Apple Fixes Alarms in iOS 26.1

[tkermit]

They should have left it how it is. Why was it so bad when it was a nice big button to stop it?

Apple's New Alarm Design in iOS 26 Might Make You Oversleep

In the iOS 26 beta, Apple has redesigned the alarm screen in the Clock app, giving it a cleaner look with a larger time display and significantly...

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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

Has anyone else noticed this change in iOS26?: I play sleep music - usually a YouTube track - over Airplay to my HomePod when I sleep. Before 26, the alarm would still go off on my phone. Now, if it's a music alarm, it blasts out of the HomePod. It actually jacks the volume up as well. I want the ability to choose to have the alarm play only out of the phone even if I'm playing music via AirPlay.

 

[ResolutionNZ]

Are the custom ringtones for alarms working again with update? They've been broken throughout iOS 18.

 

[titanium alloy]

very welcome change

 

[mrr]

I want to make them EASIER to stop.

 

[Timpetus]

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

I want one from a dead human, preferably a relative I miss talking with.

 

[johnnygee]

It's a solution in search of a problem. What a useless change. ☹️

 

[kuito]

The big buttons are goofy looking. This is such a pointless thing to be changing. Believe me when i say, people that use the snooze find a damn way. So it’d be nice to go to something that looks somewhat decent, but huge buttons are not it.

 

[d2d]

Finally. This was a huge internal complaint for forever and has only gotten much more voiced after iOS 26 became available to all. The original version was so bad the alarm would turn off if you merely lifted the phone

 

[segfaultdotorg]

Would have been a whole lot cooler if they hadn't broken them in the first place.

 

[triptolemus]

I really didn't think the new design was going to be a problem, then 2 days in on 26 I did exactly what everyone said would happen.

 

[julzmeister]

It looks awful! I'm not three years old any longer, I don't need big UI buttons!
Now slide to turn off? Most people if they accidentally turn it off once, they don't do it again. So pointless. Who's in charge of their UI now? It really is terrible throughout and super buggy (on iPhone 13 mini it is anyway).

 

[subjonas]

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

What if I don't know how to solve it??

 

[Zapski]

I can’t see without glasses, and fiddling around trying to squint at a phone while half awake to figure out how to stop the alarm sounds bad.

 

[ZipZilla]

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.

LOL 2FA....alarm blaring and you're waiting on a text 😂

 

[SidricTheViking]

Ugh, I was finally happy with it! After years of fumbling half asleep to hit the tiny little stop button (because I do not snooze) they made it huge and it was great. Now I’ll need to slide which is a pain in the butt when my phone is sitting sideways on a wireless charger a foot away from me.

Can they just let us choose? I would MUCH prefer how it is in 26.0

Perhaps you’d be better off disabling the Snooze option on your alarms? I haven’t used the Snooze feature for years, just Stop, and it’s been ideal for my needs.

 

[SidricTheViking]

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.

Disable Snooze on your alarms — problem solved!

 

[tennisproha]

Hopefully they change to this layout on Apple Watch as well, especially for the Sleep alarm!

 

[Orange Bat]

This is one of those things that screams “let the user choose how to do it”.

 

[August West]

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.

Throw in 2FA just to be sure.

 

[Lennholm]

Is it an option? I'm guessing not... god forbid Apple should add one more toggle to the settings.

 

[Sowelu]

Hoping they make the snooze button larger, you can hardly see it.

 

[darkphoenix24]

I guess no one else here is a light sleeper with alarm anxiety? I always somehow end up waking up a few minutes before the alarm goes off or I’m usually wide awake as soon as the alarm goes off.

Guess not everyone is a morning person here.

 

[bluespark]

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.

Strong agree. This is an amazing change. If you use the snooze feature, you know how easy it was to accidentally turn your alarm off.

 

[TOM1211]

well I’ll be turning that off straight away ..