If your iPhone alarm has gone quiet, Apple says it’s working on a fix

Apple says it's working on a fix for an issue that's causing some iPhone owners' alarms to trigger silently. That's according to the Today show's segment this morning about the issue, which has been spreading on social media as users complain that their alarms aren't waking them up. Vergecast producer Liam James told me he's been having the same problem since Friday, with an alarm that he set 6 or 7 years ago" and hasn't touched since.

It's not clear how widespread the problem is. If you're going through it, though, it wouldn't be the worst idea to check a couple of your settings. One is to make sure that the ringtone and alerts volume slider under Settings > Sound & Haptics is turned up. It can be easy to accidentally turn down your...

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