"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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Hey that reminds me, this ui in Overcast is low contrast and very fiddly to try to set to 20min.
Having to tap 30 and then -10 is real counter intuitive. Makes me miss the old design every time.