Who amongst us relies still on an alarm clock? In their short tenure, smartphones have dominated yet another task. Both options have pros and cons. A smartphone (charged with power) will never let you down because your electricity went out over night. ( The McCallister Family They would have had a great Christmas in Paris if they’d owned a Pixel. The smarts of your smartphone can get in your way and stop you from waking up.Recently, a Redditor named asevarte couldn’t understand why their Pixel didn’t wake them up. The alarm would sometimes go off, but other times it wouldn’t. They’d then wake up 30 minutes later to the backup alarm. It made no sense. It was set up to play a Spotify list at a certain time. There was no reason why it couldn’t have literally raised the alarm, barring a major Android bug.

Asevarte finally figured out the solution. They woke up before the alarm sounded one morning. The Pixel began playing a random track from Spotify–The Pixies Where Is My Mind? Almost immediately, it stopped. Why?

For those who do not know, the song starts with a high pitch, followed by an abrupt “STOP” and that is when turns off.

Oh my god.

Google Assistant will stop a recent request in an effort to be as convenient and helpful as possible. You do not need to say “OK Google”, “Hey Google”, or “Stop”; only “Stop”. Android may not be able distinguish between the user’s voice and

Can’t Touch This could also have the same effect, but I hope the beat will wake you up before “Stop!” Hammer Time” was the next song.

It’s an Android bug and a Google Pixel quirk. While the risk of it affecting you is very low, it’s still a good PSA for checking the songs in your wake-up playlist.