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It's a question that has been baffling iPhone users for years, especially when struggling to wake up early in the morning – why does the snooze on iPhone only give you 9 minutes?
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Exactly, why not just round if off and give us a nice 10? 🙁
So apparently, it's not because Apple enjoys being mean, but it has to do with the mechanical origins of analogue clocks!
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According to Q&A website Quora, an iOS expert pointed out that the specific 9 minute snooze is an homage to old electric clocks which could only snooze in 9-minute intervals due to certain limitations
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He further stated that it was also easier for programmers to code a 9-minute snooze
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'Then, when digital clocks came about, it was much easier to code in a 9-minute snooze. **All they had to do was take the last digit of the previous alarm (say, 5), subtract 1 (now 4), and set the new alarm to go off the next time that number came up. So, 6:45 to 6:54, and so on,'** Lake added.
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