Your iPhone does so much, from surfing the web to offering games and banking apps, that sometimes smaller details can slip through the cracks. If one of these details is pretty important to the alarm clock and has mysteriously gone silent, you’re not alone.
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Some users have reported that the alarm on their iPhones has been silenced, which is not what you need on a Monday morning after a late Sunday night.
The answer, according to 9 to 5 Macis to check that the settings on the iPhone have not been reset.
“We’re not sure how many users are affected by this, but we’ve heard from a small number of people who have noticed that their iPhone’s alarm sound recently changed to ‘None’, meaning they go off silently,” the report said.
Right now, it’s not clear what could have caused this, though it’s possible that alarms were set to the Classic tone, which could mean they were set a while ago.
Alarms on the iPhone are designed to sound even if the phone is on silent, so if yours is on silent, this is not correct.
But alongside the extensive range of audio options, there’s also one called None. If your iPhone alarm is not set to a ringtone but to none, then, unsurprisingly, you will receive a silent alarm at the right time.
But other factors are also at play. “The volume level of normal alarms is adjusted via Settings -> Sounds & Haptics. There is a slider there that changes the volume for the ringtone and notification sounds, that adjusts the volume of notifications, incoming call noises and some other notifications. If the “Switch with buttons” toggle is enabled. This slider when the volume is enabled will always change. audio level, disable the “Switch with buttons’,” the report continues.
There’s one more thing: if Face ID is turned on, the alarm sound is turned off. The report advises going to Settings, then Face ID & Passcode, then Attention to turn off the toggle for Attention-Aware features.
It’s possible that you’re not affected by this issue, but if you are, the solutions above should mean you wake up to the right amount of sound for the time you’ve set.
Whether you’ll appreciate the noise when it happens is another matter.
