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I'm having some problems with alarm on my iPhone5. I rely on this as my only alarm to get my husband up early for work - at least once a fortnight it fails to go off! I have lost count how many times he has been late for work as a result of this. Am I doing something wrong or is there a glitch with the alarm???
iPhone 5
Nope, Lawrence, it has affected my 5S and my 6. Again, it's a random occurrence about 30% of the time and it cannot be replicated at the Genius Bar (I've tried). Also, seems that it's not just isolated to two of us, however too small of a glitch for Apple to actually address.
Thank you, Eric, and I share your pain on a fairly consistent basis. I assume you know how to operate your phone, too, so most suggestions here are irrelevant.
THank you so much!!!! I have been wanting to work out by getting up early but my alarm REFUSED to go off before 5 am and I couldn't figure out why!!! I've been trolling the internet for months trying to figure it out! I saw your suggestion and thought it was so simple and such a stupid design that this couldn't be my answer! But whats the harm in trying?
MY alerts were at silent in settings! And every single alarm I had made to go off before 6am was set as "None" for their sound! Now I have a million alarms set to different sounds so I will 100% be getting up and working out! You are a life saver! Everyone try this!!!!!
tdanuser wrote:
Nope, Lawrence, it has affected my 5S and my 6. Again, it's a random occurrence about 30% of the time and it cannot be replicated at the Genius Bar (I've tried). Also, seems that it's not just isolated to two of us, however too small of a glitch for Apple to actually address.
The most common cause of alarm failure is using music instead of an alarm tone. Yes, I suppose that's a bug. However, it's not one that renders the alarm completely useless.
I have the same exact problem. I had the same problem with the iPhone4. The alarm works, mostly. But every once in a while, and it's not linked to any kind of setting change or iOS update, the alarm fails, showing a screen that says "Alarm", say, 2 hours past the alarm time (one assumes the screen has been like that since the alarm was scheduled to go off) with no sound at all. The next day, with no settings changes whatsoever, the alarm will work perfectly normally again.
I think what everyone with this problem wants to know is what is happening at the moment the alarm goes off that is causing the alarm to fail, sometimes. Mostly it works, sometimes it fails, for unknown reasons. But it remains an ungoing bug that really does need a fix.
It's a bug. How do we fix this bug?
whitepawn wrote:
I have the same exact problem. I had the same problem with the iPhone4. The alarm works, mostly. But every once in a while, and it's not linked to any kind of setting change or iOS update, the alarm fails, showing a screen that says "Alarm", say, 2 hours past the alarm time (one assumes the screen has been like that since the alarm was scheduled to go off) with no sound at all. The next day, with no settings changes whatsoever, the alarm will work perfectly normally again.
I think what everyone with this problem wants to know is what is happening at the moment the alarm goes off that is causing the alarm to fail, sometimes. Mostly it works, sometimes it fails, for unknown reasons. But it remains an ungoing bug that really does need a fix.
It's a bug. How do we fix this bug?
Unfortunately, rare, intermittent issues are very hard to troubleshoot. It is also likely that not everyone who's alarm fails is having exactly the same problem.
What troubleshooting steps have you already taken? Have you deleted all of your alarms and added them back? Are you using only built in alarm tones? Have you tried restoring your phone from your back up? Restoring it as new?
This fixed my problem! Thank you!
Been having this problem a lot. Do you have any other apps open when it happens? I just fixed it but I tried two things so I'm not sure what made the alarm come back. 1- closed the alarm app. 2- closed Pokémon go... for some reason the past two days nothing on my phone has worked while I've had Pokémon open. I'm leaning towards closing the alarm app as the solution. If the alarms are set, thru
Thank you, I've been having this problem and I've just turned the volume up in settings so hopefully my alarm will go off tomorrow morning :)
I did restore from back up, but today was the first time this has happened. I've had the phone for 3 weeks. I will try setting up as new.
Thank you!
iPhone 5 alarm not working
