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iPhone users suffer another alarm glitch

Many iPhone users started the new year with an unexpected sleep-in after their devices suffered another alarm system glitch.
Written by Luke Hopewell, Contributor

Many iPhone users started the new year with an unexpected sleep-in after their devices suffered another alarm system glitch.

Users around the world have taken to Apple's official discussion forum to compare notes, reporting that alarms set to go off after midnight on 1 January 2011 are not sounding.

Users are even reporting that the alarm fault is occurring on phones which have been updated to the 4.2.1 version of the operating system, which was meant to fix recurring alarm issues.

"Non-repeat alarms have stopped working after midnight of the 31st December 2010. I know this because I set several alarms to remind me of midnight, and one at 12:10 to remind me to call my mother. The three pre-midnight alarms went off without problems. The 12:10 alarm never sounded however," a user from Melbourne reported.

Another Aussie user said that at least six staff were late this morning as a result of their iPhone alarms not going off.

The issue could be worldwide, with a user from Japan also saying they were affected by the alarm fault.

This is not the first time that Apple users have encountered an alarm fault on Apple's iOS operating system. After the October change over to daylight savings time, users' alarms went off an hour earlier than they were meant to.

ZDNet Australia contacted Apple, however no comment was received at the time of publication.

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