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iOS 26 Adds Custom Snooze Times After Years of 9-Minute Tyranny

I always thought it was 5 minute instead of 9, guess I'm learning something new today
 
Hopefully they’ll let you set the default alarm tone as well, that is one of my pet peeves. o_O
 
Ground breaking work by Apple.

I've been able to do this since DAY 1 with all my Amazon Alexa devices & I'm not limited to 1-15 min! 🙄🤦‍♂️
 
DocMultimedia said:
My favorite new feature so far. I like a good 20 minutes. When I snooze I want a real snooze.
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You may have to compromise because the article states “1 to 15 minutes”. But don’t despair … I have a felling iOS 27 may add the options “seconds” and “hours”, or Apple Intelligence will notice that you always hit the snooze button once in the past and it will automatically set it to 20 or prompt you for default peference … 😊
 
I would love to see a new option added to the iPhone/iPad alarm system — a single, gentle “ping” sound that goes off a few minutes before the main alarm.

For example, if my alarm is set for 7:00 AM, I’d like to be able to set a soft ping sound to play at 6:45 AM or 6:50 AM. Just one light sound — not a full alarm — to gently signal that my real wake-up time is approaching.

This would give me a chance to prepare mentally or enjoy the last few minutes of rest without the jolt of a full alarm. The “ping before the ring” could be customizable: maybe 5, 10, or 15 minutes before the actual alarm.





It would be a great addition for people who want a gentler transition into waking up. Thank you for considering it!
 
I wish it was up to an hour on the snooze. No idea why they are being so limiting. I use silent alarms for things like watering my newly planted saplings in the forest behind my home. I use the alarm app because it gets my attention fully every time. If I’m not home I will just keep snoozing it every 9 minutes, which is obnoxious, or change the time and then a couple days later it goes off even later. Snoozing for an hour gives me time to return home without being annoyed and having CarPlay keep pausing my music with alarms.

tonywalker23 said:
off topic tip?
I have the luxury of going to my office when I get there (which means I end up later than other leaving), but as a night owl I love staying up late. I keep hoping that they will add a "sunrise" option for what time the alarm goes off. I decided yesterday to see if I could make it work myself
Shortcuts → Automation → run shortcut 15 minutes before sunrise → (the shortcut is start a 15 minute timer).
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Yeah, for people like me who work for themselves, it would be nice to have it go off 15 minutes after sunrise each day, with an option to snooze it for an hour if I’m just not feeling it that day, lol. I’m more of a night owl but maybe if I align more to the sun I can finally wake up earlier.
 
That's Apple for you, right? Siri getting worse, bugs persisting for years, finally adding group chat typing indicators, scheduling messages, etc.
 
I’m wondering why did it so long for Apple to implement now, instead of initial version of iOS or the second. It is irrelevant for non-mechanical cloaks. The Nokia phone I used more than 20 years ago had this feature.
 
The only thing that bothered me with the snooze timer was more of an OCD thing that they made it 9 minutes instead of 10. I get the logic, kind of, but the technology has existed for a long time to calculate a dynamic snooze timer based on when snooze was hit. So if the snooze was hit 15 seconds into the alarm, the snooze timer should be set to 9 minutes and 45 seconds so that the second alarm goes off 10 minutes after the first.
 
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