Have you ever updated your iPhone to iOS 26? If this is the case, you will have seen the big changes it has brought, from the new Liquid Glass design to new features. Among them, there was an overhaul of the screen that appears when you have defined an alarm. But the new look posed a potential problem, which is about to be resolved.
Apple iOS 26.1 arrives.
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The new design has brought an ease of use in the form of larger buttons. Thus, when an alarm is triggered, the button on the screen to repeat the melodious interruption of your sleep has been easily enlarged.
The problem was that the button allowing to stop the alarm completely was too. And both were side by side. You could say that it was a recipe for potential disaster.
After all, accidents can occur if you are almost completely asleep, and unless you wake up regularly before your alarm sounds, you will certainly be when it sounds.
The good news is that the next big software version for iPhone, iOS 26.1, which has now reached its second beta version for developers, solves this front problem.
The large bright orange snooze button remains the same, in the shape of a diamond and located just above the stop button.
However, the stop button has been transformed into something much less easy to activate by accident. Instead of something you can press on, it has become a diamond panel with a button on the left that you need to move to the right across the words “slide to stop”.
In other words, even if you press on it by accident, you have done any harm and nothing will happen. The alarm will continue until you focus on the desired result, press to repeat or slide to stop.
It should be noted that this is a beta version, it is therefore quite possible that Apple does not book it when I was released from iOS 26.1, probably at the end of this month or at the beginning of November.
That said, it seems to have a lot of sense, so let’s hope that the keeping it in place.
