iPhone alarm not going off? 6 potential fixes to this annoying issue

This isn't an isolated problem. iPhone users across social media report their alarms mysteriously failing to sound, leaving them scrambling through their morning routines in panic. Here's what you can do to avoid this nightmare.

I started noticing something very annoying at the beginning of the year: I'd set my iPhone alarm for 7 a.m., only to sleep right through it. At first I assumed it was my mistake -- maybe I'd accidentally left the ringer volume all the way down. But after double-checking that, even switching off vibrate and cranking the volume all the way up overnight, the problem persisted. Somewhere between frustration and desperation, I installed a third-party alarm app to try and even asked my partner to set a backup alarm on his phone.

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