Ghost Alarm

It is from the clock app because I’ve had the same this happening to me for the last 4 years. Even after switching phones. My alarms that I set for taking my students to PE, Art, Lunch and for waking up every morning still go off. Thank GOD when the phone is silent, only the banner for the alarm shows up (literally says clock and then what it was labeled as) and if it’s not on silent it only rings once. It’s infuriating and I’ve tried everything and even got a new phone and it’s still happening. I’ve called apple support and they were clueless, but seems it may be a more common problem now.

Ugh this just happened to me for the first time ever. Very annoying to be woken up early on the weekend for no reason. I wanted to offer one additional clue that this post reminded me of: the only thing I changed was that a few hours prior to this happening I changed my haptics from “vibrate on silent” to “do not vibrate on silent.” This makes me feel like it’s a weird hidden bug on Apple’s part, not some other app. I’ll try going back to “vibrate on silent” and see if that fixes the problem tomorrow. But obvs would rather this not be an issue.

I had the same thing happen to me just last night. I had set up different alarms on the Apple Alarm app for medication reminders due to a broken wrist and the need to take meds at night. ALL alarms were toggled off when I went to bed due to a change in medication protocol, but the alarms continued to go off every three hours. NOT a great night.

Please Apple...there's a bug in your alarm app. Can't someone work on fixing it?

I have the same problem with 2 ghost alarms. They are silenced by the mute switch as well. Their notifications appear with the “Clock” app name and icon.

OB1Konobe wrote:

-Strange thing is if I flick on my silent mode, and have no vibrations for notifications, I can keep the phantom alarm silent, but the problem is I can’t always do that because it affects my other notifications that I need to receive. Thankfully, the bedtime alarm I have control over still goes off in silent mode, so I can somewhat get by.

As Alarms from the Clock app are NOT silenced by the mute switch, this piece of information alone indicates that your problem is with some other app. I suggest you go to Settings>Notifications and look at every single app and turn off the sound on any that you don't recognize as being important. There have been numerous reports of unexpected apps setting off alarms. There is no easy way to isolate which one it is other than to disable sound notifications.

Hello OB1Konobe,

We want to get you some help with that issue. Please contact Apple Support for assistance.

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Take care.

If the alarm is being affected by the mute switch, it's not coming from the Clock app. It's something else.

I am having this issue also, was this issue ever resolved?