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

This is bonkers. It’s really hard to hear. Can’t believe this got through the betas

This timer issue is ridiculous. Why can I not alter the default timer. Please sort this out, Apple.

robowens49 wrote:

This timer issue is ridiculous. Why can I not alter the default timer. Please sort this out, Apple

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

Same issue here. I submitted a bug report and I suggest everyone do so as well.

Well, I’m man enough to admit I was wrong. For some reason, perhaps because I used a previous timer, it seemed to work but I can’t duplicate it now.

Apple pulled a dumb move with this timer fiasco.

Sorry for getting your hopes up.

thank you! I see a reply below, that when I speak to Siri for a timer, if I say set a new timer for X minutes with Presto, that should work. I’m going to try it now.

As an aside, the latest updates are aggravating in more than one way! I swear they changed the sensitivity of finger drag for spelling words, because I am making all sorts of mistakes in my texts now that I never used to. Why did they have to mess with things that work so well? 😡

Omygosh I'm having a problem with this too! I can't hear the defaut "radial", it is so quiet, it defeats the purpose of using a timer! I've tried to set a new louder sound as a default, but doesn't seem to stick when speaking the timer command to Siri. Why oh why does Apple have to screw up functions that do work in order to release a new version with new tricks? I'm getting to where I dread ios updates now and put them off as long as possible because every time it's something else that's messed up!

Same issue, I'm helping someone who's severely handicapped and I'd set up her iPad to play podcasts and launch a sleep timer every night using only her voice with Siri, since Ipad 17 it doesn't work anymore, the timer wakes her up intead of turning off the podcasts because the sleep timer option can't be selected by default. And of course the shortcuts app doesn't allow us to decide which sound to use if we set up a timer in a shortcut. The solution a person gave here didn't work for me, labelling it didn't change anything, but I'm on 17.0.3. I hope 17.1 fixes it quickly.

Man, I used to love Apple but the idiotic decisions have been piling up lately, it used to be so smooth and smart, now literally every update I'm cringing in advance, waiting to see how much worse my experience will be this time. Can we have Steve Jobs back?

Chiming in (heh) to express my frustration with this too. It must be a bug, seems more like an accidental regression, an oversight, than a deliberate design decision. Hopefully we can raise enough of a fuss here to get Apple’s attention. I’m very particular about my alarm sounds and this problem has been surprisingly disruptive.

iOS 17 stops me from changing my default timer sound. This is not good! I tried labeling and that doesn’t work. I asked Siri to start my timer that I labeled and she starts the timer but not the one I labeled

This is absolutely insane, I use timers every single day and I cannot stand this default timer.. PLEASE Apple fix this issue that you see so many of us complaining about, it is negatively impacting our lives! The Radar is the best sound for a timer I don’t understand why it had to be changed to something so quiet by default.. please update this quickly!

Please let us make the decision on what we want as the default timer! I can’t hear the new timer tone as not only is it too soft, it’s so quiet! I want radar back as default as it can be heard from many many feet away! This needs to be fixed on next release… too many people are asking for it to be fixed!

Great to read these posts. Thanks for whoever put the link for apple feedback, I have submitted the form to apple saying that I use a timer 3 times a day to use a breathing machine for my cancer but now I cant hear it go off so have to set it manually every time (so annoying and takes ages) as its dangerous to overinflate my lungs. Why have a default if you cant have access to change it and no point in having siri if you cant use her for shortcuts like setting at timer. Fingers crossed they will fix it for the next update!

So true. I usually set a timer for additional 5 minutes of sleep (I know, it’s ridiculous) after I turn off my regular alarm (since snooze is 9 mins) and the default is so low I cannot hear it with my tinnitus. 2 days in a row I woke up passed my scheduled time 😠

FIX THIS ASAP!!

I rather have Presto as a default.