iPhone alarm is silent randomly

THANKS, a great suggestion, and a possible solution; unfortunatly, although I do have 3 alarms set, none of them overlap... Why won't Apple pay attention?? I'm SO FRUSTRATED.. I'm an Apple fan, TV, IPad, IPhone and IWatch, but this is making me wonder if I should change.

Has anyone been able to successfully fix this issue and successfully been able to prevent this from happening in the future? For me, all of the suggestions that have been listed only temporarily fix the problem. I will use the same alarm for days and weeks at a time with no issues. Then for no reason, the same alarm that has worked for many many days in a row, will go off as scheduled, but only vibrates, NO SOUND! Again, nothing was done to the settings of the already existing alarm. All I did was click the existing alarm to "on", and for some reason, the sound does not go off.

Ya mine just did it second day running. Late for work again 🙄

Off to buy an alarm clock tonight.....

Thing is my last iPhone (SE) used to do exactly the same. No calendar alerts, no second alarm, ringer not silenced nor turned down. Like I said before if I hit the snooze button, 9 minutes later it sounds with all the bells n whistles.

Almost makes me wanna defect to Samsung. Almost but not quite lol

I had this problem with my old iPhone also- thought it was because it was old (was having several problems). Bought the iPhone 8 Plus & updated it yesterday... 1st alarm I set this morning did same thing. I heard it & hit snooze but never heard again. When I did wake up (late) the screen is on the alarm but NO sound at all. Very frustrating (especially since we pay so much $$$ for these devices). I hope they can get this fixed ASAP. Meanwhile buying a backup alarm today...

I suspect there is more than one cause for the symptom. When a very small (compared to the number of iPhone users) number of people have an intermittent problem, it can be extremely hard to troubleshoot.

This exact issue is happening to me after the iOS 12 update. Is there any different advice? Btw I didn't accept the update for iOS 12. When I woke 2 days ago my phone was updated and my alarm has not worked since. I've tried every troubleshoot listed on iPhone alarm. Please resolve, would really appreciate an iPhone with functional utilities.

Same here. I don't keep my volume up for anything and never had this issue before, until the last couple software updates. The alarm volume had ALWAYS been a separate entity, as it SHOULD be. It should never be dependant on the ringer VOLUME or the volume of anything else. Please fix it Apple. I've been in the cell sales game since before the very first iPhone was released and this has never been an issue. Boo.

For that, use do not disturb. In any case, it's quite annoying to get up late, or not at all, because of this glitch. I've sold cell phones since before the first iPhone was released and have owned every iPhone on the market and never had this issue until about the release of the iPhone in September and, subsequently, the new software. Neither have any of my thousands of customers. Trust me when I tell you I'd have heard about it by now and I'm getting sick of hearing if since September. The alarm volume should be independent of ALL other volume controls.

This is so frustrating to see how Apple is not even caring about one of the critical bug.

When I wake up, I see bedtime display with NO SOUND!

Alarm/bedtime is supposed to make SOUND.

At times I have doubted myself. But after reading this thread, I'm sure that my ears are fine.

Also, in the bedtime Options, there are not many good sounds. All are very low in volume. However, in vibrations, I see a ton of options along with "Create New Vibration"!!. Who the **** is the product manager for this? You are trying to construct a fine building without a basement.!

I would be really happy if this bedtime never works. I would've used some other phone for the alarm. But sometimes it works. That the problem of uncertainty. First, fix this random bug and then add more sounds. Later you can let kids create custom vibrations!

I don't believe that Apple actually reads or monitors this thread. If someone can please post the best link for directly contacting Apple, I think we should all use that link and send Apple an email about this problem so that they will be sure to know about it. Thanks.

The alarm not sounding is a symptom. Unfortunately, it can be the symptom of a number of different problems. That means there is no one solution. Based on what you've said, I concur with the person at Apple Support. It's what I've recommended once or twice in this thread, I believe.

Sounds like a cop out to me. That's the kind of stuff they always say when they know there's an issue and it's their fault. You'll be wasting a lot of time and effort for nothing, in my PROFESSIONAL opinion.

bigdogfur wrote:

You sound like an insufferable know-it-all.

You're certainly entitled to your opinion. It's unfortunate, of course, that you think being rude to people you've never actually met is acceptable. I'm not sure what caused you to get your knickers in such a twist. I agree with you that it's unfortunate that this is a problem. Like many people here, I'd prefer a completely separate setting for the alarm volume. I've let Apple know that.

Let me ask you, am I wrong in saying that 1) there appear to be multiple causes for alarm problems and 2) doing a restore to factory settings and testing is a valid troubleshooting step?

douglas2010 wrote:

Does everyone see a Rubber Ducky next to their own name, or is that just me?

It depends on what avatar you've chosen from the ones Apple provides. Or, if you've reached a sufficiently high level (four, I think), you can upload your own picture. That's why my avatar is a picture (sorry, not a great one) of my cat.

Didn't read it all through but someone said before that:

If You're setting multiple alarms, they mess up with each other if You snooze them.

I've noticed the same issue even if I don't snooze them.

I'm having problems waking up, therefore I set multiple alarms. One is definitely not enough. The excuse that my alarm didn't work is not trusted anymore. It's been too many times.

So, I've got few questions:

1.How long will the alarm sound until it stops. (I noticed that it is the specific amount of time)

2.In how many minutes is it going to ring again? (if it will)

3.How many times will it repeat this cycle?

4.What's gonna happen if one alarm is working, and there is another one comes up? Which one is gonna sound? If the first one will start ringing, then will the second start ringing after the first one is off?