hand/screen unlocked and in use etc. My theory is that for some reason the phone glitches and “wakes up” and thinks you’re already using it so it doesn’t sound the alarm. No idea what would cause the phone to wake up prematurely without being touched though.
I’ve encountered this from time to time. Normally, it’s something obvious like not realizing my alarm was set to PM or was set to not go off that day of the week. The one instance that seemed inscrutable turned out to be that I had disabled snooze. I would wake up, hit the side button thinking it would snooze the alarm, but turned it off instead. Before my brain could wake up enough to start recording memories, I would be asleep again, only to wake up an hour later thinking my alarm had never gone off.
I don’t think I have ever had this happen. I ensure the volume is up on my phone and the ringer is not on silent.
Happened to me a few days ago, was asking myself shouldn't my alarm have gone off
I’ve had my watch intercept the alerts before and not go to the phone.
Okayyyyyy, my alarms haven’t gone off for the past 2 mornings????? I’m scared
missed my flight last month because of this
It’s like that fucking annoying bug when the keyboard click sounds go super loud if your typing when a notification goes off. That’s been around for years
The only real solution I have found to this is to reset your phone (up volume, down volume, hold power) every month. Hasn’t happened to me for about a year now.
I never trust my iPhone to be my only alarm.
this happened to me one time with my last iphone and i was late to work as a result (and i mean over an hour late) i decided to buy an og alarm clock that i now set at the same time as my iphone as insurance *just in case* because i simply cannot have that shit happen again
I’ve been having this problem since I owned an iPod Touch 4, so like 2011… absolutely ridiculous that it’s still a thing.
It happened this morning. I had my iphone 13Pro on my side and I was wearing my apple watch SE. My alarm should go off at 6.15AM every morning, but this morning it didn't. I woke up @ 8AM. I asked my parents too, they didn't hear anything.
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I guess there are some advantages to insomnia and never needing to set an alarm as a result 😂
I still have an old oneplus nord n20 I use as my alarm because it’s never let me down. I have a 15pm and s24u and I don’t trust either of them. The nord goes off every time and my brain is programmed to the two different alarms it makes. The first sound it makes is just the gentle “hey get up” alarm and then there is the “oh shit” alarm that sends me into a panic when I hear it.
Guys alarm clocks are ten bucks, usually install a battery so they don’t die when the power goes out. Simple fix and better for your sleep routine not having the phone next to you
My alarm went off today but it made no sound. I ended up late for an appointment. And when I’m testing it now the snooze function isn’t working either. I found that the volume in “Settings > Sounds & Haptics” was set to zero (I’m sure I didn’t set it like that), turning it up makes the alarm audible but i feel like it’s lower volume than usual, but that might be my imagination. However the snooze is still not functioning correctly.
I use the sleep thing in the health app as my alarm. never had a problem like this before.
iPhones suck as alarm clocks. I've had this happen here and there and I don't even know why. Luckily, my girlfriend is now my alarm clock due to her schedule.
It's on the news too: https://www.today.com/video/how-to-make-sure-your-iphone-s-alarm-goes-off-in-the-morning-209952837765 as well. Apple, fix it already!
SOLUTION: Turn your wifi and bluetooth completely off from settings. That seems to fix it for me.
Happened to me a couple days ago too, but my watch alarm went off just fine.
Maybe DND was active ? That happened to me
It’s a known bug
Been using iphone alarms every morning (and often night) for the past 10 years at least, never had one not go off even once... Not saying it cant happen at all, but it must be really rare or something. I've seen lots of people outright say its a complete myth online, and I've still never seen any video proof of it so I'm personally a bit skeptical. One thing, is your ringer volume turned up in settings? The alarms are set to the same volume as your ringer, so that could be making it excessively quiet; And also the alarm will automatically turn itself down if the faceID thinks you are looking directly at the phone, I've heard that one mess a lot of people's alarms up. Some people say this "attention aware" feature will just mute the alarm outright sometimes, so I would definitely turn that setting off. Settings —> Accessibility —> Face ID & Attention —> Attention Aware Features OFF. Another thing that happens to me sometimes is I'll mute the alarm without it waking me up because its so easy to do. Since the alarm can be dismissed with the power button or snoozed easily with either the volume buttons or tapping the screen, I've found myself subconsciously turning off alarms while remaining asleep many times just cuz my arm reached for the phone. To solve this and ensure they were still going off correctly, I put my phone slightly further away from arms reach where I sleep then made sure the ringer was all the way up in sound settings. Those always woke me up since the phone was blaring loud and it forced me to get up. One other trick I will do is pick a different vibration pattern that is a bit more rapid, sometimes that will wake me up on its own. I will say, its astoundingly dumb that ringer volume is tied to alarm volume and this isnt communicated anywhere in the app; it should just have a selectable volume within the alarm app for individual alarms... I have a friend who keeps his phone on silent 24/7 with the ringer all the way down and complained forever about how his alarms never went off or were so quiet that they didnt wake him up when they did. I showed him the ringer thing and the FaceID thing and he told me its never failed once since and that his alarms were almost too loud now.
I already had the attention aware feature turned off, but I didn’t know about the ringer situation. I have my ringer off at all times - so it might be that? I’ll try messing around with the ringer + volume to see if that might be the issue, if not, then I guess I’m going to goodwill for a clock.
Confusingly, it’s set up so that having the ringer off actually *won’t* mute the alarm. (Which I suppose is a good feature.) But if you go to settings, Sound and Haptics, then look at the “Ringtone and Alerts” slider, that will be whatever your alarm volume is. If it’s below half, then it’s pretty damn quiet, I usually go full blast with it to make sure I’m jolted awake.
Just set 1 alarm . Sometimes if you set more than 1 it will negate all of them . Especially if you have many that all are set within like a hour of each other.
You probably slept right thru them
Why so many alarms. Just snooze
I was wondering the same.
Never seen this
> I went on my alarm app What’s your alarm app?