topic Re: Alarm clock orientation/format. in Galaxy S23

Alarm clock orientation/format.

ParadroidX — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:03:26 GMT

Not sure why they changed the clock format, but anyway to change it back to regular format look ?

Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

nullandvoid — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:43:23 GMT

What do you mean? The clock and alarms look the same to me? Can you provide a screen shot of what you see? Are you by chance seeing the default alarm background? You can change that to anything you want. The alarm screen orientation will always be portrait mode. You look at it for only a few seconds, what difference does the orientation make?

Re: Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

ParadroidX — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:06:23 GMT

No it's the like the clock format got flipped upside down or something. It's like when you restart the phone the time or the date looks out of order and then it goes back to the regular format I guess it's called.

Re: Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

ParadroidX — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:11:03 GMT

Like instead of 12:30
It's 12
30.

Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

nullandvoid — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:43:54 GMT

You don't need the colon if the hours are on one line and the minutes are on another. Can you not tell the time without the colon? This is what mine looks like. Looks the same as always to me. I have an A54 running OneUI8.0. Try clearing the cache from the clock app. If that doesn't do it, clear the phone's cache partition. Was your phone restarted prior to the alarm going off?

Re: Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

ParadroidX — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:08:48 GMT

No it wasn't. Just noticed it looking like that recently. oh well I'll try the usual troubleshooting see if it fixes it.

Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

ParadroidX — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:11:46 GMT

ok it indeed did change the format, had to change background to reset it.

Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

ParadroidX — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 13:41:59 GMT

Yeah keeps resetting to that weird format. seems to be a bug after latest update.
Not a huge issue, just more of an annoyance.

Re: Alarm clock orientation/format.

nullandvoid — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:04:26 GMT

Hmm. I'm not seeing that issue. Perhaps it's unique to either the S23 or to your particular phone. You can put in an error report. What I find more annoying than any change in clock face for an alarm is that the alarm is always in portrait mode, which makes a swipe awkward when positioned in landscape on its stand. Fortunately, I don't have to deal with it much as I only set alarms on specific, rare occasions.