Apple has subtly updated the way iPhone alarms function in the second beta of iOS 26.1. The iPhone maker rolled out a minor design tweak that might make your mornings slightly more mindful. The update ...

iOS 26.1 recently introduced a big change for how you turn off alarms and timers, replacing the ‘Stop’ button with a new ‘Slide to stop’ action. Here’s how to get the button back. Apple lets you ...

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 ...

iOS 26.1 introduces a potentially bacon-saving change for the best iPhone models and beyond. If you’ve ever turned off your morning alarm when blindly pawing at your phone hoping to hit snooze then ...

Apple redesigned the alarm screen in iOS 26 with much larger buttons than before, but now it’s making another change in iOS 26.1: there’s a new ‘Slide to stop’ gesture for dismissing an alarm as of ...

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I'm one of those crazy iPhone users who has an alarm for nearly every minute of the day. While they aren't all active at once, it's rare that I ever have to create a new one. That one semester of ...

The main reason Apple switched to “slide to stop” is to keep people from accidentally turning off alarms when they’re groggy in the morning. On iOS 18, when an alarm went off, you were presented with ...

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