Marco ArmentOct 6

"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. In iOS 18, the Snooze and Stop buttons were much smaller and had a significant degree of separation, so it was difficult to hit stop when you meant to hit snooze.”

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.

https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/06/apple-fixes-alarms-in-ios-26-1/

Apple Fixes Alarms in iOS 26.1

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...

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Show threadDayton Lowell
@marcoarment I generally agree with your thoughts on Alan Dye, but the massive Snooze button is an improvement and all of us that hate mornings know it.
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Show threadtoastedmilkOct 6
@Daytonlowell @marcoarment the problem isn’t that the snooze button is massive. It’s that the stop button is the same size and right under it.
Show threadDayton LowellOct 9
@Finin @marcoarment And to quote Steve Jobs, they “wanted something you couldn’t do accidentally”, so they added slide-to-stop. I think it's a very reasonable design decision.
Show threadDayton LowellOct 9
@Finin @marcoarment I'd rather have both controls at the bottom of the screen where I can reach them with one hand. Plus it feels like it pays homage to the OG iPhone. Slide to unlock was a legit fun UI to interact with.