Apple’s new iPhone alarm update could save you from oversleeping: What’s new

iOS 26 added big alarm buttons, making it easy to stop alarms accidentally. Here’s how Apple fixes it in iOS 26.1 Beta 2.

If you are on iOS 26 and struggling to wake up in the morning, it may be because you can easily tap the stop button instead of the snooze button on your iPhone, which stops the alarm altogether and allows you to sleep in, missing important deadlines, work, and whatnot. But it looks like Apple is actually changing this, as with the second beta of iOS 26.1, there’s a new design update to the alarms that makes it harder to stop the alarm, you now need to slide instead of just tap. Here are the details.

It will soon be more difficult to miss alarms on iPhones. (Shaurya Sharma/ HT Photo)

By Shaurya Sharma

Shaurya Sharma is the Technology Editor at Hindustan Times Digital Streams, where he oversees technology coverage across digital and social platforms. With over eight years of experience across editorial, video production, and digital media, his work focuses on smartphones, AI, consumer gadgets, and shaping audience-first content strategies for modern tech consumers.

He began his career in 2018 as a fashion cinematographer before turning his lifelong passion for technology into a profession. From spending his childhood immersed in tech magazines, video games, and the latest gadgets to covering the global consumer tech industry today, technology has remained a constant throughout his journey.

Over the years, Shaurya has worked with some of India’s leading media organisations, including CNN-News18, Sportskeeda, and Guiding Tech, where he led video initiatives that combined strong editorial storytelling with engaging visual and social-first execution.

A graduate in Journalism and Mass Communication from Manipal University, Shaurya has reviewed hundreds of products across categories including smartphones, laptops, gaming consoles, cameras, and wearables. Beyond work, he is passionate about animal welfare, environmental causes, and automobiles, particularly turbo-petrol cars

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iOS 26.2 Beta 2 Improves The Alarm UI

With the current iOS 26 version, there are two buttons visible when an alarm goes off: snooze and stop. These buttons are rather large, so if you are a heavy sleeper, you may accidentally tap the stop button instead of the snooze button, which could, of course, lead to delays if you want to wake up at a certain time. But with iOS 26.1 Beta 2, Apple has changed the design to a slide functionality. Now, you need to slide from left all the way to the right, completing the motion before your alarm stops. It will keep ringing until you do so.

Apple Made The Buttons Bigger With iOS 26

It’s also worth noting that with iOS 26, Apple made these buttons much bigger compared to iOS 18, making it easier to tap the stop button, which, in theory, could cause people to miss alarms. Apple may have realised this and is now improving the situation with iOS 26.1 Beta 2. It remains to be seen if this will make it to the final version, but for now, it’s available in the Beta, and you can try it if you’re part of the Beta programme.

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