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> Do I understand correctly that bleary eyed users were uninstalling the alarm rather than turning it off?

A legitimate reason to do this would be if you're on a red-eye flight somewhere, and your alarm goes off. You can't turn it off because your special object or QR code or whatever is in your checked bag. Your only option is to either turn off your phone or uninstall.

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>turn off your phone

I was wondering about this, smartphones don't turn on when your alarm goes. (So you could just turn it off to bypass the "super alarm"?)

I have vague memories that older cell phones used to turn on when the alarm would ring, but I might be imagining it.

Yes, older phones would turn on to ring the alarm. At least the 3 I owned did, and they were all different brands.

Symbian was on a lot of different brands, so based on a sibling comment I’d say it was a Symbian feature.

Not really it was Siemens c35i era that have no problem with ringing alarm when switched off.

You're absolutely correct. At least Nokia Symbian phones had this feature.

I'm thinking about the old brick phones.

Ooh sleep like an android app is crazy good at this. You can turn it off, volume down, and try yo uninstall all you like. The darn thing WILL sound.

I like two of the puzzles it has : laugh out loud for some time, or should swear words

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