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In the two days since I’ve installed iOS 26, I’ve awoken (late) in the morning to see that my phone had my alarm on the screen, but no sound playing. This has been a known issue in the past due to attention aware features, but I have those turned off already. I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max
iPhone 14 Pro Max, iOS 26
Third update for me on this thread; I raised the volume bar one notch, and now the alarm plays. So essentially the update lowered the volume bars a notch. All the way down volume used to still give me a low-volume song being played on alarms, but now it makes it all the way silent. Up two notches now gives me the same volume that I used to get with it turned all the way down. Doesn’t make much sense to me as to why anyone would want “silent” as an option, unless you’re hoping that the light from your phone screen wakes you up or something but that seems ridiculous.
I meant to say the timer only rings sporadically. It's unreliable, so I've stopped using it. It's possessed... plain 😈 !
Same for the alarms I've set. Def worse when using Background Sounds to help me zone out at bedtime. Super unreliable. The chosen Background Sounds (Fireplace) stops at the 3 min mark. Wish Apple would use their AI to find the coding mistakes and fix them.
I have looked at several responses here. Three times this week my alarm has not made a sound while it shows on the screen. My volume is up. I don’t find anywhere in settings where haptics and alarm are connected. I don’t have attention awareness turned on.
Phillypetetey wrote:
I have the solution and root cause of the problem. Anytime your phone connects via bluetooth, ringer will be made to zero sound. This is due to the coding so the car speakers play the ringer, not the phone.
I connect my iPhone to BT devices (speaker, AirPods) multiple times a day. I don't have this problem and I never need to change the volume. So, it may not be a universal solution.
seanmiles06 wrote:
Don't just edit the existing alarm. Open Clock → Alarms, delete it, then create a new alarm and choose a standard ringtone such as Radar.
As I suggested back in July. And LD150 last November. Perhaps this time is the charm....
I also updated to iOS 26 last Friday. My alarm didn't go off on Saturday morning, so I almost missed my business trip flight. It was terrible. I hope this issue gets fixed soon.
That’s so sad to hear. I hope it’s sorted now.
Same. If you apple guys changed the behavior of volume buttons during alarm on purpose, it belongs to the hall of fame.
I’m Deaf and rely on flashing light when the iPhone alarm goes off. Ever since the update, it stopped flashing iPhone light. Never had this issue until I updated to iOS 26!
I was almost late to work because of the "silent alarm" issue. This could go down as one of the worst changes in iOS history. Never had a problem with the alarms before iOS 26.
Confirmed this works on missing lock sound too, same device, iPhone 13 Pro Max, recently upgraded straight iOS 26.0.1
Any fix found for this regarding the sound on the bluetooth devices? i sleep with my earbuds as well and don't want to miss my alarm to work this way
i have the same issue on new iPhone 17 pro. It’s REALLY bad as i rely heavy on it. Apple, please fix it!!!
Do you feel extreme heat when sleep mode is on and when we allow alarm notifications in sleep mode? At that time, the phone heats up too much?
This has been driving me insane! I’ve been late to work so much the last few weeks. Why did this need to change? There was no issue with how it worked before.
I’ve also discovered this. Great that you report it! I will too.
iPhone alarm sound not playing on iOS 26
