Trying to fix sleep wake up alarm sound not working on iOS 14?
Not everyone is blessed by God to wake up at exactly 6:00 AM ready to conquer and seize the day. Instead, quite a lot of us wake up wanting to kill the day more than anything. Luckily for us, our alarms have always been watching out for our backs.
While we may have a love-hate relationship with our alarms, you’d be lying if you didn’t find your alarm useful. The recent bug of your Apple Watch and iPhone not ringing properly at every alarm is a very annoying glitch to deal with.
In this article, we’ll go over the causes of this issue and guide you through multiple methods that you can do to try and solve this problem. So without further ado, here’s how you can fix sleep wake up alarm sound not working on iOS 14.
Let’s dive in!
- 1. Increase The Ringer Volume On Your iPhone.
- 2. Make Sure Your Alarm Is Configured Right.
- 3. Disable Your Bluetooth Connection.
- 4. Turn Off Do Not Disturb.
- 5. Delete And Recreate Your Alarm.
- 6. Reset Your iPhone’s Settings.
1. Increase The Ringer Volume On Your iPhone.
Your alarm volume is directly correlated to your ringer volume. Having a low ringer volume might be what’s causing this problem. To further highlight the relevance of this topic, the ringer volume randomly decreasing into nothingness is a common bug with iOS 14.
It’s completely possible that your randomly decreasing ringer volume is what’s causing the problem with your alarm. With the list of steps provided below, we’ll try to check your ringer volume and increase it to a much higher setting.
Here’s how you can increase ringer volume on your iPhone:
- Start by opening up your iPhone Settings app and going to Sound & Haptics.
- Once you’re there, look for Ringers and Alerts.
- After that, increase the ringer volume on your iPhone to your preferred setting.
If you’ve been having your ringer volume randomly decrease lately, then we recommend that you check out our guide for this bug. This will help you avoid missing calls or even sleeping past an alarm, just like this problem.
2. Make Sure Your Alarm Is Configured Right.
Updating your operating system to iOS 14 can cause a lot of changes to your phone. While you may have noticed some of your settings resorting back to its default settings, your alarms can be affected by this too.
In this method, we’ll be going through your individual alarms to see if they have been configured correctly. Unbeknownst to you, your alarm tone or sound may have been disabled, which explains why your iPhone only vibrates instead of blaring you awake.
Here’s how you can make sure your alarm is configured correctly:
- First, open up the Clock app on your iPhone and go to the Alarms tab.
- Once you’re there, tap on the Edit button at the top-left corner of your screen.
- Now, tap on the alarm that you want to edit and tap on Sound. Set it to something loud and audible to make sure that it isn’t set to None.
While this might feel like a basic method, you would be extremely relieved if you were one of those people who found that their alarm had Sound off. It’s worth a shot to go through these steps with all of your important alarms, just to see if it’s been compromised or not.
3. Disable Your Bluetooth Connection.
Ideally, it shouldn’t matter if your iPhone is connected to a Bluetooth device or not. Your alarm should still blare out of your device’s speakers every morning. Unfortunately, this can sometimes cause the alarm to play on your Bluetooth speaker.
By disabling your iPhone’s Bluetooth, you should be able to avoid any issues related to your alarm playing elsewhere.
Here’s how you can disable your Bluetooth connection:
- While on your home screen, swipe up from the bottom edge of your iPhone to bring up the Control Center.
- You’ll find the Bluetooth icon at the top-left corner of your screen. Tap on or disable this connection to avoid connecting to your Bluetooth speakers by accident.
4. Turn Off Do Not Disturb.
Apple’s customer support might tell you otherwise, because ‘Do Not Disturb’ is not meant to filter out any alarms. However, since the alarm is already a bug, DND (Do Not Disturb) compromising your alarm is completely possible.
‘Do Not Disturb’ is a famous feature that blocks calls, texts, and other notifications that you can choose to filter out. As previously stated, this shouldn’t restrain your alarms from ringing, but while it is in the field of making large sounds, it’s worth a shot.
Here’s how you can turn off ‘Do Not Disturb’ on iPhone:
- Go ahead and bring out your Settings app.
- Scroll down and look for Do Not Disturb and open it.
- Finally, when you’re there, disable the feature.
Feel free to try a test alarm by setting one up to ring a minute from now. Additionally, you can also try to do this for your morning alarms.
5. Delete And Recreate Your Alarm.
We know that this feels like a brute force method, but we can’t say that it doesn’t work. The principle behind this method is simple, delete your alarm and recreate it so that your iPhone creates a new alarm that’s bug-free and fully-working.
If you’re the type to have ten alarms ready to wake you up in the morning, it might feel like a hassle having to change every single alarm. To avoid that, you can also just delete one alarm and replace that with a new one to test it out in the meantime.
Here’s how you can delete and recreate your alarms:
- Start by opening up the Clock app on your iPhone and navigate to the Alarms tab.
- Then, click on the Edit button at the top-left corner of your screen so you can delete some of your alarms. Tap on the minus icon (–) to remove the alarms that you already had.
- Add a new alarm by pressing on the plus icon (+) at the top-right corner of your screen to add a new alarm.
Hopefully with these new alarms set and ready, your alarms should work and wake you up as intended.
6. Reset Your iPhone’s Settings.
Completely resetting all your iPhone’s settings isn’t a particularly bad solution to consider trying. To clear any misconceptions, you won’t be losing any personal data when you reset your iPhone’s settings.
The only major things that are going to be reset is your Wi-Fi networks, Bluetooth connections, and device settings. Here’s how you can reset your iPhone’s settings so you can reset any configurations that could be causing this problem.
If you’ve completed exhausted all the methods above, you may have to wait for another software update or for your iPhone to magically fix itself. Alternatively, you can try a third-party alarm app to see if that works for you.
Sadly, this is a very common bug in Apple’s support forum.
Now that you’ve reached the end of this article, we hope to have helped you fix sleep wake up alarm sound not working on iOS 14. If you have any questions, leave us a message in the comments down below.
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