For years, it has always been Nine more average minutes. If you don’t know what the hell I’m talking about, you’ve probably never owned an iPhone, or you’re one of those Freaks who wake up without a device shouting in your face to do that. If you is In one of these camps, let me explain: for 18 years, Apple has supported a vice of its alarm function, which gives nine more minutes to your alarm. No more, no less. Only nine minutes. And it’s not to adjust that in settings.
No one adjusting that So farThat is. As noted MacRumors,, iOS 26, who was recently introduced at Apple’s WWDC 2025Finally lets you manually set your unpleasant time, which means one thing: it’s time to sleep the f ** k in, at least for so much 15 whole minutes. In a normal, non-sleepy time, six minutes more, but when it comes to awakening, if you look like me, six minutes is essentially a lifetime. Imagine that all the terrible tense dreams of your teeth fall, which you could have at that time. Or heck, you may even be lucky and get the one where you drive a car and the brakes go out. The possibilities are really endless, or at least endless within a 15-minute gap.
Not only that, but you can even – if you are a total masochist – create your snoose time to be shorter. As MacRumors noted, the developer Beta allows you to choose anywhere between one and 15 minutes. The world is now your sleepy little oyster, and you can insert it into the future up to 15 minutes at a time. On the one hand, it is wild that it takes so long to give people the opportunity to extend or withdraw their snooze times, but also very apple-like. For many years, Apple was known for its definitive design in which locked people, although that has changed over the years. In today’s iOS, you can change app -icons, set backgrounds and – – soon in iOS 26 – Select backgrounds for your threads in messages, and much more. These are all things that iOS users have just dreamed of, and now they are a reality. It’s a change for Apple, but in this case probably one, which most people will welcome.
As for the 9-minute default, well, it will still have its place as the iOS default and also its own place in history. The 9-minute snooze, if you allow me a quick reverie, is a dress of an awkward clock history, originating from GE model 7h241 of GE of 1956which was the first clock with snooze feature. Why nine minutes exactly? Well, back in the day, watches had gears, and that meant you had to work around the physical limitations of these gears. GE couldn’t set 10 minutes just because of these restrictions – it had to choose nine minutes and change or 10 minutes and change, and eventually it went with nine. Clearly, this decision lasted more than nine minutes in the long run.
If you are ready to get out of the 9-minute prison that Apple held, however you will have to wait a bit. Currently iOS 26 is only available with developer Beta, and the first public Beta launches next month. The non-beta software must be launched in the fall, along with Apple’s latest generation iPhones, and after that happens, we can all calm down for 15 more minutes.
