Note: Because of this new iPhone feature you will sleep soon!

Apple has stopped a new iPhone feature in iOS 26 that considerably increases the risk that you will soon increase. You need to know this.

New iPhone feature

The new iPhone feature that influences whether or not to sleep is the alarm clock. Apple has redesigned it in iOS 26 beta. The new alarm clock looks tighter, with a greater time display and considerably larger buttons. When the alarm goes off, from now on you will see two large, equally large buttons for stopping and slumbering side by side at the bottom of the screen.

An old problem again

The design of the new iPhone feature fits in with the wider visual innovation of Apple in iOS 26. But it also causes a problem that the company had actually already solved: reducing the chance that you tap ‘stop’ instead of ‘sleeping’ when you are half awake and search for your iPhone. Internal tests once showed that the use of buttons of the same size that made mistake more likely.

According to Jack Fieldsformer Apple engineer, goes into the new layout against the internal investigation in which he was involved with the company during his time. These tests include a version of the clock app that registered user interactions in a heatmap. It was kept exactly where people ticked the screen when waking up.

The conclusion was that when ‘Stop’ and ‘Sluim’ were the same and close together, the chance was 30 percent greater that users accidentally stopped stopping. It therefore increases the risk of sleeping. That is why recent versions of iOS have a prominent, centered slumber button and a much smaller stop button lower on the screen. The new design is therefore at least remarkable.

Not yet the final version

The new iPhone feature is of course only seen in the beta of iOS 26. Apple can therefore adjust the layout before the final version is released. Another relevant change that you may have missed is that iOS 26 offers the possibility to adjust the slumber. You can opt for a duration between 1 minute and 15 minutes. Previously, the alarm was always postponed for nine minutes if you tapped on slumber. That is a change that we are happy with.