Turn off snoozed alarm after unlocking iPhone

I just experienced this as well. I guess it's a bug because in the past I would just snooze then turn off alarm by opening up clock app and the alarm would not sound again. Just now my alarm went off, I snoozed it and unlocked phone a few min later, turned off the alarm, then went to take a shower. The alarm still went off after the snooze countdown went down waking up my wife. I'm getting really tired of these bugs and getting ready to go back to android

What exactly do you mean by "countdown timer"?

But at any rate, you should be able to open the alarm section of the clock app and turn off any alarms that are one, regardless of whether or not they have already gone off (or how many times). I do this daily.

Unless you are using something other than the built in alarm feature, that isn't working as designed.

Try a reset: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps BEFORE doing the reset.

I'm also not seeing this behavior. If I snooze the alarm, I unlock the phone, then go to Clock and turn off the alarm, the alarm does not sound at th end of the snooze interval. Definitely try James's intructions

mzaur wrote:

I just experienced this as well. I guess it's a bug because in the past I would just snooze then turn off alarm by opening up clock app and the alarm would not sound again. Just now my alarm went off, I snoozed it and unlocked phone a few min later, turned off the alarm, then went to take a shower. The alarm still went off after the snooze countdown went down waking up my wife. I'm getting really tired of these bugs and getting ready to go back to android

If it were a bug, it would probably affect more people. I snooze the alarm, then turn it off a couple of times a week. It never goes off when I don't want it to. What troubleshooting steps have you taken?

Right, because Android is bug-free. They must be, since they have no support system.

I tried to repeat the issue but it worked fine, so it seems to only randomly occur. I definitely turned the alarm off when it was snoozed and went off again. What troubleshooting steps can you even take on an iPhone? It's so locked down you can't do anything. No way to get logs or anything. And if the bug only happens randomly once in a while then not too many people would report it. Last week my alarm went off 10 minutes late for some odd reason. This is a brand new iPhone 6 on latest iOS 8

AmishCake wrote:

Right, because Android is bug-free. They must be, since they have no support system.

I used Android for about 4 years prior to buying the iPhone 6. I had no issues at all, especially with the alarm. It was always consistent, and I was able to use a third party alarm which ran as a background service, which of course cannot be done on iOS. So we're stuck with using the stock alarm app which is limited in features and doesn't work all the time. Whatever personal bias you may have against Android, it is not consistent with my experience. iOS 8 has been very buggy since I got my iPhone, aside from the alarm issues. The support forums are filled with people having issues. My main issue is the Messages app freezing about once a day, and third party keyboard implementation is still buggy. So yeah, I'm definitely thinking about switching back... I really like iOS but it's supposed to 'just work' -- I don't care so much about being locked down as long as things work without issues.

Basic troubleshooting: restart, reset, restore from back up, restore as new.

Of course the support forums are full of people having issues. That's like saying an emerency room waiting area is full of sick and injured people. The people posting in support forums are not a representative sample of all iOS users.

I've had Android phones since the platform launched. I've had Android phones that worked well and ones that didn't. It's hard to make meaningful comparisons from one to another becuase of the differences in versions, and manufacturer implementation. A stock Android with no third party apps and few manufacturer tweaks is not a bad operating system. My personal experience is that you have to be far more careful about what apps you add as it is way too easy for third party apps to muck up the works.

I see the same bug as OP. Completely random when it occurs. I estimate that it happens about once every other month.

I think it may have been like this for at least a year. More frustratingly the bug followed me from my iphone 4s to my 6.

If it "followed" you, then it stands to reason it must be in your backup file. Try restoring your phone as a new device - don't load your backup file - and test it for a few days just to see if it still happens. If it doesn't, you'll know that there is some kind of corruption in your backup file that's causing the problem.

I don't think its in his backup file. I have never restored my iPhones from a backup and I have the same problem. Running an iPhone 6 plus. Got here cause I searched looking for answers to this exact problem as described by OP.

Furthermore, if you have a repeating alarm that repeats daily, what good is it to slide to turn off alarm just to turn off the snoozed timer. Defeats the purpose of having a repeating alarm. Step 3. in the OP is the problem I experience. The snoozed alarm will come back on when I'm in the shower if I unlock the phone without canceling the snooze timer from the lock screen. I see no way to access the snooze timer again after the first unlocking. It doesn't show up in the locked screen but once for me.

basically the phone will start playing the alarm, then go to sleep.

by waking the phone, the phone "thinks" you have tapped it to activate the sleep timer.

which puts it into countdown mode, and it goes to sleep again.

there's then no way (on my iPhone 5c, ios 9.2.1) without deleting the alarm, to prevent it going off again in 10 minutes.

basically you have to be there when the phone is bleeping and before it has turned its screen off to swipe to cancel the alarm.