There’s another thing: if the Face ID attention awareness feature is enabled, the sound of the alarm is turned down. The ...

You might’ve seen recent reports of users complaining that they’ve slept through alarms set on their iPhones–or even ...

The other behavior that affects alarm noise levels is the Face ID attention awareness features available on all modern ...

For a growing number of iPhone owners, the most basic promise of a smartphone, waking you up on time, has become unreliable.

A resurfacing iPhone bug is leaving alarms technically "on" but functionally silent, catching users off guard at the worst possible time. Here's how you can (usually) avoid the same fate. Imagine if ...

In iOS 26.2, released in December 2025, Apple has added a new optional feature that provides the Reminders app with a more urgent notification system. When you need to ensure you don't miss an ...

Apple redesigned the alarm screen in iOS 26 with much larger buttons than before, but now it’s making another change in iOS 26.1: there’s a new ‘Slide to stop’ gesture for dismissing an alarm as of ...

I'm one of those crazy iPhone users who has an alarm for nearly every minute of the day. While they aren't all active at once, it's rare that I ever have to create a new one. That one semester of ...

Apple has changed how you dismiss iPhone alarms in the latest iOS 26.1 beta, and your morning muscle memory might need tweaking as a result. The Clock app now requires a slide gesture to stop an alarm ...

My mornings have been a little rough since switching to iOS 26. I'd often sleep past my alarm, wondering why the "snooze" I usually rely on didn't go off on my iPhone. It seems I'm not alone in my ...

Apple introduced the Alarm slider with iOS 26.1, but you can get rid of it in four easy steps. Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, ...