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teabonesteak

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Sep 10, 2014
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hi all, ive searched and can only find topics on how to use siri to turn on/off an alarm and not if it's possible to turn off and active alarm. is there a way to turn off an alarm/timer with voice? sometime im in the middle of doing something where i cant tap the screen and would love to be able to turn off the buzzing with voice. is this possible?

thank you in advance.
 
i am asking bc it does not work; i am asking if there is a work around or something else i can do to enable it.
 
Probably not going to make any difference for you, but something to be aware of.
Pressing the crown will also stop an alarm/timer, you don't have to touch the screen.

if that doesn't help ....

you might be able to do it with shortcuts, you can make an action that will turn a specific alarm on or off, I'm assuming it will also stop an alarm that is currently sounding if you turn it off.
you'll need to have a specific alarm to target, so it can't be a "siri set an alarm at 3pm" kind of alarm, it needs to be one you've created and named in the clock app.

you will have to make a shortcut action for each alarm that you want to turn off, and if it's a repeating alarm that normally stays on all the time, you'll probably want to add steps to re-enable it, so that it will go off the next time it should.

depending on how you have things set up, your "work flow", and which alarms you want to stop, you might be able to make one shortcut that turns off all the alarms, just be mindful you won't accidentally turn off an alarm that's supposed to happen later. If you have a certain set of alarms that are "always on" then this might be easy to do.
or you might have to make a shortcut for each one.

once you're setup, shortcuts can be triggered with siri.

also not sure how this works with alarms that are on the watch vs the phone, if you'll need to talk to siri on the device that is actually going off.
 
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