iPhone alarms are usually silent and do not vibrate.

This has been an issue I’ve had off and on for several years with iPhones, but lately it seems like it’s gotten worse. More often than not, my alarms make zero noise. I had to go buy an alarm clock months ago because I couldn’t trust my iPhone’s alarm. It’s gotten even more unreliable since then. That’s not good. I’ve noticed the alarm I have to end my sleep focus at 5:00 never makes any noise and doesn’t vibrate. Other alarms are hit and miss. This evening, for instance, an alarm I had to remind me to do something didn’t ring and didn’t vibrate. I checked and it isn’t set to “none” for the sound. Neither is my sleep alarm. I just don’t know what to do to fix this.

iPhone 12 Pro Max

Posted on Aug 4, 2023 6:23 PM

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Posted on Apr 16, 2024 7:27 PM

See if this works for you guys— my alarm would never go off either. It always sounded REALLY quiet. Turn off the sleep tracker in your Health app. That fixed the volume immediately! Posted screenshots for you all. Hope this helps!

(basically if your alarm is before the “amount that you told the Sleep app your goal amount of sleep is” periodically it’s going to mute those alarms)

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Oct 22, 2024 9:05 AM in response to tatum153

Mine is even worse. My alarms just don’t go off at all. Like they don’t even show up on the screen or anything. I don't understand why. I changed nothing about my alarms and now they suddenly don’t go off. Also iPhone autocorrect and I keep having to retype this message because it thinks it can predict what I am going to say, except it forces me to type what it is predicting without me pressing anything. Also my iPhone automatically scrolls to the bottom of a webpage every time I touch the screen, and this has happened to me with every iPhone I have had. I swear something is just broken with the newer iOS versions.



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Nov 5, 2024 5:08 AM in response to tatum153

experiencing the same issue, which is disrupting my work and personal events. I find myself setting two alarms each time. I tested the alarm with the volume muted, and it rang, so why didn't it go off when it was supposed to? It's really frustrating. This problem has occurred with earlier iPhones as well. I'm anxious that the alarm might not work, so I now have to get a physical alarm clock. This is quite inconvenient. Apple should do better.

Nov 23, 2024 4:28 PM in response to tatum153

Im also having this same issue and have been for a few months now on and off across different iphones and os versions. It only happens sometimes though so it’s impossible to get any help from tech support, as the diagnostic log on your phone apparently only records the last 5 minutes of activity and it takes longer than that to contact the right person at apple. When it happens to me my phone screen looks like the alarm is going off, with the snooze and stop buttons visible but with no sound or vibration. Ive made sure to disable attention awareness and double check that my alarm is set to a certain ringtone with the sound turned on and all the way up. The frustrating part is that it randomly decides to stop working and that this issue has been noted on different threads and forums for over 2 years now with no fixes. This is making my phone unreliable and i hope someone here is able to find a solution, because apple support has repeatedly failed to show any interest outside of their normal 3 suggestion script and just tells me they don’t know how to fix it before telling me that they won’t talk about this issue anymore before hanging up.

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