It’s time to sleep the f**k in.<\/b>
\nFor years, it\u2019s always been nine more measly minutes. If you don\u2019t know what the hell I\u2019m talking about, you\u2019ve probably never owned an iPhone, or you\u2019re one of those freaks who wakes up without a device screaming in your face to do so. If you are in one of those camps, let me explain: for 18 years, Apple has maintained a vice grip on its alarm snooze feature, which grants nine more minutes to your alarm. No more, no less. Just nine minutes. And there\u2019s no adjusting that in settings.
No adjusting that until now, that is. As noted by MacRumors, iOS 26, which was just introduced at Apple\u2019s WWDC 2025, finally lets you manually set your snooze time, which means one thing: it\u2019s time to sleep the f**k in, at least for as much as 15 whole minutes. In normal, non-sleep-related time, six minutes more isn\u2019t a lot, but when it comes to waking up, if you\u2019re anything like me, six minutes is basically a lifetime. Imagine all the horrible stress dreams about your teeth falling out you could have had in that time. Or heck, you might even luck out and get the one where you\u2019re driving a car and the brakes go out. The possibilities are really endless, or at least endless within a 15-minute span.
Not only that, but you can even\u2014if you\u2019re a total masochist\u2014set your snooze time to be shorter. As noted by MacRumors, the developer beta allows you to choose anywhere between one and 15 minutes. The world is now your sleepy little oyster, and you are able to shuck it into the future up to 15 minutes at a time. On one hand, it\u2019s kind of wild that it\u2019s taken this long to give people the option to extend or retract their snooze times, but also very Apple-like. For many years, Apple was known for its definitive design that locked people in, though that\u2019s changed as the years have gone by. In today\u2019s iOS, you can change app icons, customize wallpapers, and\u2014soon in iOS 26\u2014choose backgrounds for your threads in Messages, and much more. Those are all things that iOS users of yore only dreamed about, and now they\u2019re a reality. It\u2019s a shift for Apple, but in this case, probably one that most people will welcome.
As for the 9-minute default, well, it\u2019ll still have its place as the iOS default and also its own place in history. The 9-minute snooze, if you\u2019ll allow me a quick reverie, is a vestige of alarm clock history, originating from GE\u2019s Model 7H241 from 1956, which was the first alarm clock with a snooze feature. Why nine minutes exactly? Well, back in the day, clocks had gears, and that meant you had to work around the physical constraints of said gears. GE wasn\u2019t able to set 10 minutes exactly due to those constraints\u2014it had to choose nine minutes and change or 10 minutes and change, and ultimately it went with nine. Clearly that decision lasted a lot longer than nine minutes in the long run.
If you\u2019re ready to break out of the 9-minute prison Apple has kept you in, you\u2019ll have to wait a little bit, though. Currently, iOS 16 is only available via a developer beta, and the first public beta launches next month. The non-beta software should launch in the fall in full, along with Apple\u2019s newest-generation iPhones, and once that happens, we can all rest easy\u2014at least for 15 more minutes.<\/p>\n