cannot get watch in nightstand mode to silence alarm from iphone

[Ryanhdd]

I set my daily alarm to wake up on my iPhone everyday. For one when it goes off in the morning i try hitting the watch crown to snooze or stop it. It does nothing. Also if I use siri on watch to set an alarm for the morning wake up. Well it does it only on my watch, which I never hear. it does not set it on the watch. i have mirror everything on the Phone so Im not sure why its not working.

 

[OrangeWhip]

The alarms on the Apple Watch and iPhone are completely separate from each other. If you set an alarm on your watch, it will only be on your watch. Same from the iPhone.

 

[Ryanhdd]

well thats dumb... I can see a case for having it both ways. it is 2015 having it both ways seems to be an option now.
Thanks

 

[parseckadet]

I agree that this should be the case as well. Doing so wouldn't even set new precedent. If you're wearing the it and an alarm on the phone goes off, it sounds and vibrates the watch as well. It even displays buttons to snooze and dismiss the alarm in that case. If it's ok to do that when the watch is being worn, then why not when it's in nightstand mode.

OP, sadly the only thing you and I can do is submit feedback at apple.com/feedback

 

[dotme]

The alarms on the Apple Watch and iPhone are completely separate from each other. If you set an alarm on your watch, it will only be on your watch. Same from the iPhone.

My Watch App -> Clock -> Push Alerts from iPhone
"When this is on, Apple Watch will alert you of Timers and Alarms you've set on your iPhone, so you can snooze or dismiss them remotely."

 

[Ryanhdd]

My Watch App -> Clock -> Push Alerts from iPhone
"When this is on, Apple Watch will alert you of Timers and Alarms you've set on your iPhone, so you can snooze or dismiss them remotely."

I have this enabled and it does not work.

 

[dotme]

I have this enabled and it does not work.

Understood. Does it work if you're wearing the watch instead of it being in Nightstand mode? If no, I would try to fix that first. If it's a "Nightstand Mode" problem though, then I would go the route parseckadet suggests and give Apple feedback.

 

[Ryanhdd]

Understood. Does it work if you're wearing the watch instead of it being in Nightstand mode? If no, I would try to fix that first. If it's a "Nightstand Mode" problem though, then I would go the route parseckadet suggests and give Apple feedback.

It does not work either way. With it on my wrist I set an alarm on my iPhone and it only goes off on my iPhone. I try to push the crown in on the watch and it does nothing. Its the same way with it in nightstand mode.

 

[OrangeWhip]

Huh... I didn't realize the iPhone could push alarms to the watch like that. Very cool! I just tried that and it works fine as long as I'm not using the iPhone. If I am, the alarm is on the iPhone only.

 

[Ryanhdd]

Ok my mistake. I guess i had the phone in my hands. I just set an alarm on phone and set it down locked and it did ring and allow me to dismiss on my watch.
I will see if nightstand works tonight again.

 

[Ryanhdd]

yep it does not work when watch is in nightstand mode. kinda silly.

 

[jalm1]

I have the same issue. Alarm alert will push to my watch when I'm wearing it, but in nightstand mode nothing. May have something to do with security policies (mdm), but that is just a guess since everything seems to break with mdm security policies.