Alarm snooze button moved on StandBy display in iOS

IOS 26, Why did you move the snooze bar? The standby display with your phone on a charger on its side shows the clock and the alarm status. When the alarm rings there were two large buttons. Snooze and Stop. Why? Why for all that is sane, did you move the snooze bar to the other side?

Posted on Jan 8, 2026 3:26 AM

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Posted on Jan 8, 2026 6:55 AM

The reason, we believe, is that there were complaints that the Stop was too easy to mistake for the Snooze and people were sleeping in.

If you want it changed, we are not the Apple complaints department, in fact we are no part of Apple at all. You must ask Apple for the change here https://apple.com/feedback


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Jan 8, 2026 5:06 AM in response to Aronis

I've been using this feature for more than a year. It's pretty slick. I noticed it when I got a standing charger and happened to turn the phone into landscape on the stand. So I am used to it as my alarm clock. You know wave at the phone and the display turns on. Kinda helpful.


But I updated to OS 26 because I needed to get a new set of AirPods and wanted the full functionality.


The update changed the snooze button from the Right Side of the Screen to the Left side of the screen.


I saw it and did not hit the wrong button, but if you have user with poor vision, they might hit the location of the OLD button and NOT hit snooze and then oversleep. There was Clearly NO reason to swap the location of the snooze button. This was just for the sake of change.


Mike

Jan 8, 2026 3:59 AM in response to Aronis

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