"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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@marcoarment 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 😅

@happystriker I just have a bunch of predefined alarms saved (6:00, 6:20, 6:40, 7:00, etc.) which have snooze disabled, then I always just enable/disable those alarms as needed, rather than creating a new one every time.

But yeah, I wish I could make it so any new ones would default to having snooze disabled so I wouldn't have to remember to turn it off whenever I do need to add a new one.