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The Apple Watch is the worst Alarm Clock

I dont seem to have this issue at all, I snooze it just fine. I also love that it wakes me up with the vibration, and lets my wife sleep in. On occasion I'll sleep through it, but im not at all a morning person. For this case I also have an alarm set on my phone 15 mins later. Just in case.
 
sdz said:
I overslept.
Why can't the Californian "Geniuses" implement a mechanism that works like the snooze button on every other alarm clock?
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umm, they already did. I guess I could use some name calling about people who don't bother to figure out how to use something and then blame others for their lack of understanding, but I won't, name calling others would demean me
 
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martint235 said:
You can’t adjust the snooze time on most alarm clocks from what I remember.
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Mechanical alarm clocks, I can understand not being able to change the snooze time, but on an iPhone/Apple watch, it feels like a simple thing to implement.

martint235 said:
So basically though you can stop the alarm by covering the watch or pressing the side button. To snooze you press the crown. OP overslept because they didn’t follow the clear design of the watch?
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Well, I wouldn't call it a "clear design," as the "press crown to snooze" isn't a clearly obvious feature. I only learned about it because somebody mentioned it on this forum. Once I knew about it, it's been very simple and easy to use.
 
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Been using AW as my alarm for 4 years and have never had any issues other than me forgetting to charge it. Sounds like user error or you just don't like how it works, and that's fine -- there are limitless other options out there.
 
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martint235 said:
You can’t adjust the snooze time on most alarm clocks from what I remember.
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True of old-school alarm clocks for sure, but not necessarily modern ones that are essentially internet-connected computers. I use my Echo Dot Clock as my alarm, and if I want to snooze for five minutes, I just say "Alexa, Snooze for five minutes." I don't use my Apple Watch as an alarm so I've never tried this, but can you ask Siri on the watch to do it? As in, "Siri, snooze for five minutes"?
 
In my books that's a legitimate problem with the way it is designed. Some people don't really wake up from an alarm immediately, they'll stop an alarm whilst still half asleep and not realize it, then wake up later confused why the alarm never went off. If you are interrupted in deep sleep by the alarm and then have to make sure you hit the right button or you accidentally turn the alarm off altogether, not everyone is going to hit the right button each and every time.

Google has messed up with their Pixels as well where the phone will listen and stop the alarm if you say stop. Apparently some people have mumbled stop in their sleep without knowing, and then wondered for a couple days why the alarm doesn't work sometimes until they realized they are stopping it without waking up.

These tech gadgets are supposed to improve and make our lives easier. They should adapt to the human way which includes some people covering the watch face without waking up.

missingar said:
you just don't like how it works, and that's fine
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It remains bad design. As someone else mentioned, Apple could offer simple things like adjusting the snooze wait timer or let us choose if the side button disables the alarm or not. Isn't that a much better solution than turning the customer away?

Instead, for these tech companies there is only one right way of doing things and if you're a heavy sleeper and Tim Apple isn't then you are out of luck. I keep noticing this year after year that Apple's products are all around fantastic yet always have these quirks where things work in one specific manner that someone at Apple deemed to be the best way for every single Apple user out there.
 
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okkibs said:
It remains bad design. As someone else mentioned, Apple could offer simple things like adjusting the snooze wait timer or let us choose if the side button disables the alarm or not. Isn't that a much better solution than turning the customer away?
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To me, having one button be the snooze button and the other one be the stop button makes sense, and I don't see a need to offer a way to adjust that. I think the "cover face to stop" is the one more likely to be triggered accidentally.

okkibs said:
Instead, for these tech companies there is only one right way of doing things and if you're a heavy sleeper and Tim Apple isn't then you are out of luck. I keep noticing this year after year that Apple's products are all around fantastic yet always have these quirks where things work in one specific manner that someone at Apple deemed to be the best way for every single Apple user out there.
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I read somewhere that Tim Cook is an early riser, doing exercises at 5 am, so yeah, it's likely he doesn't understand people who have problems waking up right away when the alarm goes off. I totally agree about Apple products having these weird quirks with no way to change the behavior. Like you can set Air Pods to pause if you take out one pod, or keep playing without pausing no matter what. There's no option for keep playing unless you take out both pods, which is the behavior I want.
 
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Night Spring said:
I thought the disagreement was over what happens if you cover the face. I haven't seen anyone say that pushing the Digital Crown leads to unexpected behavior.
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Having only read this thread, I gathered that the crown only snoozes when in nightstand mode, not on the wrist. That seems to be the case in Apple's documentation as well.

I've had my first AW for only a couple of weeks and don't use alarms so I find this thread very interesting.
 
dnis said:
Having only read this thread, I gathered that the crown only snoozes when in nightstand mode, not on the wrist. That seems to be the case in Apple's documentation as well.
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Not sure how you got that impression. I don't think anyone even mentioned nightstand mode in this thread. I admit I haven't read Apple's documentation regarding this particular feature, but have found them frustrating when looking up other issues.
 
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Night Spring said:
Snooze by pressing the Digital Crown.
Stop alarm by pressing side button.
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This! My tired brain could never remember which button to tap. (I guess I feel like the button colors should be reversed, so I've always had to think extra hard in the morning and occasionally tapped the wrong one.) But I can remember to just press the Digital Crown and don't even need to open my eyes.

The only issue I have is if I happen to be sleeping in the fetal position when the alarm goes off. The alarm is instantly muted (or doesn't go off at all) because my leg is covering the face.
 
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sdz said:
253558540

My goodness the stupidity of Apple is limitless.
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That is old. The ability to use the Digital Crown to snooze (and the side button to stop) while wearing the watch came out in watchOS 9. What watchOS version are you using?

Devyn89 said:
Mine sometimes just doesn’t vibrate then I wake up and my interface says it’s vibrating but it is not.
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It's possible you could have "covered to mute" accidentally. Happens to me when my leg or other part of my body covers the watch face when it goes off, even if for a split second.
 
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Night Spring said:
Not sure how you got that impression. I don't think anyone even mentioned nightstand mode in this thread. I admit I haven't read Apple's documentation regarding this particular feature, but have found them frustrating when looking up other issues.
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I've been using my AW as an alarm since I had the S0, in nightstand mode, you can turn on/off snooze when setting the alarm and then when the alarm goes off, you have 2 "buttons" on the watch face for snooze and stop ...
 
Fully disagree. I find it to be a much more pleasant alarm than my phone or an actual clock. I have no issues with snoozing nor missing it. The tap on my wrist to wakeup was a game-changer when I started using it.

-dan
 
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iStorm said:
That is old. The ability to use the Digital Crown to snooze (and the side button to stop) while wearing the watch came out in watchOS 9. What watchOS version are you using?


It's possible you could have "covered to mute" accidentally. Happens to me when my leg or other part of my body covers the watch face when it goes off, even if for a split second.
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Possible. They’re taking that out is watchOS 10 right?
 
Since day one it works perfect for me and I love it more than the iPhone one cause with the watch it vibrates my hand. That’s what she said. so more chance for me to wake up.
 
imo it’s the best, does the job every morning without sound.
But it is annoying to get wakened up lol.
 
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tobefirst ️ said:
Counterpoint: The Apple Watch alarm is the best alarm clock. It can wake me up without waking my wife. And, like @Night Spring said, you can press the Digital Crown to snooze.
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I second this. There have been times that I didn’t hear my alarm go off on my iPhone, but with the Apple Watch vibrating when my alarm go off, it has woken me up.
 
Rainshadow said:
Call me crazy but I rarely rely on any one alarm. I’ve had too many batteries die or roommates knock over an alarm over the years.

I use my Apple Watch as my alarm but have my phone set up to have another alarm go off 5 to 10 minutes later.

Sounds complicated, but it’s not. The watch automatically sets its alarm when it’s in sleep mode. And I just turn the additional alarm on my phone when I set it on its charger. That also forces me to wake up knowing that if I don’t my phone will become angry.
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Exactly what I do...a quiet awakening that doesn't disturb my wife, until I accidentally fall back to sleep, or the vibration doesn't wake me :) Best of both worlds and hardly an effort to setup
 
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