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Your iPhone’s Alarm Will Gain New Snooze Options in iOS 26
- Apple introduced iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, allowing iPhone users to set custom snooze durations for alarms between 1 and 15 minutes.
- This update addresses the long-standing limitation of a fixed 9-minute snooze interval, which stems from mechanical constraints in vintage alarm clocks like GE's 1956 Model 7H241.
- IOS 26 is currently in developer beta, enabling users to adjust snooze times per alarm, while the default 9-minute duration remains unchanged.
- Users can select snooze intervals from 1 to 15 minutes, but experts caution longer snoozes may cause deeper sleep, potentially making waking harder.
- The full iOS 26 release is scheduled for fall 2025, coinciding with new iPhone launches and promising greater flexibility in managing alarm snoozes.
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Apple will allow you to choose how many minutes you want to pass before the alarm rings again, in an adjustment that you can make as soon as you update your iPhone to iOS 26.
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Apple will at long last let you customize snooze times on alarms in iOS 26
We've been covering all the news Apple announced at WWDC 2025, but possibly the most exciting element coming to iOS 26 wasn't discussed on stage. The next update to the operating system will let people set custom snooze times. MacRumors reported that iOS 26 will offer anywhere from one to 15 minute snoozes that users can select when setting the alarm. For years, Apple has kept the snooze timing locked at nine minutes. If you wanted to doze at a …
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