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Hi everyone, I'm a iPhone newb and am having some trouble with the Alarms app. Hoping I'm just not using it right.

I use my phone as my alarm every day and I'm a heavy snooze user, for better or worse. When the iPhone alarm goes off there's a on screen notification with a snooze button, this is fine. Pretty limited but it works. Apparently one way to dismiss the alarm altogether is to open the phone using Touch ID, which I apparently do out of reflex every single morning which means no snooze and I oversleep.

Am I doing something wrong here (aside from automatically hitting touch ID when I pick up the phone)? Shouldn't there be a way to open the phone and keep the alarm going and snooze the alarm from the home screen? If the native app just sucks, is there a 3rd party one I should be using that is more functional?