Clock timer and iOS 16 lock screen

Fully agree with you that the feature of having the clock timer on the lock screen is VERY frustrating. Even if I darken my screen, I often walk around my home holding my phone to carry it from place to place, so my hand will cause the screen to activate and the timer will inevitably get paused. I wish there was a way to have a true lock screen without any controls on it. The same thing happens with my music all the time. But the timer is worse because you can totally end up ruining your cooking or leaving laundry in dryer too long etc.

het179's solution is a great find (thanks!), but it still doesn't absolve Apple from implementing a dumb change that reduces the usefullness and reliability of a simple one function app that has existed since IOS 3 or earlier. It still is ridiculous that I now have to choose between a) not being able to check how much time is left on the timer or b) risk accidentally cancelling.

Apple are not here.

1. turn off the phone display before putting in your pocket
2. Turn off raise to wake
3. Turn off tap to wake
4. make any requests to Apple to "sort this out" at https://apple.com/feedback not here

yeah - wow - just happened for me too. Whoever added this feature forgot to do an actual user study.

Showing the remaining time on the lock screen is fine, but be able to pause or cancel WITHOUT any type of confirmation is just plain stupid.

When you start a timer, you expect that timer to run until it expires or until you deliberately stops it. Not because you grab your phone a put it in your pocket.

Hopefully this will be fixed in the next update

Yep, not handy in the least for a farmer who has relied on the handy dandy timer to run machinery and cannot ensure that the phone isn't touched, bumped, or otherwise at risk of touching those buttons while it's running.

100% agree, same thing with the volume. You shouldn’t be able to manipulate the volume while locked and in your pocket. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve had headphones in with my phone in my pocket and something hits the volume up and it maxs the volume out blowing out my eardrums

So if you agree 100% that you should not be able to unlock a firearm by tipping it, why do you think my advice to turn off raise to wake is garbage? You are not being logical in your thinking. Which one of us do you agree with?

Please think twice about using words like garbage when volunteer users are trying to get YOU out of a problem that I don't have. Guess why I don't have that problem.

jwo.net wrote:

I have the exact same issue. While it’s nice to see how much time is left on the timer, it should not be so easy to pause/cancel it from the lock screen. Please improve so that we all stop accidentally pausing/cancelling important timers we set.

Apple doesn’t read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Are you wearing Apple Watch? Is it set to unlock the phone?

Combine that with raise or tap to wake and you have dynamite.

I need to see other important alerts for work, so I cant just turn off raise to wake, and may forget to do that just for this one app. This issue made me accidentally take a long lunch at work —and my phone was on full do not disturb—. It’s a ridiculous feature, bc it is way to sensitive. Definitely using that link, thanks.

Turning off raise to wake will not affect notifications either sound or haptics and the screen will still light up.

Raise to wake simply avoids the need to tap the side button when you want to open the phone.

Might as well just turn the whole phone off and use an egg timer. This is an actual issue and if your only solution is to disable features that are used in other parts of the phone then it’s not a solution

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If I put my phone on lock it should prevent any buttons taking action while it’s in my pocket unless I log back into my phone and unlock it.

Think of a safety clip on a firearm. You should only be able to lock/unlock it with one method. Not if you hold it to the side it suddenly unlocks the clip. Ridiculous.

I wouldn’t have used the term “garbage” myself and I appreciate volunteers trying to help. However, I will say, I have raise to wake turned off and it is still possible to disrupt the alarm. The issue for me is holding the phone when walking around my house (which I need to do, obviously). My hand will inadvertently touch the timer controls. So I have to be extremely cautious. It just shouldn’t be that easy to mess it up. I have submitted a suggestion at the suggestion page but I am gonna assume they’ll never change it haha. That way if they do, it will be a pleasant surprise