{"id":26032,"date":"2025-10-05T12:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26032"},"modified":"2025-10-05T12:07:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T12:07:06","slug":"want-a-few-more-minutes-of-sleep-try-this-ios-26-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=26032","title":{"rendered":"Want a Few More Minutes of Sleep? Try This iOS 26 Trick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Apple released <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iOS 26<\/span><\/span> on <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>Sept. 15<\/span><\/span>, and that update brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening\u00a0and <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>more<\/span><\/span> to your <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iPhone<\/span><\/span>. It also updates the alarm feature in the clock app so you can change your snooze length, giving you a few more z&#8217;s before you get up and tackle the day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">Before this change, if you hit your iPhone alarm&#8217;s snooze feature, you would always get an extra 9 minutes of shut-eye. With iOS 26, you can customize your snooze length and get as little as 1 minute or up to 15 minutes of additional sleep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whether you need to catch yourself before you doze off again or you require a few extra minutes of sleep, here&#8217;s how to change your alarm&#8217;s snooze length to better fit your needs.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews.\u00a0<\/em><em>Add CNET<\/em><em>\u00a0as a preferred Google source.<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>How to change your alarm&#8217;s snooze length<\/h2>\n<p>      <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-inner-spacing-right-small g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall g-color-text-meta g-text-xxxsmall\">Apple\/Screenshot by CNET<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Tap your <strong>Clock<\/strong> app.<br \/><strong>2.<\/strong> Tap <strong>Alarms<\/strong> near the bottom of your screen.<br \/><strong>3.<\/strong> Tap the plus <strong>(+)<\/strong> sign in the top right corner of your screen.\u00a0<br \/><strong>4.<\/strong> Tap <strong>Snooze Duration<\/strong> and pick anywhere between 1 and 15 minutes.<br \/><strong>5.<\/strong> Finish setting your alarm and tap the check mark in the top right corner of your screen.<\/p>\n<p>You can also change the snooze length of an existing alarm by long-pressing it, tapping\u00a0<strong>Snooze Duration<\/strong>\u00a0and choosing a new time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can choose 1 minute and have your alarm go off almost immediately after you hit the snooze button, or you can choose 15 minutes and try to finish that dream. Either way, don&#8217;t hit the snooze button too often, or your partner might angrily wake you up and kick you out of bed.<\/p>\n<h2>Should you give yourself a shorter or longer snooze time?<\/h2>\n<p>That&#8217;s hard to say. Some sources say that taking more than the traditional 9-minute snooze could make waking up more difficult, while others say up to 30 minutes of extra snooze time is fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once you get past the 10-minute mark, your body can start to fall back into a deep sleep, which will make waking up again difficult and more unpleasant,&#8221; Holly Schiff, a licensed clinical psychologist, told Reader&#8217;s Digest in 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, a 2023 study published in the Journal of Sleep Research found that an extra 30 minutes of sleep improved or had no effect on habitual snoozers&#8217; cognitive performance immediately upon waking compared to being abruptly woken.<\/p>\n<p>So there isn&#8217;t clear data on whether a shorter or longer snooze is better for you. If you feel worse with more snooze time, maybe try less, and vice versa. That is, if your pet doesn&#8217;t wake you up to go outside or for food when your alarm goes off the first time.<\/p>\n<p>For more on iOS 26, here&#8217;s\u00a0<span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>my review of the OS<\/span><\/span>, how to reduce the\u00a0Liquid Glass\u00a0effects in the update and how\u00a0<span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>text screening<\/span><\/span>\u00a0works in the update. You can also check out our\u00a0<span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iOS 26 cheat sheet<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch this:<\/strong> What Makes Apple&#8217;s New 40-Watt Charger Plug Special\n      <\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"g-text-xxxsmall\">07:21<\/span>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, and that update brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening\u00a0and more to your iPhone. It also updates the alarm feature in the clock app so you can change your snooze length, giving you a few more z&#8217;s before you get up and tackle the day.\u00a0 Before this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[1964,3279,4025,9046],"class_list":{"0":"post-26032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ios","9":"tag-minutes","10":"tag-sleep","11":"tag-trick"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}