{"id":49555,"date":"2025-10-07T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T19:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49555"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:04:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:04:46","slug":"ios-26-1-alarm-buttons-slide-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/07\/ios-26-1-alarm-buttons-slide-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.1 Alarm Buttons: Slide to Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Wensh<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Happy Striker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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 😅<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

zkarj<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n