Why doesnt the iPhone keep a few percent of battery life up it's sleeve to allow the alarm to go off?

Fifteen years ago, and for ten years running, spanning Nokia, Samsung, Motorola, Ericsson and a couple of cheapies, I had the ability to set an alarm and it would wake me in the morning. Even if my phone went flat! I know none of these devices had the same drain as an iPhone, but surely the clever people at apple could design some code that will "kill" the phone at 5% battery so it's got enough charge for the alarm to function.
Knowing some people would prefer that the phone doesn't shut down at 5%, a setting could be applied in an "alarm clock " section of the "settings" app, or it could be applied only when an alarm is active.
I just don't think that an iPhone should lack functionality that was available to be on a Nokia 5110 ;-)

Submit your feedback requesting this feature directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
http://www.apple.com/feedback
In the meantime, if you plug the iPhone in at night, you shouldn't have a problem.

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