Timer and Alarm not working after ios 15.4 update

Go to Sound and Haptics. Under Ringers and Alerts set the Change with Buttons slider to ON. This solved the problem for me.

Hello and welcome to Apple Support Communities, rachelgrimes38!

We understand you're having trouble with timers and alarms not working correctly muon your iPhone. We'd be happy to provide information to help you address this.

Sometimes, simply restarting can resolve many issues: Restart your iPhone

If the issues continue after restarting, you may need to reinstall iOS completely and test with a new setup:How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touchRestore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod to factory settings

Let us know the results after testing with a brand new setup.Have a great day!

I thought it might be a bug in the beta program with the timer but it’s been since ios 14.something that I get nothing. Counts down to zero then no notification and no alert sound. Nothing. Restarted my phone many times since this started and it still doesn’t work. Alarm works fine however. The only way I’m going to see the timer hit zero is if I have the app open.

You need to fix the glitches in your updates is what you need to do! Because even following your troubleshooting that you left for the person above who’s having the same issues it doesn’t work! Fix it! I’ve been late to work three times this week no thanks to you guys. Your stupid glitch that’s the problem!

Before on my iPhone since iOS 6 I had it set up so that ringer volume is controlled by buttons only in the phone and alarm/timer apps, in other cases it would turn down my normal (music) volume. Now I cannot get this behavior anymore and I think om this update screwed it up. Time for new leadership at Apple again and get someone to pay attention to details. After the update I had probably turned down my ringer volume without me wanting to.

Alma1090,

Please do not offer generic troubleshooting steps for issues you are not familiar with. That is absolutely frustrating, even more so when we go through all of the steps of wiping our phones just to have the same exact issue, even without restoring from backup.

Whoever has been “updating” iOS the past few years needs to stop meddling. They keep “fixing” or completely eliminating features that we love and screwing up simple things like alarms. Thanks for nothing.

As for you: please get into the habit of deep-diving issues, escalating the issue up the chain when needed (such as now), and try to only give out solutions once you’ve verified that they work yourself.

Much appreciated!

My alarm is not working and and the volume is very low..

Is Apple even looking to fix this? Timer not going off doesn’t matter if I have the app open. As soon as the screen gets locked it doesnt ring. It is terrible to go through the back up and reset and not getting it fixed. All that effort for nothing. Support should really make suggestions once they have tried and fixed the issue.

How can I reinstall my iOS…

I’ve tried everything listen above including restarting iPhone multiple times. Help? Please fix the bug

I've noticed the same thing.

I have the same problem with timer. My alarm works.

Thanks for that comment I think you have summarized everyone’s experience in this thread.

We are having the same problem with two brand new phones purchased July 1st. At first they worked, but today the ringers for phone calls and alarms and timers are so low we can't hear them.