u/roirraWedorehT

I'll start: "Right" - Alien (1979)

Background: Google Clock mostly worked perfect for me for alarms until they changed the interface. Effectively, as they do, they since made it so that you had all the same features, but it now takes many more clicks to access them all. Additionally, one of it's features that I treasured stopped working correctly.

Details of what doesn't work correctly: Scheduling alarms. That is, for an alarm that you want set to not necessarily go off when the time occurs next, but on a particular date (two days from now, for example).

What happens when I use the feature now: From all indications on my phone, the alarm is scheduled correctly. It goes off on my watch at the very first opportunity, however, making it useless.

Example: I set an alarm named "Start work early" to 7:45 AM two days from now. The very next day - one day early, the alarm goes off on my watch at 7:45 AM. I've noticed that the phone makes no indication that an alarm is going off when this happens, but pressing stop on the watch disables the alarm on the phone as well.

What I've tried to fix it. I've multiple times disabled and re-enabled Alarm sync in the Google Clock app on my Pixel 8 Pro. I've (multiple times) factory reset both my watch and phone. I've submitted feedback about the issue to Google at least once. After a factory reset, things behave normally at first, but very quickly, it consistently starts having this issue again. I am not factory resetting my devices one more time.

Features I'm looking for in a replacement phone and WearOS clock app:

• Name alarms.
• Pause alarms (like with Google Clock) - where you can easily configure a regularly scheduled alarm not to go off one or more particular consecutive days, as a "one-off".
• Schedule alarms to go off on a particular future date, without repeating.
• Have the alarms only vibrate on my watch when I'm wearing it - no sound.
• Have alarms set to repeat on particular days of the week - this is a no brainer in an alarm app, but...
• Backup my alarms via Google's automatic cloud. I'd work around it if it at least would have an automatic local backup feature.
• Sync alarms from the phone to watch and vice-versa.