Apple
says
it’s
working
on
a
fix
for
an
issue
that’s
causing
some
iPhone
owners’
alarms
to
trigger
silently.
That’s
according
to
the
Today
show’s
segment
this
morning
about
the
issue,
which
has
been
spreading
on
social
media
as
users
complain
that
their
alarms
aren’t
waking
them
up.
Vergecast
producer
Liam
James
told
me
he’s
been
having
the
same
problem
since
Friday,
with
an
alarm
that
he
set
“6
or
7
years
ago”
and
hasn’t
touched
since.
It’s
not
clear
how
widespread
the
problem
is.
If
you’re
going
through
it,
though,
it
wouldn’t
be
the
worst
idea
to
check
a
couple
of
your
settings.
One
is
to
make
sure
that
the
ringtone
and
alerts
volume
slider
under
Settings
>
Sound
&
Haptics
is
turned
up.
It
can
be
easy
to
accidentally
turn
down
your
alarm’s
volume
if
you
have
“Change
with
Buttons”
toggled
on
beneath
that,
so
you
might
consider
turning
that
off.
If
that
doesn’t
work,
some
on
TikTok
say
turning
off
the
“Attention
Aware
Features”
toggle
under
Settings
>
Face
ID
&
Passcode
helps.
This
setting
does
things
like
let
you
expand
notifications
with
your
screen
locked,
but
it
can
also
immediately
turn
your
alarm
way
down
if
you
look
at
your
screen
while
it’s
going
off.
That
could
be
an
issue
if
you
sleep
with
your
phone
facing
you
on
a
stand
and
you
open
your
eyes
without
fully
waking
up.
(Although
the
TikToker
above
later
posted
that
this
fix
stopped
working
when
she
updated
her
phone
and
that
Apple
Support
recommended
the
Sound
&
Haptics
fix.)
This
obviously
isn’t
great
for
those
of
us
who
prefer
the
convenience
and
relative
pleasantness
of
smartphone
alarms
versus
the
synthetic
shriek
of
a
traditional
clock
or
the
bad
speakers
and
interfaces
of
most
music
alarm
clocks.
Apple
did
not
respond
to
The
Verge’s
request
for
comment
by
press
time.
Broken
iPhone
alarms
are
nothing
new
for
iOS
—
see
this
Verge
article
from
2015
about
Apple
releasing
an
update
to
fix
its
alarms,
among
other
things
—
and
they
happen
on
other
devices,
too.
But
it
also
feels
like
one
of
the
most
fundamental
betrayals
your
smartphone
can
carry
out.
Original author: Wes Davis
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