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What percentage of people use the snooze button?

Last updated: October 15, 2026

About 57% of working adults in a 2022 University of Notre Dame study were habitual snoozers. A 2025 study of more than 21,000 Sleep Cycle users found that 56% of 3 million nights ended with a snooze. More than a quarter of the users (5,855 of 21,222) snoozed on more than 80% of the nights they logged.

The headline numbers

Mattingly et al. (2022) surveyed 450 adults in full-time salaried jobs and tracked them with wearables: 57% were snoozers. Robbins et al. (2025) analyzed alarm data from 21,222 Sleep Cycle users: 55.6% of sleep sessions ended with a snooze, and on those mornings people pressed it 2.4 times on average.

Subgroup patterns

Women were 50% more likely to snooze than men in the Notre Dame study, and snoozed slightly more often in the Sleep Cycle data. Snoozing was more frequent on weekdays than weekends. Heavy snoozers, who ended more than 80% of their logged nights with a snooze, numbered 5,855 of the 21,222 users (about 28%); they were the largest of the three groups the study classified (45%).

You are not alone

If you snooze, you are in the majority. But snoozers in the Notre Dame study had lighter sleep before waking and more disturbed sleep, and heavy snoozers spend about 20 minutes a morning between alarms before facing the same sleep inertia anyway. ByeBed exists to take the snooze button away.

Sources

1. Mattingly et al., SLEEP, 2022 (University of Notre Dame). Snoozing: an examination of a common method of waking (450 working adults)
2. Robbins et al., Scientific Reports, 2025. Snooze alarm use in a global population of smartphone users (21,222 Sleep Cycle users, 3 million+ nights)