After 18 Years, Apple Is Killing Its 9-Minute Snooze—That Can Solely Imply One Factor

For years, it’s all the time been 9 extra measly minutes. If you happen to don’t know what the hell I’m speaking about, you’ve most likely by no means owned an iPhone, otherwise you’re a type of freaks who wakes up with no gadget screaming in your face to take action. If you happen to are in a type of camps, let me clarify: for 18 years, Apple has maintained a vice grip on its alarm snooze function, which grants 9 extra minutes to your alarm. No extra, no much less. Simply 9 minutes. And there’s no adjusting that in settings.

No adjusting that till now, that’s. As famous by MacRumors, iOS 26, which was simply launched at Apple’s WWDC 2025, lastly enables you to manually set your snooze time, which suggests one factor: it’s time to sleep the f**okay in, a minimum of for as a lot as 15 complete minutes. In regular, non-sleep-related time, six minutes extra isn’t quite a bit, however in the case of waking up, in the event you’re something like me, six minutes is mainly a lifetime. Think about all of the horrible stress desires about your tooth falling out you might have had in that point. Or heck, you would possibly even luck out and get the one the place you’re driving a automotive and the brakes exit. The chances are actually limitless, or a minimum of limitless inside a 15-minute span.

Not solely that, however you’ll be able to even—in the event you’re a complete masochist—set your snooze time to be shorter. As famous by MacRumors, the developer beta permits you to select anyplace between one and quarter-hour. The world is now your sleepy little oyster, and you’ll be able to shuck it into the long run as much as quarter-hour at a time. On one hand, it’s sort of wild that it’s taken this lengthy to present folks the choice to increase or retract their snooze occasions, but additionally very Apple-like. For a few years, Apple was identified for its definitive design that locked folks in, although that’s modified because the years have passed by. In in the present day’s iOS, you’ll be able to change app icons, customise wallpapers, and—quickly in iOS 26—select backgrounds on your threads in Messages, and far more. These are all issues that iOS customers of yore solely dreamed about, and now they’re a actuality. It’s a shift for Apple, however on this case, most likely one which most individuals will welcome.

As for the 9-minute default, properly, it’ll nonetheless have its place because the iOS default and likewise its personal place in historical past. The 9-minute snooze, in the event you’ll permit me a fast reverie, is a vestige of alarm clock historical past, originating from GE’s Model 7H241 from 1956, which was the primary alarm clock with a sleep function. Why 9 minutes precisely? Effectively, again within the day, clocks had gears, and that meant you needed to work across the bodily constraints of stated gears. GE wasn’t in a position to set 10 minutes precisely on account of these constraints—it had to decide on 9 minutes and alter or 10 minutes and alter, and finally it went with 9. Clearly that call lasted quite a bit longer than 9 minutes in the long term.

If you happen to’re prepared to interrupt out of the 9-minute jail Apple has saved you in, you’ll have to attend just a little bit, although. At present, iOS 16 is just obtainable by way of a developer beta, and the primary public beta launches subsequent month. The non-beta software program ought to launch within the fall in full, together with Apple’s newest-generation iPhones, and as soon as that occurs, we will all relaxation simple—a minimum of for 15 extra minutes.