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How to get rid of the Sleep/Wake up section in Alarms; came with ios 14.

So the Sleep/Wake up section on my alarm page.

I have never used this facility and never plan to.

With ios 14 it has appeared at the top of my alarms and I want it gone.

A search of this page suggested when it happened with ios 13, just go into General and do a reset, this didn't work with ios 14. Anyone know how to get rid of that piece of junk I don't want?

There isn't a Sleep/Wake up option on the bottom toolbar to enable me to remove it, as noted in posts about 13.

I went into Health but as I had never set anything, there was nothing to undo and there appeared to be no 'remove' button

Posted on Oct 11, 2020 3:22 AM

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Posted on May 17, 2021 5:48 PM

Hey Apple - It's not enough to turn off the alarm. I want the whole Sleep/Wake Up section GONE from the alarm screen. At a bare minimum, I should be allowed to move it to the bottom of the screen. Congratulations, you have created a feature that will ANNOY ME EVERY DAY!

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Jun 28, 2021 2:04 PM in response to sunshine757

So….as I’ve commented above…I’ve gone into sleep and tried to turn everything off as is possible. I recently did this again because I’m so **** tired of being awaken at 4:35am on my days off!!!!! Now..:I don’t usually turn my phone off too often. But…I did not too long ago and it seems like my 4:35 muster Alamein has not come on lately. I can’t be 100% sure but it MIGHT be worth opening up Sleep app and making sure there is no sleep schedule and then turning off and restarting your phone. I notice my music that annoyingly plays when connecting to my car radio….I deleted my music from device and even though I have celiac data disabled for iTunes/music it would STILL PLAY!!!!!! But once I turned the phone off and back on it seems to have solved that. Well…sucks that I can’t have music on my **** phone anymore. Growing to hate apple more and more…

Jan 15, 2021 11:32 AM in response to trudy234

OMG!!!! It is AWFUL Apple has created an automatic alarm setting I can’t turn off!!!!


Ive spent a couple hours doing internet searches trying to turn it off and can’t!


about once A week I forget to reset it when I go to bed and it wakes me up I the middle of my sleep time and I can’t go back to sleep


Apple — please give me the option to turn off the alarm YOU automatically set!

Jan 19, 2021 5:26 PM in response to Jjames90

Thank you So Much Jjames90!


I am posting some instructions below, including yours.


I really have NO IDEA WHY APPLE NEEDS TO AUTOMATICALLY SET AN ALARM ON A PERSONS PHONE EACH DAY. Because APPLE AUTOMATICALLY SETS AN ALARM ON MY PHONE, I have been wakened in the middle of my unusual sleep time about 100 times and often have Not Been Able to Get Back to Sleep.


To Stop iPhone from Controlling Your Life AND Automatically Setting an Alarm at a Time You Don't Want:


For some reason Apple Automatically Sets an alarm on your phone each day. To see the alarm that Apple Automatically Set open the Clock App. The first entry is "Alarm Sleep Wake Up", which for some reason APPLE AUTOMATICALLY SETS (It's wakened me up early about 100 times, as I have a non-normal sleep schedule.)


To STOP APPLE FROM AUTOMATICALLY SETTING AN ALARM ON YOUR PHONE:

Open the Health App.

Tap Browse (bottom right, 4 small squares).

Scroll down and Tap Sleep.

Under Your Schedule Tap the Sleep Schedule button OFF.


If the above doesn't work you can set your phone so APPLE IS ABLE TO ONLY SET AN ALARM ON YOUR PHONE ONE DAY A WEEK (RATHER THAN THE SEVEN DAYS A WEEK APPLE AUTOMATICALLY SETS AN ALARM ON YOUR PHONE). Do this:

Open the Health App.

Tap Browse (bottom right, 4 small squares).

Scroll down and Tap Sleep.

Under Full Schedule, tap Edit.

Choose one Day to be Active and set your Bedtime and Wake Up times.

Doing this results in you ONLY HAVING TO REMEMBER TO CHECK YOUR CLOCK ONE DAY A WEEK TO STOP APPLE FROM AUTOMATICALLY SETTING AN ALARM ON YOUR PHONE.

Mar 30, 2021 2:55 AM in response to trudy234

Hah. I got you all beat. I’m not just annoyed that it’s there. It’s sounding an OLD alarm even though that alarm has long been deleted no have EVERYTHING in sleep that I can figure out how to turn off turned off (Apple is notorious for counterintuitive interfaces). I’m about to flush this 12 Pro down the toilet. Never before have I contemplated switching to android but this is about to push me over the edge. For the last serial weeks I resorted to turning down the ringer sound in settings all the way as low as it will go. Turing on vibrate. (So much for being able to hear the phone ring in an overnight emergency. Thanks Apple). That seemed to work. Now....had to get back on a work schedule so I made an Alamein for 4:30am. OF COURSE the old one rings at 4:35...again, it doesn’t even exist. Somehow **** is being remembered in the slew creature even though it’s supposedly all off.

Apr 5, 2021 6:12 AM in response to 124sport

Just to point out ... this behavior is specific to iOS through the Health app (as has been mentioned).


That means that iPads don't have this behavior in its Clock app because iPads don't have the Health app. So that's a workaround if you have an iPad.


Otherwise, a mitigation in iOS is to open Health app, scroll down to Sleep, scroll down to "Your Schedule." One thing to note since it's not obvious is that if you have a Schedule set, you can change or edit it on a daily basis. The default, I believe, is everyday. You can just toggle off all but one day and then limit that to a specific time period for sleep.


If it's already OFF I wouldn't mess with it further.


But again, it doesn't appear as though you can get rid of the screen heading "Sleep | Wake Up" regardless of your Health app Settings.

Apr 11, 2021 7:43 AM in response to trudy234

Apple made a stupid feature of the existence of an iPhone!

If someone needs to determine when they will go to sleep or wake up, they will set their alarm when they will have it for each day separately for the whole week. Or forever!

Apple made the biggest mistake ever, I sincerely hope that the one who gave the idea finished his work in apple!


With this way of sleeping / waking with an alarm that cannot be edited it is a horror for all users. You can't get rid of the Sleep / Wake section in Alarms, apple becomes trash.


I am desperate and hope that Apple will abolish this feature very soon!

I wish Mr. Tim Cook had a little more insight and understanding for the users, I will write to him every day on this topic!



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Apr 28, 2021 11:45 AM in response to Gregory MOW

I'm fed up with Apple at this point. I'm sure they're getting $$$ from having the "Health" app alarm loaded into our clocks, but the "improvement" is a major fail. I regularly use my alarm (in the clock) to remind me of meetings. The feature for setting a new alarm does not work as easily, but worst of all, the blasted "Health" crap is at the top of the clock, and there seems to be no way to get it off of that app.


I already hate the very expensive MacBook Pro I bought that has the worse trackpad ever. I'm ready to move to Microsoft and Android. Fed up.

Apr 29, 2021 3:35 AM in response to Sunshine2021-

Everybody saying “oh just go to the slew section in health and turn off sleep schedule etc”...,IT SIMPLY DOESNT ALWAYS WORK!!!! I’ve had a mystery alwamr going off for months at 4:35am. Not a biggie right now because I get up at 4:30 using a separate alarm. I’ve had every possible setting turn off and it drill goes off. I USED to have an alarm at 4:35am and it remembered that alarm and now I matter what I do it goes off. On my days off I’ve had to resort to turning down all sounds and haptics, putting it on vibrate, and do not disturb....hopefully I never get an emergency phone call in the middle of the night.

How to get rid of the Sleep/Wake up section in Alarms; came with ios 14.

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