Waking up too late due to a silent alarm can be fatal.
Many Norwegians use the alarm function on their mobile phone to get up on time. If you want to make it to work, school, a flight, an important meeting or an agreed doctor’s appointment, time is of the essence.
According to NBC, several iPhone users have recently experienced that the alarms are not working.
“If you haven’t heard your iPhone alarm go off lately, it may not have been just you who overslept,” writes Business Insider.
Don’t know the reason for the error
As a result, they have had a bad start to the day and have fallen behind in relation to today’s schedule and many private tasks.
TIPS: How to set and change alarms on iPhone
Apple confirms that faulty and silent alarms are an urgent problem. Now work is being done at full speed to solve the defective function which has affected several mobile customers.
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The media giant does not yet know the cause of the error, or what users can do to avoid the problem. It is also unclear how many users are affected, and whether the problem is limited to specific iPhone models, the BBC writes.
Tip: Double check the volume
Among the tips suggested to avoid the alarm not working is to double-check that your phone’s alarm settings are activated, and make sure the volume is turned up.
It is also suggested that so-called “attention functions”, which are found on iPhone X or newer phones, can be changed automatically by, among other things, lowering the volume of alarms.
In the meantime, you may need to dust off old-fashioned, manual alarm clocks to make sure you wake up on time.
