Smartphones have replaced many previously familiar separate devices, including alarm clocks. Smart gadgets allow you to set several alarms for all occasions, but as it turns out, Samsung has decided to limit the maximum number of them on its devices.
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Samsung smartphones can only have a maximum of one hundred alarms set, and once that limit is reached, you won’t be able to create a new one, a user with the pseudonym Sernian found out in the online community Reddit. He reported this in a subreddit dedicated to last year’s flagship Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, but the limitation also applies to the current Galaxy S25 Ultra.
It is noteworthy that this is not a new limitation – it has existed for several years. And in 2019, only 50 alarms could be created on Samsung devices, according to a corresponding thread on the Korean manufacturer’s support forum. That is, since then, Samsung has even doubled the limit for those who needed more than fifty alarms.
There is no information yet about why this limitation arose, but the fact that it exists seems unexpected. One hundred alarms is indeed a lot, but Samsung device owners may have different work schedules that require a large number of alarms. Sometimes they are set using a voice command to the Gemini artificial intelligence assistant, and it always creates new ones, rather than editing old ones. Therefore, Samsung smartphone owners can be advised to sometimes open the corresponding application and clean up previously set and expired alarms.