iPhone alarms not working.
this has happened a handful of times and recently caused me to be late. When I went to bed I set an alarm with Siri to wake up the next day. Siri spoke back and verified the alarm. The alarm was not registered in the system at all. I was late for my appointment. This does not happen with my iPad at all.
iPhone 16 Pro Max, iOS 26
iOS alarms don’t support date-based scheduling.
When you set an alarm for a time like 6 PM, iOS schedules it for the next occurrence of 6 PM, not specifically 6 PM tomorrow. So if you set the alarm at 5 PM, it will ring in one hour. The Alarm feature has no concept of selecting a specific date—only a time.
If your iPad behaved “correctly,” it simply comes down to when the alarm was set. If it was created after that time had already passed for the day, the alarm rolled over to the next day; if not, it triggered the same day.
wahone wrote:
There’s no record of the alarm.
No wonder it didn't go off.
If an alarm (or anything) is important, best not rely on Siri.
wahone wrote:
There’s no record of the alarm.
Then something went wrong and the alarm wasn't actually set.
Pay close attention to Siri's response when you give her commands.
So if you look at the clock app under alarms, you don't see an alarm for the time you had set? They don't disappear from the list after they sound, they just get 'turned off'.
There’s no record of the alarm.
I did and Siri confirmed that it was set and for the right time.
iPhone alarms not working when set with Siri
