14 DAY TRIAL // iOS 11 is slowly becoming the buggiest OS update released by Apple, with more and more issues discovered by users who update their iPhones to the latest version.
The most recent problem that people have come across in iOS 11 causes iPhone alarms to be switched to silent mode, with several users confirming on reddit that their alarms failed to go off several times.
What happens is that despite the alarm UI being triggered at the configured time, the ringer never goes off, with the screen instead staying on mute mode without any sound going off with it.
The number of reports posted online appears to be an indication that this is a common bug hit by iOS 11 devices, and no cause has been identified just yet. It happens in the case of both alarms set with the standard feature on iPhones and with Bedtime mode, and some users explain that the only workaround that did the job was a complete restore of the device.
Not all devices hitting the bug
As with everything Apple, not everyone seems to hit this bug, and there’s no clear pattern just yet. It’s been confirmed on the iPhone 7 and newer, including the iPhone X. On the other hand, we haven’t experienced this bug on our iPhones, and these include all models from the iPhone 6s onwards.
Alarms that fail to go off aren’t something completely new on smartphones, as similar problems have been reported on various Android models and on previous iPhone generations as well. This bug appears to come and go with software updates, but this time, it adds to a long series of issues that users have been experiencing after updating to iOS 11.
Apple hasn’t acknowledged the bug, but this isn’t something that the company does when problems are discovered with its software or hardware. Most likely, a bugfix would be released with the next update, at least hopefully, and right now there’s absolutely no 100 percent effective workaround available. Other than buying a traditional alarm clock, that is.