Woman issues urgent warning after finding out iOS feature was making her sleep through her alarms
Topics: Apple, Sleep, Social Media, Technology, TikTok, iPhone
Liv Bridge
Featured Image Credit: @basicallybetsy_/TikTok/Getty Stock Image
Topics: Apple, Sleep, Social Media, Technology, TikTok, iPhone
If you sleep through your morning alarms for work, it might not actually be your fault as one woman discovered a certain iPhone feature had been actively disabling them.
Betsy took her plight to TikTok as she said she felt like she was 'losing my mind' when she kept dozing through her phone alarm clocks and couldn't figure out why.
At first, she considered it was because she'd recently switched medication and had been 'really stressed'. However, the problem persisted.
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Betsy told her 71,600 TikTok followers that it was particularly out of character for her as she said she's always been a light sleeper, even when on heavy sleeping pills.
The woman revealed she made a eureka discovery that she wasn't to blame at all.
Turns out it came down to a problem with an iOS issue that has been affecting hundreds of iPhone users.
As well as Betsy, some users on Reddit claimed their devices had failed to make the bell sound, despite setting alarms.
According to the reports, the alarm only triggers the screen to display the alarm 'ringing', but no sound is emitted.
One annoyed user took their complaint directly to Apple, writing in a forum: "It causes alarms to silence, and silence from then on, if you groggily pick up and look at your phone while it is going off. This is an atrocious bug/feature."
It apparently boils down to an iOS 17 issue and the device's 'Attention Aware' feature.
The feature means when the device is aware when you're using it or looking at the screen, it no longer requires blasting an alarm to get the user's attention.
But Betsy has been on the case with advice on how to turn the not-so-helpful feature off in a bid to prevent others from 'falling into the same trap'.
She explained: "Go into settings and then on top of settings, search 'Attention Aware features' and shut this little toggle off... Until there's no green showing."
Betsy continued: "Apparently with a new update, Apple decided it was cute [...] to silence some notifications and turn down the volume on some things such as alarms.
"If it thinks you're on your phone, it doesn't want to disturb you etcetera, it has decided to use its own discretion to decide not to put the alarm through."
The TikToker departed with words of comfort for those who have found themselves in the same situation.
"So you're not delusional, you're not super tired and you're all of a sudden not able to wake up from your alarms," she said, as 'most likely they haven't been the same volume they were previously or it's not even ringing at all'.
Apple support also states the 'Attention Aware' features on most iPhone devices from iPhone X onwards, or iPad Pro 11-inch, 12.9-inch and 13-inch.
The organization states that the setting means that when users look at their devices, the volume of alerts will automatically lower, and the display will not dim.