I am unable to change default timer tone on iPhone after updating to iOS 17

Not being able to change default sound for timer is not very user friendly. Can’t imagine the thought process of the Apple engineers that decided to remove this functionality.

Apple ! Bring back default timer sounds,

I need to put away this wind up mechanical timer I have to carry everywhere now.

I have experienced the same thing. Apple has started assuming what's best for the end user and shouldn't. One ridiculous thing they put in place is, if you are using your iPhone in whatever manner, the ringtone is automatically lowered. Who needs this!?!?! If you're in a quiet room and the timer goes off, people will hear it no matter how low Apple thinks the sound should be or if you re using your phone or not. Besides, this setting wouldn't cut mustard in a NYC theater. Worse the tone they chose for default is practically inaudible even when I figured out how to hear it at its loudest. In other words, the default alarm tone is useless. Apple, bring back our ability to change the default tone!

OP said:

> I can no longer change the default timer for when I say “hey siri, set timer for 15 minutes”.

Your suggestion doesn’t solve that problem. Great if you want to manually start a timer (and manually choose the sound every time) but we are talking about defaults and activation via Siri.

Somehow I’ve trained my phone to use Timba for all my timers, but I don’t know how I did it other than to keep changing the default Radial to Timba so many times that the phone seems to have learned what I want.

No it doesn’t work. You can make that change, but Siri keeps using the one Apple selected. I have been trying for days now and just came on the community board and see so many others are complaining. I hope Apple fixes this.

That must be frustrating. I don’t know what else to say. It has worked on 2 iPhones and an iPad for me and others on this thread.

I assume you are sure you’re using iOS 17.1, not 17, because it doesn’t work on 17.

I would copy/paste it, but the last time I did that, I got an email saying my comment was removed because I had already posted the same thing. Go up about 14 comments from this one and follow the instructions in that comment of mine that starts with "After updating to iOS 17.1 delete all the recent timers at the bottom of the timer app."

I’ve tried the idea of the 15 second timer thing and it goes straight back to default it’s really irritating me I prefer my original timer alarm because it was perfect for it now Siri has a problem with me using it unless I manually set it it’s not fun but it does it for my alarms though kinda stupid either make both remember the last ringtone to be used or don’t bother giving it to us since only sorting one isn’t fair on us!

Yes and I was happy using my original ringtone for my timer but Siri has a problem with using it because it thinks Radial is the only one to use nothing else before 17 it was using it every time I asked for a timer and I was happy now it’s got a problem with it so I have a problem with Siri not respecting my decision that I want a specific ringtone to play not the stupid default junk

I set a 20 timer at night while I watch/listen to a show on my phone that I fall asleep to. Instead of a ringer, i set it to turn off at the end of timer. After this update, so many times I've been woken up because it changes to the Radial ringtone. Started using the "other brand's" phone for work. Might switch there completely. These small issues are becoming more and more abundant

My problem exactly. This woke me up out of a deep sleep last night and resulted in me having a horrible night's sleep because I was trying to figure it out all night. I use voice commands to set the timer multiple times during the night when I wake up and want to listen to podcasts - just long enough to fall back asleep. I'm going to restore back to the earlier version until they (hopefully) fix this.

I just find the new 'Radial' default timer sound really unpleasant - would prefer the old Radar, even better would be to be able to set it myself

Ageee! We need to be able to specify the default Timer sound.