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.
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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.
