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Apple’s arrogance magic seemingly even extends to glitches, as it’s Do Not Disturb bug, which proves you shouldn’t trust your iPhone as your alarm yet again, will mysteriously fix itself come next Monday. In fact, Apple’s not going to bother doing anything about it and will just let people ride it out — it’s not like anyone’s actually working yet, right?
Apparently the glitch is being caused by crummy coding on Apple’s part and its interaction with the Unix underpinnings of iOS. January 6th marks the last day of the ISO week of 2012 that Unix uses for system timing, after which everything should be hunky dory again. Great, so we just have to sit and wait for it to get better.
Maybe it’s time to invest in a proper alarm and ditch using your crappy smartphone to wake you up? [Guardian]
The alarm works just fine, what are you talking about?
My phone has the same bug and I still use it to wake up every day!
The only bug is that if DND is enabled, you will not be alerted for any calls or texts or push notifications.
Not everyone uses the stock alarm. And what if you have your PA/Butler give you a wake up call?
Maybe you should use the “stock” alarm. No glitches with that.
The comment about the alarm on your post is just misleading to readers.
And btw if you had a butler, he’d be in your house wouldn’t he?
So he’d wake you up when entering your room to serve you breakfast in bed.
Jeeves was fired because his iPhone didn’t wake him up in time to deliver my tea and toast at 08:23, and my shaving water at 09:23 heated to 30°C precisely!
And rightly so too!
You let the man into your house and allow him to work for you for a mere pittance and he repays you with that? INSOLENCE! INSOLENCE AND TARDINESS!
Bloody commoners! He’ll be better off down the mines anyway!
That’s understandable, he shouldn’t have relied solely on the iPhone for waking him when his job depends on such exact timing, it’s unprofessional. Hope you manage to find a more reliable man servant.
I’m interviewing a young gentleman by the name of Jean Passepartout this very morning. In fact, he’s presently 4 mins late.
Surely then he has already failed.
“Maybe it’s time to invest in a proper alarm and ditch using your crappy smartphone to wake you up?” – Maybe it’s time to invest in an Android device and ditch using a crappy smartphone at all
Buying an Android device doesn’t necessarily avoid that problem.
You guys need to stop saying that you can’t use the iPhone as an alarm with this bug. The built in alarm works fine and I don’t really know why anyone would want to use another alarm to be honest. I set mine to wake me up at specific times each day of the week with no need for tweaking and it wakes me up to my own custom alarm sound. People have managed to wake up for work fine with much less for centuries.
Magic!
I’m having the opposite problem – my DND isn’t coming ON when scheduled. It’s not the end of the world, and I’d much rather that than have it stuck on, but will be nice to know it’s working again. Apple, get some better coders, or at least test things more thoroughly!