iOS 14 sleep wake up alarm sound not working on iPhone

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.

I had the same issue, just had to set up bed time schedule in health, and the wakeup alarm will sound based on that bedtime schedule.

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

So I found that my alert volume was turned off. I changed that and at night I turn the sound on on my watch. I think the issue is because the watch does not just ping anymore. It mimics the phone sound. This has solved the issue for me.

Go ahead and update your watch. I updated both devices to newest update at the same time and the issue of iphone silent alarm and only going off on Apple watch (with noise) started. After you update turn off the setting and it might fix the issue for you. It did for me.

I'm on 14.1 on phone and on 7.0.2 on the Watch and this issue is still not fixed for me. Today my phone did not light up or sound an alarm at all, just my watch vibrating.

This new version of the 'bedtime' function is useless. It doesn't sound an alarm on my phone but it does vibrate my watch, but not sound an alarm on it. Even with the haptics turned up, it doesn't wake me as i'm a heavy sleeper. Three times now i've overslept.

I would venture that this version of the the 'bedtime' function is even more pointless than the last iteration for me.

I'm just going to do what i've always done, and set actual alarms in the clock app and turn off the bedtime function. At least I know those work.

Apple, please allow us to remove the watch from the alarm system and just have the alarm function on the phone, and ignore the watch entirely.

How is that a solution?! This isn't fixing anything. The "only" fix is to set up an extra alarm for when bed time is expired, that will do what we know: having an alarm on iPhone and Watch.

Having only ONE device doing the stuff, is NOT fixing the problem, since it is not both, tactile and sound to get you awake.

Everyone try not to attack me. I am 70, still working and definitely NOT a tech person. I have iPhone X and just got rid of my Apple watch 2 and bought a version 6. When I downloaded ios14 I had same problems, found your community discussions and tried following suggested fixes with no luck. All of a sudden I got an ios 14.1 and issue corrected itself. Wake/Sleep is in clock, I have Mon-Fri set for 6am and Sat/Sun no alarm. It looks exactly like what I had before ios 14 and works the same.

I know everyone in these discussions knows way more than I do about this. Did I just get lucky. Has no one else found it working again now?

One thing for it going off on the charger is to make sure “nightstand mode” is also disabled.

For some unknown reason, it was decided that this could make the alarm trigger on the watch as well.

Who would decide to use the little watch speaker while it’s on the charger now, as an alarm system, over the obviously larger speakers in the phone, is beyond me.

But make sure you disable that as well, unless that has been reverted in one the latest patches.

Something I discovered last night, and will try to reproduce tonight. I was wearing my watch, but forgot to unlock it before going to bed. The alarm sounded on my phone instead. Not sure if it was a random coincidence but I’m going to try again having my watch on my wrist but locked when I go to sleep

Watch app>sleep > scroll down all the way> don't use this watch for sleep>turn off.

the owner of the iwatch shall have the right to decide the alarm sound only in iphone.

but apple force everyone to sound alarm in iwatch when wearing iwatch to sleep, do not make any sense ....

what helped me is that I went into the settings on my Apple Watch and turned up the sound/volume all the way

Right, it's not called bedtime anymore but it's the same idea-- a set sleep/wakeup time for specific days of the week. I mentioned it because in the settings for that function in the health app it says if you wear your watch to bed, that's where the alarm occurs. which is why I wanted to see if everyone was using that function as their alarm, or just normal alarms.