calendar first and second alerts switch on their own

It does matter, if I need my first alert a day before, then thats when I need it and thats what I have set it for. What I don't need is the phone switching it afterwards, This issue has gone on far to long, all the way back to the iphone 4 and still happening in the 6. Really Apple?! They, Apple, can get on a stage with all your black shirts on and untucked and try to look hip and cool and tout your next new thing telling us how great it is and how complete and easy our lives will be for it when I open my wallet to you, but either you can't fix this problem or you don't give a d@mn. So what is it? Where do you stand. All this money for these phones and they still have not resolved this issue.

Ya it sure is an annoying bug! I have to go back in and change it several times until it is correct. and you have to go out of the calendar app to make it break/bug itself.

I just tried this trick and it does NOT flip the alert sequence to the correct times, unfortunately.

Hey Apple!

Three **** years!! How long does this bug take to fix??

I realize that there are always a lot of bugs to be squashed, and only so many man-hours to go around. Even so - THREE YEARS!! Two (three?) Operating Systems!! Either you're a competent Technical Support service.....or you're not. The proof is in the pudding, so...which one are you?

Calendaring programs with reminders are not new. We've been patient. Please get this fixed immediately.

Yeah, this is absolutely unacceptable! I have noticed this with Apple. They will let what they consider a "small issue" linger, while totally ignoring their customer complaints. As a long-time, loyal customer, I am very disappointed in Apple.

Thank you Collectorofheadaches. Up until the IOS 9.0 operating system was released, I could keep playing with mine and could finally get it to be correct. I was at Apple today and they couldn't help. They had me download 9.0.1 iOS which was released very recently, said it would correct it. NOT! I don't understand why it's not happening on everyone's iPhone, it seems as if it's random. We have 5 iPhones in my family and I'm the only one with the issue. Our settings are all the same. It's ridiculous. It's important and beyond any comprehension why it can't be fix.

I always had this problem, but iOS 9 made it worse. Before I was able to fix it (after several tries), that is set the first alert before the second. Now I am not able to fix it. It stubbornly wants the first alert after the second! If I try too many times, it sets them to the same time.

The only way I can have two alerts is create a duplicate appointments, one alert each.

They do have the manpower, but they choose to waste it on stupid new emoji that nobody and other "improvements" that end up breaking stuff

I reported it as a bug on the feedback page

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

I found the they named these incorrectly. You cannot have the second alert after the first one.Think about this:

First Alert is when you wan the alert shows up.
Second Alert is read like: "Hey do you want to have another alert earlier than the first one".

Does not make sense what they names it Second when it really comes first.

They need to call it "Earlier Alert than First Alert". Try to set the second alert ahead of the first one and see the issue or not.
Thanks

I just updated to the latest iOS version 9.2 and just noticed the issue with the calendar reminders.

The problem now seems to be that after I set the second reminder the first reminder changes into the first reminder. Then when trying to correct the first reminder the second reminder changes into the first reminder.

Looks like since Steve Jobs is not there anymore everything goes downhill at Apple ...😟

try to set the second alert a head of the first one

IiPhone 6 and iOS 9 operating system. Didn't work for me. I was able to set a default alert so at least I get one

Now it is January 2016 and I just tried to edit my alerts for an event with a week and a day before alert and it will only set the alerts to the exact same time ie: two 30 minutes before or two 2 hours before... this is ridiculous- Apple programmers should have fixed this issue a long time ago, I won't even get started with the green dot in all my photos I take when facing the sun directly with my iphone 6 plus... ugh.

try to set the second alert a head of the first one

So I tried reversing the alerts and now the iphone 6 plus has decided to set the two different alerts THE SAME ie: now I have 2 alerts for a day before... instead of one alert for the day before and one alert for 2 hours before. It doesn't seem to have any real logic in setting the alerts just seems to randomly set whatever combination of alerts it feels like. I have seen and experienced this issue all the back to an iphone 4. Just saying it might be better to use a different calendar app altogether because no one apparently has time to fix the iphone calendar must be too busy making new unfunctional products that can perpetuate the old lingering issues. How nice.