After the arrival of iOS 26, one of the things that have changed, although they did not announce it, is the app of Clockwhere the alarm option has a double noveltyso today we will see both, although you will have to have the beta of this version if you want to try them.
Anyway, quiet, that in a few months it will be public for everyone, and you can do it without having to play it in an unstable version, since, as we always say, installing it on a personal and daily iPhone is not recommended, however, we will see how it would work.
Changes in the iOS 26 alarm app
If you already have iOS 26, it will not be necessary to tell you the first change, then you will have seen it clearly, and it is that The buttons to postpone or stop the alarm are much larger, which makes it easier for us not to be wrong when it comes to them when we are half asleep.
But, in addition, as we said, there is another interesting change, and now It will not be postponed 9 minutes Every time we want to delay the alarm, but We can customize itfrom 1 minute onwards, being able to choose 10, for example, if we are more comfortable.
So nothing, if you still don't have iOS 26, you will not be able to do it, but once you install it, this option will come natively in the clock app, and you will not have to do anything more than select this value when adding a new alarm.
Why were 9 minutes?
You may have ever wondered why, by “postponing” on your iPhone, the alarm sounds exactly 9 minutes later. They are not 8. Nor 10. Why 9?
The answer is in the past. Back there 50 yearswhen the First watches with “snooze” functionGeneral Electric engineers ran into a mechanical limitation, and they could not make the repetition last 10 minutes without completely redesign the clock. So they opted for the closest that allowed them the technology of the time, 9 minutes.
And the curious thing is that this decision stayed. With the passage of time, even digital watches and smartphones (such as the iPhone) retained that tradition. The reason? Probably by habit, a bit of nostalgia and because 9 minutes is a good balance, it gives you a break, but not enough time for you to sleep deeply, so it is better than 11 or 8, or that thought of that.
So, the next time you postpone the alarm, you know that those 9 minutes have a story behind, although now you can choose whether to keep that time, or choose the 10 minutes that, formerly, they could not.
And you, are you one of those who were looking for this option? In his day we made an article explaining it, but Apple seems that, by tradition, I did not want to give us this option, something very simple to implement on a current phone, but finally we have it, so we will no longer have to worry about it, and choose what we want.
