iOS 26.1 Alarm Buttons: Slide to Stop
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.
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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.
The Alan Dye era: a new design creates problems, requiring more hacks and complexity to evade, ending up less usable and elegant than the old design.
Hard disagree, new design is much better than the old design. Makes it easier to hit the buttons, adding a slide action is good to avoid accidental hits.
Honestly, I hate the snooze feature and I wish for a setting, that will disable snooze for all new alarms i create once and for all 😅
I thought the old design was worse because I couldn’t read either button! I thought maybe I’d learn not to hit the bright orange thing, but no, I never did. I vastly prefer what we have in 26.0. Even if I can only read the orange button through bleary, just-woken eyes, I know it’s the wrong one to hit.
Previously:
Why is there some kind of shadow that makes “slide to stop” almost impossible to read?
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I have to agree with the comments — I find the new (26.1) buttons much better than anything that came before. iOS 26 design is still a trainwreck overall and I have no plans to update my main phone yet, but it's good to see the few improvements here or there.
The thing about snooze buttons on physical alarm clocks is that you can smack it half asleep and quickly go back to sleeping. This is why this button often is much, much bigger than any other button and also on the top (middle) of the alarm clock.
Snoozing in the pre-iOS 26 design especially without glasses was really annoying because you had to get close to the phone or get the phone in your hands to hit one of the small buttons. With a charging cable attached this was even more annoying.
The biggest buttons are more than welcome and the slider is nice because when you want to get up with your alarm, you do have to do a much more deliberate action like sliding instead of hitting. It’s ugly but it works.
So they have to refine this design -- great! It doesn’t mean it’s a bad design.
When your alarm goes off in the morning *you don’t have your glasses on*. In a world where as many as 60% of people wear glasses or contacts, I don’t know how the old tiny, unreadable button design lasted so long.
This is how it works on my current Android phone, and it should work this way. Good on Apple for finally stumbling into the correct solution.
Can't agree with Juli's and Marco's take here.
I suppose it's a little strange how many… half-finished? design changes came with 26.0. And perhaps there's a bigger story to it that 26 was rushed. But as far as the feature goes, 26.1 will be out in a few weeks' time, and it'll have an alarm/timer modal that's IMHO an improvement over that of iOS 1 through 18. The reuse of "slide to unlock" for "slide to stop" isn't "solving a problem 26.0 introduced"; it's a clever, useful design.
