Iphone alarm glitch Been a long hard year at work and was looking forward to an early Golf Game Missed it Thanks for the New Year wishes AppleMy alarm didn't go off. Very basic flaw for a smartphone that could be considered as a benchmark. I just tried setting the recurring alarm and it worked - too late for my golf today. Looking forward to an early response from AppleA spokeswoman for Apple acknowledged the issue, saying that “customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning Jan.
Apple declined to comment further about the exact nature of the glitch, but some Internet blogs said the problem was primarily affecting the iPhone 4 and older models that were updated with the latest software. Indeed, some iPhone users on Twitter boasted that their alarm clocks were working just fine.The problem seemed to be affecting Apple's most recent versions of iPhones and iPods launched in November, but website Engadget suggested that it may also have hit earlier versions.The problem first occured when the clocks went back at the end of October and early November when Australian and British iPhone owners complained of being late for work because their alarms had not switched over to the new time.
If too much New Years revelry weren’t enough to foil thousands of morning plans this weekend, a bug with the iPhone did the trick. Mirroring November’s European daylight savings time hiccup, a known glitch in iOS caused phones with one-time alarms set for January 1 and 2 to fizzle, leaving iPhone users oversleeping throughout the countryThe bells weren’t ringing for many iPhone users this New Year’s weekend, when thanks to a glitch the alarms on Apple’s iconic mobile phones failed to go off, causing many to oversleep.It was the second time in just a few months that the alarm function on the phone failed to activate correctly, prompting an avalanche of complaints on the social networking micro-blog Twitter.”Dear iPhone, why didn’t your alarm go off this morning? I set six of them.
