With the seventeenth iteration of the OS, we have been blessed with a plethora of noteworthy goodies. Among them, it is the Standby Mode that managed to grab the attention of the masses. For the unaware, Standby Mode is a new Lock Screen mode that activates when your iPhone is charging and positioned in a landscape orientation.
You could customize this mode and choose from numerous preset screens, including the likes of interactive widgets, photos from your gallery, and date & time. This also means that you could easily glance at the required information on your screen without the need to pick up your phone [you could call in a customizable and advanced form of AOD]. However, there’s another side to this story.
iPhone iOS 17: Alarm Snooze not working on Standby Mode
Numerous users have voiced their concern that the alarm snooze functionality does not work along the expected lines when the Standby Mode is enabled on their iPhone running iOS 17. When they tap on the Snooze feature, then instead of the alarm being delayed and then ringing again after a said time frame, it tends to get canceled altogether.
This could end up creating an unfavorable scenario for the users who usually have a knack for snoozing their alarms. Currently, it seems to be impossible to snooze an alarm once you touch your device as StandBy just tends to cancel it. Since Standby gets automatically hidden once the device is picked up, the regular alarm overlay should be displayed, but that isn’t happening. So this begs the all-important question- is there a fix? Let’s find out.
How to Fix this issue
Unfortunately, as of now, your only way out is to disable the Standby Mode feature. Once you do so, then the snooze feature will again be up and running. So weigh both these features once and if you value the snooze feature more than Standby Mode, then it’s time to temporarily bid adieu to the latter. To do so, just head over to Settings > Display & Brightness and disable Standby Mode.
That’s it. This should fix the issue of the alarm snooze not working when Standby Mode is enabled on your iPhone running iOS 17. While giving away one feature for the sake of another is in no way the most viable or feasible way of getting a job done, but as of now, this is the only workaround that would spell out success for you.
As far as the official stance on this matter is concerned, the developers are yet to acknowledge this issue, let alone give out any ETA for the rollout of a fix. As and when any of these two things happen, we will update this guide accordingly. In the meantime, the aforementioned workarounds are your best bet.