If you have been waking up late due to delayed or inaudible iPhone alarms, you’re not alone.
Last spring, the Today show reported that people were oversleeping due to silent alarms. At the time, Apple promised a fix. But as Android Authority reports, iPhone users are still seeing alarm malfunctions. It points to a Redditor named Bryanlolwut, who said in a post this week that their 10:30 a.m. sleep alarm went off at 12:42 a.m. Others chimed in to share similar experiences.
“This has been happening to me for ages, and I thought I was going insane. I would wake up 2 hours after my alarm was set, look at my watch, and the alarm was going off silently with no sound or haptics,” commented a user named KnowingFalcon.
“My morning alarm was displaying as going off while making no sound and no haptics for 40 minutes. Failing this hard is ought to be suable offense,” said another.
This is not a new issue. In 2011, non-repeating alarms stopped going off after New Year’s Day. In 2023, a shutdown bug caused several iOS 17 devices to cancel alarms automatically.
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Multiple comments in the Reddit post suggested turning off Attention-Awareness Features in iPhone Settings to fix the issue. This feature prompts the iPhone to dim the display and lower the volume of alerts if a user looks at the screen. It hasn’t worked for everyone, though. Apple has some suggestions of its own, too.
PCMag has reached out to Apple for its comment on the issue.
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