I have an iPhone 14 Pro that I use as my alarm to wakeup in the morning. Traditionally, I leave the sound off for the alarm and use the noise of the vibrate to wake me up. I tried this using the standby mode (where you turn it horizontal and it does the cool night vision thing) but now my phone doesn't vibrate any more. If i turn it back vertical and set an alarm, it will.
Any thoughts on how to get it to behave the same in both modes?
I spoke with a Senior Support Specialist on the phone today and they said it's supposed to behave this way. When in normal mode and alarm will make the phone vibrate. When in standby, it will not. It seems like odd behavior that the alarm would function differently in the two modes (and not well documented). And, beyond that, it seems counterintuitive that it would behave that way since there was a lot of focus on using standby as a bedside clock in the iOS17 reveal (showing how it transitions to red, automatically dims, etc.).
Hopefully this gets changed soon, as it is standby is useless at night since it turns of my wake up alarm.
Hello NukePNW,
Thank you for reaching out to Apple Support Communities, and we'll be happy to help in any way we can. We understand you're having issues with vibration working in Standby. To see if this is expected behavior, please reach out to Apple directly here: Get Support
We hope this helps.
Cheers!
I'm not sure I trust what the support specialist told you. When I first updated to iOS 17, my vibrate only alarm worked just fine in Standby mode. It stopped working in one of the subsequent updates (17.0.1 or 17.0.2).
Hey pmasteboard,
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Same applies to iPhone 14 Pro in Standby Mode in combination with wearing a Apple Watch. The exact reason for wearing the watch at night is having the vibrating alarm on the wrist instead of having a noisy alarm. This renders Standby completely useless for me, since the alarm would wake up my wife and my newborn.
Same problem on iPhone 11 too. I only use the alarm with vibration so as not to wake others. The standby mode is nice but without the vibration it becomes useless and dangerous, I risk missing the programmed alarms. I hope I restore the vibration, so I don't need it
I work at a hospital and instead of carrying a pager, my pages come to my iPhone as a text message. Unfortunately, in Standby mode, no sounds come through. While I like the idea of Standby, it's of no use to me if I can't get my pages if I'm using it.
I have the same issue. I have been using alarm in only vibration to wake up since 2010. I like the idea of standby mode but if the sound is on alarm works but never vibrates. So on silent mode nothing happens except tiny screen notification. I don’t get the reason behind. So since I was late to office on next day of update to 17 I don’t turn standby mode on unfortunately. Looking forward to have a fix soon.
I really hope they change this in a future update. I’ll have to disable standby until they do, Ive been using my alarms on vibrate only for years.
The deaf and hard of hearing may need the vibration since they can’t hear the sound of an alarm.
Same here. The alarm worked fine before the updates.
Alarm not vibrating in standby mode (iOS17)
