topic Re: Re: Cannot sort alarms in Galaxy S22

Cannot sort alarms by date

Dave53711 — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:02:11 GMT

Hi to my Samsung Community,

ISSUE: alarms on Samsung S22 phone cannot be sorted by date. Instead, they are listed in seemingly random order…. With active and inactive alarms intermixed.

Saw this same issue on several other forums. One listed a solution, but that was just a suggestion by the moderator to pass this issue on to the tech team. That did not solve the problem.

Understand: many folks have 20-30 active alarms set and 20 more that are inactive. It is beyond ridiculous (very confusing and annoying) to struggle with out-of-order alarms. Even more frustrating is how easy this would be to fix!!

Lack of sequential sorting effectively renders this tool useless because it is so easy to misplace (read: omit) an alarm you want to reuse. As such, this tool is unreliable.

No excuse for this. As shown in the forums, this sorting issue has persisted for YEARS.

Please...... Fix this now!

Dave from Wisconsin, Retired
(But still paying taxes)

Re: Cannot sort alarms

Whitley4 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:55:15 GMT

You can actually sort them to your liking.
Click the 3 dots beside the +
Click sort
Click custom order.

Re: Cannot sort alarms

Dave53711 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:03:53 GMT

Thanks. Yup…. First thing I tried.

Three dots
Sort
Custom order

This simply shows all of my alarms (active and inactive) in random order.

Now what….?? What is next step? What do I do to arrange them?

What am I missing.

Of course, this should not be necessary because the default would be active alarms should be presented in order of occurrence.

Dave in Wisconsin

Re: Cannot sort alarms

Dave53711 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:10:15 GMT

That is the first thing I tried.

3 dots
Select “Sort”
Then, Custom order

This shows all of my alarms in random order…. Just like they always are presented.

Now what….? What do I do to actually arrange them to my liking?

What did I miss?

So too then, why are they not simply arranged in most logical sequence? Namely: order of occurrence.

Thanks, Dave Peterson

Re: Cannot sort alarms

Whitley4 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:10:33 GMT

The up & down arrows on the right of each alarm.

Re: Re: Cannot sort alarms

Whitley4 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:12:17 GMT

Press & hold on the alarm, then the arrows will appear.

Re: Re: Cannot sort alarms

Dave53711 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:27:23 GMT

Thanks, Whitley.... that is it! But that is not a solution. "THAT" is ridiculous.

Listen up smart guy at Samsung: Active alarms should AUTOMATICALLY be sorted by order of occurrence. That is: DEFAFULT to the order in which they will ring.

PURPOSE: easily review upcoming alarms. and modify as needed.

Let folks who want any other sequence (unlikely) move them as they wish.

Jeeesh!

Dave Peterson.... (A CPA in Wisconsin who has everything in his life in good order--- EXCEPT MY SAMSUNG ALARMS.)

Re: Cannot sort alarms

Dave53711 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 23:35:41 GMT

MORE....

There seems to be the option that I want:

1. Three dots

2. Sort

3. Alarm time order

While this does rearrange the alarms, they are not in order.

To wit, my September alarm and July alarms are listed before my April alarms and March alarms.

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This is BIG for me. Am leaning toward a change to iphone for the AirTag. This will push me over the line.

Thanks All!

Dave in Wisconsin

Re: Cannot sort alarms

LDRamage — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:23:23 GMT

That does not work for me. I click on customize and it displays the alarms, and I can select one or more to turn off or delete, but I cannot change the sorting order at all.

Re: Re: Cannot sort alarms

LDRamage — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:25:05 GMT

Thank you!!!!! I see, I see, I can click and move them! Excellent!

Re: Re: Cannot sort alarms

LDRamage — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:29:09 GMT

Uh oh, but they don't stay in the order I change them too! Why is that?

Re: Cannot sort alarms

LDRamage — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:32:37 GMT

I agree with you! order of occurrence, please!

You can change them in Edit (3 dots customize) to view what alarm will be next, but the alarms aren't permanently placed in the order you put them in, unfortunately. So, it is pointless.

Re: Cannot sort alarms

LDRamage — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:35:05 GMT

there are up and down arrows to the right of all alarms...you hold and move them at those arrows. But, again, when you go back to your alarms after all of this moving around, they are the same as they were before you went to all that trouble. So, I guess it is just a viewer and not an editor after all.

Re: Re: Re: Cannot sort alarms

Whitley4 — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 23:42:05 GMT

That's odd. Mine do.

Re: Cannot sort alarms

Dave53711 — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 01:54:03 GMT

Thanks, but answer lacks enough detail for me to understand what you are suggesting.

Re: Cannot sort alarms by date

userPpHPehu7E8 — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:43:48 GMT

Aha Moment. I have the same issue. Looking at the solution offered didn't work. Then I realized I use the Google Clock, not the Samsung Clock. The Samsung Clock has the sort option!!!

Re: Cannot sort alarms by date

Dave53711 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:04:30 GMT

FINAL SOLUTION... I just abandoned the Samsung-provided app and downloaded a 3rd party app (free).

NAME: Galarm. Now my active alarms are automatically organized in order as they are set to got off.... the way is SHOULD be.