iPhone alarm sound not playing on iOS 26

For me, it started happening after updating to 26.2 😕

This is not your fault. Apple has created an error with this operating system release and there is no solution to remedy your alarm not sounding.

My iPhone alarm not making sound, despite being set correctly, has caused me so many problems.

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I am facing this issue everyday but sometimes it work so apple be serious we are dependent on this alarm app so why you don’t want to fix this cause

I experienced this issue tonight. I asked Siri what happened to the alarm and it replied that it had turned them off. I’m not sure why this has happened. I think this was the first system upgrade I’ve done. I guess I’ll have to troubleshoot to see if it works.

Glad I found this this morning. This has happened to me ever since I updated my phone. I’m a button snoozer so literally every morning I’ll press the side button to snooze out of force of habit. I’ve woken up an hour late three times now and the alarm screen is just sitting open with the option to snooze. I really hope Apple brings back the snooze toggle with side buttons.

Seeing this issue as well. Never had a problem with the alarm until iOS 26. Woke up late on my own to my phone showing the options to snooze or stop the alarm. I have an iPhone 14 Pro and Watch Ultra 3. The watch was also showing the same snooze or stop options but completely silent and no haptic taps either. I don’t know what I did to completely silence the alarm instead of snoozing it. This should be reverted to the previous behavior which didn’t lead to this state of a muted active alarm which is pretty useless.

Same. Ever since I upgraded (a day after 26.0 came out), my morning alarm mostly doesn’t work. Sometimes it has the sound, a loud one, sometimes it doesn’t at all. There is nothing I noticed that could help unfortunately. Never was late to work and now I am regularly late. Wish I could revert back to 18.7 but they removed this backup to this version. That is terrible.

This was happening to me too. I had to go in settings, sounds and haptics, and turn the sound up. The update turns the sound completely down. Now it works like it used to. My phone is still on silent no sounds for texts and calls but my alarm now makes sound.

Same here, updated last thursday and alarms are hit or miss. Sometimes they sound, sometimes they don't. I rely on alarms and use an automation to schedule them to sound before all my meetings so I don't work through them and now I can't trust or rely on my alarms. It's so annoying!!

Happening to me too, but can't confirm if it's just alarm sound, or any other sound. I realised this was buggy due to my lock sound disappear even switching it off/on in settings.

Disabling Attention Aware Features and reenabling it back brings my lock screen sound back.

It seems to be limited to while you’re looking at the phone. It’s either extremely low or doesn’t play at all. I also turned it back on to verify, and I continued to look at the phone, even if I wasn’t on a particular screen as long as the screen itself wasn’t locked the alarm doesn’t play

It’s a bug that definitely Apple needs to look at or disassociate the alarms entirely from the setting

Same issue here. My alarm has intermittently failed to make a sound over the past couple of days. This only started occurring after updating to iOS 26.

iPhone 13 Pro

Example of my settings shown below.

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I have a very similar situation, before the iOS 26 update I would use my phone to play ambience tracks at low volume on a Bluetooth speaker, then the alarm would play on my phone at a higher volume with different tracks rather than Apple default ringtones. iOS 26 forced me to change my sleep routine temporarily, I rather switch to Android to continue my routine rather than continue with this option. I just fully reset my phone, hoping to resolve the problem, but the issue remains. I am thankful I tested the alarms immediately after the update, so I was not surprised the following day. Always test devices immediately after an update, never know what issues will occur.

I will tell you what is on my mind.

I go into haptics. Make sure volume is quite loud. Go into alarm and edit alarm and check the type and use default and it plays - it is also quite loud.

set alarm.

wait for alarm.

alarm goes off at a less than loud level and then immediately in the second sequence of the ringtone goes even quieter.

focus is set to work during this test.

it simply does not work as advertised so be aware until it works again.

almost missed a rental pickup which would have cost a late penalty so not happy at all.