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Apple: please make the alarm app bypass do not disturb mode and allow independent volume control (ie allow alarms at max even if the ringer is left alone). Sin

Apple: please make the alarm app bypass do not disturb mode and allow independent volume control (ie allow alarms at max even if the ringer is left alone). Sincerely, someone who is sick of having their alarm not work unless all their other apps are binging like crazy all night. This was so trivial in Android, it’s laughable I still need think about what I need need to do for the alarms to work properly. Also always paranoid I’ll forget a step and miss an exam or something.

dionian 8y ago
put your phone on vibrate, the alarm will always work with it on
haikuginger 8y ago
Um. If you're setting an alarm in the built-in clock app, it definitely works when Do Not Disturb is turned on.
- aetherspawn 8y ago
  This does not match the physical testing I have been doing and my father has said the same about having issues with DND and the clock. So, I don’t really know what’s going on, then. But unless vibrate and DND is turned off and the volume is all the way up, sometimes the alarm just doesn’t work and I have missed stuff before. Android was really clear about this: there was just “no notifications”, “alarm only” and “all notifications”. I wish Apple would make a three state toggle like this and bundle it all together .. (I understand that you’re trying to tell me that alarm should be working, but it just isn’t).
  - justrobert 8y ago
    The alarm app on iOS can run into an issue where it will not play sound regardless of any other setting. It has existed in many versions of iOS. It has happened in iOS 10 and iOS 11, I don't know about the previous versions. They fix is to reboot the phone. I cannot trust it for critical alarms, so a simple device by the bed is required again.
1123581321 8y ago
Yikes - alarms do cut through DND and silent mode. Apple’s been great about making sure developers use the correct audio APIs, too, so games don’t make sound when volume is off but medical apps sound no matter what. I’m morbidly curious how many years you’ve suffered from this problem without googling it or mentioning it to another iPhone user!
woutr_be 8y ago
The volume not being independent is super annoying, sometimes I have my ringer volume pretty low, just because, and I will barely hear my alarm in the morning.

dionian 8y ago

put your phone on vibrate, the alarm will always work with it on

haikuginger 8y ago

Um. If you're setting an alarm in the built-in clock app, it definitely works when Do Not Disturb is turned on.

aetherspawn 8y ago
This does not match the physical testing I have been doing and my father has said the same about having issues with DND and the clock. So, I don’t really know what’s going on, then. But unless vibrate and DND is turned off and the volume is all the way up, sometimes the alarm just doesn’t work and I have missed stuff before. Android was really clear about this: there was just “no notifications”, “alarm only” and “all notifications”. I wish Apple would make a three state toggle like this and bundle it all together .. (I understand that you’re trying to tell me that alarm should be working, but it just isn’t).
- justrobert 8y ago
  The alarm app on iOS can run into an issue where it will not play sound regardless of any other setting. It has existed in many versions of iOS. It has happened in iOS 10 and iOS 11, I don't know about the previous versions. They fix is to reboot the phone. I cannot trust it for critical alarms, so a simple device by the bed is required again.

1123581321 8y ago

Yikes - alarms do cut through DND and silent mode. Apple’s been great about making sure developers use the correct audio APIs, too, so games don’t make sound when volume is off but medical apps sound no matter what. I’m morbidly curious how many years you’ve suffered from this problem without googling it or mentioning it to another iPhone user!

woutr_be 8y ago

The volume not being independent is super annoying, sometimes I have my ringer volume pretty low, just because, and I will barely hear my alarm in the morning.