Non-recurring alarms iPhone stopped working for an amazing two days after the clocks struck midnight to mark the beginning of 2011.
Instead, thousands of smart phone owners got a surprise of lies and many were forced to blame the failure to be late for work.
Thousands of angry iPhone users and even stayed late for work and flights yesterday after a software failure canceled New Year's Eve phone alerts
The error was the latest in a series of embarrassing mistakes for Apple after the iPhone was unable to cope when the clocks back one hour on 31 October.
Phone bosses have promised to rectify the error automatically phone today just in time for millions of people across Britain to return to work after the festive break.
A torrent of anger came online as people lamented missed dates, appearing late for work or not to call that annual New Year's phone to their loved ones.
Dan Linfoot wrote on Twitter: iPhone alarm not work today! Slept in 15 minutes. "
Matt Burfield wrote: "Why the hell not turn off my alarm on my iPhone? Arggh '
Fion Chan flight attendant wrote: "Luckily I managed to wake myself. I do not want to lose my job the first day of the year."
Jayne Hoskins wrote: "Can anyone shed some light on the iPhone alarm not working since the new year? I slept a little over 2 hours?"
Footballers Rio Ferdinand and Robbie Savage, which are followed by hundreds of thousands of people on Twitter, his followers issued warnings yesterday about the error alarm.
Failure alarm is the third month after some lost iPhones clocks back one hour to winter time means British people were given an extra hour in bed.
Similar problems affected the iPhone users in Australia and New Zealand in September, making their alarms to leave an hour earlier in the southern hemisphere.
Apple issued a statement advising many of their phones would not work in early 2011, but the warning was not detected by their thousands of customers.
The ruling out non-recurring alarms iPhone stopped working for devices running IOS 4.02, 4.1 and 4.2.1.
An Apple spokesman said: "We are aware of a problem with alarms not repeated for January 1 or 2.
"Customers can set up recurring alarms for those dates and all alarms are working properly as of January 3."
It is unclear what caused the alarm to fail, but experts say the technology could be due to a bug in the iPhone operating system 4.
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