IOS 17 Alarm Clock sound fades

My alarm started to either stop working after one ring or the volume dropping significantly shortly after the initial alarm. This started happening when I upgraded to iOS 17. I’ve restarted my phone and the problem still exists.

iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 17

Posted on Sep 20, 2023 1:49 PM

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It is designed to lower the volume as soon as it recognizes that you have heard it. If you don't want that, turn Settings > Face ID & Passwords > Attention Aware Features off.

Also see: Turn Attention Aware features on or off on your iPhone or iPad Pro - Apple Support


Posted on Sep 20, 2023 1:53 PM

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Sep 30, 2023 6:47 AM in response to vendorc

I understand this feature and love the use of awareness in things like text messages and alerts. However, I’d really like the alarm to be excluded from this or have a separate toggle in settings. It seems to me that this features essentially eliminates the snooze function as it has silenced all future alarms once I look at it to hit snooze. I have woken up to see the “snooze” and “stop” displayed but no sound. I have snooze turned on with the volume turned all the way up. My phone is on a MagSafe charger utilizing standby mode at night. I have an iPhone 14 Pro.

Sep 30, 2023 7:52 AM in response to Bucky0Hare

Bucky0Hare wrote:

I understand this feature and love the use of awareness in things like text messages and alerts. However, I’d really like the alarm to be excluded from this or have a separate toggle in settings. It seems to me that this features essentially eliminates the snooze function as it has silenced all future alarms once I look at it to hit snooze. I have woken up to see the “snooze” and “stop” displayed but no sound. I have snooze turned on with the volume turned all the way up. My phone is on a MagSafe charger utilizing standby mode at night. I have an iPhone 14 Pro.


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Nov 14, 2023 9:04 PM in response to vendorc

I am absolutely stunned that Apple would not think twice about the fact that when someone needs an alarm in the morning, they need to get awake from the alarm. I set my Alexa to alarm to two different songs, and when they play, you can barely hear them so now I’m waking up earlier but now I have had to use an apple noise ringer, which I don’t like to start out my day with noise I like to start it out with music set on Alexa . Get this off of iOS 17 or tell us how to get it off Please this is ridiculous

IOS 17 Alarm Clock sound fades

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