Random fire alarm sound

Apparently, you are not alone.

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

It happened to me the past two days. I took a screen shot of the MP3 file. What is that? How can I block it?

OMG, the same thing just happened to me. I was so scared. The first thought that came to my mind was that I was somehow hacked. But there was a little smoke in the kitchen, I'm just not sure why or how it could be played through my phone.. I checked what played the noise and it was somehow a website with the url as "us.hankie796jf.pw".. im not sure if it could be a virus or what. I hope apple knows something

It should show up on the screen when it is occurring, and if you check notifications, you should see what it is as well. Most of them will remain in Notifications until you remove them. However, the first time you ever hear that sound, there will be no doubt in your mind what it is, especially if you are somewhere where you don't want it to sound, i.e. church, work, etc..

Also, I forgot to mentioned that I was asleep and was running zero apps when it occured.

Is it very possible that you have Government Alerts activated on the iPhone? Check Settings>Notifications>Government Alerts. If there is an emergency alert such as a flood warning, severe weather warning, or an Amber warning, you will get those, and they sound whether the device is on mute or not, and the volume is set to high and cannot be changed.

I assumed that was the case and seeing it on the screen certainly makes sense, so why neither OP saw anything is a bit of a mystery. I have yet to experience this myself. I suppose I will know it now when I hear it.

My wife and I were driving down the road in an area where they were experiencing creek flooding conditions in the rural areas, and both of our phones went off almost simultaneously. It scared the you know what out of us, and I almost put us in the ditch! It is very unnerving.

I believe I remember reading something about this Chive app and a problem they experienced. I believe they have issued an update to fix that. Check to see if your app has an update, and you may wish to check with the app developer.

This just happened to me today. It was extremely loud and I thought it was a real fire alarm. I read some stuff online and a lot of people are linking it with the use of an app (ifunny, mostly, but I wasn't using this app nor do I have it). I was wondering if you were using any specific apps when this happened to you. Mine showed that it was playing from some website called gigroity.info ... this is not a website I had up. I closed out all of my apps immediately, but didn't look to see what app officially closed the sound. I was able to pause the sound when the little iTunes logo thing showed.

I did some things I haven't had it since my last post. First there is an app that's allowing ads to make this sound. In my case it was the Grindr app. I have emailed them many times. I hope they stopped those ads. Secondly, I think if you double click home button and close the app manually each time, the ad won't make the noise because the app is not opened in the background to allow it. I hope this helps. Let me know if this helps u so I can confirm that's the solution.

I just experienced the same thing. The beeping lasted for about 10 seconds and then abruptly stopped. I was on Instagram. I am certain that it was not a government alert as I was looking at my phone while it was happening.

This is happening to me too. The phone tells me that the following sound is playing:-

http://1898061103.rsc.cdn77.org/static/e766f2c81fd9a9e70afa6ae011bf/mediastatic/ bb.mp3

Even if I have all apps closed in the background it still plays randomly.

This is not something from Apple. At least with the information that you provided this time, it is a little easier to get to the bottom of this. Seems that this IP address belongs to a company by the name of Linode (www.linode.com). It seems from the balance of my search, that it is a company that is a cloud hosting service for developers. That would make one believe they are providing something for an app that you may have on your device. It may be rather difficult to trace that in the App Store, since it does not appear they are the developer, but rather just a hosting service. Given the extreme number of apps and/or games available, it may be hard to determine what app all of the posters here may have in common. But, that seems to be where it is coming from.

I think this is an advert that some apps are allowing. This has happened to me 3 times today, twice whilst using the We Heart It app and once with Wattpad. I know other people are hearing it on iFunny and dating apps like tinder, all of which allow adverts and it’s never happened to me when I’m not using my phone (or one of the previously mentioned apps for that matter) which makes me think it’s directly linked to the adverts in the apps rather than the phone or apple itself. People have been having similar issues with android phones so it’s not just iPhones having the problem. Fingers crossed it’s just an annoying ad rather than a virus.