How to disable recent timers on iPhone (iOS17)

what is the definition of bad design and flawed programming?

a primary (and standard!) way of telling if your code for ‘improvement’ is actually inherently flawed is a very simple one:

• does what used to take # of end user steps now require greater than # of end user steps? if the answer is yes, you are a bad programmer and need retraining (and those above you in your chain of command need to: 1) tell you to cut the crap; 2) refuse to implement that bad code)

of course, this is exactly what happened here

why?

I wish I knew why any company decides “hey! this bad code is exactly what we need to add to our product! let us get right on that!”

yet sadly this is so common that it has become quite typical (and occurs often enough that multiple articles have been written about one company or another taking such horribly flawed courses of action)

what malarkey

I agree. They’re irritating. At least let us turn them off. Steve Jobs wouldn’t have done this.

Thank you!! Great answer!!!

coachrussell08 wrote:

I agree. They’re irritating. At least let us turn them off. Steve Jobs wouldn’t have done this.

Do you mean the Steve Jobs who told people who said they were having signal issues that that they were holding their phones wrong?

I don‘t like the recent timers either. Never used it, never will.

If you don‘t want to remove them at least include an option to disable them.

A nice feature (in my eyes) would be to display the time when the timer goes off during setting it.

I use the timer a lot to help keep me motivated and focused. I wouldn’t mind having 2 timers but I just had to clear about 15 and I accidentally hit the wrong one at times which really messes with my serenity. FIX THIS APPPLE…..PLEASE

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

I thought you had a good idea, but the clock isn't listed as an ios app!

I agree as well. Anyway I mostly use just Siri for timer setting, which is much more convenient. So the old timers just collect and never get reused.

*It should

Not a solution

Because apple knows better than its users -.- at least they think they do, heads so far up you know where

Yes definitely get rid of this recent timer saving it make it very unproductive adding extra steps for timers we don’t wanna save anyways

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I HAVE JUST DELETED OVER 300 RANDOM TIMERS, since I play games on 6 devises.

COME ON MAN, GIVE ME A BREAK

WORST IDEA EVER

Agree Totally. Got an iPhone 15 recently and as I set a lot of timers(for timing the brewing of my cup of tea) and this has dented my enjoyment of my $1,000 device. What is point?????