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Why your iPhone alarm snooze is automatically set to 9 minutes

by Corey Protin on Jan 3, 2017, 10:03 AM

Did you know that most snooze buttons are set at 9 minute intervals? Probably not, because who sits down to time a timer? This unofficial standard was accidentally set in motion by the first snooze alarm clocks made in the 50's. Here's why we still follow it today.

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