If you sleep through your morning wake-ups for work, this may not be the case In fact It’s your fault because a woman discovered that a certain iPhone feature was actively disabling them.
Betsy opened up about her plight on TikTok, saying she felt like she was “losing her mind” when she kept nodding off to her phone’s alarm clocks and didn’t understand why.
At first, she assumed it was because she had recently changed medications and was “really stressed.” However, the problem persisted.
You might be sleeping through your alarms because of an iOS setting (Getty Stock Image)
Betsy told her 71,600 followers on TikTok that this was totally unlike her, as she said she has always been a light sleeper, even when eating heavy meals. sleep pills.
The woman revealed that she made a eureka discovery that she was not to blame at all.
It turns out that this is an issue related to an iOS issue that is affecting hundreds of iPhone users.
Besides Betsy, some Reddit users claimed that their devices failed to ring the bell, despite setting alarms.
Betsy has the answers for us (TikTok/@basicallybetsy_)
According to reports, the alarm only triggers the screen to display the alarm “ring”, but no sound is emitted.
One annoyed user took their complaint directly to Apple, writing on a forum: “It causes alarms to go silent, and silent from there, if you pick up the phone and look groggily at your phone while it’s This is an atrocious bug/feature.”
This apparently comes down to an issue with iOS 17 and the device’s “Attention Aware” feature.
This feature means that when the device knows you are using it or looking at the screen, it no longer needs to sound an alarm to get the user’s attention.
But Betsy looked into the matter, giving advice on how to disable the unhelpful feature in a bid to prevent others from ‘falling into the same trap’.
She explained: “Go to settings, then at the top of settings, find ‘Attention Aware Features’ and turn off that little toggle…until there’s no more green.”
Betsy continued: “Apparently with a new update, Apple decided it was cute… to silence some notifications and turn down the volume of things like alarms.
“If he thinks you’re on the phone, doesn’t want to disturb you, etc., he’s decided to use his own discretion to decide not to set off the alarm.”
The TikToker left with words of comfort for those who found themselves in the same situation.
“So you’re not delirious, you’re not very tired and you’re suddenly not able to wake up because of your alarms,” she said, because “it’s very likely that they were not at the same volume as before.” or it doesn’t even sound at all.
Apple support also states Attention Aware features on most iPhone devices starting with iPhone X or on the 11-inch, 12.9-inch and 13-inch iPad Pro.
The organization says the setting means that when users look at their devices, the volume of alerts will automatically decrease and the display will not dim.
