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IPhone Alarms Still Not Working Despite Apple's Words

43 points by solipsist 16y ago

aaronbrethorst 16y ago
It worked for me this morning. Or rather, it would've if I hadn't kept hitting 'snooze'. edit: the alarm I set was configured identically to how mtigas describes their setup.
- mtigas 16y ago
  My one-off alarms worked for me as well — though they hadn’t been enabled all weekend and I enabled them before bed last night. Not sure what the circumstances were for those whose alarms didn’t go off today.
jkahn 16y ago
My alarm woke me up this morning. But then again, it is January 4th in Australia.
- trouble 16y ago
  My recurring one works, but not the one-off alarm (in Australia).
  - jkahn 16y ago
    That was a one off alarm.
paul9290 16y ago
Free alternatives.. Iphone Apps: Alarm clock pro, Nightstand Central, Alarm Tunes Online Alarm Clocks: http://onlineclock.net http://onlineclock.net, http://kukuklok.com http://kukuklok.com, http://Sleep.fm http://Sleep.fm - The Social Alarm Clock Or look around your house for one of those old blocky looking things that make horrible noises.
ellyagg 16y ago
I'm going to be interested to see how long this article stays on the front page after the far more alarming and longstanding Android SMS bug fell off the front page after only a couple hours.
- hrq 16y ago
  Both are unfortunate bugs. The iPhone one is the one that burned me and my wife and many people at work. I'm sure the Android one is real too, but I don't know anyone who has been affected yet.
- ecuzzillo 16y ago
  iOS having a mission-critical bug is like a plane crash: a rare failure of a service we think of as working flawlessly every time, which we can do almost nothing to fix except hope the powers that be do it soon. Android having a mission-critical bug is like a car crash: relatively unlikely for any given device, but there are so many devices running around that you'd be surprised if there weren't one happening somewhere all the time. And the collection of devices was never billed as just-working every time anyway. (I have an Android phone and an iPad, and will be first in line for a Verizon iPhone.)
- guelo 16y ago
  What? iPhones have a bug? Well uhh... look over there, Android has a bug too! Why aren't you paying more attention to that, huh? What are you some kind of anti-apple bigot? Shame on you for noticing this bug!
- varjag 16y ago
  Android bug might be more severe, but you have to give it that the iOS bug is more alarming. cough
  - iuguy 16y ago
    It's not alarming at all. That's the problem!
- mike-cardwell 16y ago
CitizenKane 16y ago
I was tempted to not upvote this, but then the thought of the economic impact not upvoting would have changed my mind. For the sake for the technology companies in the valley and elsewhere I think this is a worthwhile PSA.
ryanwaggoner 16y ago
My wife's alarm didn't work yesterday (non-recurring, setup yesterday) and a friend told me today that his hadn't worked this morning (non-recurring, setup today).
kevinherron 16y ago
Mine did not go off this morning (1/3/2011) at 7am. I woke up at 730a and confirmed that it was indeed set for 7am.
Timothee 16y ago
I'd be interested in reading an explanation of that bug from Apple once it's fixed. Y2K had some valid reasons behind it, but this is kind of strange. Especially since it happened once not too long ago.
- glhaynes 16y ago
  Me too. It's also weird that Apple suggested that it only affected Jan 1 and Jan 2 but that it seemed to affect some (but only some) people on Jan 3, too.
meat-eater 16y ago
Not sure, but it could be device specific. My one off alarm that I just set the other day did not work. The one that my wife set worked. Same OS versions but she has a 3GS and I have the iPhone 4.
tptacek 16y ago
My alarms worked fine today. iPhone 4, recently updated; I have a recurring 7:05AM and then a bunch of 1-offs for 7:10, 7:20, and 7:50, and they all worked fine.
- lionhearted 16y ago
  > I have a recurring 7:05AM and then a bunch of 1-offs for 7:10, 7:20, and 7:50, and they all worked fine. Hah, I thought I was the only person who did this! It fixes three problems at once - no chance of the AM/PM error (alarm set for 7PM when there's a meeting at 8AM - whoops), no chance of turning it off and falling back asleep, and no need to screw around with snooze if I decide I need 10 more before getting up. I'd never heard of anyone else doing this... I wonder if this is more common than I thought?
  - smiler 16y ago
    I do this - I set 5 different alarms, each spaced 2-3 mins apart. If I'm going to bed and need to get up after only 3-4 hours sleep, I will do the same, but also set one 10 mins later, 20 mins later
  - tptacek 16y ago
    Mine are set roughy at "wake up", "kids should be downstairs", "kids should be eating", "daughter needs to be bundled for school". I'm not really conscious until 8:30 or so.
    - allwein 16y ago
      Ha! I do the same thing. Mine are "wake up", "stop messing around online and eat breakfast", "stop messing around online and get dressed", "stop messing around online and go to work". All spaced about 30 minutes apart.
gojomo 16y ago
The two non-recurring iPhone alarms that I enabled last night after midnight (by adjusting the times) both sounded as expected this morning, Monday the 3rd. Latest iOS, iPhone4. So, it's not a certain failure, or the factors required to reproduce are more particular. I recall in an earlier iPhone/iOS, once being disappointed that an alarm didn't audibly sound when some other notification had (and held) the foreground... I presume that was fixed long ago, but maybe something with the growth of notifications and background services is creating a similar problem.
- nixy 16y ago
  My girlfriend and I set our alarms when we went to bed on the 2nd, expecting to wake up around 8 am CET. She's got an iPhone 3G with iOS 4.1 and I've got an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2. None of them sounded the morning of the 3rd. We are now proud owners of two analog alarm clocks.
jrockway 16y ago
How is their alarm clock implemented?
- mike-cardwell 16y ago
  Badly
callmeed 16y ago
Had to take my daughter to the airport this morning and her iPhone 4 alarm didn't go off. My iPhone 3G alarm did.
djhworld 16y ago
Mine repeatedly failed on the 1st,2nd and 3rd I set a 'recurring' alarm feature last night and it went off this morning
kamechan 16y ago
i read this and immediately tested 3 to go off, one each minute after i read it. worked fine... latest iOS build.
IgorPartola 16y ago
Does anyone know what this bug stems from? Why is 2011 so special?
rodh257 16y ago
Is it really that hard to implement an alarm clock application? I'd love to hear why these bugs are occurring (I recall once of twice recently hearing friends with iPhones complaining about alarm clocks not working, so this isn't the first time).

43 points by solipsist 16y ago

It worked for me this morning. Or rather, it would've if I hadn't kept hitting 'snooze'. edit: the alarm I set was configured identically to how mtigas describes their setup.

mtigas 16y ago
My one-off alarms worked for me as well — though they hadn’t been enabled all weekend and I enabled them before bed last night. Not sure what the circumstances were for those whose alarms didn’t go off today.

jkahn 16y ago

My alarm woke me up this morning. But then again, it is January 4th in Australia.

trouble 16y ago
My recurring one works, but not the one-off alarm (in Australia).
- jkahn 16y ago
  That was a one off alarm.

paul9290 16y ago

Free alternatives.. Iphone Apps: Alarm clock pro, Nightstand Central, Alarm Tunes Online Alarm Clocks: http://onlineclock.net http://onlineclock.net, http://kukuklok.com http://kukuklok.com, http://Sleep.fm http://Sleep.fm - The Social Alarm Clock Or look around your house for one of those old blocky looking things that make horrible noises.

ellyagg 16y ago

I'm going to be interested to see how long this article stays on the front page after the far more alarming and longstanding Android SMS bug fell off the front page after only a couple hours.

hrq 16y ago
Both are unfortunate bugs. The iPhone one is the one that burned me and my wife and many people at work. I'm sure the Android one is real too, but I don't know anyone who has been affected yet.
ecuzzillo 16y ago
iOS having a mission-critical bug is like a plane crash: a rare failure of a service we think of as working flawlessly every time, which we can do almost nothing to fix except hope the powers that be do it soon. Android having a mission-critical bug is like a car crash: relatively unlikely for any given device, but there are so many devices running around that you'd be surprised if there weren't one happening somewhere all the time. And the collection of devices was never billed as just-working every time anyway. (I have an Android phone and an iPad, and will be first in line for a Verizon iPhone.)
guelo 16y ago
What? iPhones have a bug? Well uhh... look over there, Android has a bug too! Why aren't you paying more attention to that, huh? What are you some kind of anti-apple bigot? Shame on you for noticing this bug!
varjag 16y ago
Android bug might be more severe, but you have to give it that the iOS bug is more alarming. cough
- iuguy 16y ago
  It's not alarming at all. That's the problem!
mike-cardwell 16y ago

CitizenKane 16y ago

I was tempted to not upvote this, but then the thought of the economic impact not upvoting would have changed my mind. For the sake for the technology companies in the valley and elsewhere I think this is a worthwhile PSA.

ryanwaggoner 16y ago

My wife's alarm didn't work yesterday (non-recurring, setup yesterday) and a friend told me today that his hadn't worked this morning (non-recurring, setup today).

kevinherron 16y ago

Mine did not go off this morning (1/3/2011) at 7am. I woke up at 730a and confirmed that it was indeed set for 7am.

Timothee 16y ago

I'd be interested in reading an explanation of that bug from Apple once it's fixed. Y2K had some valid reasons behind it, but this is kind of strange. Especially since it happened once not too long ago.

glhaynes 16y ago
Me too. It's also weird that Apple suggested that it only affected Jan 1 and Jan 2 but that it seemed to affect some (but only some) people on Jan 3, too.

meat-eater 16y ago

Not sure, but it could be device specific. My one off alarm that I just set the other day did not work. The one that my wife set worked. Same OS versions but she has a 3GS and I have the iPhone 4.

tptacek 16y ago

My alarms worked fine today. iPhone 4, recently updated; I have a recurring 7:05AM and then a bunch of 1-offs for 7:10, 7:20, and 7:50, and they all worked fine.

lionhearted 16y ago
> I have a recurring 7:05AM and then a bunch of 1-offs for 7:10, 7:20, and 7:50, and they all worked fine. Hah, I thought I was the only person who did this! It fixes three problems at once - no chance of the AM/PM error (alarm set for 7PM when there's a meeting at 8AM - whoops), no chance of turning it off and falling back asleep, and no need to screw around with snooze if I decide I need 10 more before getting up. I'd never heard of anyone else doing this... I wonder if this is more common than I thought?
- smiler 16y ago
  I do this - I set 5 different alarms, each spaced 2-3 mins apart. If I'm going to bed and need to get up after only 3-4 hours sleep, I will do the same, but also set one 10 mins later, 20 mins later
- tptacek 16y ago
  Mine are set roughy at "wake up", "kids should be downstairs", "kids should be eating", "daughter needs to be bundled for school". I'm not really conscious until 8:30 or so.
  - allwein 16y ago
    Ha! I do the same thing. Mine are "wake up", "stop messing around online and eat breakfast", "stop messing around online and get dressed", "stop messing around online and go to work". All spaced about 30 minutes apart.

gojomo 16y ago

The two non-recurring iPhone alarms that I enabled last night after midnight (by adjusting the times) both sounded as expected this morning, Monday the 3rd. Latest iOS, iPhone4. So, it's not a certain failure, or the factors required to reproduce are more particular. I recall in an earlier iPhone/iOS, once being disappointed that an alarm didn't audibly sound when some other notification had (and held) the foreground... I presume that was fixed long ago, but maybe something with the growth of notifications and background services is creating a similar problem.

nixy 16y ago
My girlfriend and I set our alarms when we went to bed on the 2nd, expecting to wake up around 8 am CET. She's got an iPhone 3G with iOS 4.1 and I've got an iPhone 4 with iOS 4.2. None of them sounded the morning of the 3rd. We are now proud owners of two analog alarm clocks.

jrockway 16y ago

How is their alarm clock implemented?

mike-cardwell 16y ago
Badly

callmeed 16y ago

Had to take my daughter to the airport this morning and her iPhone 4 alarm didn't go off. My iPhone 3G alarm did.

djhworld 16y ago

Mine repeatedly failed on the 1st,2nd and 3rd I set a 'recurring' alarm feature last night and it went off this morning

kamechan 16y ago

i read this and immediately tested 3 to go off, one each minute after i read it. worked fine... latest iOS build.

IgorPartola 16y ago

Does anyone know what this bug stems from? Why is 2011 so special?

rodh257 16y ago

Is it really that hard to implement an alarm clock application? I'd love to hear why these bugs are occurring (I recall once of twice recently hearing friends with iPhones complaining about alarm clocks not working, so this isn't the first time).