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Resolved: Updating my paired Apple Watch to watchOS 27 fixed the problem.

My iPhone had already been updated to iOS 27, but my Apple Watch was still running the previous watchOS version. While the versions were mismatched, alarms worked normally when the iPhone was unlocked, but when it was locked, only the flashlight activated and the sound and vibration were delayed by approximately 30 seconds.

After updating the Apple Watch to watchOS 27, alarms now sound and vibrate immediately while the iPhone is locked.

If anyone experiences this after updating their iPhone to iOS 27, check whether a paired Apple Watch is also updated. The mismatched iOS and watchOS versions appear to have caused an alarm routing problem.

I can confirm this worked for me. I faced the exact same issue and i unpaired my old apple watch as it wouldn’t go upto watchOS 27, and lo and behold the alarm now rings and vibrates.

This is 100% and update issue, unlike how someone mentioned that its device specific, and can’t be attributed to the update.

Test the alarm sound by opening the Clock app and playing the sound manually: This will help you confirm if the issue is with the alarm sound itself or the trigger mechanism.

Specific days of the week assigned to an alarm are crucial for it go off. At the same time Alarm Tone setting is also equally important. See the pics below

1. Make sure that the volume is turned up and not on silent or vibrate mode. You can check this by using the volume buttons on the side of your iPhone or by going to Settings > Sounds & Haptics and adjusting the volume slider.
2. Verify that you have selected a sound for your alarms. You can do this by going to the Clock app, selecting the Alarm tab, and tapping "Edit" in the top left corner of the screen. Then, tap on the alarm you want to check and make sure you have chosen a sound.
   1. Probably you have set the Alarm Sound to NONE. Watch the GIF below
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3. Sometimes, a simple restart can resolve temporary software glitches. Turn off your iPhone, wait for a few seconds, and then turn it back on.
   1. Restart the device. That's it.
   2. Still not solved --> Force restart iPhone - Apple Support
4. If the issue persists, you can try resetting all settings on your iPhone. This will not erase your data but will reset all personalized settings to their default values. Go to Settings > General > Transfer & Reset > Reset > Reset All Settings and confirm the action. Note that you will need to reconfigure your settings afterward. All settings—including network settings, the keyboard dictionary, the Home screen layout, location settings, privacy settings, and Apple Pay cards—are removed or reset to their defaults. No data or media are deleted.
   1. Reset All Settings: Return iPhone settings to their defaults - Apple Support:- Return iPhone settings to their defaults
   2. You can return settings to their defaults without erasing your content.
   3. If you want to save your settings, back up your iPhone before returning them to their defaults. For example, if you’re trying to solve a problem but returning settings to their defaults doesn’t help, you might want to restore your previous settings from a backup.
5. Make sure you have the latest updates installed.
   1. Update Over-the-Air (OTA) —> Update your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support (IN)
   2. Update using iTunes/Finder —> Update your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support (IN)

Sound issues after updating to 27.1 - no sound from keyboard, phone, messages or alerts or vibrations. I was able to fix it last night and I have no idea how but when I turned phone off and back on today I again lost sound. Come on Apple, this is not acceptable! What permanently fixes this?

Heisenberg914 wrote:

Immediately after updating to iOS 27,

Not every issue an individual encounters on their device can be attributed to an iOS update. If the update itself were the root cause, then every device running that same version of iOS would exhibit the identical problem. In such a scenario, the forums would be flooded with countless posts reporting the same malfunction, creating an unmistakable wave of complaints that no one could possibly overlook. The absence of such widespread reports strongly indicates that the issue is not systemic, but rather specific to the device in question.

I've got the same issue when updated to IOS27.0. Mine is an older iphone SE so judging from all the reports I see here, I would say it is DEFINITELY an IOS update problem. Since there are reports on multiple types of Iphones, this needs to be fixed by Apple ASAP.

I have iphone on ios27.2.1 and watch on os26.6.1 and have no problems with alarms.

They are intended to work that way round, but you can't have watch on 27 and phone on 26.

I suspect it was resolved simply by process of updating watchOS, irrespective or version.

I’m going to try your suggestion of resetting all settings. Just waiting on watch update to finish.

However , I did just get the alarm to sound. But after nearly 4 minutes of letting the “ alarm “ go off without stopping it. It always sounded immediately. No sure why it’s taking so long to produce sound now without any changes to settings on my end.

I had this issue today as well - first time one of my alarm triggered since the latest iOS update, and the alarm made no sound despite all settings set to make sound & no issues with sound prior to the update.

I don’t have an Apple Watch, so that can’t be the root cause of the issue.

My alarms didn’t go off at all this morning, even though they were set correctly. So since ive update my phone to ios 27 the alarms are delayed or wont even go off at all, i dont have a Apple Watch so i do believe it is a bug that needs looking into

My phone and my watch are both running 27.0.1. No updates are available. All alarms have tones assigned to them. The alarms in question are set to every day. I actually have two alarms set in the evenings to remind me to take meds. The sound plays at the set volume for about a second and then goes nearly to silent. I'm a hard sleeper. When I'm asleep, that isn't enough wake me up. I need the whole thing to be loud. It has been previously. I've played the tones manually. I have changed the tones to something else. The volume is all the way up in settings. The phone is not in silent mode.

Timers work fine, just have to go through the clock app to the timer if I need a timer longer than 2 hours or a timer I use frequently which is annoying but another issue all together.

Apple, seriously, HELP!

Is there any other fix?

I don’t have an Apple Watch. I’ve updated to the latest iOS 27.2, no pending updates.

I’ve disabled attention awareness, disabled and focus modes and turned up both ringtone volume and alarm volume and still I can’t get any sound from alarms.

Brian_692 wrote:

Is there any other fix?

I don’t have an Apple Watch. I’ve updated to the latest iOS 27.2, no pending updates.

I’ve disabled attention awareness, disabled and focus modes and turned up both ringtone volume and alarm volume and still I can’t get any sound from alarms.

If you don't have an Apple Watch, I'd guess your problem is different. You'll probably do better if you start your own thread. Be sure to mention in it that you don't have a Watch.

Alarms on my iPhone are ringing quite fine with iOS 27.

I just ran a test alarm. It played 7 notes and then stops. Nothing. There is no alert on my phone. Nothing from the flashlight. It might as well be a text alert.

Unpairing didn’t work for me. I also have a Watch that can’t update past 26.6.1.

I had this happen with iOS 27.0 and on my Apple Watch Ultra 2 as well. A couple of times, slept right through important meetings as a result.

my iPhone just updated to 27.2 and it just happened this morning again.

doesn’t seem to be resolved after the update!!