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Is Your iPhone's Alarm Not Playing a Sound? Apple Working on Fix
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yep...you should be getting more sleep...there we fixed that for you...
Wow! Well I guess it’s a case of buy the stock when it’s low and hope to sell for a huge profit when the time comes. Surprised me that did.
As a developer it blows my mind how something like this can get past any non regression testing. I get that delivering new features/fixes can break basic functionalities but not catching such a malfunction during a test cycle is very surprising.
I don’t see what the issue is… we’ve got alarms set on both our iPhones, watches, HomePods, iPad and a solar powered battery clock in case of power cuts 😂
The most annoying thing used to be our radio which in a power cut would default to FM when the power came back on in the middle of the night.
The most annoying thing used to be our radio which in a power cut would default to FM when the power came back on in the middle of the night.
This is truly embarrassing and total incompetence from their QA test team.
Sure, the alarms don't work and Apple software has been getting worse for years...but have you seen the new emojis? 🤩
Having a reliable alarm is seriously one of the most important features of people’s lives. Relationships of all types depend on it (family, friends, work, love).
How Apple can have a bug by the 17th version of the OS to mess up something so simple is ridiculous.
How Apple can have a bug by the 17th version of the OS to mess up something so simple is ridiculous.
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Apple today said it is working on a fix for an iPhone software bug that has resulted in some alarms in the Clock app failing to play a sound at the set time for some users recently, according to NBC's Emilie Ikeda and The Wall Street Journal's Joanna Stern.
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The issue was highlighted by the TODAY Show on NBC this morning after gaining traction on social media platforms like TikTok. It is unclear how many iPhone users have experienced this issue, but not everyone is affected. While some TikTok users allege that the iPhone's Attention Aware feature has contributed to the problem, Apple did not reveal a specific cause.
The promised fix could be included in a future software update, such as iOS 17.4.2 or iOS 17.5, but Apple did not provide a timeframe for a resolution.
Article Link: Is Your iPhone's Alarm Not Playing a Sound? Apple Working on Fix
Oh, so maybe I'm NOT sleeping through my alarm all the time? Was getting to the point where I was going to buy an alarm clock for the first time in a decade.
Huh.
I mean, ever since iOS 17, the vibrate is 50% weaker and the alarm audio is at least 50% lower no matter what I do?
But now alarms aren't working at all?
SMFH
Maybe they'll fix the vibrate being weak as crap and the alarm audio being too low too?
Or is that too much to ask???
A citation would be nice considering you have said “most customers”.
That will happen when Tim Cook retires.
So what’s my parents tech company? Meta?
Yeah, the alarm audio dropped ~50% when I upgraded to iOS 17. Vibrate got 50% weaker too? Oh, and my custom vibrate for important numbers stopped working too now that I think about it..
SMFH
Should have stayed with iOS 16 I guess..
Yup.. I always used to set three.. now up to 6.. thought for sure I was sleeping through mine as well.
Back in the days there was a bug with my 6s when I didn’t receive the calls. I looked kinda dumb when I explained to people that it was not me but my iPhone. And this bug never went public somehow but was persistent through 2 major iOS versions and was removed only with iOS 13.
And now they break alarm. I just cannot understand how they manage to break core system utilities.
Hopefully I don’t update anymore so my alarm is ok😃 My update would be upgrade to a new device. Better than being beta tester for all these nasty bugs
And now they break alarm. I just cannot understand how they manage to break core system utilities.
Hopefully I don’t update anymore so my alarm is ok😃 My update would be upgrade to a new device. Better than being beta tester for all these nasty bugs
Me: Alarm you have one job: are you up to the challenge?
Alarm: Yes, bring it.
Me: Make a sound at 8:20am tomorrow morning.
Alarm: On it!
Alarm at 8:20am:
Alarm: Yes, bring it.
Me: Make a sound at 8:20am tomorrow morning.
Alarm: On it!
Alarm at 8:20am:
I have had this bug multiple times using the Timer which I used instead of Alarms. No sound ever played. I do not use Attention Awareness. Alarms so far has worked for me lately without bugs but I do not use it often.
there's a great reason why you stick to the ol' faithful alarm clock...