Asking Siri on Watch since WatchOS 10 to set alarm for a duration into the future is instead setting a timer

I ask Siri, “set an alarm for an hour from now”


if it is 8:50pm I expect it to set an alarm for 9:50pm. Instead it just sets a timer now.


on old WatchOS it sets the alarm correctly but on 10 it’s set a timer. I use this feature when I go out to the club for tracking extracurricular activities and it was a really easy straightforward thing I could do even when lit. The other alternatives to set alarms in the future of some duration require me to do lots of button presses or do math in my head while I’m blitzed. And I don’t want it as a timer because as an alarm I can have it as a complication and see exactly the time my next alarm will go off. If it is a timer complication I have to do math to extrapolate when it will go off


is there some way to fix this with a setting or is this something that will be fixed or is it working as designed?

Posted on Sep 20, 2023 5:57 PM

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