iPhone owners are blaming a ‘silent alarm’ problem for costing them jobs — but a fix is finally coming in iOS 27
Publish Date: 2026-06-25 08:20:00
Source Domain: www.techradar.com
- iPhone users say their iOS alarms are going off silently
- This has reportedly affected the work life of some
- A fix has been discovered in the iOS 27 beta
How many times have you slept through your phone alarm in the morning? Most of us have experienced it at one time or another — but what if the problem wasn’t so much your heavy sleeping, but more the fact that your iPhone alarm was going off completely silently, meaning it never had a chance of waking you up in the first place?
That seems to be what’s happening to a number of iOS users, with several of them complaining that silent iOS alarms have risked or even cost them their jobs.
In a since-deleted post on Reddit, user Jeremy_keister said that although their iOS alarm had been set and went off in the morning, it did so silently, making it next to useless. The situation, they said, “has practically lost me a job.” Similarly, user okeanouszeke said the same issue had actually “cost me a job.”
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Clearly, there’s something going on here, and a little investigation suggests that it might be to do with the volume settings in iOS. Fortunately, it looks like there’s a fix on the way in iOS 27.
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If your alarm is ringing silently rather than out loud, it could be due to a certain setting in iOS 26 and earlier. In those versions of Apple’s operating system, there was only one volume control, and this setting would affect alarms, ringtones, system notifications and more all at once.
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That means that if you’d turned the ringtone volume all the way down to zero, your alarms might also be affected. If you happened to look at your iPhone display while the alarm was going off, you’d see it trying to alert you — but with no volume, you wouldn’t hear a thing. And since Apple didn’t build any kind of warning into iOS, you might not even realize that minimizing the system volume…
