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What annoys me most is hitting snooze by mistake, you then have to open the clock app to toggle it off and on. Otherwise you alarm goes off while you are in the shower, resulting in angry wife!
What annoys me most is hitting snooze by mistake, you then have to open the clock app to toggle it off and on. Otherwise you alarm goes off while you are in the shower, resulting in angry wife!
The default android clock app will give you a notification about an upcoming alarm, and give you the option to dismiss it in advance (once of course) without having to open it.
To disable the snooze you have to remember which alarm triggered and switch it off (then back on)
iOS gets this really wrong. More than once I've accidentally swiped it to 'off' in an effort to hit the snooze button, then slumbered on for an hour. And then there's the fact that to disable the alarm during a snooze period, you have to go into the clock app and manually switch it off, which is a pain. And don't get me started on the pointless complexity of the 'Which days would you like this alarm on' feature - the…
Android user here, but I like the "select active days" option. I'm able to set a standing alarm for 6:30 on weekdays without having to turn it on/off for the weekends. If I want a one off alarm I use voice commands and a little popup gives me a sanity check "7 hours, 8 minutes from now"
I would be happy with the app knowing which button I press. On my iPhone if I push the home button it could snooze, if I hit power or volume it would stop. trying to hit some arbitrary button on the screen is not my idea of fun, I don't want to even look at the screen. My phone has physical buttons I can determine by touch alone, use them
What annoys me most is hitting snooze by mistake, you then have to open the clock app to toggle it off and on. Otherwise you alarm goes off while you are in the shower, resulting in angry wife!
This is my problem with snooze functionality. Not very often would I actually like to snooze. I'd prefer to eliminate the option as a whole and simply set my alarm back for N minutes if I decide to sleep longer that morning. That also helps a little with the problem of snap decision making that happens so often when it comes to how many times to hit snooze. If you actually have to think about how much longer you can…
To disable the alarm you would actually need to press a button.
http://www.phonescoop.com/phones/user_reviews.php?phone=44
I bet there are lots of UX innovations like this in older devices waiting to be rediscovered... I wrote about that last summer http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/leap-motion-virtual-interfaces/
Using the default Android alarm clock, in my sleepy state, I would sometimes forget whether I wanted to "snooze" or "dismiss". I've been using Timely (mentioned in the article) for about 6 months now, and I love it. I use a feature that forces you to do a puzzle before the alarm will turn off. Unfortunately, my sleepy self recently discovered that I can dismiss the alarm (turn it off) without the puzzle though, by cl…
I don't agree that the current way of doing this is "wrong" and that the author's suggestion is "right." Those terms imply objective reasons as to why is one is better, where this is primarily preference, I believe.