Get rid of your iPhone’s annoying notification bar in a few easy steps

Alarms are annoying, even to the people who set them. If you can’t turn off the alarm quickly, you risk waking up others near you. When Apple released iOS 26.1 In November, the company made it a little more difficult to turn off your phone iPhone Alarm with new slider. This slider replaces the stop button when the alarm goes off.

The change appears to be designed to prevent you from accidentally turning off your alarm too quickly with a single tap when reaching for your phone. But the slider can leave you stumbling out of bed trying to figure out why your alarm won’t go off despite pressing the off button like you’ve done a thousand times in the past, all while your baby is now awake and crying, and the dog is barking which wakes up your wife, who is now asking what’s going on.

In theory, that is.

Fortunately, Apple has also introduced a new setting that allows you to disable this slider. So, if you hate the notification slider like me, you can remove it and put the off button back on your device in a few easy steps. Here’s how.

Return your iPhone’s wake button

1. handle Settings.
2. handle accessibility.
3. handle touches.
4. Enable the switch for Prefer one-touch actions Near the bottom of the list.

Once enabled, you can tap the button on your screen, instead of using the slider, to stop the alarm. Enabling this toggle does not appear to affect any other iPhone functionality, but this may change in the future.

If you want to bring back the alert slider after disabling it, follow the steps above and disable the option Prefer one-touch actions Switch.

For more iOS news, here’s everything you should know iOS 26.4 and iOS 26.3. You can also check our website Cheat sheet for iOS 26.

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