How to turn off Alarmy without doing the mission (iPhone)

Your barcode is at the office, you're travelling without the thing you photographed, or the mission just isn't possible right now. Alarmy has an official way out for this, and it isn't the one most people try first.

Quick answer: use Emergency Escape. On the mission screen, open the Emergency Escape menu at the top right, tap 10 times, and fill in the pledge form. The alarm turns off. Alarmy added this in version 26.22.0, so update the app if you don't see it.

This is based on Alarmy's help center as of November 2026. Alarmy changes this feature fairly often, so your screen may look a little different.

Use Emergency Escape

1. Get to the mission screen.
2. Open the Emergency Escape menu at the top right.
3. Tap 10 times.
4. Fill in the pledge form.

Alarmy deliberately makes this a little annoying. Every time you use it, the pledge gets more sentences, and the count resets on the 1st of each month.

Alarmy lists these missions as covered:

• QR/Barcode
• Photo
• Household Item Hunt
• Squat
• Say the word on beat
• Math, levels 6 and 7

Shake, Typing and Walking aren't on that list, so plan on actually finishing those.

If your QR code or barcode won't scan

Before you give up on the mission, try more light. Alarmy's own advice is to use a flashlight, and to register a new code if the old one is damaged. If the code simply isn't with you, Emergency Escape is the way out.

Left your phone somewhere?

Alarmy normally shuts itself off after 3 hours of ringing, so an alarm left going at home does eventually stop.

Does force-quitting, deleting or restarting work?

Less reliably than people expect.

• Closing the app before the alarm: on iOS 26 and later, with the Alarm permission on, Alarmy says the alarm still goes off even if the app isn't running, using a default sound. How Alarmy works explains why.
• Closing the app while it rings: Alarmy doesn't say what happens, so don't count on it. When the app is closed it can fall back to a stream of notifications.
• Turning off the phone or deleting the app: Alarmy can block these on Android, but says iPhone doesn't allow it. So yes, you can do both on an iPhone. Deleting the app won't cancel a subscription, and you'll have to set your alarms up again.

That limit applies to every alarm app on iPhone, including ours. No app can stop you from powering off your own phone.

If you're skipping the mission every morning

Needing a way out once, on a trip, is normal. Reaching for it every morning means the alarm has stopped doing its job.

The usual problem is that most missions happen on the phone in your hand, in bed. You can get surprisingly good at clearing them without really waking up.

WakeUpBroo is built around that problem. It has no snooze and no dismiss button, and you pick how each alarm stops. By default you type a rotating code from wakeupbroo.com/code on a laptop across the room, so the off switch isn't on your phone at all. With no computer, you can scan a random item from around your home instead. If you're comparing options, see apps like Alarmy.