How do I cancel an alarm on iPhone after swiping the snooze countdown in iOS 26.1?

So you now know you should have slid the stop button sideways?

One way if you accidentally snooze is to go to Clock, Alarm, and turn off the alarm green toggle. Then toggle it back on.

There may be a better way, and of course you need to notice that you snoozed it.

rshw wrote:

Yesterday, after hitting snooze on my Apple Watch, I swiped the snooze countdown displaying on my iPhone lock screen by to the left. This action used to cancel my alarm before I updated to 26.1. Believing the alarm was off, I took a shower. While I was showering the alarm went off and got louder and louder before I finally noticed and turned it off. This annoyed my neighbors (apartment complex). I am very frustrated and to be honest I do not need or want any follow-up or explanations. I just don't want a huge change to functionality with no warning like this. This morning I confirmed that swiping the snooze countdown to the left does nothing, the alarm is still scheduled to go off in +9 minutes.

You can let Apple know your thoughts on the matter here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Meanwhile, try "Siri, turn off the alarm" or something similar.

rshw wrote:

Thanks, unfortunately a moderator re-titled my post in a way that makes my situation unclear. I don't actually need any answers. In my case what I was actually trying to do was cancel a snooze that I initiated on purpose, which used to allow me to easily turn off the Sleep alarm at the same time. Now that I know the feature no longer works that way, the most efficient solution in my case is to turn off Sleep focus, which automatically gives me a prompt to turn off the alarm. It's just frustrating that they changed this with no warning, leading to a progressively louder alarm going off that annoyed my neighbors.

Pity. We could have been helping people who needed it.