If your iPhone alarms aren't going off, you're not alone
It might not be "new year, new me" for the iPhone yet, as scattered reports across social media show that the iPhone is, yet again, failing to wake people up.

The iPhone seems to be sleeping on the job once more
Nothing starts the day off on the wrong foot like missing your alarm when you've got somewhere to be or something to do. Unfortunately for some iPhone owners, that seems to be the exact situation they've found themselves in.
Stop us if you've heard this before. A quick check on X shows plenty of iPhone owners reporting that their alarms are not going off or are going off silently. A smaller subset of people are reporting that their alarms are going off at the incorrect time.
Why is my iphone alarm never going off recently what is this
-- Skyler (@Airbenderjpg)
It looks as though the problem began on or slightly before January 22. Prior to that, most of the complaints were about the iPhone alarm sound resetting to 100% loudness, and not the lack thereof.
That volume bug regularly affects one AppleInsider writer, while two others have had the silent treatment. There doesn't appear to be a common link, though, and most AppleInsider staffers have not experienced any alarm problems -- with our web developer being a notable exception.
Currently, Apple hasn't acknowledged the problem or offered a fix, but we do know that this is far from the first time this bug has been reported. It was a problem in 2019, and then became a notable problem again in 2024.
As is typical, many users have reported that their alarms are going off, but are silent. For that reason, it's always worth double-checking the volume settings on your iPhone.
- Open Settings
- Scroll down and tap Sounds and Haptics
- Slide the Ringtone and Alerts slider to an appropriate level

How to check the volume of your iPhone alarm
You may also want to toggle off Change with Buttons, as it may have accidentally become enabled at some point.
AppleInsider also suggests deleting and re-creating your alarms -- especially those that you have set to repeat -- for good measure. Also ensure that you haven't accidentally bumped it to the wrong period, such as setting an alarm for 5:00 PM when you meant to set one for 5:00 AM.
You may also want to turn off Attention-Aware Features, should they be enabled. This was the workaround for the issue when it cropped up in 2024.
- Open Settings
- Tap Accessibility
- Tap on Face ID & Attention
- Toggle Attention-Aware Features off
Attention-Aware Features enable your iPhone to use Face ID to check whether or not you're paying attention to your device and act accordingly. When enabled, your display will lower the volume of your alerts if you're looking at your iPhone. Unfortunately, it seems that sometimes the feature persists, even when you are no longer looking at your iPhone.
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Comments
not resolved yet as i can see
While I'm complaining.. siri seems just as bad for me as it's ever been. I asked for directions yesterday and it started a podcast I've never listened to before.
I think the nightstand mode feature is too sensitive and lowers the alarm volume too quickly, often before I’m actually awake.
I have problems with my phone notifying me of VERY important things. One of them, I am responsible to go fetch my awesome, very young girl for lunch and end of day at her school. At her age, not being there is absolutely not an option even if it’s walking distance.
I missed it thrice, once with my girl arriving home alone. Nothing bad happened, but these are the kinds of things where you simply want to throw your phone, watch, and entire ecosystem out of the window as hard as you can and move on to see what’s so great about Android, get a PC, and go buy a vintage Rolex with a two alarm complication.
For ref, I got calendar events that didn’t want to play alarms even if they are set with two different reminders, I changed all the settings to be as obnoxious as possible, and made the banners persistent, my modes don’t disable that, it vibrates even if no sound, everything I could think of, I added it. No matter, the banners weren’t even on the screens or on my watch.
I also added up alarms. And, well, you see what happens there.
Now, I resorted to use my work’s PC to give an extra event through Google, and it saved me more than once. And I also now start a timer. Because FML it would happen again.