iPhone Alarm app divides users as some beg Apple to change it
Not the wake-up call we were asking for
What gets you up most mornings and you can't stand? Unless you live on a farm with a rooster, a huge number of you are likely woken up by your iPhone. Apple is something of a demonic presence in the tech world because whoever is in charge of inventing the iPhone alarm sounds is something of a sadist. While it's possible to set your favorite song as your morning alarm, most of us default to the PTSD-inducing Radar.
There's nothing more embarrassing than when you set an afternoon reminder and Radar goes off in the middle of the office - triggering a series of angry looks and tutting from other iPhone owners.
Still, there's no denying that the iPhone Alarm app does its job in waking us up. The question is, does it keep you awake?
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Chances are you're one of those who jumps straight out of bed at the first chime of your alarm, or you’re someone who loves to mash that snooze button to get an extra nine minutes while cozy in bed.
Some claim Apple has changed how your Alarm app works, customers are demanding a return to the old way of doing things.
There are questions about why the snooze button is above the stop button, with a big orange snooze being a little too tempting to press. Although this has spilled over to Reddit with the arrival of iOS 18, it's been a problem for a while.
Although there were comments about how it's worse to press 'stop' and go back to sleep than 'snooze' and wake up in nine minutes, it's still a frustrating feature for many.
One tired technophobe wrote: "I think we are reading too much into this and defend it. It is a stupid design. There is no reading in between the lines. Idk why we feel to defend iOS so much. Some things it gets right. Some don't."
Another reminded us that Apple's UI decisions are based on data that's backed up, adding: "It kinda sucks there isn’t a middle ground here, and I’m sort of surprised they haven’t added an option to customise this like you can with watch faces or your lock screen."
Someone else concluded: "It mimics an alarm clock in the real world. Alarm clocks have large, easy to hit snooze buttons because people like to be able to hit the snooze button easily so they can roll over back to bed. The stop button is smaller because you need to pay attention to hit it which means you actually have to get up to do it."
It's true that there's method behind the madness of the Alarm app's UI, and in the comments, some are pointing out that those complaining are showing their age and have likely never seen a real-life alarm clock that isn't baked into a smartphone.
For those who don't snooze and simply get up when their first alarm goes off, it's not a problem.