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

iPhone 15 PM suffering from this. My schedule should have turn off the mode at “wake-up time” but it doesn’t and when I don’t notice my phone spends the whole day silenced and in sleep mode. Completely nonsense it should even turn off by itself when Apple Watch or phone detects movement.. still no solution

If you’re still having the problem, this is what i did. Tell Siri to turn on a different focus (in my case it was “work”) She said “done”, it changed from “sleep”. to “work” and I haven’t had any issues since. Now all my focus’s work as desired and transition from one to the next without fail.

The only solution I have found is to delete the focus on the iPhone. Go to Settings >Focus; select sleep focus (which, as others have noted is “on” and has no toggle) and scroll down to the option to delete the focus.

I don’t know if this would also turn it off on the Apple Watch, as I had already deleted the sleep app on my watch

I just realized I was not receiving calls and that my Lock Screen showed sleep was still on. Tried numerous things but it remained there on the Lock Screen, so I went in and deleted the sleep focus and it seems to have worked the screen no longer shows sleep. I used the sleep focus for weeknights but recreated using work focus for the same schedule. We shall see.

Step 1: Force restart your iphone following this step

Force restart iPhone - Apple Support

Step 2: Force restart your apple watch following this step: hold down the side button and the Digital Crown at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.

Experiencing the exact same issue. I'm on an iPhone 15 (iOS 17.4) and only started seeing it after upgrading my Apple watch from the SE to the Series 9 over the weekend. Prior to the new watch upgrade, the sleep focus mode was operating just fine. I've also deleted sleep schedules and focus modes, re-created them, and still having this issue when I wake up. The phone and watch properly go into the sleep focus mode at night but don't exit that focus mode in the morning when that sleep schedule ends.

I am having this problem after changing to a new apple watch 9, had no problem even with iOS update with apple watch 5. Using iPhone 13.

Tried to remove all my sleep schedule and set up new ones again. Let’s see if this work.

Just upgraded from 16.xx and now having this problem on 17.4 on my 13 Pro Max. (No Apple Watch) Sleep focus stayed on but displayed “On until [tomorrow’s wake time]”

Also noticed that Low Power Mode doesn’t switch off, even though it’s turned on by Sleep Focus -> Focus Filters. (Battery was 100% but Low Power mode needed to be switched off manually)

So frustrating. Try using a different focus (perhaps with everything allowed) to force Sleep to take a backseat. Hopefully they fix this SOON! (I’m on 17.4 and need to turn off the focus manually, but at least that’s working for me, for now.)

Same here. I “upgraded” from a 13 Pro Max on iOS 17.4 to an iPhone 15 Pro Max on iOS 17.4, & while a good number of settings did not come down (it turned off listening for Siri & reduce animations for example, but the one thing that’s really annoying is now my sleep mode does not automatically turn off when my alarm goes off at 0630. I will open a Support ticket today and see what Support has to say, but I won’t hold my breath, of late, Apple’s support has kind of gone the way of seemingly every other company, down the tubes. All excuses, no solutions.

I Agree. Mine has worked without any issues since setting a schedule. As soon as I manually changed it one night, it wouldn’t turn off.

I messed with it for hours without any success as all settings were correct. I finally asked Siri to turn it off and that worked 🙄

Same problem here with iPhone 12 Pro and Watch 9. Alarm goes off, I tap stop on my watch, when I pick up my phone the alarm is not going off but the screen still says "alarm" and has a stop button. If I tap stop, that screen goes away, but the phone remains in sleep focus. I'm just updating to iOS 17.4.1 now...

All phones from iPhone 12 and up are all doing this because it is not the iPhone individually. It is the iOS 17.4.1 that is doing this.

apple needs to fix this so we can get alarm and not have to crawl out of bed to turn it off on the phone.

or have the phone next to us to turn it off.

It is very annoying to all of us.

All phones from iPhone 12 and up are all doing this because it is not the iPhone individually. It is the iOS 17.4.1 that is doing this.

apple needs to fix this so we can get alarm and not have to crawl out of bed to turn it off on the phone.

or have the phone next to us to turn it off.

It is very annoying to all of us.

All phones from iPhone 12 and up are all doing this because it is not the iPhone individually. It is the iOS 17.4.1 that is doing this.

apple needs to fix this so we can get alarm and not have to crawl out of bed to turn it off on the phone.

or have the phone next to us to turn it off.

It is very annoying to all of us.