iOS 14 sleep wake up alarm sound not working on iPhone

It completely disables sleep tracking from the watch as the description says on the app. But for me it was the only way to make the alarm work on my iphone only. I don't have an interest on keeping track of my sleep with the watch as I never wear it during sleep (because its charging), but for those who do that may be a con.

No luck here, even on the latest version.

I unpaired the watch, disabled everything I could think of, and can make it work by itself until.....

....I pair the watch back up, at which point if I'm wearing it while I sleep, the watch alarm will go off instead of the phone, if it's set to the bedtime alarm. It does show the message in the bedtime screen stating that will happen, after pairing the watch back to the phone, so that makes sense.

I have tried it as a "new watch," and from a backup.

This morning I verified that it is still sending a vibration alarm to the watch, as I was already awake when it went off, thanks to Alarmy.

The watch/phone didn't even care that I had been moving both around and was not asleep. It still buzzed the watch silently, and I still would have slept through that most days.

So no luck on the bedroom alarm yet, but thumbs up for Alarmy being free and working as intended. Unfortunately this is a bad fix, as a crash could cause the app to not fire or not be in the background, so it is not a good workaround for something that should really be properly fixed in the operating system itself.

This is the best I have come up with so far, so that you can get sleep tracking, as well as audible/vibration alarms.

You need to do this method manually before sleep, and disable sleep mode when you're done. It doesn't have to be the moment you go to sleep, or anything, just at some point prior, and then again, at some point after.

These instructions will set your watch and phone to Sleep/DnD while sleep is turned on manually, and disengage those when you turn sleep off manually.

The important toggle for this setup is the sleep toggle on your watch, or the sleep toggle on your phone. Setup correctly, they will both toggle together.

Settings:

Colck --> Alarm --> Click the wakeup alarm, and set it up to a typical sleep cycle that you use, but DO NOT enable the wake up alarm toggle. We will not be using that alarm at all. Under sleep schedule, you can activate a schedule if you like, with wind down shortcuts and all, but on the "Options" tab that brings you to a new page, MAKE SURE TURN ON AUTOMATICALLY IS OFF.

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.

beanmom246 I have had the same thing happen but determined that I had not been hitting the done button in the top right so it would actually save the alarm change.

Same!!! Except I don’t have an Apple Watch so I was an hour late to work! Really need to sort out this bug this is a huge issue. I have been messing with it all day and no matter what I do I cannot get it to make sound or vibrate when the alarm is going off. Coworker is also having this issue.

That should be syncing to your watch, so make sure your watch is turned on, unlocked, on your wrist (or whatever keeps it unlocked for now) and not in silent mode.

Adjust all the settings in the app now, and they should stay. Now you can toggle silent on and off using the watch, and you'll see it go back and forth on the phone in realtime.

I don't have a good solution for the real problem here though. I have fully disabled nightstand mode, and disabled everything bed related from the phone/watch, and no longer use any of the built in sleep software to work with the alarms.

It's just not reliable for me to wear the watch to bed anymore. Unfortunately, that's as close to solving the problem as I am willing to mess around with until this either changes or I just stop ever caring about using the watch during sleep. I have now combined the regular (non-sleep setting) alarm, as well as alarmy (which you have to keep in the background if on silent mode).

The watch was never all that great for a sleep device anyways, but now it's just a whole mess.

Oh, and don't forget to make sure you disable the auto-911 dialing if you tried resetting your watch and pairing it again. The last thing you want is to miss your alarm, but wake up to police in your bedroom instead.

This is really an issue, and I can't understand how can Apple deploy a "feature" like this with a) barely any warning and b) no way to choose if you prefer the old way of waking you up.

I missed my first wake up alarm last friday, and now it's a matter of choosing if you prefer not to wear your watch to sleep or keep the sound on your watch on. Because there's no other way to get wake up sounds from your phone + watch combo. It's just nuts.

I'm writing to see if with enough replies the issue gets noticed and fixed ASAP.

I’m been having the exact same issues as all of you & I updated my iOS as soon as possible as I was so excited for a sleep feature built into the watch but wow do I regret it! It’s only been problem after problem. After many attempts I finally managed to back up & restore iPhone as advised from another thread which has fixed the issue of my sounds & haptics volume muting itself but to my dismay I still slept in this morning, and from reading your responses I finally understand that it’s not a glitch it’s intentional setting by Apple that we cannot control!!!! I’m so frustrated. Does anybody know if there is a way to roll back to iOS 13?? I miss my old alarm ringing on my phone & vibrating on my watch I can’t deal with this.

If you ask me, this is less of a bug and more a design function that Apple need to amend.

I too experienced both my iPhone and watch alarms going off which was perfect, now only my watch alarm works when wearing it overnight which if on silent (as I normally have my watch and phone) only vibrates, which isn’t enough to wake me.

My preference would be for the watch to vibrate (if on silent), and my phone alarm to go off as usual - however judging by the description in the ‘Alarm’ app, it does seem like it’s designed this way.

Let’s just hope they change it in an upcoming update

Grrr....Same thing is happening to me! I’ve tried going to the watch setting and turning off mirror my iPhone of alarms and alerts. It works for a few days and then goes back to vibrating on the watch. I’m not even wearing my watch!! It’s sitting on my nightstand in nightstand mode so I can see time during the night if I need to. I don’t want my watch sitting on my bedside table to be my alarm Apple. Why? Please fix this. 🙏🏻

I’m starting to get used to waking up from the watch only but I don’t like it. Anything that is critical wake up time I set a secondary alarm on the phone (which is loud and obnoxiously scary to wake up to 😡).

one thing that helped me to wake up to the watch was setting the volume of the alarm to max, and also every night making sure my watch isn’t on silent mode.

still wish we could choose the phone for alarm sounds with sleep tracking though. This is crap the way it is.