This is like the fourth time an iOS update has broken the ability to use your phone as an alarm clock. Incredibly frustrating. I definitely missed meetings a co

This is like the fourth time an iOS update has broken the ability to use your phone as an alarm clock. Incredibly frustrating. I definitely missed meetings a couple times back when I owned a first-gen iPhone and relied on it for this - I eventually bought an old-fashioned clock. FWIW I've had similar problems with other phones in the past, so this isn't exclusively an Apple thing - but insufficient QA of alarms is a distressing ongoing problem with iOS and I don't know why they haven't made sure that it's a core part of their release process by now. Unfortunately once you generalize all your notification infrastructure, it becomes easier to break alarms. The Windows Alarms and Clock app relies on system notification infrastructure, so if notifications are silenced (there is a longstanding bug that causes this, and the people responsible for Win10 Notifications don't give a shit), the alarm sound doesn't play until the notification appears - often hours later. If they played the sound directly this wouldn't be an issue, but they assume notifications will work. Yay for abstraction and infrastructure...