Calendar appointments is blocking my alarm clock

Hi everybody,
I just missed a couple of wake up calls from my alarm clock because a calendar notification was raised before the alarm clock. After I removed the calendar notification I then got the alarm clock? pretty wired!
Can somebody please tell me what to do? Pretty annoying not getting up in the morning, my employer is starting to hate me  heheh……
Cheers,
Jesper

Nice to know I'm not the only one! This just happened to me this morning and I thought it was wierd too. Make sure you submit a bug report to get Apple's attention on this, it needs to be fixed.

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Hey all,
Have imported my Outlook calendar appointments into iPhone so have tons of appointments (and their associated reminder alerts) in my iPhone calendar. It seems as though if an appointment reminder alert goes off when I'm asleep in the middle of the night, the reminder alert is actually preventing my iPhone alarm clock from going off the next morning.
After having missed a few morning appointments because of this, I noticted that upon unlocking my iPhone the next morning, the alarm would THEN go off, even if this was literally hours after it was supposed to ring.
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