iPhone alarm glitch leaves Apple users late for work
You snooze you lose.
Apple users are raising the alarm about a glitch that’s leaving them late for work.
According to various iPhone aficionados, their morning alarms are failing to sound, nearly nine months after Apple acknowledged the issue and claimed they were working on a fix.
The glitch has been occurring to some users since at least April of last year, per a report by Today.
Some Reddittors say the issue still affects them on an intermittent basis.
One user shared in the r/iPhone subreddit page that his alarm went off more than two hours after it was supposed to.
The post showed a photo of an iPhone with an alarm set for 10:30 a.m. that went off at 12:42 instead, as displayed on an Apple Watch.
People in the comments shared that they were having similar issues with their alarms.
“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,” one said.
“I felt crazy trying to explain this to my boss and not sound like I’m lying,” one person shared.
“My morning alarm was displaying as going off while making no sound and no haptics for 40 minutes,” another enraged Redditor wrote.
“I’ve had multiple days where I’ve been late because my alarm goes off… in silent mode. I look at my phone and the alarm screen is up, but the phone is silent,” an additional person commented.
Users on the thread include people using different iOS updates, including iOS 17 and the new iOS 18 with Apple Intelligence.
Some said that they tried turning off the “Attention Aware Features” — which can lower the volume of an alarm when it goes off if it detects your face — but it didn’t fix the problem for most people.
You can also check that the volume of alerts are turned all the way up by going to “Sounds and Haptics” in Settings, then move the “Ringtone and Alerts” slider all the way up.
The Post has reached out to Apple for comment.
