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Apple's New Alarm Design in iOS 26 Might Make You Oversleep
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Moving Snooze and Stop closer together is a nutso idea given how many millions of users now have muscle memory - often likely groggy from sleep - for the existing layout. And there is no UI value add, just some UI designers moving things around because they can. Hopefully it does not make it thru Beta.
Note that I am someone totally accepting of changes in UI if said changes clearly have substantial long term value add that exceeds the value loss that by definition occurs when changing an established UI. Not the case in this instance; moving Snooze and Stop closer together makes no sense in any user-centric scenario.
Note that I am someone totally accepting of changes in UI if said changes clearly have substantial long term value add that exceeds the value loss that by definition occurs when changing an established UI. Not the case in this instance; moving Snooze and Stop closer together makes no sense in any user-centric scenario.
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Oh Thank God they've FINALLY Made the stop button bigger! It winds me up no end trying to see the stop button first thing in the morning!
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Not an issue for me, since after my 6AM alarm, I have my 6:03 alarm then my 6:15, followed by my 6:30…
Just have Siri either snooze or stop the alarm. I do this just about every morning through the week.
Apple's Alarm breaks during the new year anyone? It happens a lot in the 2010s.
Idk, I get the “internal research” supports a lot of things, but I’d like to find out when exactly that internal research was from.
The stop button all the way at the bottom was always the one I accidentally clicked, because that’s how I picked up my phone, from the bottom. so my finger would always tap the thing all the way at the bottom.
if this research was from back around when the latest iPhone was the 5S… the form factor is completely different now. with the screen being so much closer to the bottom, people are most likely to hit the buttons that are… On the bottom.
either way, people are going to disagree until the cows come home, but the truth is that Apple has always changed things, even when they had an explanation for why the old one worked.
I don't understand why the Snooze button has to be there or be so prominently displayed by default, or why the colors can't at least be swapped. Why does Apple assume I didn't really mean what I said when I entered 7am as the time I needed to wake up? Don't people already set an alarm for the latest possible time they think they'll have to sleep?
That's how my clock app does the stop/snooze.
Yass. Make the the switch a block slider puzzle.😁 That way you're assured you're awake enough to turn off the alarm.😏
They should make the stop button IAP. Every time you hit the Stop button you'd have to pay $0.99. That'd help to make sure that the users don't oversleep.
Make the stop button BIGGER than the snooze button.
I virtually never want my alarm to snooze, I want it to STOP.
I virtually never want my alarm to snooze, I want it to STOP.
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Oh nice! Just found that. It's annoyingly only per alarm, not global. But fine, I just found that and turned it off for ALL the alarms I've got set. Most of them are old, I only ever turn them on if I really have to be somewhere at a specific time and I'm likely to be asleep. But snooze buttons make me grumpy.