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The iPhone had a problem in early 2011. The alarm clock did not work correctly. It was very unpleasant, especially if we needed him to wake us up - and he didn't even beep. According to messages on the world network Twitter, it seems that the problem has returned.

It's been three days since the server was mentioned engadget about a certain group of people with a new problem. This time it is not a problem with the alarm clock as such, but rather a mysterious behavior of the phone when changing the time from winter to summer. This transition took place in certain cases and the clocks moved forward an hour, but by morning they would revert back to the old time, causing late wake-ups.

We will see how the iPhone behaves in our conditions when this transition awaits us next week. I ran a few simple tests and my iPhone passed. This involved moving the time manually to 27/3 and then 28/3 and testing all alarm options (without repetition, every day, only on weekdays or only on the weekend). All went well and the iPhone worked correctly.

I then set the time for Saturday 27/3 at roughly 1:30 am and waited to see how the phone would behave. I set the alarms to "morning" again and waited. After half an hour, the iPhone correctly moved to the new time, i.e. T+1 hour, and the alarms rang and worked correctly.

Personally, I think the problem will be somewhere in the automatic time correction settings. Unfortunately I don't test that. Therefore, for everyone who needs an alarm to wake them up on Sunday, I advise you to either set two alarms, one for the ringing time and one an hour earlier. However, this is not very practical.

The second advice is more elegant, but more "complicated". Simply switch the clock from automatic to "manual". It moves the clock by itself and should work (I tried it on an iPhone 4, iOS 4.3 without jailbreak). Go to Settings->General->Date and Time. Automatic setting (second item), switch to position off. Enter your time zone at Prague and set the correct time. See attached screenshots. Then you should avoid this problem.

Click on In general, the following screen will appear.

Scroll down the screen and select the date and time.

Turn off Set automatically

Click on the time zone and type in the search box Prague and confirm. The settings are shown in the following figure. After selecting the time zone, click on Set date and time.

Here you already set the current time and everything should be fine.

I really hope that Apple fixes this bug as soon as possible. I also haven't been able to figure out which iOS versions harbor this random bug. We'll see in a week. Let's hope that your loved one will not be a victim of this mistake.

Source: engadget
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