iOS 14 Alarm/Clock Issues

The real problem is that digits are now too small to easily scroll them. Why can’t you make them bigger so that users can do both: scroll or use the keypad to enter? And what exactly was wrong with the previous alarm UI? If it ain’t broken - don’t fix it! Can’t believe someone got paid to make these UI changes...

I reset all settings, upgraded to the latest iOS 14 and still the clock app crashes (closes) when I press the “+” in an attempt to add an alarm. It is happening on both my iPhone 8 and my iPad Air 2.

hint: I’m looking at the other complaints in this thread, I suspect that the two things in common among us are:

1. the location (I presume we’re all in the Middle East)
2. the problem mysteriously started on 01/Feb/2021 (all was fine before then)

Agree! The new digit scroller is ridiculous. It’s like Apple is going backwards in technology with this UI function. There was nothing wrong with the previous digit change function, it’s 2020 - DO BETTER Apple!

same issue here, found work around by switching off the Set Automatic under the general settings > date/time

and

Putting region same as my time zone region under Language and region.

no need to reset setting of your iphones.

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I had my phone reset twice, made sure both ringer and control volumes were up. Thank god my husband wakes up before I do because this is the 3 day in a row it does not make a sound.

Apple, you gmhave to test your products before you release them, this is causing people to be late to work, and that’s really not cool.

This update to ios 14 is awfull. I ve been a user of iphone since iphone 3. Never considered changing, until today. Same goes to the new pen functions on ipad pro. I hate it. And the notifications if you are using airpods. Steve would fire some people.

Absolutely agree with all the comments. What a waste of ui skills. Simply slide left to delete or edit. That simple. To edit an alarm we have to tap on edit scroll to find the alarm which also gives us an option to delete. Guys and girls keep it simple!!!!

And WHY did they decide to remove the ability to stop an alarm from the Notification? Now you have to unlock the phone, enter the clock app, find the alarm section and manually disable the alarm. This is exceedingly frustrating. If they are trying to make these phones harder to use, they are succeeding

Totally agree the new clock app especially the 'alarm' function in ios 14 is terrible! I am considering jailbreaking my phone just so I can roll back to ios 13. Everyone in my family who I have shown the alarms function to has disabled automatic updates so they can keep the clock app as it was. For crying out loud it really is awful and a pain to use! If anyone from Apple reads this please give us back the old alarm clock exactly as it used to be. If not I'll be buying a used non ios14 phone or god forbid trying android for the first time in my life.

YES! I am so annoyed at this. I set a different alarm time every night and in my tired dazed state at night before bed, the new tiny number window is so much more error prone, and yet the empty space around it could allow it to be at least three times larger. On my iPhone SE the window is ow only 10mm x 4mm !!! I need to put on my glasses just to see it, when the old scroll wheel was large and clear. I could reset my alarm in the old app in about 2 seconds. Now I have to put on my glasses, and either select and scroll the correct part of the tiny window very carefully or correctly type in all the time digits and then proof read it to make sure I have not made a mistake. Who was the genius that decided this was a good idea?

By the way, the same tiny time window now appears (since iOS14) when setting my calendar entries as well. I use a lot of zero minute meetings to allow them to appear the way I want them on my calendar view and it will now take me three times as long to set up calendar entries as well. By the way I only set zero minute meetings because the geniuses at Apple don't show the Reminder app entries in the calendar along side your calendar appointments like they did in my old Nokia years ago, so i have been using zero minute meetings as time-set reminders since i first got an iPhone. What I can't understand is why after all these years noone has allowed reminders to be integrated into the calendar view. (I am not the only one, judging by the forums and third party apps that try to clumsily integrate the two). For me, the reminders app is useless because i need the reminders and calendar appointments to appear together in the one place. I know that is an aside, but it speaks to the "our way or the highway" approach of Apple software designers.

I am having the same issue. I have a variable schedule and LOVED the sleep function under the clock app; this has now been changed and is located under the health app and it takes several steps to update. Once the alarm is set under the sleep function in the health app, it can be viewed under the clock app. It appears it can be edited this way but it does not save. I have now been late to work all week because the app is not working.

As a side note, I prefer the sleep function to alarm because the alarms are more pleasant. Hoping they switch this back.

After a week of setting and editing calendar entries and alarms the calendar setting is annoying me even more than the alarm. For no reason at all, they now pop up a display a month of dates that hog the screen when I select the time to change (in the tiny 10mm x4mm scroll window) and I can’t see the End time set window until I scroll down the page and it is very hard to do that without accidentally touching one of those screen hogging calendar dates and accidentally changing the date to some other random day on the calendar. If they thought they were being helpful making everyone type in all the time digits instead of scrolling, why do they display a month of alternative dates you don’t want to see just to alter the time on the day you originally selected?????

Obviously, as well as being programming MORONS - APPLE CAN'T STAND CRITICISM EITHER

A 1000% FAIL ON YOUR IDIOTIC ALARM CHANGES

BTW -AUTOMATIC UPDATES DON'T WORK CORRECTLY ANYMORE EITHER - ABSOLUTELY GARBAGE PROGRAMMING

PS - I'll mention the deletions/unable to take criticism in a futute magazie article https://diyodemag.com/projects/fixing_firmware_updating_firmware_on_the_arduino_bootloader_part_2 https://diyodemag.com/education/exploring_3d_3d_printed_gears_part_1

Couldn't agree more, what's the deal with the scrolling digits? I have small hands & am struggling with it so I can't imagine how men are dealing with this. If Apple had to change it from the previous (working well) settings why didn't they at least make the scrolling digits bigger? It really makes you wonder who calls these shots sometimes...