Why do I get an alarm at 6am, but no alarms in clock app?

[casperes1996]

This description does not match the (wake) alarm (for example, set in Clocks app) — I can’t recall if alarms set in Calendar and don’t know if Sleep alarms use the same system though I assume.

Foremost, the iOS alarm is 15 minutes:

Why Did My iPhone Alarm Stop Automatically & Turn Itself Off?

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Put simply, I’m aware of this because I’ve fallen asleep where my iPhone is unreachable, so I can’t snooze or turn the alarm off myself but also don’t drift back to sleep while it’s active.

Next, when the alarm goes off, does the UI look similar to this?

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I’m thinking your situation is due to a third-party app, perhaps one you’ve forgotten about.

For third party stuff the duration is funky too though. For notification sounds the limit is 30 seconds. So anything longer needs to use background audio apis making it act more similar to song playback

 

[blackxacto]

This description does not match the (wake) alarm (for example, set in Clocks app) — I can’t recall if alarms set in Calendar and don’t know if Sleep alarms use the same system though I assume.

Foremost, the iOS alarm is 15 minutes:

Why Did My iPhone Alarm Stop Automatically & Turn Itself Off?

If you use your iPhone as an alarm clock, as many iPhone owners do, you may have discovered that if the iPhone alarm is sounding and ringing continuously on it’s own, eventually the iPhone al…

osxdaily.com

Put simply, I’m aware of this because I’ve fallen asleep where my iPhone is unreachable, so I can’t snooze or turn the alarm off myself but also don’t drift back to sleep while it’s active.

Next, when the alarm goes off, does the UI look similar to this?

View attachment 2465768

I’m thinking your situation is due to a third-party app, perhaps one you’ve forgotten about.

No, ive only seen this when i manually set an alarm and it activates. Repeating there is nothing, except the beeping.

 

[blackxacto]

I changed my Time to Paris, France. At 6am there were no alarms w Notifications turned off. So I changed Time back to Chicago, Illinois. This morning at 6am, there was no beeping. So I will turn Notifications back on and wait for 6am tomorrow. I hope this is all over. Thank you everyone for your responses so far.

 

[aihpcfl]

I changed my Time to Paris, France. At 6am there were no alarms w Notifications turned off. So I changed Time back to Chicago, Illinois. This morning at 6am, there was no beeping. So I will turn Notifications back on and wait for 6am tomorrow. I hope this is all over. Thank you everyone for your responses so far.

Wow. Perhaps fixed but still a mystery. I hate when that happens.

Fingers crossed the issue doesn't return.

 

[blackxacto]

The 4 beeps repeated for 2 mins at 6am w Notifications turned on using Chicago time.

 

[CharlesShaw]

The 4 beeps repeated for 2 mins at 6am w Notifications turned on using Chicago time.

Alrighty then. Have we actually ruled out the Apple apps having such an alarm? Can anyone think of a way to reproduce this alarm without a third party app? And what other apps do you have installed that can set a daily alarm?

 

[blackxacto]

Alrighty then. Have we actually ruled out the Apple apps having such an alarm? Can anyone think of a way to reproduce this alarm without a third party app? And what other apps do you have installed that can set a daily alarm?

Ive never used anything other than Apple Clock for alarms or timing on any phone. How do i determine this, searching for “alarm”. I tried it. Nothing.

 

[CharlesShaw]

Ive never used anything other than Apple Clock for alarms or timing on any phone. How do i determine this, searching for “alarm”. I tried it. Nothing.

I meant, have you gone through your list of installed apps in the App Library and considered whether or not one of them could create a repeated alarm/reminder?

 

[blackxacto]

Ive reset my iphone. So whatever caused it i hope was deleted. Ill know tomorrow.

 

[blackxacto]

Ive reset my iphone. So whatever caused it i hope was deleted. Ill know tomorrow.

No alarm w Notifications on. Maybe resetting is all needed, but Ill never know why. iOS 18.2 needs same process tracker as macOS.

 

[blackxacto]

Crap, the stupid alarm went off this morning. 6:00am, 4 beeps repeating for 3 minutes. Am i going to have to wipe this iPhone completely?

 

[aihpcfl]

Define "reset" as used in post #34.

I'm not clear on exactly how you have tested.

 

[CharlesShaw]

Do the "4 beeps" sound like any of the alerts in Settings> Sounds & Haptics? I'm only finding two alert sounds that have four notes, on the Classic list, there's Alert, and Pulse.

My thinking is that if an Apple app were responsible for this daily alert, wouldn't it have to use one of the alert sounds in that list? [Edit: the Health app sleep alarm has no beep alerts sounds.] If nothing on that list sounds like what you're hearing at 6am, then a third party app is doing it, right?

Add: if the alert sound you're hearing is on the apple list, then you can see which apple app, if any, is set to use it.

Add: and if it's a third party app, then I'm thinking there would be notifications settings for that app in Settings> Notifications, where you could toggle off Sounds

 

[Algr]

Does the phone say anything while it beeps? Does the screen come on? Are you sure the beeps are coming from the phone? (Yes, I'm grasping at straws here.)

 

[blackxacto]

Settings/Transfer or Reset/Reset/ResetAll Settings

 

[blackxacto]

Does the phone say anything while it beeps? Does the screen come on? Are you sure the beeps are coming from the phone? (Yes, I'm grasping at straws here.)

There is nothing on the screen (normal) indicating anything is happening.

 

[blackxacto]

Do the "4 beeps" sound like any of the alerts in Settings> Sounds & Haptics? I'm only finding two alert sounds that have four notes, on the Classic list, there's Alert, and Pulse.

My thinking is that if an Apple app were responsible for this daily alert, wouldn't it have to use one of the alert sounds in that list? [Edit: the Health app sleep alarm has no beep alerts sounds.] If nothing on that list sounds like what you're hearing at 6am, then a third party app is doing it, right?

Add: if the alert sound you're hearing is on the apple list, then you can see which apple app, if any, is set to use it.

Add: and if it's a third party app, then I'm thinking there would be notifications settings for that app in Settings> Apps> [app name]> Notifications, where you could toggle off Sounds

I have found no alarm to match. There no notification for the 4 beep alarm listed. As i have reset all settings, only thing left is wipe as new iphone and do not restore backup.

 

[aihpcfl]

Settings/Transfer or Reset/Reset/ResetAll Settings

Ok. From what I read, this does not

• delete apps, etc. or any personal data
• delete iCloud settings
• delete iTunes or App Store settings
• detele social media settings

That leaves a lot still to test. You might delete apps one by one, testing in between each removal. Perhaps start with any social media apps you have, if you have. But not just social media. All apps are suspect.

Also, this has been asked several times, and I haven't seen an answer, maybe I missed it. Does the alert or alarm match any of the default Apple notifications or alarms? Additionally, you have referred to the alarms differently, for example as buzzing at one point, and three beeps at another.

I wonder, since the time of the alerts is predictable, can you set voice memo to record at the time, and then attach the recording file in a post here? Is that allowed? Correct me if that is a bad idea.

 

[splifingate]

I've been revolving back to the idea that this somehow involves Focus

For the past few years, I have had some really odd issues with "🌙 Notifications Silenced".

I'd call my Sis (after not hearing from her in a long-while), and she'd say "Well, you had Notifications Silenced, and I didn't want to disturb you."

I could never seem to rid my devices from the Notification in iMessage/Phone, and I couldn't help but come to think that it had something odd to do with something in the Share across devices/Focus status back-end.

I even created a new "Awake" Focus that encompassed 00:00:0-23:59:59

*sigh*

It may be that you can remove the odd Alarm on one device, but have another (possibly "The" other) re-assert the scheduling.

Rather interesting (if but annoying) puzzle, all-around 🤷‍♂️

 

[blackxacto]

Im sorry. Forgive my loss of intelligence. At 6am i have been unable to sleep. Im in a room across the hall, instead of sleeping in bedroom. I completely wiped my iphone as new. Signed into my apple account. Manually installed everything. No backup. At 6am, across the hall, my phone was silent. So no other sound in the house. Then lowly from bedroom a cheap digital clock i use began 4 beeps repeating. I apologize to everyone. The alarm was low, but just enough to screw w my hearing.

 

[aihpcfl]

I don't know if any of us asked if it was something else, not the iPhone.

 

[splifingate]

Then lowly from bedroom a cheap digital clock i use began 4 beeps repeating. I apologize to everyone.

mheh-heh

This reminds me of the time that my Mom called me about a strange, intermittent beeping in her house.

I stood in the hallway for a half hour, listening . . . a single *meep*, repeated approximately five minutes apart.

She had hardwood floors, and the acoustics really helped make the assessment phenomenally confusing! My god, the echoes....

It had to be the alarm sensors, right?

I dis-assembled/dis-connected each motion sensor in the house . . . no success.

I removed the smoke detectors . . . no success.

I called the Alarm Monitoring Co. (they had no idea (mainly because she had switched Co. somewhere along the line; I couldn't find any current documentation, so assumed the Original Co. from the stickers on the Panel)).

Three days of such things. Extremely frustrating, if you don't mind me saying so

Then--on the fourth day--the previously-unasked subject came up:

"Has anyone been here in the recent past to do anything?"

"Uhm, I don't remember anyone being here."

"Well, this is just strange."

". . . er, the Fire Department did come-by a few months ago to check on the house."

"Oh, really? What did they check-on?"

"I don't know . . . they went downstairs for something."

I opened the basement door, and--as I was walking down the steps--I hear a distinct *meep* from half-way down.

Here, a CO detector had been attached to the framing!

"I think I found it!"

"Oh, yeah . . . the FD said something about checking the smoke detectors in the house."

I over-engineered the situation, and forgot KISS; but I changed the battery, and remembered to kiss my Mom

 

[Algr]

The alarm is coming from...

...inside the house!

 

[CharlesShaw]

Alrighty then, LOL. It's good you were not in the bedroom at 6am or else this would have become more challenging to troubleshoot!

Does the phone say anything while it beeps? Does the screen come on? Are you sure the beeps are coming from the phone? (Yes, I'm grasping at straws here.)

And we have a winner!