Broken Alarm Widget on Lock Screen iOS 16.1

I have the same problem it says alarm off and even when I turn on my sleep schedule it still says alarm off. I didn’t have this problem before the update and it had nothing to do with sleep schedule it went with what your alarm was set for. I had sleep schedule off. I liked not having to open the clock app and have all those extra steps to make sure I set my alarm. APPLE FIX THIS!

Update, I got excited to soon as it worked perfectly yesterday. I even tested by turning on and off my alarm and sleep schedule. I noticed this morning that the bug is back again.

Apple, please fix this!

Hi,

I have the exact same issue, as do these folks (as a sample):

Since I updated to 16.1, my alarms are not showing on my Lock Screen. It just says no alarms but they are set and work every morning. : ios (reddit.com)

iOS 16.1 - Next Alarm Widget on the Lock Screen shows OFF even if I have alarms ON : applehelp (reddit.com)

This is with alarm schedules created via the Health app (e.g. I have M-F, Sa and Sun separately scheduled).

Note that the widget worked perfectly for several weeks on all versions of iOS 16 on my iPhone 14 Pro, until iOS 16.1. So it's definitely a bug in 16.1 specifically.

There are various temporary workarounds involving deleting or editing alarms, restarting the phone after removing the widget, etc. but the problem always returns the next day. Really hoping there is awareness on Apple's part and that this will be fixed in a future update. I'm coming back to iPhone from Android, and this worked perfectly on my Android phone. : (

Still broken on 16.3.1

This unfortunately isn’t actually a solution. The Sleep Schedule is a feature which makes use of the Alarms functionality. It’s very valuable to me and I don’t want to disable it. I just want the widget to show those alarms correctly also, as it did until 16.1 broke it.

Thanks for posting in the Apple Support Communities orhan7,

You may want to consider setting a wake up alarm based on your sleep schedule. The following steps explain how:

Change the next wake up alarm

The wake up alarm in the Clock app shows the next wake up time in your sleep schedule (if you’ve set up a sleep schedule in the Health app). Although you don’t set the wake up alarm in Clock, you can make changes to it in Clock after you’ve set up a sleep schedule.

1: Tap Alarm, then tap Change.

2: Adjust your sleep and wake times.

Drag  to change your wake up time,  to change your bedtime, or the semicircle between the icons to shift both times simultaneously.

3: Scroll down to Alarm Options, then change any of the following:

Alarm: Tap to turn the alarm off or on.

Sounds & Haptics: Tap to choose a vibration or ringtone.

Alarm volume: Drag the slider.

Snooze: Turn on to give yourself a few more minutes of sleep.

To make changes to your sleep schedule that extend beyond your next wake up alarm, tap Edit Sleep Schedule in Health. (See Add or change sleep schedules in Health on iPhone.)

The following page includes these steps, along with additional information that may be helpful: Set an alarm on iPhone

For regular alarms, try removing an alarm, and recreating it to see whether there's any change.

Cheers!

02-25-23: Still not fixed in 16.3.1. I have a sleep schedule set and my alarm issue is similar to what’s been reported here with one slight difference. My Lock Screen widget indeed shows the correct wake-up time alarm in the expected recurring pattern every single day without fail *unless* I change it (edit the wake-up time) or turn it off (say I wake up early enough and don’t want to hear it, so I toggle it off). If I do either of those things (change the time or turn the alarm off), the Lock Screen widget will show the alarm as “Off” after the designated alarm time has been met. Here’s where it’s interesting: I can get the widget to show the designated alarm time again (instead of “Off”) if I simply tap “Off”, then tap “Change”, then tap “Done”. Voila! The widget once again shows the alarm time even though I didn’t actually “Change” it. In addition, I cannot overstate how disappointed I am that we can no longer Skip the alarm in two taps. We used to be able to tap the widget’s alarm time and have a menu show up directly at the bottom of the Lock Screen where one had two choices: “Change Alarm” or “Skip Alarm”. “Change” was in orange font and “Skip” was in red font which made “Skip” so easy to see with blurry/sleepy eyes. You just tapped the red font “Skip” and you were done…alarm skipped for just that day. Now the whole alarm process is such a burdensome point of stress. I was so hoping it would all get fixed in 16.3.1.

FOUND A SOLUTION!

I just recently switched from Android to iPhone and was wondering why my alarm wasn’t showing. The bug is that it is based on your “Sleep Schedule” in health.

To fix this go in to the Health App (white background with a pinkish heart). In the bottom right, select Browse > Sleep > Your Schedule: Sleep Schedule > Toggle Off.

This immediately fixed it for me, but to check if it worked for you, lock your phone. Wake up your screen and look at your alarm widget, and it should now show the correct alarm.

Hope this helps!

I am having this exact issue. Set my sleep schedule alarm after updating to 16.1. It showed on the lock screen, which is super reassuring. Worked like a charm for one day, and now the widget on the lock screen shows alarm off, tho the alarm is definitely set. Very frustrating.

This does not help. I have the alarm set in sleep schedule and it still appears off and didn’t ring while the alarm outside of sleep schedule did but the widget still shows alarms off. I have ios 16.2. This is getting disturbing.

It is not fixed for me on 16.3. : (

I really can't believe something this obvious and noticeable hasn't been fixed given it's been present for multiple updates. Very unlike the quality I'm used to with Apple products.

I am also experiencing the exact same problem. Eventhough my alarm is set for the next day on the app the widget keeps showing alarms off. Usually I turn it off and turn it back on and it starts showing the alarm when it's closer to the time, but the same problem happens again once the alarm goes off the next day. This issue has been happening since I updated my phone to ios 16.1, and this didn't happen before the update. I hope this issue gets resolved soon, because the widget is very helpful.

I have the same issue with the Clock app widget. However, it works fine with the Sleep widget. If it is intended, I feel like it is kind of a bad design decision though

Yeah the widget is very helpful because we don't have to constantly check in the app

Nope.