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Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by willio58 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:45PM (#40241173)
Just knowing how many people in the planet rely on their alarms for so many things it's definitely the case that at least innocent 1 person has been fired because of this bug preventing an alarm from waking them up for work (probably hundreds or more)

Especially young people with strict policies around hours, an alarm not functioning as expected can literally be the difference between living paycheck to paycheck and losing their income entirely.

Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by millzlane on Thursday May 02, 2024 @06:52PM (#40242252)
Thanks for thinking of the little guy.
Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by hulitu on Friday May 03, 2024 @10:11AM (#40247870)
> Especially young people with strict policies around hours, an alarm not functioning as expected can literally be the difference between living paycheck to paycheck and losing their income entirely.

Maybe they should't spend a month worth of income on an iPhone then. /s

Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by anon373839 on Thursday May 02, 2024 @04:52PM (#40241241)
I haven’t tested this in a while, but as at least until a couple of years ago, an incoming phone call would permanently dismiss an alarm on iOS.
Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by falcolas on Thursday May 02, 2024 @07:52PM (#40242615)
If you have face id and attention awareness enabled, the alarm will be silenced but still technically be going off if the phone thinks you looked at it.

Not sure if it's related to this TFA bug, but it's aggravating, to put it nicely.

Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by rootsudo on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:09PM (#40241389)
Still does. Alarm can also interrupt and crash Spotify. Alarm can also temporarily lock iPhone.

I just accepted it. Sad that’s just how things are nowadays.

Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by yungtriggz on Thursday May 02, 2024 @05:57PM (#40241817)
wow that's crazy. feel like my biggest problem still is updating automatically overnight
Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by brokenmachine on Thursday May 02, 2024 @11:57PM (#40243877)
The state of modern tech... a company with a market cap of 2.67 trillion cannot make a working alarm clock.
Re:Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms fro... by gladwindos on Friday May 03, 2024 @09:00AM (#40247209)
I’ve got the opposite problem where my alarm goes off every Wednesday at 8:30 and I have no idea how to turn it off…