Alarm clock on the iPhone gets completely different: this is what it looks like

Does your iPhone also function as an alarm clock? That will happen very differently soon, because the alarm clock on the iPhone will get a new design!

Alarm clock on the iPhone

For many users, the iPhone is much more than a smartphone. The phone now applies as a replacement for multiple devices, including the classic alarm clock. This slowly but surely disappears from the bedroom, instead the iPhone is used as an alarm clock. That has become even easier since iOS 17, because the standby mode actually turns the device into an alarm clock for your bedside table.

This year iOS 26 is coming to the iPhone, with which Apple adjusts the interface of the operating system and many applications. One of these is the alarm clock app on the iPhone, which gets a new design in iOS 26. Do you regularly put an alarm clock on your smartphone? Then from iOS 26 you will see another screen when the alarm goes off. Curious what that looks like? View the new design of the alarm clock here:

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Alarm clock has more new functions

The buttons of the alarm clock on the iPhone are much larger from iOS 26. So pay attention if you use the alarm clock, because the button to switch off the alarm clock will soon appear much more prominently in the picture. The chance that you tap the wrong button when waking up is therefore a lot greater. Therefore, make sure that you do not unintentionally put the alarm clock in iOS 26, so that you do not wake up too late or sleep out.

Fortunately, the colors of the buttons remain the same at the alarm clock on the iPhone. To sleep, tap in iOS 26 on the orange button, the alarm clock switches off with the white button. This is also the case in iOS 18, so Apple has mainly adjusted the size of the buttons. In addition, Apple has implemented a welcome change, because from iOS 26 you can finally determine the slumber duration of the alarm clock.

This is when

With iOS 26, Apple is making a number of changes in the alarm clock itself. This way the switches become wider and we see the new interface with Liquid Glass in the menu bar at the bottom of the application. The biggest adjustments are the screen of the alarm clock on the iPhone and the setting of the slumber duration. These improvements also come to the alarm clock app on the iPad, Apple Watch and Mac (book).

We don’t have to wait long for all the new functions for the alarm clock on the iPhone. Apple will release iOS 26 soon, because the update will be published at the beginning of September. Read here on which date your Apple devices can probably update. Unfortunately, not all iPhones have support for iOS 26. View here which devices can update to the biggest update of the year. Do you not want to miss any announcement from Apple? Then register for our newsletter!