Alarm every midnight on iPhone 13 and iPad air.

For a while now every night at midnight exactly my iPhone 13 sounds a tritone alarm.


I have no alarms set. I have turned off all notifications. I have updated my phone (to iOS 16.1.1). I have factory reset my iPhone and restored from back-up. I have factory reset my iPhone and manually reloaded apps from the App Store. I have deleted the Health app (so no bedtime settings.) I have deleted the clock app (alarm still sounded, so I downloaded it again.) There are no reminders set, including in the Calendar app. I have put the phone on silent, alarm still sounded.) I have never used the tritone setting for an alarm or notification I have set (I have my own custom tones I always prefer to use. Siri is completely shut down on every app.


Last night I left my phone downstairs but my iPad Air 2 which I had by the bed sounded the same alarm at midnight. Have again checked all settings on the iPad, same as iPhone, but I haven't updated the software, it's still on iOS 15.1.


There are no banners, flags, notifications or other indications as to what is causing it.


I am at my wits end. I've probably done other stuff not listed above, just can't remember it all!


I have searched and found other references to a similar problem but I think I have tried every suggestion that has been made in those cases. But I'm open to any suggestions people can make, apologies if I have to say "tried that too!"


I'm starting to really suffer from my sleep being broken every night.

iPhone 13 Pro

Posted on Dec 3, 2022 5:49 AM

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Dec 5, 2022 12:06 AM in response to Ghytrxy

Just an update... first I described the alarm as tritone. My mistake. It's a monotone beep beep, pause, beep beep, pause sound. Second I've now discovered my iPad Pro is also sounding the same alarm at midnight. Alarm lasts exactly one minute and cannot be turned off. You just have to wait till it stops..


Last night I tried putting my phone in airplane mode overnight to see if it was an external signal triggering the sound. But it still woke me up at midnight.

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