Alarm clock doesn't work when phone is switched off

I've found that the Alarm function doens't work when I switch the phone off.

Until I read this thread it had never occurred to me that someone would set an alarm and then turn the phone off. Off as in OFF, not as in asleep or hibernating or whatever. On the iPhone, off means off. Why in the world anyone would think a phone is supposed to boot itself back up just to sound an alarm is beyond me. The iPhone has been designed this way since the first one was introduced. I use the alarm most every day and it works fine. I have notifications set to vibrate at night. If the phone rings I will hear it because the vibration pattern is quite annoying and loud, especially the way I have the phone setting on my nightstand. Otherwise, I don't hear the other vibrating notifications, and the alarm wakes me just fine in the morning.

mfoncerrada wrote:

Hi Tropo....it sounds good. it is exactly the way the BB designers addressed it.

A couple thoughts

1. The button is called the sleep/wake button....not the on/off switch.....it should put phone into sleep mode and allow the alarm to work.

That's exactly what it does. Provided you don't choose to Turn the phone completely off.

mfo2. So many people saying "it's by design".... That doesn't make it right. It's BAD design, hence should be discussed in the forum.

No. It should not. If you want to tell Apple about it, use the "Contact Us" link at the bottom of the page and submit feedback. Discussing it here is pointless. That's the way it's designed. This is a technical support forum. No one here can cange it.

Not to provide more hostility or anything but if it is that big of a deal why not break out the old blackberry>plug it in at nightstand>set alarms to suit>LEAVE ON NIGHTSTAND...

Now you don't even have to use the alarm on the iPhone.

Also I don't see How powering the phone off all the way is any better that SETTINGS>AIRPLANE MODE.

You could just as easily not remember to turn your phone on in the morning as forget to turn airplane on.

I have used a massive amount of smart phone's (android,windows, iOS) and have not had a single one that had an alarm that would function with the phone off.

Here's what I'm not understanding. I ask this as a sincere question to all the BB users who want this feature on the iPhone. Why not just use the Airplane mode option that has been suggested many times (though now with iOS 6, you can use Do Not Disturb)? Your responses to that suggestion have always been, "what if I forget to turn Airplane mode back off", or "why should I have to jump through hoops every night to get this basic function?" My response to that is, you are already turning your phone off every night (a "hoop" you have to jump through). All you have to do is switch from turning off your phone to turning on Airplane mode. It's the same amount of work. You're just changing your process (which should be a normal expectation with a new phone).

Now, all that said, I am in AGREEment with you that it would be nice if the alarm worked when turned off. I really am! I had a BB before my iPhone, and loved it. So I understand. But it just doesn't seem like such a big change to just moving the process from turning it off completely to turning on Airplane mode now (or again, Do Not Disturb, which is the best of all worlds).

I do not mean this to be hostile or passive aggressive or attacking. I mean it as a sincere question.

Concerning the meaning of the word "off".

The difference between the other phones and the iPhone is, that OFF means OFF for the iPhone.

When you turn a BB off this really means to put the device in some kind of deep sleep mode. When you would physically turn off a BB it would take several minutes for it to boot up! All these devices still use power when turned off - except the iPhone. So it is really a completely different implementation method of turning the devices off.

Hi Tropo....it sounds good. it is exactly the way the BB designers addressed it.

A couple thoughts

1. The button is called the sleep/wake button....not the on/off switch.....it should put phone into sleep mode and allow the alarm to work.

2. So many people saying "it's by design".... That doesn't make it right. It's BAD design, hence should be discussed in the forum.

It turens itself back on because it detects a power source. Short of this, it is not possible for the phone to power itself on. Apps can resume their position. The state is saved when the phone is shut down.

It's not a "problem" that needs fixed. It's by design.

Sorry to disagree, but I don't believe that off really means "off" as you describe. A couple of examples; If I have turned my phone "off", then plug it into the charger it turns itself back "on" automatically, something a phone with an actual "off" switch wouldn't do. As another example, the same applications are running when I turn the phone "on" as were running when I turned the phone "off", another indication that off is not really "off". Would that still happen if I were able to unplug the battery and then plug it back in? Probably not. Maybe this is just an excuse by Apple as to why they haven't fixed the problem?

Hi,

Provide feedback to Apple via this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

I'm sort of stunned at the hostility shown in this thread. This is a feature that is available on most old phones even let alone smartphones.

First, expecting people to do a manual process for anything means that by definition it is a broken promise. The one night you forget to do this is the same night that you have a big meeting the next day. You might also forget to take it out of standby so you could say miss an urgent call.

Second, this feature might not be a big deal if your job involves saying, do you want fries with that or doesn't require advanced degrees and a lot of experience. Some of us have high level, high paying jobs and don't want to be woken by people in other time zones.

Third, here is what Apple would have to do to make this feature work. When you set up an alarm, an on/off slider than says, "Should this alarm turn on your phone if it is off." That's it. No need for all of the hositility.