You Can Finally Change the Snooze Duration in iOS 26

The iPhone’s Clock app is one of the slowest moving apps on iPhone. It gets less love and attention than even the Phone app. While there are many novel and interesting alarm apps out there, Apple’s default offering remains quite basic and un-customizable.

With iOS 26, Apple is bringing customization to one much requested feature. You can now finally get out of snooze jail. Until now, the snooze duration for alarms was set to nine minutes, and you couldn't adjust it. It was either nine minutes or nothing.

I, personally, like to snooze in five-minute increments. So, I got around this by setting six different alarms, all at five-minute intervals, to help me get up in the morning. But now, I can finally put this chaos aside.

Snooze as you wish

In iOS 26, which is currently out in developer beta (and will soon be out as a public beta preview), you can now set the snooze duration to last anywhere between one minute (if you want to really annoy yourself), and 15 minutes (if time is merely a philosophical construct for you). Finally, I can set my snooze to that five minute sweet spot.

Sadly, these changes are on a per-alarm basis, so you’ll have to customize your snooze every time you set a new alarm. Hopefully, though, I won’t have to set nearly as many alarms now as I did before.

To customize your snooze duration in iOS 26, open the Clock app, go to the Alarms tab, and tap the Plus icon to create a new alarm. Or, you can tap on an alarm you already have.

Then, tap the Snooze Duration option and choose any duration between one and 15 minutes. Tap the Done checkmark at the top to save the new alarm.

The next time the alarm goes off, you’ll see a new alarm screen, with two equally big, beautiful buttons for snooze and stop. In previous versions of the app, you’d only see a snooze button in the middle, and a small Stop button below.

And hey, if you’re a bit hardcore, like my colleague Pranay, you can also disable the Snooze button altogether.