I Hate the iPhone Alarm Slider. Here’s How I Got Rid of It

Alarms are annoying, even to people who set them. And if you can’t quickly turn off your alarm, you run the risk of waking up others near you. When Apple released iOS 26.1 in November, the company made it a little more difficult to turn off your iPhone’s alarm with a new slider.

The change seemed to be designed to prevent you from accidentally turning off your alarm too quickly with a single tap when reaching for your phone. But the slider can cause you to stumble out of bed trying to figure out why your alarm is not turning off despite pressing the Stop button like you have a thousand times in the past, all while your newborn is now awake and crying, and your wife is awake and asking why the baby is crying.

Hypothetically, that is.

Anyway, if you loathe the Alarm slider like me, you can remove it and bring the Stop button back to your device in a few easy steps.

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Bring your iPhone’s alarm button back

1. Tap Settings.
2. Tap Accessibility.
3. Tap Touch.
4. Enable the toggle for Prefer Single-Touch Actions near the bottom of the menu.

Once enabled, 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 any other iPhone functions at this time, but that could change in the future.

If you want to bring the alarm slider back after disabling it, follow the steps above and disable the Prefer Single-Touch Actions toggle.

For more on iOS, here’s what features were included in iOS 26.2 and iOS 26.1. You can also check out our iOS 26 cheat sheet.

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