Apple Fixes Alarms in iOS 26.1

[MacRumors]

With the second beta of iOS 26.1, Apple updated the design of alarms set on the iPhone, making them harder to dismiss than before.

Stopping an alarm in iOS 26.1 beta 2 requires a new Slide to Stop gesture rather than a simple tap. You can continue to tap to snooze an alarm, but if you want to turn it off entirely, you need to use a swipe.

Transitioning from a tap to a slide gesture to stop an alarm could potentially help people who sleepily dismiss an alarm without meaning to. It's easy to accidentally tap Stop instead of Snooze in the current version of iOS 26, but now if you blindly tap at your iPhone in the morning, you won't be able to disable your alarm entirely.

The new Slide to Stop button is still as large as the Snooze and Stop buttons, so Apple keeps its updated design, while solving the problem that it introduced. In iOS 18, the Snooze and Stop buttons were much smaller and had a significant degree of separation, so it was difficult to hit stop when you meant to hit snooze.

Slide to Stop is also used for timers in iOS 26.1 beta 2.


Article Link: Apple Fixes Alarms in iOS 26.1

 

[surfzen21]

Why not make it a 16 digit code to stop and really make sure the person is up and functioning.

Apple doesnt care about us.

 

[Not@Apple]

What, no 2FA to shut it off? lol

This is horrible. I use alarms regularly and I absolutely don't want them harder to turn off.

 

[greg624]

What about when the sound stops randomly and then it doesn’t wake you up yet you look at the screen and there’s no sound coming from the phone 🙃

 

[turbineseaplane]

Really innovating like crazy down in Cupertino.

Reworking "turning off alarms" -- for some reason.

 

[ProbablyDylan]

Why not make it a 16 digit code to stop and really make sure the person is up and functioning.

Make it a math problem. "Solve for X to stop alarm"

 

[dannyyankou]

Why not make it a 16 digit code to stop and really make sure the person is up and functioning.

Apple doesnt care about us.

I’ll accept nothing less than a personal wake up call from a live human.

 

[bmark]

Apple can't innovate ****!

 

[adrianlondon]

I like this change.

Can't please everyone, but they chose to please me 😁

 

[Nom4d]

So innovative. I am just waiting on the new emojis.

 

[xiJulian_]

They didn’t fix the alarm volume setting itself to 20% for no reason so no they didn’t fix alarms.

 

[orbital~debris]

Apple doom-mongers could wake from their 90s slumber and use this one, something like this:

2007: Apple introduce iPhone, with ‘Slide to Unlock’ as a central feature.

2025: Apple introduce ‘Slide to Stop’ on iPhone.

Does this spell the end of iPhone? The end of Apple?!

 

[spunkybart]

I like it!

 

[tkermit]

I like it!

Me too. Can anyone confirm that the Apple Watch UI has been updated as well?

 

[dugbug]

EXCELLENT.

Much needed. it was way too easy to accidentally brush the stop button when picking up the phone. Id rather hit snooze than kill the alarm.

 

[Murdock12]

Make it a math problem. "Solve for X to stop alarm"

No joke, there really are alarm apps that do that!

 

[thiscatisfat]

Wow, “slide to something” is such a pleasant throwback.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Slide over to get up.

 

[ricketysquire]

Stop with the unnecessary changes. The alarm is a critical app for many users and the last thing people need is to be confused post-update. What is with big-tech's obsession with throwing changes on users. I wish they'd focus on bug fixes, performance improvements and security. Want to add new features, new version after a ton of beta testing.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

I’ll accept nothing less than a personal wake up call from a live human.

As opposed to a Christmas ghost?

 

[AppleWes]

What about when the sound stops randomly and then it doesn’t wake you up yet you look at the screen and there’s no sound coming from the phone 🙃

They didn’t fix the alarm volume setting itself to 20% for no reason so no they didn’t fix alarms.

Same issues here. Glad to see the 'slide to turn off' feature but hopefully will check random volume settings or no sound.

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

Stop with the unnecessary changes. The alarm is a critical app for many users and the last thing people need is to be confused post-update. What is with big-tech's obsession with throwing changes on users. I wish they'd focus on bug fixes, performance improvements and security. Want to add new features, new version after a ton of beta testing.

Tbh I really liked the new big buttons for alarms. I guess some were doing it accidentally. This is a good design compromise. They’ll also be fixing bugs. Moving target.

 

[onenorth]

How about side button to snooze, tap screen to stop. Give us options.

 

[adammusic]

Why isnt it red? Why isnt it red? Why isnt it red?

 

[tkermit]

How about side button to snooze, tap screen to stop. Give us options.

Way too easy to accidentally touch the screen when you're half-asleep.