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iPhone users snooze and lose

Posted By TelecomTV One , 01 November 2010 | 3 Comments | (3)
Tags: Apple iPhone

A software glitch in the iPhone alarm has caused (some) global citizens to either under or oversleep by an hour. At least that's Leila Makki's excuse.

Across Europe the clocks were pushed back an hour after daylight saving time ended this weekend. Those with an iPhone (myself included) would have awoken on Sunday with the new time automatically updated on their phone.

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But a software bug - first reported in Australia and New Zealand - affected the alarm function, reverting the phone to its previous time.

The problem was acknowledged by Apple when the clocks changed at the beginning of October in Australasia, but there has been no updates on any patches so far. A couple options are to manually delete and reset your alarms; don't set repetitive alarms; and make sure you update to the latest iPhone software.

Apple has one last chance to fix the problem before the clocks change in North America this weekend. Tick tock, tick.....

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(1) 02 November 2010 05:26:10 by Tim Masson

What's the betting?


(2) 02 November 2010 10:09:22 by Kevin Holley

After some experimentation it seems the problem only occurs with alarms which repeat on weekdays only. If you set a repeating alarm every day then things seem to work as they should.


(3) 02 November 2010 22:38:07 by Darren Logue

I assume the problem hit Europe this week as well. 1 month on from first reports in New Zealand and Australia and still ticking. Best of luck North America- we might as well make it a global problem.