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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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casee97

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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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SashaL16

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8 points

Aug 27, 2024 6:21 AM in response to Olorofada

I have an iPhone 11 and having a this issue. I think I’m just going to get rid of iPhone for good.

Oct 22, 2024 8:58 AM in response to Olorofada

No don’t go back. I think it’s an issue with the OS itself. The same things happen on my iPhone 13

56Waldo

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18 points

Dec 8, 2024 6:59 AM in response to tatum153

I too don’t understand why a company with Apple‘s resources can’t make the alarms function consistently and well. It’s ridiculous.

Jan 13, 2024 12:13 AM in response to SravanKrA

none of this helped. I literally got a new iPhone 15 and the day I had a flight the alarm went off with NO sound and NO vibration… yet the alarm worked the days before????? Had the same issue with old phone. It’s completely random. Is this anyway related to having a watch?? Bc I swear it’s a lot of the times my watch isn’t on and is changing that I don’t get woken up.

Lesumlee

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14 points

Mar 12, 2024 7:34 AM in response to joshrcarmack

I just realized for the last 3-4 weeks I haven’t been waking up to my alarms (I thought I’d gotten sleep apnea or something) because an update turned all of my alarms to silent (no sound attached to any of my alarms). Go through and verify that all of your alarms have a sound attached!

madzb24

Level 1

8 points

Apr 7, 2024 10:38 AM in response to tatum153

Go to Face ID & Passcode in your setting and turn off Attention Aware Features. It says "iPhone will check for attention before dimming the display, expanding a notification when locked, or lowering the volume of some alerts.", aka, turning your d*** alarms off. Apple.. why?.. would I be awake?... FOR MY ALARM TO GO OFF anyway. Hope this helped !

Asirae

Level 1

14 points

Apr 16, 2024 4:34 AM in response to tatum153

It is the Attention Awareness feature. Turn it off in Settings > Face ID & Passcode.

I had this too, thought I was going crazy. My boss called me one morning because I was late to work. Worst feature ever.

Dec 1, 2023 8:38 AM in response to Jess_Rabbit

Sorry, I think it’s actually the auto-lock you need to shut off.

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