A glitch with Apple Inc.’s iPhone alarm gave some users a late start to the new year.
The alarm application on the smartphone failed to work for alarms that were set for one-time use only—as opposed to recurring—on the first two days of 2011, triggering reports that some people wound up oversleeping.
Serious problems may have been limited by the New Year’s Day holiday weekend. But some users, who found themselves late for work, church or other commitments because of the glitch, hopped on the social-networking site Twitter to complain.
“Dreaded iPhone alarm problem,” wrote someone who identified himself as a pastor. “I guess [I] didn’t need to be on time for church?”
Meanwhile, some Twitter users took the episode as an opportunity to tweak iPhone fans, expressing relief for using a rival device such as Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry or even more conventional methods. One user asked, “Whatever happened to actual alarm clocks?”
A spokeswoman for Apple acknowledged the issue, saying that “customers can set recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms will work properly beginning Jan. 3.”
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