Longstanding bug with iOS alarm function

[janeauburn]

Anyone who uses the alarm feature of the clock in iOS knows that sometimes when you press "stop" after an alarm sounds, the alarm stops and shuts off. Other times, it stops but sounds again later. This is a bug that has persisted in iOS for as long as I can remember.

Is there a trick to getting this stupid thing to work properly?

I'm not talking about "snooze." I'm talking about "stop."

Stop should mean stop, especially when it's distinguished from snooze in iOS itself.

 

[chrfr]

Anyone who uses the alarm feature of the clock in iOS knows that sometimes when you press "stop" after an alarm sounds, the alarm stops and shuts off. Other times, it stops but sounds again later. This is a bug that has persisted in iOS for as long as I can remember.

Is there a trick to getting this stupid thing to work properly?

I'm not talking about "snooze." I'm talking about "stop."

Stop should mean stop, especially when it's distinguished from snooze in iOS itself.

I don’t use the iPhone alarm often, but I have never had this problem when I do.

 

[JonaM]

I've had this on the watch a lot which I think this is down to the watch misinterpreting touches that have a bit of sideways movement to them - I've found that if you tap stop, but your finger is moving slightly ( which is it often is if you're half asleep) it interprets the tap as being for the snooze button instead, so I don't know if you're getting the same thing on the phone.
I have a similar annoyance with setting the alarm where you toggle it on and then put your palm over the watch face to turn the display off so you can sleep and it then interprets that as a slide to switch the alarm back off!

If you don't ever want to use snooze, deselect it from the options for that alarm so that way it can't accidentally select it and there's only 'stop' on the screen

 

[bowens]

I use the alarm every day and have never had this problem.

 

[martin2345uk]

Also use it daily and never had this issue!

 

[addamas]

Also never had this problem. With and without snooze

 

[mj_]

Same here. I've been using the alarm pretty much every single day since I got my first iPhone around 11 years ago or so and never experienced this issue.

 

[addamas]

Anyone who uses the alarm feature of the clock in iOS knows that sometimes when you press "stop" after an alarm sounds, the alarm stops and shuts off. Other times, it stops but sounds again later. This is a bug that has persisted in iOS for as long as I can remember.

Is there a trick to getting this stupid thing to work properly?

I'm not talking about "snooze." I'm talking about "stop."

Stop should mean stop, especially when it's distinguished from snooze in iOS itself.

Have you tried to change main alarm to any different daily (not morning) time and reproduce it?

Do you have sleep reminder? Try to turn it off / on

Maybe removing other alarms might work?

 

[Taz Mangus]

I have been using the iOS alarm for as long as I can remember and I have not encountered the problem you describe.

 

[janeauburn]

So weird. I've had this with no just one phone but three different iPhones.