Apple Watch: accidentally stopping alarm

What kind of designer would create a “feature” that mutes the alarm indefinitely just because the watch screen has been somehow covered (unintentional gesture, pillow, bed sheets)?

on a watch that you want to wear to monitor your sleep pattern???

The alarms should keep on ringing and / or giving attic feedback until you press either “snooze” or “turn off”.

the watch should completely ignore the screen being covered by any means if an alarm is ringing.

I’d as far as saying that it should also ignore the “3 seconds cover to mute all sounds”, because if you’re sleeping you don’t have control over what you’re doing and an alarm should never be suspended indefinitely as a consequence of an out-of-control event.

how can this be a feature? It makes the alarm useless, it’s definitely a bug or a design flaw.

at least make it so that covering the screen equals to a snooze; at least the alarm will be set off again after 9 minutes instead of getting stuck at the snooze / turn off screen doing nothing.

You’ll have to submit feedback in the hopes an engineer sees it and changes it. I agree it’s a design flaw. I don’t know what changes have been made with the new software updates just released. Product Feedback - Apple. They might only make changes if enough people complain about it.

I’m having new issues with my alarms and I don’t know if they’ve changed it or if the update messed it up. Restarts haven’t helped so I’m thinking it’s a deliberate change now. Possibly the changes are options you can change in settings, I couldn’t find anything to fix my issue. Your only option might be to disable cover to mute. I know it’s no good if you still like using this when not sleeping. There should be an option

So I get it, it’s frustrating.

Force restart by pressing both the digital crown and side button at the same time until the apple logo appears, then release