The latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 9, includes a feature that one can only assume was designed with good intentions – the ability to update your iPhone overnight while it’s charging.
If you have an iPhone running iOS 9, you may have noticed a pop-up notification letting you know that the iOS 9.1 update is ready to install. One of the options it gives you is to “Install Overnight,” allowing you to plug your phone in to charge and automatically update while you sleep – or in some cases oversleep.
As this reporter learned, the feature turns off any alarms you have set.
For someone who uses their iPhone as an alarm clock, this is very bad news.
In my defence, I’m not the only one who has had to use the ol’ iPhone excuse when explaining why they were late for work.
The same thing happened to Macworld UK’s Ashleigh Allsop and Buzzfeed reporter Julia Reinstein.
There are also widespread reports on Twitter.
When contacted, Apple declined to comment.
If you haven’t updated to iOS 9.1 already, try to update your phone when you have time during the day, or perhaps a weekend.
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