{"id":177521,"date":"2025-06-12T05:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177521\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T05:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:01:10","slug":"ios-26-makes-third-party-alarm-and-timer-apps-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/177521\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 Makes Third-Party Alarm and Timer Apps Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS 26<\/a>, Apple is adding a <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/AlarmKit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new AlarmKit framework<\/a> for developers that offer apps with alarm clocks and timers. AlarmKit provides system-level access to alarm functionality, which was previously reserved only for Apple&#8217;s Clock app.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/apple-alarm-app.jpg\"   alt=\"apple alarm app\" width=\"1117\" height=\"629\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1005775\"\/><br \/>Developers will now be able to create apps that have the same feature set and permissions as Apple&#8217;s built-in alarm functionality, including alerts that always activate even if Silent mode or a Focus mode is enabled, full-screen snooze and stop display options, and access to the Lock Screen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/dynamic-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dynamic Island<\/a>, and Apple Watch.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ios-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS 18<\/a> and before, developers used time sensitive alerts for alarms, and critical alerts when given the entitlement from Apple, but there was no option for an alert that can&#8217;t be missed like the alerts that comes from the Clock app. There was also no Lock Screen overlay, and there were limits on the number of alarms that could be set.<\/p>\n<p>Alarms from third-party apps could fail to trigger if the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/iphone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPhone<\/a> restarted or if the app updated, which was problematic, and alerts could be silenced with Focuses.<\/p>\n<p>The new framework will support unlimited alarms and repeating options, so there won&#8217;t be the same limitations there were before, and alarm alerts won&#8217;t be simple notifications. In the coming months, we should see much more full-featured alarm apps and apps with timers that are able to better compete with Apple&#8217;s built-in options.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"apple ios 26 alarm app\" width=\"4283\" height=\"2409\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1005774 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/apple-ios-26-alarm-app.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Apple&#8217;s own alarm feature in the Clock app has a new look in \u200ciOS 26\u200c, with a larger time display and larger stop and snooze buttons. Apple also now allows users to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/11\/ios-26-big-change-iphone-alarm-options\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">customize snooze length<\/a>, choosing a length of time between 1 minute and 15 minutes. Previously, tapping snooze always snoozed an alarm for nine minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With iOS 26, Apple is adding a new AlarmKit framework for developers that offer apps with alarm clocks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[14714,547,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-177521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ios-19","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114668639899080780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}