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If you use your iPhone as an alarm clock, you probably already know that snoozing it when you’re waking up will give you an extra nine minutes before it next plays an alarm. That’s set to change in Apple's upcoming iOS 26 update.
Apple didn’t announce the change on stage at WWDC 2025, but it did later confirm in its marketing materials that iOS 26 will allow you to change the duration of your snooze.
Rather than the default nine minutes, you can now change it yourself to anywhere between one minute and 15 minutes. It’s unclear whether you’ll be able to set a different time for each alarm or whether it will be a system-wide change for all future alarms. The former is obviously more appealing, so you can set quick alarms for certain tasks and snooze as long as possible for those morning wakeups.
This feature has been available on Android for some time.
Apple has never confirmed why it set the limit at nine minutes, but some believe it may be a legacy holdover from analogue clocks. YouTube channel Apple Explained says it's because of an existing limitation where an analogue clock's gear teeth line up to exactly nine minutes and three seconds or 10 minutes and 43 seconds. Apple and some other clock makers then defaulted to a nine-minute timer for a snooze feature.
Apple's iOS 26 is expected to land in September, but a public beta is expected in July. Other new features include a makeover to the UI called Liquid Glass, improvements to Apple's Live Translation features, call screening, and a new Games app.