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Apple Fixes Alarms in iOS 26.1

I am still on IOS18. When I upgrade will it give me the option to not use Slide to Stop? That is not acceptable.
 
My issue is that they seem to be prioritizing people who want to use the snooze button. Sure I imagine they have analytics on which button is used more often. My issue with the iOS 26 change is that the buttons are big and close together, and the Stop button is dark and hard to see in a dark room. I've often unintentionally pressed Snooze when that wasn't what I wanted to do.

I'm not sure how this proposed fix helps solve that issue at all.
 
zarmanto said:
Apple is well known for their focus on minimalism. Apply that design philosophy to settings, and you'd probably hear some Apple executive unironically saying something along these lines: "Most users will never change the default settings... and having more options only ends up confusing them."

No, nobody actually uttered that not-an-actual-quote, so far as I know... but it really does feel like Apple doesn't believe their customer base can handle having too many options. The configuration options that we do have are mostly either out of absolute necessity or out of overwhelming customer demand. So, if you want more options, you're going to have to sign up as a beta user -- and convince as many like-minded people as you can to also sign up.

Many voices echoing a similar enough (but not completely identical!) sentiment is the only way to be heard.
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Action button anyone?
 
Well this is stupid.. sorry but I was hoping for a change with the stop button and we got it and now they will change it, again. But sticking the buttons together is a stupid design anyway.
 
The more I think about this, once I upgrade I will have to tap to snooze and then swipe to turn off. I am getting out of bed in the dark, without my glasses on, to silent the alarm and then once I get my glasses on swipe to turn it off, so that is pretty much how I'm going to have to do it. What used to be one tap will now be two steps. Great job Apple /s
 
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Interesting, will take some getting used to. But I'm just glad they finally made the stop button in a consistent position between the timer and alarm. For how many years were they in reverse position.. really annoying.
 
People joking and complaining about good changes? Yep; must be a MacRumors thread.

This is an excellent change. The massive Stop button was way too easy to hit when you really just want to press Snooze.

The old tiny button was fine, but if they’re really gonna keep it this huge, a slider is significantly better than a button.
 
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UGH Tim you are losing your edge....


...you are supposed to force us to buy an accessory dock with a giant snooze button to make this work.
 
DDustiNN said:
People joking and complaining about good changes? Yep; must be a MacRumors thread.

This is an excellent change. The massive Stop button was way too easy to hit when you really just want to press Snooze.

The old tiny button was fine, but if they’re really gonna keep it this huge, a slider is significantly better than a button.
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There are people who never ever want to use the snooze button. There are different use cases in the world. I for one would love a setting to remove "snooze" altogether. I never snoozed, never will. I just want a big bold "stop" button. When I hear my alarm, I'm awake and up within 30 seconds, so this change adds a useless gesture to something that should be super easy, like stopping an alarm.

Edit: I'm dumb, I never noticed I can actually disable snooze 😂 that said, how does it behave with snooze disabled? Is it still a slider, or does it return to being a button? (I don't have the beta installed)
 
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ManuCH said:
There are people who never ever want to use the snooze button. There are different use cases in the world. I for one would love a setting to remove "snooze" altogether. I never snoozed, never will. I just want a big bold "stop" button. When I hear my alarm, I'm awake and up within 30 seconds, so this change adds a useless gesture to something that should be super easy, like stopping an alarm.
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I'm not sure some of you realize just how big this slider actually is... it's still super easy to turn off, just unlikely to happen by accident.

ManuCH said:
Edit: I'm dumb, I never noticed I can actually disable snooze 😂 that said, how does it behave with snooze disabled? Is it still a slider, or does it return to being a button? (I don't have the beta installed)
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Still a slider.
 
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This will help; but they have to do the same for the watch as well. I just got used to hearing it, pressing the side button and it quiets it and I will wake up 40 min later rushing. Doesn't happen always but when it does, it's frustrating.
 
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Typical Apple. They actually just FIXED this when they made the stop button in the same place in order as for a timer.

Now they're rolling it back to make it not a button 🤦‍♂️
 
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xiJulian_ said:
They didn’t fix the alarm volume setting itself to 20% for no reason so no they didn’t fix alarms.
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I haven't yet upgraded to 26 so I'm speaking for older versions. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

I've only noticed it lowering the alarm if FaceID detects my face mid-alarm sounding.
 
This one deserves an unironic finally from me. Now I can stop setting so many alarms each morning!

Now can they fix it so if you go to interact with a timer notification to tap on it to snooze it, it doesn’t so easily accidentally dismiss the notification and therefore the timer has to be manually setup again?

I often use timers to check on if something is ready and if it’s not I snooze it so I don’t forget. I do this with so many things from cooking to laundry to painting/finishing drying to 3D printer filament swaps to remembering to do the recycling and if I’m not at home I snooze it until I get home. I have all kinds of silent alarms and timers that just vibrate for making sure I remember because I get distracted easily. The notification dismissing too easy bug is annoying when I’ll even be cognizant of the bug and try to carefully tap it and sometimes there is slight movement to the tap which makes it fly away!
 
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They should have left it how it is. Why was it so bad when it was a nice big button to stop it? I guess this is for those who snooze 7 alarms and got mad they hit stop by mistake.
 
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