Um why is there not an alarm clock on the iPad? I mean it would be practical if I had a way to wake up in the morning but hey call me crazy. Apple needs to fix this like immediately. iPads definitely need alarm clock functions. iCal could at least have an alarm but it just makes a quiet little chirp. Come on Apple, put an alarm on the iPad!!!!
Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OK - you're crazy. Happy now?
No one from Apple reads these posts, Bellyache somewhere else. 😉
But if you'd like to provide constructive feedback to Apple you can do so here ...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
The iPad needs this it needs that it needs ...blah, blah, blah
serendippity wrote:
letting users fend for themselves on such a basic feature seems ... DUMB.
Expecting people to get themselves and their kids up in the morning without Apple's help?!? Scandalous!!!!
Submit your feedback to Apple:
I love my timer alarm clock and calculator on the iPhone 4 too. Third party software is not the solution. I don't want to have to have two different software's on my devices. Please submit your input to Apple at the following http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html
These are user-to-user forums, they are not monitored by Apple. As to why there isn't a built-in clock, then I don't think Apple have ever released a reason why, and there is nothing to fix. There are lots of clock apps available in the app store
No one from Apple reads the forum posts... Sure. And I'm not saying the iPad needs this and this and this, I am saying it needs one thing, AN ALARM CLOCK!! Why would I trust my entire day to some third party alarm clock with ads. Give me a ******* break. Ps the iPad also needs flash player but thats a given.
There is no Apple supplied weather widget either. You think that there should be a alrm clock and others think that there should be a weather widget. Apple thinks that you folks should get your own ****** alarm clock and weather widget, and likely another dozen or more things other folks think should be supplied. Perhaps you lot should really just get a life.
I don't really want to continue this thread but... I do find it odd that the iPad doesn't have the standard Apple weather and clock apps. I think it's the only iOS device that doesn't. All recent OS X versions have had these widgets too.
I've not seen a stated reason why the iPad doesn't have them.
Just wondering what the logic might be, that's all.
Pointless? Yes. But I'll help keep it alive.
I firmly believe big a should somehow integrate a clock app similar or identical to the iPhone clock app. First off there is not one single argument why there should necessarily not be one. There are however many who feel that it should necessarily have such an app and resultantly there are many free and for pay apps out there, clearly there is a demand. The problem with those apps is they cannot run properly when not in the foreground even with jailbreak. It NECESSARILY has to be apple to give us a proper clock app and it bothers me 7 days a week that they have not.
What he means is that they only work properly if they are in the foreground when the iPad is put in standby.
For example I use Nightstand Central, and it will only only ring for 30 seconds if app is in background. It must be showing on-screen when the iPad is put in standby to ring for longer.
The reason given is to preserve battery in case of alarm being left on by mistake.
At the time I bought Nightstand Central, all the alternatives were the same. Maybe things have changed since.
Apple should provide an alarm clock feature. I downloaded an alarm app last night, and it didn't work! My kids missed the bus, and letting users fend for themselves on such a basic feature seems ... DUMB.
I bought an app, and it did not work. How many am I supposed to buy before I have tried hard enough? If something doesn't work, it shouldn't be the top rated app in its category. The negative reviews were buried, and my posts trying to alert others did not appear in the most recent comments. I just want something that works, that has been verified to do so by Apple, especially with a function so time sensitive ... as time.
Am I supposed to reply to this? Does it make you feel vindicted? The thread is open, I agree with poster, and will not stop because fanboys believe Apple has no responsibilty to its customers to provide basic features that work correctly. I appreciate the feedback link. That is the most useful link that has been provided. Your disbelief that people have this issue is hard to understand since it is a topic with over 7,000 views.
What seems DUMB to me is someone who buys a tablet, a quite expensive one at somewhere between $500 and $800 or so, then turns around and uses it as an alarm clock.
An alarm clock to get her kids up for school.
The only alarm clock she will depend on to get this done.
And does this, depends on her chosen app, no doubt selected based on nothing more than the FREE button, without even bothering to test it out to see whether or not it will work for her.
That Forrest Gump quote about "Stupid is as stupid does..." comes to mind.
Then to turn around and make snarky comments about 'fanboys'? Priceless!
Just so you don't think you're the only one, here's my story. After having used an iPhone for years, I finally took the plunge and bought the iPad 3. I was just in kitchen and needed to set a timer for 4 minutes (making coffee, though it doesn't matter). I looked briefly for my iPhone and realized it's in the other room. But my iPad was there. I assumed that the iPad has all the same stuff as the iPhone, just bigger. So I hunt around for the Clock app, which I know is easy to use as a kitchen timer. No such luck. Where is the **** thing? If my phone can be a kitchen timer, why not my tablet? Strange. In the end, I had to try to use the timer on the microwave, which is very poorly designed and way harder to use than the iPhone timer.
Wow guys there are solo many weather and alarm clock apps for cheap or free ( ad free too) in app store that this post is pointless. Plus apple clock and clock on iPhone suck so beg.ad they didn't put it on iPad. I use third party apps for both on iPhone and iPad
Where is the alarm clock on the iPad??
