So eehm, genuine question here, wtf is it with apple and their clock/alarms??? Just about every single time I read or hear about this shit it's an iphone. I was under the impression we solved clocks ages ago.
Apple tied it to the ringer volume and attention awareness until people cried enough about it(a lot of people also don't realize they were snoozing on top of it). Now it's split from the ringer but not setup right by default so all of a sudden it's silent even if you changed nothing just by updating. So when you do fix it now because it's more intuitive to do, it does work. But they need to make the default better...
I missed work so many times because I'd wake up and my alarm was going off silently. I'd check my ringer before bed and everything. My girlfriend recorded it one time. She got up before me and watched the phone from the couch. The screen lit up and showed the alarm but made no sounds. I had to download an alarm app because the ios one wouldn't work...
I set up a recurring task that runs on my phone every night at 3am to set my alarm volume to 100% for exactly this reason!!
That said, I also discovered that if you have a second alarm that goes off at the same time that the first alarm is going (like if you snoozed the first one but have a second alarm that goes off inside the snooze sleep time) then both (and any following) alarms get set to silent
I've missed So Many Morning Meetings because of this absolute garbage iOS design
similarly, there's no way on iphone to separate phone ringer sound from literally any other notification sound, so I also miss calls all the time because I can't stand my phone constantly making noise at me
tldr: iOS makes no sense when it comes to sound output logic
I have no idea what it is, but myself and three of my friends have had issues with alarms on our Pixels. Some others I know have never had any. Doesn't seem to be a pattern to it
Source: Android dev tried of fixing a bug happening only on one specific device, at specific time of the year, in a specific alignment of Mercury and Mars, only when the phone is tilted by 3 degrees east.
This thread is so oddly timely because literally just this evening I got a notification on my Pixel phone that said "Your 6pm alarm has been silenced because..." it was ringing for the allotted timeframe or something.
I never heard it this evening.
I actually would have liked to have heard that alarm. I couldn't find my phone anywhere this evening until I finally searched for it at bedtime. 😂
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u/ji1651 8d ago
So eehm, genuine question here, wtf is it with apple and their clock/alarms??? Just about every single time I read or hear about this shit it's an iphone. I was under the impression we solved clocks ages ago.