I Hate the iPhone Alarm Slider. Here’s How I Got Rid of It
Alarms are annoying, even to those who set them off. And if you can’t turn off your alarm quickly, you run the risk of waking up other people nearby. When Apple released iOS 26.1 in November, the company made it a little more difficult to turn off your iPhone alarm with a new cursor.
The change appears to have been designed to prevent you from accidentally turning off your alarm too quickly with a single tap when grabbing your phone. But the slider can cause you to stumble out of bed trying to figure out why your alarm won’t go off even if you press the Stop button like you’ve done thousands of times in the past, when your newborn is now awake and crying, and your wife is awake and asking why the baby is crying.
Hypothetically, that’s true.
Anyway, if you hate the Alarm slider like me, you can remove it and bring back the Stop button to your device in a few simple steps.
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Recover your iPhone’s panic button
1. Faucet Settings.
2. Faucet Accessibility.
3. Faucet Touch.
4. Activate the toggle to Prefer single-touch actions near the bottom of the menu.
Once activated, you can tap the button on your screen, rather than using the slider, to stop the alarm. Enabling this toggle doesn’t appear to affect other iPhone functions at the moment, but that could change in the future.
If you want to restore the alarm slider after disabling it, follow the steps above and disable the Prefer single-touch actions to fall over.
To learn more about iOS, here are the features included iOS 26.2 And iOS 26.1. You can also view our iOS 26 Cheat Sheet.
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