[gabeio]

Which is unfortunately causing people's alarms to not work and the current recommendation is to deactivate said feature.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0kl4glp547o (bbc news article about it)

[happyopossum]

Umm, no. That’s an article with random speculation from unnamed people on the internet.

Attention awareness does not stop alarms, and it requires your eyes to be open and looking at the phone.

[gabeio]

> Attention awareness does not stop alarms, and it requires your eyes to be open and looking at the phone.

Attention awareness silences/drasticly reduces the volume of alarms, that's how it is designed.

If they have a bug in the attention awareness feature it stands to reason that it could not require your eyes to be open or looking at the device in question at the time.