iOS 14 sleep wake up alarm sound not working on iPhone

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.

try this:

Watch app>clock>push alerts from iphone >turn off

that and disable sleep tracking from watch might work. It worked for me.

The only thing that I could make it work so far, is to disable Silent Mode when I'm off to bed, then it vibrates and sound the alarm... only this will work for me.

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.

Go on in the health app, select sleep & select all schedule or view more schedule & for each schedule you have a button turn off. In french it’s “rappel d’alarme” and under we can see a caption: “if you wear you apple watch, alarm will ring/vibrate on the watch”. Will see tomorrow if it works!

Mine's been doing the same - Apple Watch tapping my wrist with no calming wake-up tune on my watch or phone. All settings correct etc, but it worked for the first time (since the IOS 14 update) last night! Why? Because it was the first time I wasn't wearing my watch - it was charging at my bedside. The wake up alarm went off on my phone as it used to. Defeats the object of having any sleep analysis on the watch of course! Hopefully they'll sort this glitch v soon.

Hi all.

Even seeming completely unconnected, performing a network settings reset made my alarms go off as scheduled again. I did so due to a completely different reason (I was trying to test Wi-Fi calling), but surprisingly, the alarms worked again afterwards.

I hope it helps.

iPhone 7 Plus currently running iOS 14.0.1.

Make sure "track time in bed with iphone" is off.

Sleep reminders and results are up to you.

Under manage in watch, again, make sure "turn on automatically" is off, and that "track sleep with apple watch" is on.

Make sure to double check in your sleep settings that you have the watch mimic the phone for sleep/dnd, and do not have those on a schedule specifically for sleep.

From now on, you can use the regular alarms, just not the normal wake up alarm.

Set the other alarms normally, and you should now get vibration on the watch, and audible on the phone (as long as you have the alarm volume turned up in the audio settings).

Just set your alarms, press the sleep toggle on your watch or phone, and go to bed. Click the sleep toggle again after your alarm is off, etc, and you're done.

Just as a note, I have read that the nightstand mode can make the alarm skip the phone. I have not been able to replicate this, but suggest turning off nightstand mode if you have any issues.

If you want basic vibration only alarms on the watch, you can set those on the watch itself. Any alarm set on the watch should only go off on the watch, and not the phone, so please remember these are not the same.

Just to repeat, after changing these settings, all audible alarms should be set on the phone itself, and never use the bedtime/wake alarm itself.

Hope that helps, in the event that we don't get this addressed.

@feistygypsy

Read my post above yours.

That's as good as it gets, as far as I can tell so far, and yes that means disabling the wake alarm itself, but basically everything else that's important is functional with the settings I listed.

You can't have the automated wake alarm, is the primary issue that it boils down to.

The rest of the alarms can still do audible and vibration as long as you disable the wake alarm part and the automatic DnD from the sleep settings. You can still have your sleep shortcuts on the lockscreen when you manually activate sleep on the watch or phone, and working audible alarms on the phone with vibration on the watch (or vibration only ones if you set them only on the watch).

The wake up alarm was nice, as it didn't come on full blast, but with the settings I listed above, you should have everything that matters the most, covered. You just have to toggle sleep mode manually, which is easy enough from the control center on either the watch or the phone (you can set it up so they replicate the other).

*****Follow up settings that I have tried, and that work consistantly for me now*****

*****These settings require that you read my posts here, or at least the last few, as they state anecdotal issues that are improved by disabling the wake alarm itself. Those settings are important, and what I say in this post will likely not work correctly if you did not follow the directions of disabling the wake feature*****

*****THIS ONLY WORKS FOR THE MANUAL ALARMS (Although it's fine to put them on repeat, etc)*****

Ok, so you want you phone to still produce audio when the alarm goes off, instead of just a weak watch vibration.

Here are scenarios I tried, and all had success, as long as the "Wake Alarm" is FULLY DISABLED, so that your alarms will basically be from scratch.

Using the settings I have stated in former posts to completely remove the wake up alarm feature, here are the results of my trials:

Basic test goal: "Test if it's ok to use nightstand mode now, with alarms (try on wrist, and try on nightstand)"

1. Try with sleep on, watch on nightstand -- OK!
2. Try with sleep off, watch on nightstand -- OK!
3. Try with sleep off, watch on -- OK!
4. Try with sleep on, watch on, using watch alarm and regular alarm, at almost the same time (watch one first) -- Each work independently and do not cancel each other out (watch alarm is not bedtime style) -- OK!

These are pretty much the four ways I would use alarms for waking up.

As you see, using this method, all manual alarms set on the phone itself will remain audible in silent mode now.

You can also set alarms on the watch itself. These will only go off on the watch itself. I have only tested the watch alarms in "silent mode," and confirmed that they will go off as vibration only in that mode, and have nothing to do with the phone alarms, so you can freely set these independently (assuming, again, you 100% are not using the wake alarm in any manner).

Disclosure: I am an amateur nobody, and have no affiliation with Apple, outside of being a customer and in some sense maybe a partial shareholder as the S&P 500 is in the bulk of modern US mutual funds.

Same thing happen to me. Just turn off my phone and turn it back on and problem is solve. Mine fix. Hope you guys do fix too so no more late for work.😅

I didn't want my alarm going off on my watch only so I turned off sleep settings on the watch and that solved my issue.

Watch app>sleep > don't use this watch for sleep>turn off.

Go to Apple watch app>sleep>don't use this watch for sleep>turn off. It will make the alarm sound on iphone only and not on watch. I was having the issue of the alarm going off on the watch only while it was charging on the table. Iphone was always mute. This solved the issue.

Right, so at this point, essentially disabling Sleep settings for the watch completely, disabling nightstand, and disabling the alarm to be pushed to your watch, should allow for normal functionality of the alarm, in the sense of it shouldn't make the watch ring instead.

I personally have those disabled, no longer wear my watch to bed ever now, and also use alarmy (and make sure it's open in the background), so make sure I will be woken up.

I'm currently updating to 14.1 in the hopes that changes something, but I'll be sticking with my current settings (forcing everything watch related to sleep/nightstand/alarm off, unless AAPL does something about this.

One of the main reasons I bought the watch was for sleeping with it, so I feel rather let down that AAPL doesn't give us more control over these settings.

To some people, sleeping with a watch may not seem very important, and I understand that, however for some of us the ability to monitor sleep patterns is very beneficial. People that use CPAP machines, people checking their resting heart rate, people checking for disturbances from their partner's alarm/movement, people with animals that might be waking them up. A lot of these things can be picked up by the watch as movement and a change in heart rate, and can often be correlated to certain events, so it serves a purpose beyond seeming like a nifty feature.

I hope they bring back sleep monitoring and nightstand ability, with the option to always have alarms through the phone. It's as simple as making that an option.

AAPL coders, if you see this, all we need for complete functionality and choice is simply to make these two commands the last function of the chain in the alarm flow chart:

"Send All Alarms Set on Phone to Watch if Worn? (Yes/No)"

"Send All Alarms Set on Watch to Phone, if Watch is Worn? (Yes, No)"

"Only use Phone for ALL Alarms? (Yes/No) [toggling this would grey out the former two and lock all alarms to phone if chosen]"

That's pretty much it. Anything else is icing on the cake and could be useful to some, but the basic functionality should be straightforward.

People often use phones as alarms these days. You're taking one of the most important features used daily, and making it difficult to understand the logic behind the settings. Since you base AAPL around simplicity, offer those simple three choices I listed, and you've corrected the largest issue, as well as improving it from the original way.

I read on the discussion that if sound is turned off on your Apple Watch, no sound occurs and this is what I am experiencing. I have sound off on both my watch and iPhone. The Bedtime Alarm still played (at whatever volume was set) on the iPhone prior to IOS 14. Now the only notification is the haptic vibration on the watch which would not wake me up if I was in a deep sleep.