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I finally figured out why my alarm kept turning off

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Nice.

I have a recurring problem with alarms and timers with my iPhone. When an alarm goes off there’s a big button in the middle that snoozes it, so it will go off again. At the bottom, in small print, is Stop.

While when a timer goes off there’s a big button in the middle that stops the alarm. At the bottom, in small print, is “repeat” which will make it go off again.

Naturally I can never figure out which one to press when I’m groggy and don’t have my glasses on.

This annoys me to no end as well. I always need to look at the device to see which is which.

Can’t figure out why someone thought this was the best design.

This annoys you for no purpose?

Nice ambiguity in the expression that I’d never noticed that before!

That's not the right phrase, it should be "annoys me no end".

Well, TIL. [0] “It annoys me no end” sounds wrong, but disirregardless, thanks internet strangers, I’ll refrain from using this turn of phrase going forward.

(No /s)

0: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/69501/meaning-an...

I've always heard it as, "annoys me no end". No "to" in there.

It makes more sense the way the GP wrote it: "to no end" == "without end", though it is ambiguous.

It may make more sense, but that's not the phrase that people use.

I've never heard anyone say, "to no end". It's always just "no end".

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/69501/meaning-an...

I haven't seen "to no end" being used to mean "for no purpose".

But I see GP's usage of "to no end" a lot.

Yet is it too late to change (perhaps some people have this in their muscle memory?). And what change would be best?

I think either change is fine. I’ve owned an iPhone for 8 years and can type without looking at the keyboard, but I still can’t remember whether the timer or the alarm has snooze in the middle. Just pick one and be done with it.

I use an Android phone, my wife uses an iPhone. On my phone, if the screen is black, you press the "power" button to make the screen not-black. On her phone, if you pick it up, the screen becomes not-black, and if you then hit the power button (even if the alarm is going off) it locks the screen.

So cue me trying to turn her alarm off while she is in the shower, I pick it up, hit the power button and now have to unlock her phone in order to turn the alarm off. I mostly get it right now, but she's very confused as to why I'm trying to unlock her phone when I should only have to hit "stop"

You can click either of the volume buttons to snooze btw. That’s the way I do it - volume buttons for snooze, and only physically look at screen if I want to click stop.

The Snooze button on iOS alamrs can be turned off by editing the alarm. I never use Snooze, so I turn it off for all my alarms. All that's left now is a nice Stop button.

Any of the physical buttons will snooze it.

This is the kind of UI inconsistency that ChatGPT (or other machine) should be able to bring up for remedial action.

My alarm kept getting disabled. I realised it was my baby daughter's flailing arms when I held her, opening the alarms on my smartwatch and clicking randomly.

Also, unless you really enjoy waking up, never make a great song your alarm sound. It ruins the song in about a week. It forever becomes associated with that dreadful feeling of having to get up, and becomes unbearable to listen to.

I once slid my iPhone unlocked into some lightly damp swim trunks. It proceeded to open Instagram, post fire emoji on someone’s story, and then upload a very inappropriate photo to someone in an Instagram DM. and then start a few more DM convos.

I would never believe this story if someone told me it. It took me a while to accept it, myself. Instagram was also in a really weird state when I opened it probably because some multitouch gestures were held the entire time.

I don’t think I even bothered to tell anyone that I butt-messaged my excuse.

Anyways needed to get that off my chest.

I figure an alarm should probably require more than one syllable to turn off, for this reason and because it could probably become muscle memory to say it while still sleeping.

Not wanting to impose my will upon others so ignoring the latter half of that reasoning, it at least feels like that should be a configuration option? Something more unique, like 'Google Alarm, Stop' or what have you seems more appropriate.

You’d also think they would have filters in place for stuff like this, they did for the Burger King ads (or maybe that was Siri).

Alexa had filters for their Super Bowl ads.

nicer way to view reddit post, not even javascript required:

https://teddit.net/r/GooglePixel/comments/134so18/i_finally_...

Alright STOP-- [Pixel turns off alarm] COLLABORATE-- [Pixel turns on sharing mode] and LISTEN-- [Pixel turns on listening mode]

Ice is back with a brand new invention ...

> "Song ID: This appears to be 'Under Pressure', by Queen."

I didn't know "stop" was an accepted keyword for turning off the alarm.

I've been using "Hey Google, Shut Up!" for a few years now. It works pretty well.

I didn't know either. Gonna try it out!

A common issue in my house is that someone says "Hey Google, Stop!" which of course turns off the music/video that is playing on the TV rather than the blaring alarm. Because having the keyword do something different for the one command that doesn't need it is a really smart move.

This may be configuration / device related but I don't have to say "Hey Google" for "Hey Google, Stop" at least on my Pixel device, which is the only device I would find the need to do this for, to stop an alarm. You can just say "Stop" or "Snooze". The complexity / nuance may be different for differing device realities and situations.

That's what I am saying

"Stop" stops the alarm.

"Hey Google, Stop" stops any media that is playing.

If there is no media playing I think "Hey Google, Stop" also stops the alarm.

Similar to how some movies and TV shows can activate Alexa. I believe at this point writers are doing it on purpose.

lol

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