Has anyone else experienced a random fire alarm sound coming from there iPhone?

I currently use the iPhone 7. IOS 10.3.1 I was going threw my settings. (Checking for updates)

When my phone randomly started making this fire alarm noise. I was so baffled I thought it must be the apartment above me. Only to discover it was my phone. I flipped threw my alarms and nothing is/was active. Bedtime was and is inactive. It's the strangest thing i was able to shut it off by hitting the lock button. On the home screen it looked like a website. With the music symbol I hit pause and it has since disappeared.

Posted on May 18, 2017 8:46 AM

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May 19, 2017 9:55 AM in response to Amaire8551

This happened to me too just now. Was at work with my phone on my desk and it started going off. NOT an Amber alert, I know what that sounds like. But it sounded just like a fire alarm and me, nor my colleagues could tell where it was coming from. I put my phone in my pocket and was walking around trying to find the source, but I thought the entire building alarm was going off. Until someone told me that the sound was following me, and I looked at my phone. Some URL was scrolling across the screen as if it were playing a song. I pressed pause and the noise stopped and the url disappeared.


Does anyone have any thoughts on the cause of this?

May 19, 2017 10:30 AM in response to TRWhite

I'd suggest that it might be an Emergency (not Amber) Alert but, in all likelihood, every phone in the building would have been going off if that were the case. If I recall, the Emergency Alert sound is different than the Amber and much scarier.


Well, if it doesn't happen again, I'd write it off to cosmic rays and not worry too much. If it keeps happening, I'd consider restoring the device to factory state, syncing your mail, contacts and calendar. Then, add your third party apps back a couple at a time and test for a long enough to determine if they're the problem. That would help you isolate which third party app was the issue. But, it's a time consuming and annoying process, not worth the trouble for a rare bug.

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