iOS 14 sleep wake up alarm sound not working on iPhone

I too was having this Issue and it was driving me insane. I don't like wearing my watch when I sleep. I finally figured out how to turn it off from the watch and let it play through your phone!

Go into the clock app on your iPhone --> alarm/wake and click "change" --> click "edit schedule" --> scroll down and click "options"--> scroll down and click "manage sleep in the Apple Watch app --> scroll down and click "don't use this watch for alarm".

***NOTE: This will not vibrate your watch or play any part of the alarm through your watch! It will only play on your iPhone***

For some reason the glitch thinks that you are wearing the watch to bed and only sends the alarm to the watch. I always have the watch charging at night, never on my wrist. On your watch you can go to settings and then “sleep” and disable the sleep function. Since doing that the alarm has been going to my phone each morning.

I’ve been having the same issue since the last update. Last night i turned off Bluetooth and I finally heard the sleep alarm on my phone again. I never sleep with my watch on - it’s always on the charging dock at night.

This is expected behavior. Delete the current sleep schedule & then create another one, this time on the iPhone. The notification will then be seen on both devices due to being set up on paired iPhone versus set up on the watch

Doxielv3 wrote:

I had this issue and spoke with numerous AppleCare specialists and no one could fix it until my son noticed something. You have to turn off bluetooth to your watch before bed or otherwise the ringer will not sound. The alarm goes off but silently. Seems strange but it works.

Or lock the watch. That works for me.

I had this issue and spoke with numerous AppleCare specialists and no one could fix it until my son noticed something. You have to turn off bluetooth to your watch before bed or otherwise the ringer will not sound. The alarm goes off but silently. Seems strange but it works.

I no longer wear my watch at night to bed. I turn off the bluetooth to my phone each night or my phone still doesn't ring. The Alarm goes off but doesn't make a sound.

I have had the same issues as everyone else here, and i’ve waken up late multiple times. Although I wanted to keep using the sleep app, I also added an additional normal alarm five minutes after my sleep wake up for the days I use the alarm in case i didn’t wake up from the vibrations from my watch. It isn’t what I wanted, but hopefully this can help a few of you out temporarily as Apple hopefully fixes this :)

TatlinR wrote:

I get the direction Apple is going with looping sleep onto the “wake up” alarm- but I really don’t know anyone who wears their watch to sleep. That’s just my experience- and it could be many people do.

Yes, lots of people do. That's why Apple implemented the sleep tracking feature on the Apple Watch: lots of user requests.

Try turning off the nightstand mode on your watch. That seems to have worked for some people. I don't know though as I wear my watch to bed.

Experiment by turning off Bluetooth at night, which also means I don't wear my watch to bed. Works for me.

keith_hungate wrote:

Somewhere along the line of these ongoing comments about the Bedtime app, one would think that SOMEBODY at Apple would figure out that many Apple Watch users are all of a sudden unhappy because the Bedtime App stopped working like it did several version updates ago. I wear my watch to bed and what used to happen were 2 things: (1) The watch vibrated at alarm time and (2) The iPhone played the specified melody. Apparently we are in a tunnel where no one from Apple is paying attention.

You should be telling all of this to Apple as they are the only ones who can do anything about it:

Product Feedback - Apple

The fact that Apple has changed it doesn't mean they weren't "paying attention". It could mean that there are people who think this way will work better for the vast majority of watch users. Or, there may be another reason for the change.

Ark-appleuser wrote:

It not like we didn’t have enough stress and now they mess with something that worked fine! I do not own an Apple watch or want one. “Bedtime” sleep tracking worked just fine and now it is disabled in IOS 14 to force you to use the Health app “sleep” feature. I hate it.

You can still use the same old alarm features that have existed in the Clock app for years. You do not have to use Health or sleep tracking.

Somewhere along the line of these ongoing comments about the Bedtime app, one would think that SOMEBODY at Apple would figure out that many Apple Watch users are all of a sudden unhappy because the Bedtime App stopped working like it did several version updates ago. I wear my watch to bed and what used to happen were 2 things: (1) The watch vibrated at alarm time and (2) The iPhone played the specified melody. Apparently we are in a tunnel where no one from Apple is paying attention.

Skw444 wrote:

Is it that ‘most people’ aren’t having the problem or ‘most people’ don’t use this feature. Probably doesn’t change the response by Apple either way, but wanted to clarify.

I suspect that a large percentage of people who have iPhones and Watches use them as alarms. The new sleep tracking feature has led to some confusion for people over what is supposed to sound and when. So, that's some of the issue. And then there are some people who are having problems even within that context.

Feedback through the correct channel is important because that's how Apple tracks this sort of problem. When they see enough to begin to see a pattern, the sometimes even reach out to people who have posted in the forums.

Hi nawajaca,

Yes.

I think there's a new problem, or one I haven't been able to locate before.

Something is trying to allow the alarm to disarm if it thinks you're awake. It did it to me today, although I was awake to catch it. I got a popup today that the phone saying that it thinks I'm awake, and I have no idea why it did that as it has not done so in the past (that I recall anyways).

I had not experienced this until the latest iOS release, or at least I had not been able to be awake to catch it in action.

Let us know if you track down the reason.

I'll spend some time in the next few days trying to replicate it as well.