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

I stopped using the Snooze feature years ago. Turned it off for every alarm and never looked back!
However, I can see how being able to set it to a preferred time (1-15 minutes) might be useful for some.
Each person’s mileage seems to vary!
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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.
 
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The new design is vastly better. Always hated that tiny stop button. I don't care for snoozing and I always disable it. I instead set multiple alarms at intervals.
 
skiguy45 said:
Apple seems to have forgotten a lot of things they went to great pains to learn in the past.
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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?
 
tweaknmod said:
Make “stop” a slide/switch, not a button.
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That's how my clock app does the stop/snooze.
tweaknmod said:
Even with the old layout, I’ve hit “stop” accidentally. Requiring more deliberate input would likely solve the issue for most – with either layout.
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Yass. Make the the switch a block slider puzzle.😁 That way you're assured you're awake enough to turn off the alarm.😏
 
StanleyOmar said:
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?
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Often no. Snooze buttons are extremely popular.
 
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