For those who ever desire a professional excuse to say you’ve missed your alarm, effectively Apple could have simply handed you one, albeit unintentionally. That’s as a result of a bunch of iPhone customers are reporting that their telephone alarms aren’t going off when they need to. 

Over on Reddit, iPhone customers have famous that, regardless of setting alarms on their telephones, the precise alarm bell/sound by no means went off. And apparently, these alarms weren’t set to be recurring, so there shouldn’t have been any motive for them to go silent or reset till they’ve been acknowledged. In these experiences, all of the alarm does is set off the display to activate, nevertheless it provides no sound. 

It will seem that that is an iOS 17 problem, with one Redditor noting it has to do with the ‘Consideration Conscious’ characteristic, whereby the iPhone can detect if you’re being attentive to it. Seemingly within the circumstances of those alarms not sounding, it might be all the way down to iPhones on iOS 17 considering their customers are wanting on the telephone, and due to this fact not requiring a blaring alarm to get their consideration. 

As an iPhone alarm person on iOS 17, I have never observed any issues myself. However taking a more in-depth take a look at my iPhone 13 Professional’s settings, I discovered that the Consideration Conscious setting was off – considerably paradoxically, I wasn’t conscious of the choice within the first place, as I don’t suppose it was ever dropped at my consideration. 

Arming alarms 

The answer to this lack of iPhone alarms is to flip off Consideration Conscious, which could be present in a few locations. Considered one of them is within the Voice Management subsection of the Accessibility settings in iOS 17, and the opposite is the Face ID & Consideration menu (above).

However Reddit customers additionally word that switching off the Standby Mode in iPhones, decreasing the variety of alarms you might need going off shut by one another, and switching any customized alarm sound to default ones, can remedy the silent alarm problem. 

Nevertheless, these workarounds aren’t precisely supreme, and I hope Apple can patch over such a flaw in its subsequent iOS 17 replace. In spite of everything, I can solely think about the excuse of ‘my alarm did not go off’ will solely work a finite variety of instances with one’s work bosses. 

And if this has put you off iPhones then try our record of one of the best Android telephones you may get proper now. Or check out our Samsung Galaxy S24 Extremely hub to get a really feel for what the subsequent large Android flagship telephone might carry to the smartphone desk. 

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