Why Your iPhone Alarm Isn't Going Off

[@Just_Lou722]

Meanwhile I just thought I've become so sleep deprived that alarms didn't work on me anymore

[@FreezyOH]

nah its true

[@m._abdullahh09]

us moment 😭

[@robbiefryy329]

Nah on my life, this is what I thought

[@-stewie-]

at this point i just got mad at it so i got all 3 of my devices and my alexa and just set like 7 different alarms on all of them, now i’m waking up at 6am everyday!

[@aadrall9458]

Same

[@aaronjoelxotwod]

legit thought i was the only one experiencing this 😭

[@blissfulfire]

Fr

[@Bob-ew1hx]

Same

[@ReptileDude2004]

Lol same

[@strategistaow3520]

Really there is one more reason not to buy iPhone

[@RaBread]

For real

[@ejm0359]

And my mum kept scolding me for oversleeping.

[@jawadjawad2132]

Same

[@mudchute4dlr]

your mum isnt wrong. just wake up without an alarm, or use a better device

[@FreezyOH]

Bought an alarm, shit didnt wake up me at all, i should sue all their asses

[@neb.9489]

@@mudchute4dlrHow do you wake yourself up without an alarm??

[@yordi3945]

@@mudchute4dlryeah. Just say to sleep deprived teenagers to wake up on time without an alarm

[@Zomboy4313]

TLDR: bug

[@TheFrozenfish]

Too long? On a 2 minute video? :D

[@RDL-07]

Ofc u didn’t read, it’s a video 😊🤭

[@Zomboy4313]

🙃

[@GhostsGenocide]

TLDW: bug

[@M4NA5]

TikTok generation

[@CarlRyds]

Who would have thought clocks would be so hard for a company with some of the world’s best engineers.

[@markm0000]

You got that right. Some of the best engineers. The rest are hired for their racial equity. That’s how we get problems like this when multiple people mess with code and none of them understand what they’re doing.

[@rizizum]

@@markm0000 Oh oh, looks like someone is being racist on the internet again

[@r3dcup]

Clown @rizizum

[@The_Horizon]

didn't know only white people can program

Race literally HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE LMFAO 😭☠️

[@marlo-ji]

Me: Wake me at 6 AM Apple: Okay At 6 AM Me: Apple:

[@Aboodd002]

No

[@ThatoneIdiot2023]

LOL FR

[@ron_sr1218]

Whenever you make any changes it can fuck up anything, even in a company as big as Apple, that’s why in EVERYTHING, whenever there is a new update that fixes some bugs, new ones are created

[@geezer3829]

Get physical alarm clocks. Problem solved

[@s.prabhdeepsingh]

@@geezer3829then why to pay a thousand dollars on this metal box

[@wafflecone95]

This is why I use a traditional older alarm that a keep in my bathroom. It's loud as hell so I actually have to physically get out of bed to turn it off. Having it on my phone makes it too easy for me to give in to temptation and hit snooze over and over.

[@JungKookOfficiaI]

This bug had been happening for YEARSS

[@Delicate141]

So you're saying it's been there for multiple iOS versions without fixing the bug? That's so odd. Apple is sometimes so unaware.

[@yordi3945]

@@Delicate141yep. I occasionally have this big problem for years

[@ozmond]

@@Delicate141it’s probably the commenters fault

[@derek5310]

no it has been a bug for years, I'm shocked it's only just now becoming more of rising issue. I've almost been fired a few times because of it tbh😅

[@Delicate141]

@@derek5310 Didn’t it make you think to move to a third party app? Sounds so frustrating!

[@mihlebokveldt3774]

Oh my god I thought I was going crazy💀

[@someasparagus]

Crazy? I was crazy once.

[@mihlebokveldt3774]

@@someasparagus they locked me in a room

[@someasparagus]

@@mihlebokveldt3774 A rubber room

[@tupcios]

@@mihlebokveldt3774 a rubber room

[@thehouseleader]

@@mihlebokveldt3774a rubber room

[@ministerstein]

Time to invent a standalone alarm device.

[@alexcuevasblogs1391]

Bro, they already exist💀 it’s called an alarm clock and you can pick one up at Walmart or target or even your thrift store has some.

[@miszelinw2p]

@@alexcuevasblogs1391 u still have time to delete this

[@xd-_-spacedoo8512]

@@alexcuevasblogs1391dumbass

[@yourevolution7850]

Or let the apple make one and charge you 200$ for that

[@RandomBogey]

The last person to do that got their school locked down then fled back to the Middle East to escape public ridicule. So, inventors beware! Lol

[@AdlerssonReview]

This has failed for me so many times

[@les471]

So ist es

[@kbtriplesix]

tja max dann wärst halt lieber bei android geblieben

[@BlindMango]

The bug has nothing to do with the Attention Awareness setting, which has been a setting for years now (do turn it off though as it does lower the volume of the alarm clock considerably if you look at the screen while the alarm goes off!). I do happen to know what the issue is though: This bug even occurs if you have Attention Awareness turned off and occurs **whenever you set multiple alarms**, basically if you let the initial alarm ring and then don't press the Snooze button before the second alarm starts, that second alarm and any one past that will not make a sound whenever you finally hit the snooze button for the first one. It has happened for many months now and it has taken me months to figure it out because I'm always half asleep when it happens, I put in a ticket with Apple about a month or two about it though, good to hear they're working on it

[@LuizHenrique730]

and here I was thinking I was waking up turning it off and not even seeing it 🤣

[@harshitgupta346]

Bro like wow, i have been experiencing this since like half a year now, always getting late for classes due to this thing, it keeps on vibrating but doesn't even play a bit of sound. This thing just hurts man!

[@Chard9463]

Apple: *"It's not a bug, it's a feature"* *"We designed this bug **ehem**, I mean feature to ensure that our users get as much sleep as needed for their health"*

[@saivarunmacha1296]

And we're calling it iSleep 🫣

[@AlexJP.1369]

@@saivarunmacha1296😂

[@HamtaroSan85]

Thank you for this video, i feel less alone now with people having the same issue as i do. Whenever i had an appointment in the next morning, i used to put a single alarm but it didn’t go off, resulting in not waking up on time So now i have to put several alarms with a 5 minutes interval in order to wake up right on time, i hope that Apple with fix this issue!

[@TheWill.Suttie45]

This legit happened to me two weeks ago and my mom said it was an excuse so I showed her a bunch of articles and videos, and I even proved to her

[@matd]

i reccomend turning your volume+ringer up all the way and switching ur silent switch off before sleeping so it will be loud enough

[@LogiCreates]

My iPhone alarms have not been working consistently since roughly 2017. There were many times where I would wake up to my phone being hung on the alarm screen for hours after the alarm was meant to go off with absolutely no audio whatsoever, blocking other notifications and phone calls. It has persisted across newer iPhone models and I can't see it stopping anytime soon.

[@jeremyslegg]

This is why I’ve also got 2 ‘HomePod mini’ speakers (as stereo, idk if that even matters, at this point) at head height left and right of my bed. They’ve been working great.

[@jkthedovahkiin1656]

Does it happen on Apple Watch too? Cause I use my Apple Watch as an alarm clock and have been doing so for years and not once have I encountered anything similar.

[@Dreamxbreaker]

Quickest I’ve been here, btw can you talk about IOS 17.5 where it can bring back deleted photos and videos

[@Deckard717]

17.5.1 is now out to apparently fix the photos bug

[@RadDadisRad]

What??? Tell me more

[@caroline_catbridges_kitty5384]

They just fixed this today. Brandon Butch on KZbin made a video about it

[@Dreamxbreaker]

@@caroline_catbridges_kitty5384 Ik abt the update (I already updated) but I was talking more specifically about how and why it happened

[@wolfgangvan-uber6515]

I am not alone!!!

[@zedge1205]

What really sucks is when I oversleep and wake up to see both my iPhone AND my iPad alarms going off silently. It’s really random too. Some mornings, they both work great!🤷‍♂️

[@EastGermany-pc2lw]

Yeah holy shit. I keep my ipad in my backpack so i have to get up to turn it off and its weird when the iPhone alarm goes off but the iPad one doesn't and I'm pulling it out during class and its telling me to wake the fk up

[@NQUINNT]

I did have this issue when i was in UK recently when I live in the US. It was odd because it went off before but not the one day when i really needed it to.

[@angelarias6311]

I’m glad to know that I’m not the only one that’s experiencing this bug, I’m actually trying to find a third-party alarm app that’s accessible with voiceover.

[@punctdan]

I have an ancient phone with an outdated iOS version. I see this as an absolute win for once.

[@adultmoshifan87]

As I do for having other devices with alarms, including my Neo Geo Pocket, Pokémon Mini, 3DS with Sleep Clock app and PSP with Talkman! (Talkman is a language translator app that also has a metric calculator and alarm clock!)

[@JuniorWA]

imagine getting fired because of this

[@nikolajkarlshj3907]

I actually got fired because of this bug back in 2018..🫠

[@superdaked]

Kudos to apple

[@tjtt222]

i almost did💀

[@TheGoodestBrandon]

Same. I've been written up repeatedly in the past over this crap. I feel so vindicated

[@Print3dGenius]

This is why I use Alarmy. You get lots of customization on the app, and I have never had a bug where it didn’t wake me up (except for when Apple changed some policies, then it needed to update)

[@Jayinjapanese]

I was so pissed.This is now common

[@zants_]

There used to be a bug (at least I hope it wasn't intentional) where your alarms wouldn't go off if your iPhone updated. I personally still don't risk it and have updates set to manual instead of automatic.

[@jakethesnakelover]

That brings up another can of worms. The phone NOT updating when you have it set to update automatically.

[@RandomBogey]

My alarms seem to go off like clockwork during waking hours, but the last few months (at least) I’ve been oversleeping so much that I’ve had to rely on family members, who I know are awake early, to call me on mornings I absolutely have to be awake by a certain early time. I thought it was due to my low ringer volume, so I turned on the “change [ringtone and alerts] volume with buttons” setting so I can quickly crank the system volume before I go to sleep, but even that didn’t seem to work. I chalked it up to turning the alarm off on my watch, either unknowingly or accidentally when I meant to snooze it, so I turned clock notifications off on my watch so I can’t accidentally brush the watch face and turn the alarm off or whatever was happening. When that still didn’t help, I thought for sure I was turning it off in my sleep, maybe fully asleep and turning it off or accidentally hitting ‘cancel’ when I meant to snooze it, so I set my phone out of reach of my bed. When that still did nothing, I considered it was maybe a bug with conflicting alarms, like one alarm going off and overlapping with the next alarm and the two canceling each other out, so I made a concerted effort to space alarms out to go off within the nine min snooze and outside of the nine min snooze to prevent two or more alarms from going off at the same time and still nothing…

[@2pacEEz]

So this is why my phone is going to make me late for school :D

[@JustBaileey]

A legit excuse for your boss if you’re late to work. Whoop!

[@AizenRevolver]

Just had this problem earlier, now i know why. Thanks Greg

[@caden5936]

I discovered that if you have a Focus setting that enables/disables automatically at the same time your alarm goes off, it mutes the alarm

[@caden5936]

I found this cuz I naturally woke up a few minutes before my alarm went off and I watched it happen with disbelief

[@GetFriedShorts]

Thank Apple legit almost got me fired from my job because they can’t do their job right

[@32wolves77]

Or just use a battery powered analog alarm clock that never fails

[@DarkSansTV]

that explains why sometimes my alarm just wouldn't go off at all, but when iOS 16.2 happened all alarm related bugs appeared to be fixed and that was the time that I had decided to stop updating my phone because I really didn't feel like letting apple change things that didn't need to be changed, so I did and have been on 16.2 ever since, but even with the insecurities and possible slow downs this would cause, I still find this the better path against letting it update and possibly creating more problems than they solve, the later features they add aren't really that exciting anyways so for me, it makes sense to take this path

[@mykolt1010]

Thanks for informing us cause I missed class multiple times because of missing my alarm lol

[@lamp007]

I think it’s a mix of the attention aware, as well as the silence feature when the phone is flipped upside down, covering the proximity censor.

[@Hi-how-are-you-today.]

When they do fix it they should add an alarm ringer besides the regular phone ringer, why do they have to be the same volume? Android has had this for years I doubt it will come to the iPhone which is so frustrating.

[@rabbitsrefuse]

Yoooo! This got me in trouble at work! Apple should probably have a team that specifically checks for and fixes alarm bugs. This has been going on for way too long.

[@matthewalan458F]

I knew something was up. I use bedtime alarm and sometimes it never goes off. Been having this happen for quite awhile now and it made me late to work several times. I now run the bedtime alarm and a secondary normal alarm incase bedtime fails. I also turned off the feature that stops the alarm when you raise your phone. Can’t believe this is still an issue all these years later.

[@markojovanovski3372]

People drop a grand for a phone that cant set an alarm 💀

[@RYN988]

This happened to me twice and made me very late for work. I have owned iPhones since 2008 and this had never happened before. I now use a backup physical alarm clock and will forever have trust issues with my phones alarm!

[@rareintentions5888]

Decided to buy a sunrise light alarm because of this. I like the building alarm sound on the iPhone but it was not working reliably! Love my new standalone alarm tho!

[@baileyellison642]

I thought I was getting used to my alarm sound again. This is making me question if I was “getting use” to the sound the first time now

[@themessylifeofkae]

lowkey everyday for school my alarm NEVER goes off and I end up missing my bus and getting yelled at + not getting ready completely and looking like a pig for school 😝🙏

[@abkeener81]

I’m expecting a similar issue with my recurring alarm. What are some reputable third party apps I can use? I’m Andrew.

[@LeahDykema]

I really don’t wanna switch to a third party alarm, I just want Apple’s to work since it’s built in, I don’t need to add another app to my 300 apps or another account to my email to send me more junk. Thank you for explaining this, love your videos! Keep up the good work! 2:30

[@smathlax]

I've never had an iPhone but I've had several Samsung phones and all of them sometimes failed to sound the alarm. I'd get a "missed alarm" notification, which should be literally impossible since the alarm keeps going indefinitely until I turn it off. Very often the same thing happens when someone calls me (I'm talking like 25% failure rate, reproducible on multiple Samsung phones - it's bad). The last time I had a phone with an actual working alarm and working phone calls was a Nokia brick way back in the day.

[@TerraKing]

This literally happened to me this morning. My phone’s alarm never went off, but when I checked it was still on. My dad woke me up 15 minutes later.

[@gabyvalentina4029]

How do we fix the alarm thoughhhh

[@LeetHaxington]

Lmao imagine Steve screaming about this bug at the office. The unholy wall punches down the entire hallway to the alarm clock team department with a foot print on the door and the doorframe just snapped

[@ДімаКрасько-с7м]

He would say “You are holding it wrong”. Oh, I meant you are setting alarm wrong

[@Roboseal2]

This is ridiculous, I use my Apple watch SE to wake me up and it does it perfectly well without ever any bugs.

[@martin0499]

"Apple don't know why" Fam you PROGRAMMED THE THING!

[@gallagherrides28]

You can’t be serious. This has screwed me over so many times and I didn’t know what was happening

[@SilverStormShadow]

Can't wait for the next update to introduce a bug that disables phone calls...

[@HappierCodm]

Me: hey siri, set timer for 1 hr (then I went to nap) 1 hr later:

[@xcoder1122]

That's why I have a backup alarm clock; I mean a real physical backup clock. When I use my phone as an alarm clock for work, the backup clock is set to go off 15 minutes later, just in case. If the phone wakes me up, I just turn off the backup clock. As a bonus feature, the backup clock has a physical alarm on/off switch and a physical alarm set indicator. Even though it is a radio controlled (the time is always accurate!) digital clock, you have to move a physical switch to turn on the alarm, and when you do, a red indicator is visible so you know for sure that the alarm is set. Moving this switch back is the only way to really turn off the alarm. You can just press the big alarm button on the top, but that is only a sleep button, so the alarm will be silent for 5 minutes before it goes off again. Only moving the physical switch back to the off position will actually turn off the alarm. The price of this alarm clock was about $25 and so far it has only gone off twice, but that means it has saved me from oversleeping twice.

[@Epic_C]

I think it is issues with the attention aware thing as mentioned. In my case sometimes I'd be sleeping with it on its side overnight and it could be potentially pointing at my face and I think when the alarm went off, it saw my face and silenced itself.

[@mattmorrisson9607]

This has been happening to me since my iPhone 5s. There are posts all over the web about it with users complaining about missing classes, military formations and more. Apple support whenever I call them about it: “Wow?! We’ve never heard of this before.”

[@SamBrowand]

I upgraded to an iPhone 15 back in October of 2023 and my wife upgrade a couple months later. Both of us experience this bug constantly. It is so frustrating!

[@MangoMic]

Does the Apple Watch have the same issue?

[@thealexriveraa]

Not sure but Homepod sure does. Alarm went off but checked the settings and that alarm was off. Also think it hasn’t been going off

[@codex3431]

In my anroid phone in the lock screen it doesn't show the actual time after I unlock it it shows the correct time

[@osvaldoluna8863]

I use my iPad as an alarm and it hasn’t helped much either

[@TheLonelyMoon]

my roommate has been experiencing this too... well... man's gotten too good at sleeping through his alarm or turning em off at light speed

[@NiNGalaxU2]

Thank You for this! I really thought I was in deep sleep often so I didn't hear it.

[@Zaxphion]

This is why I use a regular alarm clock. I hate using my phone as an alarm.

[@GBodyJosh]

This has made me late for work countless times

[@jorgelozadamusic]

I overslept and was late for work on Saturday because my alarm didn't go off, it's quite annoying that Apple is messing up something that simple yet very important!

[@Shreksarmpit8870]

I’ve dealt with this bug for years. After not waking up in time for things I built a habit of setting alarms on my watch, iphone, iPad and HomePod. Thats how you get the most out of the ecosystem, waking up to every apple product yelling at you. If one doesn’t go off the other will.

[@RalphyTheCoyote]

My alarm does always go off but for a few days in a row it didn't wake me up because it was silenced. It wasn't even silenced by the silence switch but in the sounds thingy in settings I had 'change with buttons' on so instead of lowering my volume it lowered my notification sound volume. Even off silent it wouldn't make noise but then I turned off the setting and turned my sound back up. That did fix it but I think it's stupid to even have that feature.

[@abdulrafay3052]

And I was thinking some supernatural thing is happening with my Alarm

[@Back-alley-technician]

Had an iPhone the entire time I was in the military. So many times I almost got bad paperwork due to a bug. Switched to android (they had become way more popular and i was curious) after leaving and now I'm praised for perfect attendance

[@isaacsac5]

Luckily I have never experienced this problem with my iPhone.

[@valiojekov]

luckily you have not experienced this problem with your iphone YET.

[@SimonBauer7]

luckily i cant ever experience this, since i switched from iphone to the dark side aka android

[@Slag]

Please make a video how apple made the day / night time changing photos from the iMac / MacBook! Are they real pictures shot in the morning, afternoon and night? Because the camera didn't move at all.

[@cypher686]

Title of the video: why the alarm isn’t working…. The video: we don’t know why….

[@flysolo7089]

I missed my $2000 flight due to this issue, it's not a joke ! this has to be taken seriously !! when customer can't even relay on basic alarm services !!

[@Timely-ud4rm]

This is insane. I'm using a Samsung phone and have never had alarm issues. I am considering switching to the Apple ecosystem because I like their "it just works" methodology. I prefer the inbuilt apps provided by the manufacturer/company over third-party apps. The fact that Samsung has their act together but a trillion-dollar company like Apple doesn't is absurd to me.

[@yolanda6392]

to be fair isn’t samsung also a trillion dollar company

[@wubbsy]

Yeah this happens to me every couple of years there is a period where the alarm just does make any sound/vibration at all. And even hours later there aren’t any notification or call sounds. After a couple of weeks of it sometimes happening it magically vanishes and everything works again.

[@hyun-shik7327]

This has happened to me a couple times and substantially worsened my sleep because I’m always afraid that this time is going to be the .1% of times when it doesn’t work.

[@simon8001]

I am 17 and i am not that of a great sleeper but still the alarm didnt manage to wake me up when i was in japan a few months ago where i had a morning flight to catch that would have costed hundreds of dollars if i missed it , but luckily my dad managed to knock the door so hard that it was like a instant wakeup and i stared at my alarm clock and the ringer was at 100 and it showed it was still playing but it had no audio output , great , so i was wondering during the flight that was someone in the room with me while i was alone who starred down at the phone which made the alarm stop or this is some type of glitch but again yesterday i wanted to go on a roadtrip which started at midnight and again the alarm didnt went off , so i searched that is it really a glitch or i had become a heavy sleeper.

[@Towabear]

I don't rely on phone alarms I mainly use a display alarm and I test it before I go to bed. Make sure the volume is way the way up (to the max if necessary.) Set the alarm when getting ready for bed, Washing face, brushing teeth, etc. and listen when the alarm goes on.

[@mattd8670]

I can confirm that I have had this issue and every time it happens I have found my notifications volume turned down, and it did that on its own. I simply check the volume every night before bed now.

[@The1AndOnly875]

Samsung phones had this exact same issue a couple years ago from my experience which they eventually fixed, and it's suprising iphones are also getting this bug now. Alarms seem like such a simple fearure 😅

[@veemyu]

I’m using an old iPhone 5 on iOS 6 for an alarm. I set it across my bedroom, so I also have to fully get up to turn the alarm off. Never had an issue for a year

[@supermaral]

when i tell you my alarm went off when i saw the notification for this video! talk about perfect timing...

[@sambhavkanulla]

this gives some relief. i thought i was the only one getting lazier day by day. Such a dumb basic feature bug from Apple. Never had this issue when i was using Android. What is the next bug? 'You cannot call anyone, so we recommend you to travel to the receiver's location.'

[@turkeysamwich00]

“Why your iPhone alarm isn’t going off” . . . “idk” Thanks for the informative video!

[@chrisnalivanloggerenberg9536]

Also experiencing a volume issue and some alarms not going off, that explains a lot! 😣

[@canyudigit5146]

I was recently fired my job for this reason. Finally using my college degree and was denied unemployment because being tardy is “ considered misconduct” . THIS IS STRAIGHT BS .

[@janjoberry]

I'm a light sleeping and never overslept my alarm but the other day I literally missed class cus my alarm never rang 💀💀 thought I just forgot to set it or I slept thru it and never questioned it but damn this explains everything

[@Ronnocbot]

I've had this issue since 2015. There will be times it's alarm is on the alarm screen, but no noise is coming from the iPhone. Been a thing for almost 10 years!

[@Jem.Studios]

I’M NOT CRAZY? I THOUGHT I WAS TWEAKING CUZ I WASNT WAKING UP ANYMORE AFTER IT USED YO NEVER FAIL

[@cmedeir]

You cannot trust an alarm in your $1000+ phone, but my 30 year old $7.99 Radio Shack alarm clock still performs like a champ.

[@Jayden-lr2mm]

This is so relatable not gonna lie

[@Paricyte]

I keep on being late to work because of this. If I lose my job imma sue Apple 😭

[@rubenvenafro1876]

THANK YOU. Also, why is it so complicated to program an alarm app? I'm not a programmer but I guess it's easy to program "if time is 6:00 phone goes beep beep"