iPhone alarm emergency fix

iPhone Alarm clock bug hit in 2011. Alarms don't work anymore.

Apple said the bug will fix itself Monday Jan 3, 2011

but just in case you need that now, you can fix that by adding 

  repeat every day    to the alarm for the day the alarm is set

Sunday for today's alarms

Monday for tomorrow January 3

until you are sure it is fixed.

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Monday January 3 Update
We are Monday and sadly there are still still thousands of people complaining that iPhone Alarms didn't go. Here we have zero problems on our iPhones. All alarms went as scheduled.
A quick check showed that nobody retweeted our temporary fix!


How can you verify that the alarm works?

• Set an alarm for ... NOW + 1 or 2 minutes. Save and wait. 

If the alarm doesn't go on time you still have the problem. You can apply the temporary fix by adding a repeat and verify that it will then work.
On our iPhones however the bug is not there anymore and cleared itself as Apple claimed it would. 

We would recommend to reboot your iPhone.

1. Clear your alarms.
2. Shutdown your iPhone by pressing 5 seconds on the Sleep button on the top, then slide the red tab
3. Reboot the iPhone by pressing on Sleep button. iPhone will reboot from clean settings.
4. Check your time date settings. Our iPhones here worked in all modes, 24H or not and local time, Automatic ON and OFF
5. Reset your alarms.

Redo the alarm test again.

1. Set an alarm for your time plus one minute
2. wait 
3. If phone rings fine, press Snooze and verify that phone rings again after a snooze. If yes the bug is gone! 
4. If not you will have to use the temporary fix and set repeat alarm.

Probability that the problem stays is very small, the iPhone reboot should clear the bug however.... Our iPhones are updated to IOS 4.2.1 version.

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