Xperia 1 V (XQ-EC54): the standard alarm on my phone was absolutely fine until the last software update to Android 15.
Now the basic "snooze/dismiss" swipe interface for the Alarm app that I literally use far more than the actual clock app has been broken; I am now constantly disabling/snoozing the alarm just by picking the phone up if I accidentally touch the screen, rather than the previous version that has the really intuitive swipe option.
Sometimes I do not want to snooze (e.g. if I'm about to start a call) and sometimes I don't want to cancel the alarm completely just by touching the phone - I've done either several times just by pulling my phone out my pocket and then had to open the Alarm app to see why I'd set a reminder for that time or to check if I'm about to get interrupted a few minutes into a phone call.
How do I get the swipe option back?
Several other phone manufacturers seems to have added the "useful swipe to snooze / dismiss" option back into the alarm: either back in by default or as an accessibility option, but the only options that Sony users seem to be recommending is to either roll back Android (and block all updates).... or to find another app.
I like keeping my phone free of extra apps and bloat, but I would also like to keep it up to date, provided useful features aren't going to be randomly removed and replaced with things that make the app unusable; I don't put the weird micro "save" button under the thumb for people who use their phone with one hand is annoying, but not a deal-breaker.
Currently I've found a semi-passable workaround: I blocked the Clock from being able to do full screen notifications on lock screen*, so I have to expand the alarm, then tap snooze/dismiss, but it feels like such a step backwards compared to the previous system - I think this is what Android got rid of around the time of Android KitKat (ten years ago).
*Settings - Notifications - App Settings - Clock - find "Allow Full-screen notifications" and turn that toggle off.
So do I have any other options?
1) disable full screen notifications and suck it up and live with the regressive interface?
2) find another alarm app?
3) full rollback of OS, apps and security patches and block future updates?
4) anything else?
