How to avoid the iPhone's notorious 'silent alarm' bug

What BBN said about it

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAn iPhone alarm can look completely normal on screen and then make no sound and no vibration.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWe are treating this with the seriousness of a national security matter.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorPopular Science says the silent alarm issue has plagued users for at least a couple of years, and the post is a guide to avoiding it.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA couple of years. Apple said in twenty twenty-four it was fixing it, and users say it still happens.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat fix has been on read since then.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorKenji, it's a setting. Forbes quotes a report saying some alarms had their sound changed to None, so they go off silently.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the alarm is going off. It just isn't telling anyone. That's the most polite emergency I've ever heard of.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call it a discreet wake-up experience. TechRadar reports one Reddit user said in a since-deleted post that it practically lost them a job.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThey deleted the post. So now even the complaint is silent.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorTechRadar also says a possible fix has turned up in the iOS twenty-seven beta. Rating: mildly important, with a pillow.

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    Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentApple says your alarm still sounds in Silent mode. So who has been sleeping through it, Vera?