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"Hey Siri, stop" does not stop Urgent Reminders alarms on iOS 27

I use the new Urgent reminder alarms all the time. A reminder with a time, Urgent toggled on, and you get a real full-screen alarm. That part works great. What does not work is stopping it with my voice.


When a Clock alarm goes off I just say "Hey Siri, stop" and it stops. Always has. But when an Urgent Reminders alarm is ringing, "Hey Siri, stop" gets me "There's nothing to stop." Same with "stop the alarm" and "stop the reminder alarm." Siri hears me fine, it just does not see the ringing alarm as something stoppable. The only way to shut it up is to get up and slide to stop.


Steps to reproduce:

1. Settings > Apps > Reminders > Alarms on

2. Create a timed reminder and toggle it Urgent

3. When the alarm starts ringing, say "Hey Siri, stop"


Expected: it silences whatever alarm is ringing, like it already does for Clock alarms.

Actual: "There's nothing to stop" and the alarm keeps going. 100% reproducible, every time.


This looks like the same bug as the old timer one (thread 255942681: timer alarm is ringing, you say stop, Siri says there is nothing to stop). My guess is the stop command only looks at alarms owned by the Clock app. Urgent reminder alarms are AlarmKit alarms owned by Reminders, so they never make it onto the list, same as ringing timers.


I already filed this through Feedback Assistant. If you are hitting it too, reply here or file your own feedback so Apple can see the scope. The whole point of the feature is alerts you cannot ignore when your hands are full or the phone is across the room... it defeats that if you also cannot stop it hands-free once you have heard it.

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Instead of saying, “Hey Siri, stop,” when a Reminder alert is sounding, you can simply say “Hey Siri” to invoke Siri, and the Reminder alert will stop.


It is important to understand that Reminder alerts are not added to the Clock app’s Alarm list. Although a Reminder can generate an alert that sounds like an alarm, it is still created and managed by the Reminders app, not by Clock → Alarms.


Therefore, a Reminder alert may not behave in exactly the same way as a regular Clock alarm, and the Siri commands used to control the two can also differ.


In short, a Reminder alert is not a Clock alarm. It may sound like one, but it remains a Reminders alert and is not listed under the Clock app’s alarms. See the picture below for clarification.


Instead of saying, "Hey Siri, stop": -> Say, Hey Siri, Turn Off the Alarm...


Stop is for the Timer.


However, “stop” and “turn off” are different from “disable”:

  • Stop the alarm → silences the alarm that is currently ringing.
  • Turn off the alarm → can disable a scheduled alarm, depending on the command/context.
  • Snooze the alarm → Siri can also snooze it if you ask.


So, if your intention is simply to silence an alarm that is ringing, “Hey Siri, stop the alarm” is the appropriate command.


You may see this pic below