![]() Nine minutes was ultimately chosen as the best option, and while the reasoning is still debated to this day, it's the snooze time that was used on the GE Snooz-Alarm in 1956 - the first alarm clock with a snooze feature available to the general public. As Apple Explained says, "This was a problem, since they couldn't adjust the clock's gear teeth to line up perfectly for a ten-minute snooze." This left them with a decision to have the snooze feature silence clocks for 10 minutes and 43 seconds or nine minutes and three seconds. When the snooze feature was added to alarm clocks years ago, it was done so by retrofitting the new snooze component in the design of an existing clock. As explained in a YouTube video by Apple Explained, there is sound logic behind this seemingly random number. Regardless of whether someone sets a special sleep alarm or a regular one, the fact remains that snoozing an iPhone alarm does so for nine minutes. That may seem like an odd number at first, but there's actually a conscious reason why Apple picked that number specifically. Follow her on Instagram Gabriellekassel.Setting an alarm on the iPhone is one of the most basic tasks someone can do - but it also comes with an interesting quirk that silences it for exactly nine minutes before it starts ringing again. In addition to Healthline, her work has appeared in publications such as Shape, Cosmopolitan, Well+Good, Health, Self, Women’s Health, Greatist, and more! In her free time, Gabrielle can be found coaching CrossFit, reviewing pleasure products, hiking with her border collie, or recording episodes of the podcast she co-hosts called Bad In Bed. Gabrielle Kassel (she/her) is a queer sex educator and wellness journalist who is committed to helping people feel the best they can in their bodies. But this hack did show me I can break up with my snooze button and keep up my love affair with sleep. Going forward, I can’t promise my snooze days are permanently behind me. While I didn’t magically become a morning person after trying the hack, I learned there was one main benefit of waking up the first or second time: more time in my day to get work done! But, the 90-minute alarm hack did keep me from hitting snooze every day but one (and it was a Saturday, so I won’t be too harsh on myself). ![]() My weeklong attempt to abstain from the snooze button definitely wasn’t enough to absolve me from my love of Zzzville. ![]() Goodbye drowsiness.Ĭould two alarms really help me break up with my (codependent) relationship with sleep? I decided to test it out for a week. The theory, explains Chris Winter, MD, medical director of the Sleep Medicine Center at Martha Jefferson Hospital in Virginia, is that the 90 minutes of sleep you get between snoozes is the full sleep cycle, allowing you to wake up after your REM state, instead of during. ![]() One is set for 90 minutes before you want to wake up and the other for when you actually want to wake up. Here’s the gist: Instead of spending a half to full hour of sleep hitting the snooze button again and again and dozing off into what researchers call “fragmented sleep” (which has consequences for your ability to function throughout the day), you set two alarms. So when I heard there might be a better way to wean myself from my morning liaison with sleep - with a 90-minute snooze hack - I was intrigued. Instead, I snooze (and snooze and snooze) until I get up late, forcing my morning routine into a scrambled circus of eye boogies, sponge baths, on-the-go coffee, and looming deadlines. Trouble is, while we always spend at least eight hours a night together without struggle, when morning comes I can’t pull myself away from my suitor (er, pillow), even when technically I’ve gotten enough sleep. I love sleep, and sleep loves me back - hard. Sleep and I are in a monogamous, committed, loving relationship.
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