Apple earlier on Monday released iOS 26.1 beta 2 and more for developers , and it quietly brings back a nostalgic feature in the form of “Slide to Stop.”

The new option appears on the lock screen for alarms and timers, letting users slide to stop instead of tapping a button. The change comes after many users complained about accidentally hitting “Snooze” when picking up their phones in the morning. Sliding makes it much harder to miss or silence an alarm by mistake.

The gesture feels familiar because it’s a nod to the original “Slide to Unlock” feature that first appeared on the 2007 iPhone. Apple later removed that feature in 2016 with iOS 10, replacing it with “Press Home to Unlock” to support Touch ID (nine years after it debuted on the OG iPhone). Some of you were still in diapers ba

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