The last two updates for the iPhone have completely ignored some of the annoying alarm clock bugs making your iPhones alarm clock a unreliable toy. It seems if you have the passcode lock on and you set your alarm, it has a 20% chance of not going off at the right time.

Even with the passcode lock turned off, there are several other bugs that prevent the alarm from going off such as if a calendar event alert goes off while asleep, if you receive a sms while asleep or if you receive a phone call within 15 mins of the set time.

The only current temporary fix would involve putting your phone in airplane mode before bed and to make sure you set your calendar alerts for the daytime only, but you shouldn’t have to do this…

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