How trustworthy is the iPhone alarm clock?

[wadawow]

I need a dock and wondering if I should get an alarm/dock combo or just a dock... is it pretty reliable?

 

[The Game 161]

The iPhone clock is very good

 

[DollFaceDork]

Weather the Alarm is reliable or not is besides the point...

How good are you at getting up or hitting snooze a gazillion times...


I sometimes find that I swipe instead of hit snooze on the screen when I'm zombie like but that might be just me.

I invested in an old school alarm.

 

[localboy28]

I use alarm clock pro only 69p
Hasn't let me down once.

Has a great display so you can see it at night
Loads of functions/settings too

 

[B J M]

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Extremely reliable, I use it everyday and it has never failed me 😀

 

[jdlorinser]

The iPhone alarm clock is one of the reasons why I must have my iPhone. I have a bad memory and i use the alarm clock to remind me to do things during the week. I tend to hit the snooze button alot, and this alarm clock will pester you a hundred times until you end the alarm. Much more reliable than other phones.

 

[Gjwilly]

The only thing to be wary about is when daylight savings time begins or ends.
Seems like Apple has screwed this up every year since the iPhone began.
I think this most recent daylight savings was the first one that wasn't effected by some bug or an other.

 

[xraydoc]

I use it daily. Going on 3+ years as my morning alarm without any problems.

 

[bmms8]

only when DST hits, it then gives me problems 😛

 

[Roessnakhan]

I've never had a problem with my iPhone's alarm.

 

[Nrwrit3r]

If you jailbreak, it's not at all.

 

[416049]

works as good as any other alarm clock.

 

[QuarterSwede]

I have some that are set for work Mon-Fri and they've yet to fail to go off. That's actually better than the Sony alarm clock I have on my night stand.

 

[Reach9]

I use it daily. Going on 3+ years as my morning alarm without any problems.

exactly, it's the same here.

 

[miamialley]

I use it as my only alarm clock. Has worked perfectly for the last 4 years for me.

 

[forcetactic]

It has failed me once but that was during DST as one poster mentioned above

 

[Ashin]

Make sure you disable automatic time... can go wrong sometimes

 

[Shrink]

I found the alarm to be 100% reliable - so far. 😉
If you don't want to mess with the snooze (I hate that second wake-up, the first time is bad enough 😡) - turn it off.

Also, I find the timer very useful.

 

[sharpycl]

Well I used it for over two years and it was 100% reliable. But I recently got a basic digital alarm clock for beside my bed so that I can keep my phone in my office so I can sleep better. So I'm no longer using it anymore. Still the best phone alarm clock I've ever used.

 

[iApache]

It has failed me once but that was during DST as one poster mentioned above

Yup, this is the only time it's failed me also. I have like 3 alarms set a few minutes apart form each other, lol., works like a charm

 

[aldoF]

It's very good, I have it setup for MTWFS..I'm always late but it's got absolutely nothing to do with the reliability of the alarm 🙂

 

[Futhark]

I'm a postman who gets up at 4:30am so I need an alarm that's reliable.

I've never been let down by my iPhone alarm yet.

 

[steezy1337]

the only time it's failed me is when i've set am/pm wrong or when i've ran the battery dry through the night somehow. it's crazy persistant for you to actually tell it to stop so i'd say it's pretty good 🙂

 

[Surrix]

100% reliability for me so far, but as noted probably hundreds of thousands have suffered DST bugs.

 

[mj662]

iPhone Alarm clock is reliable and has multiple alarms but it is not the easiest to use. I hate digging thru menus to turn an alarm on or off.

Beautiful Clock Radio is much easier to set, turn on and off and has better sounds and is a nice clock and radio. if you care about that.

www.beautifulclockradio.com