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.
My issue is that when I am listening to something with AirPods (gen 1) AND with the Ringer/Alerts set to as low as it will go, the phone itself blares my alarm at top volume. Trying to turn it down with the vol buttons in the moment, of course, snoozes the alarm. Replicate:
Yep!! Amazing how they could screw something up as easy as an alarm to the point it was actually a national news story. It’s hit or miss with me, same thing…. You can see the alarm going off but no sound.
It’s November and this issue is still happening! I keep trying all the fixes that I find and nothing had worked so far! I have a 14 plus and the alarm volume is ridiculously low.
if I didn’t have an Apple Watch and a Mac I’d be eying an android phone.
Alarm still not going off with any volume. Today I had hopes that it would play after the 12 minutes like it did yesterday, but today my 5:30am alarm was still “going off” meaning that the screen said that some sort of alarm should be happening, and i didn’t get out of bed and see it until 6:45am. I guess i better go into some of the settings you guys have mentioned and figure out what is going on. Ridiculous. There shouldn’t be a “silent” alarm.
I just found that since “Alarms” is an app, Notifications are also SILENCED in “Sleep Focus”. Pretty terrible design. Sleep Focus used to turn off automatically when the Scheduled alarm is turned OFF. Not when it goes off. Snoozing keeps you in Sleep Focus, which explains some peoples’ issues. I moved the “Alarms” app to “Allowed” and it actually makes sound now. This doesn't fix it when you’re not using a focus or schedule, but it says I have no Focus profiles. So if you use the “Schedule” option for wake up alarms in Health or Sleep Settings, then you automatically have a Sleep Focus, and you have to allow access to Alarms Notifications. For those who use regular alarms, and also DND, you’ll need to allow notifications for the Alarms app while in DND. If it works some days and not others, you probably have a Focus Profile and/or Sleep Schedule programmed, whether you know it or not. Worth checking it out. I updated to ios26 2 months ago, but it just became an issue for me 3 days ago.
I was late to work the last couple days becouse of this, why would they change it?? And without any warning?? It’s been the same for years. Thanks a lot Apple
I have the same thing. And snoozing with lock button does not work anymore. It stops the alarm completely instead.
Also I noticed the alarm no longer syncs to my Apple Watch.
I’ve looked in the clock settings and the sound and haptics settings and can’t find the settings you’re referring to. Where did you find this at?
TBlank72 wrote:
I’ve looked in the clock settings and the sound and haptics settings and can’t find the settings you’re referring to. Where did you find this at?
I was wondering that!
Tom, dd you delete the alarms and add them back with stock sounds as recommended?
Maybe the voulume is too low
iPhone alarm sound not playing on iOS 26
