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Google Clock update makes it easier to hit the snooze and stop the alarm
Apparently, Google's Clock 7.4 update gets rid of the swipe buttons to snooze and silence the alarm and switches them out for buttons.
The Google Clock app is getting another update, this time, making it easier to silence your alarm. The new update, which comes as version 7.4, is rolling out now and changes some of the UI elements for the better. Google Clock 7.4 swaps out the slide to snooze or slide to stop the alarm for buttons that need to be pressed. Furthermore, the update also brings changes to the timer section, bringing a cleaner look, with larger button to add time and stop the timer.
Samsung Clock integrates Digital Wellbeing's Bedtime Mode to help you wind down
Samsung's One UI Clock app now features a new bedtime feature that integrates with Digital Wellbeing's bedtime mode.
Google revamped Digital Wellbeing's Wind Down feature in April last year and gave it a more fitting name — Bedtime mode. The update included an updated UI, new icons for the Quick Setting tile and Focus Mode, a new way to trigger Bedtime mode, and a new fullscreen activity that showed up when a user paused the mode. While you can already access all of these features on Samsung devices running One UI based on Android 10 or later, the company is now making it easier to access Bedtime mode with an update for the One UI Clock app.
Google Clock app can now use Spotify for alarms
Today, Google has announced Spotify alarm integration in the Google Clock app, which should make mornings a little more enjoyable.
Unless you're an expert at getting up at the same time every morning, an alarm clock is a necessary evil. There's nothing worse than hearing the obnoxious beeping when you're deep in sleep. The Play Store has plenty of great alarm clock apps that can help make the wake-up experience as stress-free as possible. Today, Google has announced Spotify integration in their own Google Clock app, which should make mornings a little more enjoyable.
Android O Introducing an Animated Clock Icon, Soon Available in Custom Launchers
Check out this animated clock icon coming to custom launchers, thanks to the Clock app packaged in Google's latest launcher.
Google might be about to launch a new feature in Android O -- Chris Lacy, who is the author of highly regarded Action Launcher, discovered that the Clock application would have an animated icon in launchers.