A collective fear amongst many is a smartphone alarm failing to go off after setting it the night before. Well, apparently, Apple is adding to that anxiety as many users are claiming their iPhone alarm apps are inaudible.
Brett Chody is one of those frustrated users who missed an early flight due to a “silent alarm.”
She took to TikTok to warn others, only to find out just how common this annoying problem is.
“I would like to make a PSA. I missed my original flight to Chicago this morning because I set an alarm on my iPhone in the alarm app from Apple and it went off, but silently. I woke up at 6:30am on my own — my flight had taken off. I picked up my phone and it said alarm going off but it was dead silent. It had been going off for 2 hours,” Chody explained in a video with over 2 million views.
She explained in her video how she also took to Instagram to air out her grievances — which made her antennas go up after close “100 people swiped up, maybe more, and were like, this happened to me. ‘I missed an exam, I missed a shift, I missed my first day of work. It’s been happening to me so much on my iPhone.’”
And based on the thousands of comments under Chody’s video, this is a common issue. “I KNEW I WASNT CRAZY.”
“My phone does this it’s so crazy.”
“That’s why I set incremental alarms for an entire hour. One every 10 min.”
“No literally I’ll hit snooze and it won’t go off again.”
Apparently, the cause of this frustrating problem is due to the Attention Aware Features in Face ID settings being enabled, which automatically lowers your phone’s volume when a user is looking at the screen, according to an Apple discussion thread.
“I think the feature turns alarm to silent as soon as I move it or it recognizes my face ID,” one Apple user wrote in the thread, “When I turned the feature off, alarm started working as normal.”
This doesn’t seem to be the only issue Apple fans are up in arms about.
Those who use a first-generation iPhone SE might have to consider their upgrade options as the 2016 budget-friendly smartphone will no longer be eligible for repairs or service by Apple or third-party vendors, according to MacRumors.
The device was discontinued in 2018 and per Apple’s policy, gadgets that haven’t been distributed for sale within the last seven years are considered obsolete.
