Why The iPhone's Snooze Is 9 Minutes

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.

[VyvienneEaux]

9 minutes is the perfect amount of time to close your eyes and not get any more sleep.

[grahamlive]

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.

[ElonMusk-FanZone]

I appreciate how you didn’t make this video 9 minutes.

[johnster]

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

[harshyt]

Alternative reason : The alarm rings for 1 minute, so adding 9 minutes auto-snooze would make it 10 minutes.

[kiranvk]

He is a type of guy who ask the question to you and tells the answer himself.

[albertsebastian]

Android phones: Select your favorite snooze duration.
iPhone: 9 minutes is tradition, take it or leave it.

[andreas_karam]

Its funny that i didnt remember how the screen when the alarm rings looked like because i was never “really” awaken

[klcrd]

Every alarm clock I’ve had used a 9 minute snooze, but didn’t realize that’s why that was standard

[perrydonham]

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.

[hxy]

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.

[EthanLaird]

This man is answering questions I never knew I had, but that I've always had.

[sushruttalekar]

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

[CalamityBaird]

"Apple doesn't offer this feature natively"
Add it to the list lmao

[dugtrioramen]

Zoom class at 9. Alarm at 8:50. Snooze.
Alarm at 8:59: just in time
Alarm at 9:01: late to class

[justingolden]

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.

[sebastianyoung]

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?!?’

[trakthompson]

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.

[binarysun_]

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.

[A]

I like the 9-minute snooze, I just didn't know why it was 9-min but I now know. Thanks to you Greg.