You’ll Soon Be Able To Hear Apple Watch Alarms Even In Silent Mode

Apple’s merchandise campaigner for watchOS 11.4 came retired today, providing an early look astatine immoderate caller features coming to nan Apple Watch successful nan adjacent fewer weeks. The OS update has immoderate bug fixes, but much notably, it makes a alteration to nan Apple Watch’s Silent Mode, allowing alarms to beryllium heard while everything other is silenced.

Currently, pinch Silent Mode activated, nan Apple Watch only delivers alerts to users done haptic vibrations. It helps support notifications private, reduces distractions, and prevents nan watch from making sound astatine inopportune times, for illustration erstwhile you’re successful a meeting.

The notes for nan watchOS 11.4 merchandise campaigner picture nan caller characteristic arsenic “an action to let Sleep Wake Up siren to break done Silent Mode.” Each individual alarm, including nan 1 group successful nan Apple Watch’s slumber settings for waking up successful nan morning, will person a caller action to “Break Through Silent Mode.” With it on, sounds and haptic vibrations will some play erstwhile an siren goes off, according to 9to5Mac.

The alteration seems counterintuitive to Silent Mode, but moreover pinch nan Apple Watch’s haptics group to Prominent, nan highest imaginable intensity, I still often find myself sleeping done nan vibrations of an siren I’ve set. I garbage to move Silent Mode off, which intends I conscionable don’t usage my Apple Watch for immoderate captious alarms, but that could soon change.