Sleep focus mode doesn’t turn off with Sleep/wake alarm iOS 17

This issue just started with my 14pro max when I updated to 17.2.1 and paired my new watch 9. Now, everyday when my alarm goes off on my watch, I turn it off on my watch but the alarm screen stays on on the phone and even once it’s turned off, the phone and watch are still in sleep mode. I’ve check all the settings and everything shows correct but I have to manually get out of sleep mode on each device everyday.

Hi Scubadam1 - I can’t offer a solution but commenting to bump this thread.

I have exact same issue, only since upgrading to iOS 17. The schedule & focus worked just fine on my iPhone 13 Pro Max and watch 7 before upgrading. Swapping devices hasn’t resolved the issue either as I now have this with a 15 Pro Max and Watch 9. Hoping someone comes along with a proper fix soon or it’s recognised as a bug by Apple.

Scubadam1 I have the exact same problem & came to the forum page to post to find you got here before me. Using iPhone 13. Since updating to ios17 (using latest 17.0.3) my sleep focus has stopped automatically turning off as per its schedule. It turns on automatically fine. I have to manually turn it off on my iPhone and Apple Watch (series 5 on latest 10.0.1). I have never had this problem before. Gone through settings on Focus and Sleep Schedule under Health but can’t find a source to the problem. I will post again if I find a Settings fix but at the moment appears an ios17 bug to me.

I have same problem, tried out various methods, already got on my nerves to the point where I'm just considering to stop using it. It's an absurd from Apple, to not even react to this problem, and leave it not working.. same as with Siri, absolute garbage. YoY it's so dumb that you can't ask it anything, it's like 10years behind all other smart assistance in the market, and Apple just pretends it's new and great. Don't know a single person using it, because it can't do what they need as a bear minimum.

Same attitude can be seen with such simple feature like Focus, lot of people complaining about it, no fix..

p.s. a bit of frustration let go.

I have the same issues.

iPhone 15 Pro, and Apple Watch Ultra 2.

Alarm at 08:15 that used to turn off my sleep focus mode on my previous iPhone. But now it continues to stay in Sleep mode until I recognize it and manually turn it over to Personal focus mode.

Very annoying.

I too have this exact same issue. Cannot seem to find a fix for it. Deleted sleep mode reset. All my devices stay in sleep as well until I tell them to wake on one or the other.

This all started on iOS 17……and I waited until 17.1 to update to avoid the quirks…….. 🤦

I switched from a working Focus Sleep iPhone XS (iOS 17.2.1) to a non working Focus Sleep iPhone 15 Pro (iOS 17.2.1). Also my Apple Watch Series 6 is not cooperating any longer. It clearly is a bug, since a lot of people have this issue here. When setting my alarm, and try to switch off in the morning, the AW6 and the iPhone 15 Pro remain in sleep focus, until I force it to quit (digital crown, and switch off sleep focus on iPhone).

I've tried in Health, in Settings, in whatever setting you would like, it still keeps on doing this. On the iPhone, after 45min of an hour, the first glance after I look at it, it has the alarm page, showing "Stop" on the screen. So, the Apple Watch does not give anything to the iPhone to stop the alarm. I have the latest updates on AW6 AND iPhone 15Pro. Don't know anything else to do..

I have had this problem for about a week. Sleep Focus never turns off in the morning. Updating the phone did not help. Even if I delete the Sleep Focus and create it again, it automatically shows the same schedules created previously and turns on (even at a time when it's not supposed to be on).

A couple of things that might be related to this:

• I just came back from a long trip to a completely different time zone (8-hour difference).
• I just bought a new Apple Watch and still had both watches synchronized with my phone.

I had a phone call with Apple, and after deleting the Sleep Focus (which did not help), they suggested resetting all configurations on the phone, which I was not willing to do.

Since it seemed to be related to the time schedules, I tried to delete them. I have one for weekdays and a different one for weekends. However, I couldn't find how to delete any of them. So, I edited the weekdays one (which was actually the one that wasn't working) so that it would only be on ON SUNDAYS. This automatically made the weekend one change, and it now only turns on on Saturdays.

Then I created a new one for the weekdays. After that, I changed the weekend one to also include Sundays, which made the 'offending' schedule disappear.

Now it seems to be working well. Sorry for my non-native English; I hope this is understandable and can help somebody.

I just updated but still have the same problem. Sleep focus is not turning off in the morning.

Update: 17.2 fixed my issue. SHOCKER!!!

I have the same issue with sleep focus turning on when scheduled but then never turning off anymore after updating to iOS 17. It isn’t a matter of setting up correctly in the Focus section in settings. I have a sleep and wake schedule but my phone only follows the sleep part and never switches back to wake mode unless I manually turn off sleep mode. Very annoying.

Same issue! Started after upgrading from my 12 pro to my 15 pro max. Hope they fix it soon!