Why The iPhone's Snooze Is 9 Minutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ย. 2024
- If you’ve ever set an alarm on Apple's iPhone and used the Snooze button for a little extra sleep, you may’ve noticed that it counts down from nine minutes exactly. Apple made the decision deliberately, and I’ll explain why in this video.
9 minutes is the perfect amount of time to close your eyes and not get any more sleep.
too bad i fall asleep in 15 seconds
that makes me much angrier, 9 minutes is perfect to get back to sleep
@@robTS I guess so
For sure.
Unn well I sleep in seconds because I'm a TURE PRO GAMER
I hate the way the snooze button is bigger than the stop button. I'm always hitting it by accident and then hearing my phone blaring away from my bedroom 9 minutes later when I'm in the shower.
Omg ikr? I never use the Snooze because it won’t be giving me any more sleep and just waste my time..
Worst thing is, it’s turned on by default when you program a new alarm.
Well it’s better than hitting stop by accident and falling back to sleep lol
@@Lala47362: I was about to say that! Having the snooze button being more prominent than the stop button means that you’d need to be alert enough to make sure you find and choose the stop button… which works until you become accustomed to it!
@@Lala47362 definitely! Thus, I even only use the volume rockers to snoozes as I can blindly reach for them and can’t accidentally press stop!
You can stop the alarm from notifications if you hit snooze by accident, just swipe it just like any other notification
I appreciate how you didn’t make this video 9 minutes.
sup bro
I’m going to invest in this comment
Is this actually Elon musk orrrr
Stop simping for billionaires who don’t give a shit about you
I thought apple is about to be your competitors they are trying to make a car
it’s weird that you can’t edit it though. even with all the innovation, can’t set it to 5 minutes like how i want it
Yeah, Sorry about that.
Of course, you know which operating-system lets you set the snooze-amount don't you. . .
Kind of reminds me of the first iPhone where you couldn't even change the default ringtone
You can always set a timer for 5 minutes :)
@@danielxmiller How is that a reasonable solution?
I just set alarms as many minutes apart as I want to snooze and turn the snooze off
He is a type of guy who ask the question to you and tells the answer himself.
That was epic
Your the type of guy to steal comments from other random people to look cool for internet points.
@@janenzmit2875 your the type of guy to have an among us profile pic
@@SuoKiba your the type of guy to say your the type of guy to someone who said your the type of guy
He is the*
Android phones: Select your favorite snooze duration.
iPhone: 9 minutes is tradition, take it or leave it.
that's the whole point of apple products - apple's philosophy is "we know what's best for you" while android is insanely customizable
@@zicklane bro it’s just a snooze timer
@@lets_wrapitup bro I wasn't.. mad..?
@@zicklane And it's a retarded philosophy. They know what's best for their profit scheme, not what's best for you or your wallet.
@@zicklane sound like a stupid philosophy, it basically assumes that everybody is the same. When in reality it's not.
Alternative reason : The alarm rings for 1 minute, so adding 9 minutes auto-snooze would make it 10 minutes.
Ik
It sounds so reasonable =))))))
Who lets their alarm clock ring out for a whole minute?
@@sjenkin88 everyone who cant wake up without alarm and always snoozing their alarm
Wait. It stops after 9 minutes? I thought I forget to set my alarm I guess I just sleep through the whole thing
FCC required radio stations to announce their call sign every ten minutes. When Fairchild engineers developed the first clock-oriented chips, that's what they picked. Digitally "programming" a snooze of 9 minutes is exactly the same difficulty as one of ten minutes, or any other minutes, for that matter. Quite a few amateur radio stations in the 70s (mine included) had a clock with a nine-minute snooze to remind operators to announce their call sign.
Did this apply to FM when FM came around?
What was the purpose of having to say your call sign every 10 minutes?
@@johnmoore1495It's called an "ident." I believe the main reason for them was because back in the day radios didn't tell you exactly what frequency they were on so the idents made you sure you were listening to the right station. The fcc still makes radio and television stations do idents today, but only between programming breaks.
Every alarm clock I’ve had used a 9 minute snooze, but didn’t realize that’s why that was standard
@User 2389 lmao
Oh
Well, 9 minutes is just as natural as 8 or 10 minutes. You have to pick something, might aswell pick 9.
Its funny that i didnt remember how the screen when the alarm rings looked like because i was never “really” awaken
haha forreal
Haha
Dude your pfp looks like mine on my iPhone and was making me trip up for a second
@@froggy4542 😂😂
same lmfao
Nice one. Always thought the reason was that it's easiest to calculate how many "10 minutes more" you can afford before being late. So 9 minutes comfortably compensates for the time it takes to find your phone and hit snooze.
This man is answering questions I never knew I had, but that I've always had.
Greg literally seems to have all the answers... I wouldn't be surprised if the next video is "Why you could never afford the iPhone?" :D :D :D
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Quick answer your paycheck won’t allow it
@@shardz_skies5000 Or better answer could be "because you depend on a paycheck" :p
@@Flashisgreatfr 👌 bot
😂😂😂 I know right!
"Apple doesn't offer this feature natively"
Add it to the list lmao
I like the 9-minute snooze, I just didn't know why it was 9-min but I now know. Thanks to you Greg.
this is what youtube videos should be, right to the point to answering the question in the title. he didn’t take 15 minutes to explain what he just did in 3, great video.
Lol, I swear Greg can read my mind! This morning when my alarm went off I was like: ‘why the heck does the darn thing only snooze for 9 minutes?!?’
He didn't read your mind. That was the TH-cam algorithm reading your mind.
THE ALGORITHM IS READING ALL OUR MINDS.
@@thebasketballhistorian3291 Yeah lol, this whole TH-cam algorithm thing is getting a little creepy now
@@sebastianyoung6802 It isn't reading your mind, your mind is just so boring and it is consistent with the minds of many others. When a hundred monkeys fall for a trap, it knows it can trap 5 more. I am not calling you a monkey, youtube's algorithm is.
I usually set my alarm to 5 minutes before the time I want to be up. It feels so much better to already be in the bathroom when let’s say 6:30 strikes and having the full planned time to get ready than to set the alarm for 6:30 and be in the bathroom at 6:35. it’s weird but makes me feel less stressed in the morning. Same goes for the 9minute snooze. When I snooze for 9 minutes I am already out of bed when the 10th minute hits. Well done Apple.
nah if i wake up earlier I just scroll longer through insta lol
This dude is so consistent bruh
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@@Flashisgreatfr I know
I don't think it's more difficult to program "10" instead of "9" minutes, especially given they support a custom time anyway. But that bit about clock history is really interesting.
They meant in those old clocks
It was in the old clocks. Of course now it’s trivial
lol I love the way in all these videos there are always people not fully listening to the video and leaving a comment acting like they are smart.
That’s really cool! I always wondered why it was 9 minutes... either way, I’ll still be skipping the alarm at night 😀
Zoom class at 9. Alarm at 8:50. Snooze.
Alarm at 8:59: just in time
Alarm at 9:01: late to class
I have that same 8:50 alarm set for my zoom classes but I usually wake up at 6 or 7
anyone who is a programmer knows that coding a 9 minute timer makes no difference to coding a 10 minute timer
Thank you! I was looking for this exact comment! This guy has no clue on....
Yes this is bullshit and not some ground breaking idea. Even smiley works just fine with 10:10
1. You'd have the code for multiple digits already, as you'd already have used it for the seconds (if you do it the complicated way and even need code for it)
2. 10 minutes would start at 9:59 in order to not have 0:00 be displayed for an entire second, so you don't even get another digit.
He was talking about the analog clocks though... He said this before moving on the modern phone alarms ""But unlike the old snooze alarm clock, modern technology on the iPhone allows users to customize their snooze time (third party app)."
@@JoshGerhards analog clocks most definietly dont run in the decimal system, they run in the duodecimal system on account of there being 12 digits in a full rotation.
This actually acts as an extra feature if you have trouble waking up and set alarms every 10 minutes from one another (7:00, 7:10, etc), that way you get a double alarm within a single minute, making it harder for you to accidentally go back to sleep.
On normal alarm apps you can just set one snooze duration (1 minute, 5, etc) and don’t have to set a series of alarms. Apple is so annoying for not including this basic of basic functionality.
The nine minute choice on analogue clocks was a product of the gear ratio. The right sized cog that would make the mechanism work would only work at a ratio of 3:1 9:1 12: etc... they settled on 9 minutes as it was closest to ten, which is the figure they had in mind.
I don't use snooze option on my iPhone. I just set up 6 10-minute incremental alarms in series. :)
Yeah that's a way to work around the fact Apple don't give their users the choice to set the snooze time.
@@orion1983uk It's not entirely about 9-minute snoozing though. It's mostly about me worrying about turning the alarm off without even knowing. Basically those 5 additional alarms are merely fail-safes. :)
until you press snooze button instead of off on all of them and you have an alarm going off every 45 seconds
If your struggling to wake up, turn the volume up
@@fred-youtube I don't wanna disturb my neighbors. I live in an apartment building. 😌
Bro are you kidding me? I was literally wondering this, today in morning
samee
Same
Google can read your mind bro
Same
Bro this was about sleep and waking up… and i was literally sleeping last night and woke up this morning!!!
As soon as the alarm rings, I am just like WTH is going on. It just wakes the heck out of me.
So it works
That's the purpose, isn't it?
I wake up by my smart watch gently vibrating on my wrist three times.
I am a programmer, programming a 2 digit timer is not that complicated, compared to programming a clock app.
even a century ago?
@@ibrasome4492 Machines don't necessarily use base-10 internally
He meant programming the iOS alarm clock app, which came out less than a century ago.
@@dylanica3387 yeah, but its difficult back in the day
@@edk1124 Why do you say that? What was different back then that’s relevant?
Why don't they let you change the timer natively. That's so sleazy of them and anti-consumer.
cuz it’s apple they are always anti-consumer
WHAt? nooo, apple would never do something anti-consumer.
Right? It’s really one of their questionable design decision
because you wouldn’t want the snooze to be 30 minutes and end up realizing that you accidentally slept in another 3 hours because you kept hitting snooze
@@Mike-739 who said it needs to be 30 mins? Why not give me the option to make it 5 minutes, or 7 minutes. Why do they even have to control that feature. See where I'm going with it. No choice at all is anti-consumer. It's like they are forcing you to go with what they want because they know what's "best" for you.
Every morning my 9 minutes is up, I wish for a 60-minute snooze.
Those are the fastest 9 minutes bro
@@FalsePips 9 minutes in school = 3.2 years
9 minutes snooze = 3.2 nanoseconds
Meanwhile Apple in their next keynote: "And we have a new feature for the iphone - A 10 min snooze button...."
Next video- Why is apple called apple and not banana
Because at the time, Steve Jobs was on a fruit diet and he just liked apples, so he called the company Apple.
*10 minutes of video, "why the company is called Apple and not Banana."*
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Cause he lived in an orchard
One reason was that Jobs wanted a name that’s right near the top alphabetically.
When you are sleepy and you press the snooze button, and then watch the timer slowly count down to inevitable end of your rest...
My life questions answered (again)
The inability to adjust snooze time for alarm clock is the most annoying “feature” I’ve encountered on iPhone. The explanation of “programming single digit” as a reason does not convince me as a software engineer very much as well. This whole topic is a shame. :-( “We made it so that it would be as bad as in the Stone Age technology!” - sounds like a perfect reason as well!
"Programming a single digit timer is much less complex than programming one with double digits." Yeah... this guy has no clue what he's talking about.
He was talking about the old analog clocks being harder to program a longer timer. He said this BEFORE moving on to modern technology by saying "But unlike the old snooze alarm clock, modern technology on the iPhone allows users to customize their snooze time (third party app)."
It should be able to. What's one digit? One byte? iPhones have 2 or 4 or more billion bytes of RAM.
@@JoshGerhards Yeah... via a third party app
@@thisisa Whether or not you can adjust the snooze time with default apple apps has nothing to do with what I was saying
I am so glad Apple did this. The extra minute gives me time to hit snooze again. ;)
So unusual that this appeared in my suggested videos today... because this morning when I heard the iPhone's alarm sound off, it made me wonder if it used the traditional 9-minute snooze and whether or not it was a setting that can be adjusted. This video answered both of the questions that started my day today. While that's nice, I still find it a bit eerie - almost beyond coincidence.....
I just love how much Apple puts thoughts into even the tiniest details that most people don't even notice or think about.
that’s the Apple way! Be pretentious and overcharge!
@@Ruhrohraggy7 Nonsense dude. Apple is doing neither of those. they focus on simplicity, not being pretentious and when you compare their products correctly, you'll notice right away that Apple charges the exact same price, sometimes even less. For example it's pretty much impossible to find a $999 Windows laptop with the same build quality, power, efficiency and screen as the Macbook Air. You always have to compromise - even for way higher prices.
@@Raja995mh33 I just got my MacBook air and I love it! I could’ve, however, bought an older shell and upgraded it for cheaper and made a better laptop myself. I, of course, chose not to. Their whole brand identity is about elitism - Apple is THE tech company. That’s fine, it’s just how it is
@@Raja995mh33 They do not focus on simplicity, that has never been their goal. They focus on upgrading random shit from their old hardware and pretending it's innovative. By the way you can make a 10x more powerful computer by yourself for 1000 dollars. I admit the mac OS is better than the windows OS because of the way they handle certain background processes is much cleaner and easier than windows does, but apple is far from simplistic or pro-consumer. Apple stopped being a good company when steve jobs died.
@@yoshikagekira1260 Which in fact is just completely wrong. Maybe do some research before talking bullshit.
Apple in fact NEVER claims to have innovate something unless it actually IS.
Apple also always focused on simplicity. So much so that it's one of the main arguments going with iOS over Android or MacOS over Windows.
And I really want to see how you can make a 10x(!!) more pwoerful computer for just $1000. Especially not with a comparable display like the iMac has. A comparable display alone costs you over $1000.
And your last sentence is even more wrong.
Apple is - also in fact - much more pro-consumer than most other companies. Apple actually listens to their customers. Just because they don't include every bullshit some idiots on the internet want doesn't mean they don't listen.
These simple video ideas are the best
Always wonderd that, thanks Greg
In the demo here, you can hit snooze exactly three times before the clock hits 10:09.
Nice touch 👍🏼
"Although Apple doesn't offer this feature natively" should be their slogan.
They actually trying to tell you how much to snooze for.
Not being able to adjust the snooze length is the one thing really bothering me in iOS. I also tried third party apps, but they DRAINED my battery, so no, thank you! I just have to remember how many alarms I've set so I can snooze my preferred time. So not Apple like... Also it would be great to see in how much time the alarm is going to ring-very helpful so you don't accidentally use an weekday alarm during the weekend, which wake you up
Every video being posted on this channel lately makes me think, oh yeah, I wanna know that 😂 seriously good job on the content lately, it's incredible!
My digital alarm clock from the 80’s also had a 9 minute snooze. Interesting history lesson on the snooze bar!
I really like Greg’s short and informative video format after Apple Watch’s flashlight it’s the next addition to series
I gave this video a like for the research and the presentation. This doesn't change the fact that a snooze that can't be customized in 2021 is a huge pile of crap.
I've never used a snooze. I always get up when my alarm goes off but very recently I've been getting up before my alarm and I love waking up before my alarm
I love this video, no filler, no asking to subscribe, just straight to the point, concise, and easy to understand. Earned a sub.
I miss the setting that allowed the alarm to crescendo! Bring that back!!!! Now I wake with a jerk every...single...morning! I hate it!!!!
Omg I love this haha. Always wondered why… Thanks for this video
I always thought there’s some psychological effect with how the last digits stack like “0 - 9 - 8 … -> 1” in the morning, when the snooze is 9 minutes instead of ten. I’d probably compare it to price tags being $4.99 instead of just simply $5 although it’s not totally analogous
Is programming a 10 min snooze really “much more difficult” than programming a 9 min snooze??? 🤔
No, I don't think it is. Binary for 9 is 1001 while binary for 10 is 1010, both require 4 bits of storage...
He probably meant in terms of mechanical clocks and their gears and stuff (total guess but yea)
If he meant writing the alarm software to snooze 9 minutes is easier than 10 minutes, then no that makes no sense. Both 9 and 10 fit just as well in any size of integer or floating point numbers in modern computers.
@@seshpenguin but that wouldn't be called programming?
A 10 minute snooze timer is still believed to be a NP-hard
problem, but some day...
You got my sub.
"Thank you TH-cam Algorythm for showing me this talented creator" 🙏🏻
I always thought if it was 10, that might interfere with an alarm set ten minutes later. That way two alarms weren’t going off or one was obstructed by the snooze 🤷🏼♂️
Every clock I've seen in an advertisement or promo is always set for what I always thought was at 10:10. I've never noticed many to be set to 10:09.
this channel always answers the questions we never thought to ask
This channel can literally make anything interesting
"YOU'RE SLEEPING WRONG" - apple
The thing about the smilely face is very similar to the story of Macintosh and it's floppy disk and how it has a goofy smile
Ive slept though the snooze on my phone about 6 times once and woke up to it counting down from 14 minutes 😅
I woke up 1 minute before the alarm once. I thought I had superpowers.
These videos really have gotten so interesting (as they were always) love these niche topics!
Can't wait for you to hit 1M subs, well deserved
Aannnddd, now snooze doesn’t sound like a word anymore
Can we appreciate his editing and research efforts?
They unintentionally created a reason for consumers to buy their competitor’s phones
I like how you explain the most random Apple things that exist in this planet, though this one was very interesting
I bought an alarm clock which had its snooze function set to 4 minutes because it was said to be the best.
And I tend to agree since using it 2 or 3 times makes me gently and gradually wake up compared to the usual 9 minutes where I'm almost more tired after the snooze.
This entire channel is the perfect hate watch content for me. I love it
I've been thinking about switching from Samsung to iPhone for a while now. I knew they had limitations, but not even being able to change the amount of snooze time on the alarm clock? Geez, that really shows the ridiculous amount of limitations Apple sets. Makes me worried about how limited iOS may be as a whole.
stupidest comment 🤣🤦🏽♂️
We appreciate your deep research into this. Thanks 🙏🏻 Greg 😊
There’s two buttons I hate: Panic and Snooze. So, I just wish they give an option to remove the snooze button altogether.
@Eisak Tabensky Official But you have to do it every time.
@@theartemis5687 yes because most people want the snooze. only a handful of people dont want the snooze. so it makes more sense for snooze to be default.
Apple usually: “We know this is the way the industry has done this for a long time, here’s a stupider way that you didn’t ask for.”
Apple with clocks: “this is an essential tradition we must uphold.”
Some guy: “should we let people change it?”
Apple: “fire that man.”
I was so confused when I noticed that snooze wasn’t 10 minutes 😂
This is stupid. I don’t care about alarm clock tradition, I want a 5 minute snooze
Alternate answer: Apple was too lazy to change the float to a double
I’d appreciate seeing citations in the description to sources of the information in your videos. Thanks!
Hey guys, a secret: if you press the volume button (I think it doesn't mind if it is the upper or the lower) the alarm snoozes. I know it because I'm to lazy to watch the screen so I just extend my arm and press the volume button. Then I'm late to work another day :)
Same with the lock button
I’m so glad you didn’t include the actual alarm sound in ur video
I don’t know why people use snooze in the first place, if I’m going to not get up after my alarm goes off then I just set a new time that I’m willing to get up at
I know me too haha
That’s so much hard work, though I do the same thing XD
But then you'll have to manually disable all alarms if you do get up earlier. And then you have to reenable them again
Why make life hard? By the time you do that you're gonna be awake. To each their own.
Honouring the traditions of past in your own product (Apple watch) looks a lovely gesture... Its like thanking your parents on your graduation day 👍
For whatever reason I was always under the impression that the snooze is 8 minutes. Mind blown.
same!
Greg since you have all the answers to everything Apple does, can you make a video next on why Apple never calls me for an interview despite all the efforts I do applying for a job there?
I love your background theme music to your videos. It’s perfect and engaging.
Apple is the type of company who doesn't allow you to change the snooze time.
I appreciate the concise and accurate information communication!
Do you not get a choice on Iphones? On android I can choose down to the second.
I am android user and using my first iPhone ever but what I like about iPhone alarm is the ring tone for the alarm so good that it doesn’t scare you and still powerful to wale you up
My alarm has always been snoozed ever since I started setting..😃
This is a life changing moment. 🙌
You know when you wake up, press snooze, go back to sleep, a second later. BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEP
I've always wondered this. Crazy Apple still doesn't let you change this.
Why apple introduced bootcamp? Sir please make a video on this topic. love you a lot from India.
The complexity associated with adding another digit to a timer is completely trivial, idek why he included that 😂
Short answer: I don't know
Longer answer: It's standard and we don't know why
I didn't understand why they did this, you should explain a lot more swiftly and professionally.
i never use the snooze button. i have an alarm at 06:01 am and when it rings i turn it off and stand up 🤷🏼♀️
Sorcery
In boot camp, the electricity turning on the fluorescent lights was enough to make us fly out of sleep and onto our feet with mad vigor. I have never needed a snooze alarm since. You should really try it.
I'm so satisfied with your all explanation videos ❤️
I think it might also be placebo. Two digits seems like a lot more, similar to why products are 9,99 and not 10,00
That was way more fascinating then I expected, wow
Your background music is so soothing that it mad me cry. 🤷🏻♂️ idky weird