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

They seem to not care about their customers i’m learning! Tons of my friends who don’t look at forums are upset about this too! But I’m sure in true Apple fashion this new enhancement is the most wondrous innovation made by Apple. Lol lol what a joke!

michaeldraven wrote:

I’m thinking he might be trolling…. I hope so anyway..

Or, they my just not understand the problem. That happens a lot. I find participation in these forums is far pleasanter if I assume that most people have decent intentions.

On my phone, that's

Press "When timer ends" and select "Blues"

Say "hey siri, set one-minute timer please"

<timer ends and plays Radial>

It's not that we *don't know* how to do it, it's that we do know, but the setting doesn't take effect.

I love that: "It's not that we *don't know* how to do it, it's that we do know, but the setting doesn't take effect."

Thank you for saying that. We are so used to - no make that resigned to - talking to computers that we have accepted the blathering responses that we get. Suggestion to upper management: Have your engineers who know how to fix this do customer support on the phone one week out of every month. Telephone customer support folks on the phone understand the problems but you get the feeling that they don't have much faith that concerns like this are getting to the engineering department. Ironically, it's the failures of communication the company that keeps them employed answering complaints and inquiries.

That definitely didn’t work for me. All Siri did was to name the timer Radar.

Thinking Apple couldn’t be so annoyingly foolish, I deleted all my timers, manually created a new timer with the sound I wanted. Used it, then used Siri to set a new timer, hoping it would create the new timer with the last and only sound used. No go. Apple IS annoyingly foolish.

IOS 17.1 is out and the timer bug is still here. But hey, you have a new wallpaper option, ain't that great! Beyond me how a company this size with that much money can show themselves so incompetent at times.

Just did the 17.1 update and it STILL DOES NOT WORK!! Unless you set a timer MANUALLY and set the tone EVERY TIME. It goes back to the stupid ultra quite useless crappy radial tone. If you use siri to set a timer its always that way. COME ON APPLE WHY DO YOU GOTTA BREAK SOMETHING THAT WAS PERFECT!!!

I’m not sure I follow. Are you saying you can’t get Siri to use your last used sound for setting the alarm clock or the timer? I just told Siri to set my alarm clock for 11:05am (a few seconds before 11:05am) and it did so and my alarm clock went off playing a song (from my song in the music app) that I always use as my alarm clock sound.

You mentioned alarm and “both” so I wasn’t sure if you were having an issue with the alarm rather than the timer.

I can’t imagine why it’s not working for you. The only thing that comes to mind is that something must be missing from the equation. If you’ve been through the thread then you already know that the workaround doesn’t work on iOS 17, only iOS 17.1. Other than having a different iOS version, if all the steps were followed, it doesn’t make sense to me.

Sorry, I know these little things can be very annoying. I use my timer for all kinds of things, such as making sure I don’t burn down my house by forgetting something on the stove.

I use it to cook food but my timer is on the default noise it won’t default to the sound I use all the time for the timer so it’s annoying because the sound I always use is loud without freaking me out but the radial sound I can’t exactly hear it it’s pretty useless and annoying

cheddar-caveman wrote:

How do I STOP getting updates on this thread, "unfollow it"???

Go to the very first post in the thread. Under it, to the right, you'll see a blue bell icon. Tap it so that it becomes clear.

Terrible update to timer default. Doesn’t make sense how it is useful to users and takes away user autonomy. Everyone has their own reasons and methods for using the timer. I want mine to stop playing so I can fall asleep with a wind down routine. The timer wakes me back up. I don’t want to have to change my preference every time II access the timer. Apple has taken away our ability to set our iPad with preferences and forces users to their preference, that doesn’t make sense. Apple, please give us back the ability to set up our phones and iPad to our personal preference.

Same. Hoping for a fix soon so that I can set my own default tone. I use Siri to start my timers and used to have a singing bowl to end my meditation, now it’s a very jarring sound unless I set each timer manually and adjust the tone.

I use Timer and its Stop Playing setting most nights as a de facto sleep setting so I can put on some sort of streaming TV or music in bed , which allows me to fall asleep and then have it turn off within about 45 minutes. Since I updated to iOS 17 last week I have woken up regularly about 2 hours into my sleep cycle with the video still on. Then I can't get back to sleep. Please fix this; I don't understand why it won't default to Stop Playing.

That worked great thank you. Just to clarify if anyone else is using Siri to set the timer, you’ll want to do this step manually, rather than using your voice. Then, once it’s fixed, you can go back to using your voice.