The bug was initially uncovered by Artem Russakovskii, who found {that a} whopping 50+ of his alarms had been cleaned. Even inactive alarms had been unexpectedly deleted. To make issues worse, this occurred after a easy try to show off an alarm on a speaker in a distinct room. Replicating the problem solely confirmed this wasn’t an remoted incident, as documented within the beneath X thread.
Simply discovered that every one of my alarms had been gone on my Pixel 8 Professional. Has anybody ever had this occur? I do not know how they disappeared.
I had like 50 of them (1 energetic). pic.twitter.com/IvD1rHp1Ed
— Artem Russakovskii (@ArtemR) March 27, 2024
Sadly, this is not some fluke. As reported by Android Authority, it appears telling Google Assistant to “flip off all alarms” leads to, nicely, the deletion of ALL your alarms on Pixel 7 and Pixel 8 units. Testing by Tom’s Guide on a Pixel 6 Professional and Pixel 4a confirmed the bug’s presence there too, and so did my very own testing on a Pixel Fold. Moreover, I’ve Gemini set as my digital assistant on the Pixel Fold, so this seems to be fairly widespread on Pixels.
The excellent news is that it appears non-Pixel units with Google Assistant do not exhibit this conduct, however the state of affairs is definitely irritating for customers who meticulously set and rely upon a number of alarms. Seemingly, that is a simple repair, however its persistence over months suggests Google is perhaps oblivious to the problem. Let’s hope Google will get on this repair shortly to make sure Pixel house owners can depend on their telephones for these important wake-up calls.
