Personally, my issue is alarms rather than ringing. Silent mode doesn't silence the alarms, and I forget to check them. It would be great if this would silence alarms
It doesn’t silence alarms because then people would sleep through it and be late for work. Probably there should be “silencable” and “non-silencable” alarms, though I’m sure people would mix them up and use the wrong one.
We really need AGI to solve that. ;)
I have no idea why the damn phone doesn't have a global silence slider. No Noise!
Yep. I had an alarm go off during a funeral last year, when my phone was on silent. There really needs to be an “I’m at a funeral, dammit” mode.
Maybe you could do what banks do and use silent alarms?
iOS doesn’t support batch deleting alarms either. ‘Siri set an alarm for 45 minutes’ leaves my alarm list littered with an inactive alarm I once set, have no future use for, but is annoying enough that I’ll never delete them all. Is there an alarm set to go off in the near future? Hold on, let me scroll through 50 pages of pointless noise.
iOS. It just works (tm).
Can Siri batch delete alarms based on the name?
"hey Siri, create an alarm and name it $X"
"hey Siri, delete all alarms named $X"
This actually works, except that upon “delete all $x alarms”, Siri asks back “do you want to delete all your alarms?”, but after confirming only deletes the $x alarms.
Still, it’s not very practical, as Siri often mishears alarm names, and also you want to use different names to know what each alarm is for.
Siri: delete all my alarms
Thanks, I wasn’t aware siri could delete alarms - this requires iirc a swipe and a tap for each alarm from the manual UI, that’s still not great for the non-voice user (alarms is the only thing I use Siri for)