Attention Aware Features silences alarms if you look at your phone

I’ve been bit by this bug/feature a few times. I didn’t realize the cause was “Attention Aware Features” until today. If this is enabled in FaceID and Passcode settings it mostly does good things like not dim the display if you are looking at your phone, and not expand notifications if you aren’t. But it also causes alarms to silence, and silence from then on, if you groggily pick up and look at your phone while it is going off.

This is an atrocious bug/feature. Surely they didn’t intend this. I’ve since learned it’s been around for years. Come on Apple, fix it!

I don’t know if Apple even watches these forums, but in case they do I created this post.