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watchOS 11.4 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Alarms

If we leave this option off, will the AW still use haptics to wake me up as it does now? I do not want the sound, just the haptics.
 
Wow didn’t realize this was an issue for some people. The silent taps are sufficient to wake me up every time.
 
ke-iron said:
Wow didn’t realize this was an issue for some people. The silent taps are sufficient to wake me up every time.
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Unfortunately its a huge issue, I can't feel the taps on my wrist and I will sleep through it.
 
Night Spring said:
I think if it's the same alarm going off on all devices, then stopping it on the watch will stop it on all devices. If you want to force yourself to get up to stop the sound, what you need is a separate alarm that can only be stopped from the other device(s), not the watch, as other posters have said they are doing now.
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Yeah it needs to sound on every device but I need to press stop on every device...
 
Good. Now expand the complication refresh limit for third parties, and fix the same refresh issues on iPhone, and Standby apps.
 
Some of you all sleep like the dead. Vibrate is plenty for me and as someone that wakes up hours before my partner, I love that I can slip out of bed unnoticed.
 
DCYorke said:
I'm glad they're making it an option, but I really love silent alarms. It wakes me up without waking up my partner.
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Honestly, even this still feels incomplete. It should have an option to set where after trying to wake you silently for (adjustable delay) it will then revert to making noise as well to attempt to wake you up.
 
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Johnny907 said:
No, it shouldn’t. I have my watch silenced because I wake up an hour before my wife. The haptic tapping is plenty sufficient to wake me up without needing a blaring alarm waking her up in the process.
Silenced devices should stay SILENCED.
THAT should be the default, but I’m fine with adding a toggle for those who prefer it otherwise.
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Silenced devices have been ****ing up people's alarms for decades. No. You are wrong.
 
There is a known issue regarding Alarms on the iPhone. Running latest iOS. Missed an alarm while traveling two weeks in a row and almost missed my flights. Alarm was set for 3 a.m. Turns out if you have a song set as the alarm and Dolby Atmos is on (It is defaulted to ON because it is not a feature I care about and wouldn't have turned on)... a song won't play as an alarm. I reported this to Apple in October - it was a known issue then and they guided me to turn off Atmos and alarm has worked since then. I am surprised Apple hasn't fixed it because it is a nominal issue - an iPhone should always work as a reliable alarm clock.
 
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Seriously though ive kinda given up using ios alarms as they are just not reliable. And its hard to know if it will actually work. (Watch and phone)

So is it possible to think you have set an alarm only for it not to go off in the morning? I think it is and this is totally un acceptable. Setting alarm should be easy and clear.

But we have sleep modes. Profiles, silant alarms now bust through modes. Seriously can apple cut all this crap out and grt back to functional eay to use and understand interfaces?? Please mr tim apple
 
macjaffa said:
So is it possible to think you have set an alarm only for it not to go off in the morning? I think it is and this is totally un acceptable. Setting alarm should be easy and clear.
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I've never had a scheduled alarm fail to go off on my iPhone, going back to my first, an iPhone 4. And if I'm wearing the watch and it is charged, it goes off on the Watch. Setting an alarm is easy and clear, for me - I use the bedtime display in the Clock app on my iPhone. Or, for arbitrary alarms, I can tell Siri to "set an alarm for 9am" (for instance). I've never had this fail either.
 
CarlJ said:
I've never had a scheduled alarm fail to go off on my iPhone, going back to my first, an iPhone 4. And if I'm wearing the watch and it is charged, it goes off on the Watch. Setting an alarm is easy and clear, for me - I use the bedtime display in the Clock app on my iPhone. Or, for arbitrary alarms, I can tell Siri to "set an alarm for 9am" (for instance). I've never had this fail either.
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if my phone switch is on silent will my alarm make a sound a) when scheduled via alarms app and b) when schduled via sleep focus mode ?

does the volume level setting have any effect on alarm ? i.e if my vol is a zero will alarm make a sound ?
 
macjaffa said:
if my phone switch is on silent will my alarm make a sound a) when scheduled via alarms app and b) when schduled via sleep focus mode ?

does the volume level setting have any effect on alarm ? i.e if my vol is a zero will alarm make a sound ?
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Yes, the alarm should make a sound even when the phone is on silent. There's a setting where you can set the volume of the alarm to be independent of the volume of other sounds the phone plays.

I haven't personally confirmed that setting works as expected, I just know such a setting exists.
 
Night Spring said:
Yes, the alarm should make a sound even when the phone is on silent. There's a setting where you can set the volume of the alarm to be independent of the volume of other sounds the phone plays.

I haven't personally confirmed that setting works as expected, I just know such a setting exists.
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So what you are saying is … it depends … on a setting somewhere that u only know exists? This is exactly my problem. I dont known if i have this setting set and whether my alarm will work or not. iOs alarms are a too complex and very un apple
 
macjaffa said:
So what you are saying is … it depends … on a setting somewhere that u only know exists? This is exactly my problem. I dont known if i have this setting set and whether my alarm will work or not. iOs alarms are a too complex and very un apple
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The reason I'm not very sure how well this setting works is that I don't use the alarm function very often. So I've seen the settings, but I haven't actually used them.

The setting I'm thinking of is under Settings > Sounds & Haptics. There's a slider there to set the volume for the alarm sound. You also have the option of changing the volume with the volume buttons. If you turn this option on, I assume the alarm volume changes along with any other sound your phone makes, and if you turn it off, then the alarm sound is adjusted independent from the other sounds. However, I don't know that for sure because I've never tired turning this option on myself.
 
Night Spring said:
The reason I'm not very sure how well this setting works is that I don't use the alarm function very often. So I've seen the settings, but I haven't actually used them.

The setting I'm thinking of is under Settings > Sounds & Haptics. There's a slider there to set the volume for the alarm sound. You also have the option of changing the volume with the volume buttons. If you turn this option on, I assume the alarm volume changes along with any other sound your phone makes, and if you turn it off, then the alarm sound is adjusted independent from the other sounds. However, I don't know that for sure because I've never tired turning this option on myself.
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Ok yes this is a way to change the ring tone volume great. Still not sure about my alarm questions though. I mever use ios alarms because its too confusing.
 
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