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iPhone alarms are usually silent and do not vibrate.

This has been an issue I’ve had off and on for several years with iPhones, but lately it seems like it’s gotten worse. More often than not, my alarms make zero noise. I had to go buy an alarm clock months ago because I couldn’t trust my iPhone’s alarm. It’s gotten even more unreliable since then. That’s not good. I’ve noticed the alarm I have to end my sleep focus at 5:00 never makes any noise and doesn’t vibrate. Other alarms are hit and miss. This evening, for instance, an alarm I had to remind me to do something didn’t ring and didn’t vibrate. I checked and it isn’t set to “none” for the sound. Neither is my sleep alarm. I just don’t know what to do to fix this.

iPhone 12 Pro Max

Posted on Aug 4, 2023 6:23 PM

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Posted on Jan 13, 2024 12:13 AM

none of this helped. I literally got a new iPhone 15 and the day I had a flight the alarm went off with NO sound and NO vibration… yet the alarm worked the days before????? Had the same issue with old phone. It’s completely random. Is this anyway related to having a watch?? Bc I swear it’s a lot of the times my watch isn’t on and is changing that I don’t get woken up.

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Sep 30, 2024 8:38 AM in response to brearcure134

Never use an iPhone alarm there unreliable and S*** it’s a gamble whether it will actually go off and when they do good luck stopping them if you hit snooze it works if you hit stop it still f***ing snoozes the amount of times I’ve went into someplace hours after I woke up and it will just randomly start going off I don’t get why they can’t just make a normal f***ing alarm that will go off at the time I set andwhen I stop it it stops forever until I turn it back on if they can’t figure out how snooze works they need to remove it because why the f*** have a stop button that only acts like it’s stopped the alarm

I'm sorry. There seems to be something wrong with your keyboard that's making it very hard to read your post. It sounds, though, as if you're having trouble setting alarms. Start here:


How to set and change alarms on your iPhone - Apple Support


Then, if you're still having trouble, let us know at what point.

Apr 16, 2024 7:27 PM in response to tatum153

See if this works for you guys— my alarm would never go off either. It always sounded REALLY quiet. Turn off the sleep tracker in your Health app. That fixed the volume immediately! Posted screenshots for you all. Hope this helps!

(basically if your alarm is before the “amount that you told the Sleep app your goal amount of sleep is” periodically it’s going to mute those alarms)

Mar 21, 2024 3:41 AM in response to SravanKrA

I’ve tried all the the steps suggested and reset my phone a number of times. The problem seems to be Apple hasn’t fixed anything. There should be no special steps to get a sleep focus alarm to go off and make sound, but here we are. If I have my Apple Watch connected, or even watch notifications silenced and then disconnect the watch the sleep focus alarm will not make sound.

it feels like a timing, or order of operations problem in the software because regular alarms will generally work unless they are timed to go off within the snooze period of another.

Apr 17, 2024 11:41 AM in response to tatum153

SERIOUSLY! iPhone alarm issues

with or without watch sleep tracking, With or without silent mode activated, With or without “stop playing” timer for audio, with or without wireless Apple MagSafe charger phone in landscape or portrait and With or without wearing air-buds. If I set a wake-up alarm I WANT AN ALARM TO SOUND! Plain and simple.

Apr 25, 2024 10:15 PM in response to Olorofada

Which means that if you accidentally happens to need 3-4 alarms one morning because of night duties in the home you need to set several alarms with 5-10 minutes in between?

I done this, but the alarm is silenced by any movement, new alarm or SMS coming in at the same time.

On top, if alarm starts off loud, it goes very silent or totally silent within 1 second.

For $2,0000+ that's not something I think would be a feature in a very expensive (for ordinary people very expensive). I believe Apple has a work around, but chose silent alarms as a built-in feature?

May 13, 2024 6:19 AM in response to SravanKrA

One of these suggestions helped I think. But still feels like a design problem more than user error. If I set an alarm, I want to be notified. Period. Unless I set the alarm sound to None, it should go off. I should not have to check my ringer volume, do not disturb setting, or sleep focus as well. It’s also hard to understand how all these features interact generally. Please work on this Apple. Sincerely, a UX Researcher.

Jul 22, 2024 10:39 AM in response to tatum153

This is ridiculous. First, this has been happening since I get my iPhone 14 1.5 years ago. Two, sometimes it works and other times it does not. I have not changed any settings, but my iPhone decides when it wants to function properly. This is not only a basic issue that should always work, it is extremely important. I travel for work including internationally and I cannot rely on my phone to perform as it is supposed to.


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Sep 16, 2024 1:05 AM in response to tatum153

So i set 4 alarms from 5:30am to 6am for this morning… DnD automatically comes off schedule at 5am. I made sure after having this issue only 2 days prior for my phone to be on loud, volume up fully & on charge… tell me why this morning when i’ve gone on my phone it was on 100% but showed the apple logo as if it’d been turned off during the night 🤷🏾‍♂️ no alarms gone off n phone as if it’d been switched off??? 2 days of work i’ve missed due to this issue!!!!????

iPhone alarms are usually silent and do not vibrate.

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