iOS 26: Watch out for waking breakdowns with the new iPhone alarm

iOS 26 brings Its share of new features… But not all are unanimous. This is particularly the case with the new design of the iPhone alarm system, adopting larger and close buttons to stop or repeat it (Snooze) A few minutes later. Problem: this change in design may well cause many waking ups. Here is why!

A design change for iOS 26 alarms

Editor of chief Kernel ExtensionJack Fields, former engineer at Apple, recently criticized via Twitter/X The new design of the iPhone alarm under iOS 26.

He explains that the new display contradicts internal research carried out internally when it was within the apple firm. The tests aimed more precisely to save the place where users touched the screen when an alarm sounded via the application Clock – and in particular “To see to what extent we manage to extinguish the alarms”

Result: users involuntarily exhausted the alarm 30 % more often when the buttons Alarm And Stop were of the same size – the diagram chosen by Apple with iOS 26. There is therefore a higher chances that the alarm clocks be there with this new update of the iPhone.

“By making the stop button a target so small, we make sure that we are woken up enough to stop it”explains Jack Fields. It remains to be seen whether Apple will go back in The next beta Or if this new design will be kept in the final version of iOS 26.

If this is the case, we recommend that beta testers update to be careful where they put their fingers on the iPhone screen when they wake up.