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Luigi3

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Aug 11, 2012
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The title says it all. I noticed that I'm waking up late during my holidays and using Apple Watch 2 as alarm.
It just stopped working. It's showing that alarm is happening, but no sound or vibration. No matter whether Nightstand is active or not.
I tried various solutions, i.e.: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8081768 , setting alarm via Siri, manually, changing vibrations on phone, etc. It only started to work if I had resetted the watch. But I did it yesterday and today it failed again!
The only thing I didn't try is re-pairing it again. But I'm not gonna do that, it takes too much time and such basic function should work flawlessly.
This is a giant bug and looks like Apple doesn't care at all, since I'm not the only one who's experiencing such problems.

The quality of Apple's software nowadays is abysmal.
 
Have you tried toggling your ring/silent button on your iPhone? My watch won't vibrate unless the phone is on ring.
 
I was crazy enough one day and set up an alarm to wake me up during 4am, on Watch. It worked, super well, and I woke up because of the vibration from Watch.

Apple Watch series 3 with WatchOS 4.
Maybe? Try a night when Watch is not connected to your phone and see if it will ring.
 
Have you tried toggling your ring/silent button on your iPhone? My watch won't vibrate unless the phone is on ring.

Phone ring button has no effect on Watch.

I was crazy enough one day and set up an alarm to wake me up during 4am, on Watch. It worked, super well, and I woke up because of the vibration from Watch.

Apple Watch series 3 with WatchOS 4.
Maybe? Try a night when Watch is not connected to your phone and see if it will ring.

I don't want to contrive with disconnecting watch to just enable the most basic function on watch. It used to work and now it doesn't.
 
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