Before IOS 17, I used the timer a lot, since it was the only way to know when I should be clocking out for work, I know there is alarms, but the timer before showed the end hour. Ex, set a timer at 7 am for 8 hours, it told you that the end hour was going to be 3 pm, now is missing and I cannot use this anymore. Did apple forgot about this? Or I am just not setting this right? It was so handy when you have a variable work clock in time.
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I HATE the new Timer on IOS 17. It was perfectly useful in past versions of IOS. I liked seeing the countdown AND the actual time the timer was set to ring. You ruined a perfectly good ap. Please fix it back to the was it worked in the past.
I HATE the new Timer on IOS 17. It was perfectly useful in past versions of IOS. I liked seeing the countdown AND the actual time the timer was set to ring. You ruined a perfectly good ap. Please fix it back to the was it worked in the past.
Also don’t show recent timers as soon as you show the current one. It’s annoying and unnecessary and I have to delete it every time. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Also the ending time of the timer is gone which was a very useful feature
Wow, you’re right but it never would have crossed my mind to hold my finger down on the timer if I hadn’t read this thread. It’s a pain I have to do that and I often adjust the timer by a few minutes when I see what the end time will be. All that requires more clicks now.
And I agree with so many people on here who find it unnecessary and inconvenient to save all my past timers. I was much happier with the old timer!
We are experiencing the same thing.
And yes, the ability to see the time of the day that the timer will end was removed in iOS 17 - just yesterday we were using the latest version of iOS 16 and the feature was there.
Please fix. This is a must in the timer function.
Closet_Geek wrote:
Put the time the alarm goes off back!
Apple does not read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let them know your thoughts here:
I believe this was removed sometime under iOS 16. You can certainly let Apple know it's a feature you'd like to see returned:
Meanwhile, you might check to see if there are any third party apps that do what you want.
SuebabyPT wrote:
Yes!! Please bring back the old timer. I use it to take a Power Nap or instead of snoozing to see the end time which was SO helpful. Also, having to delete multiple timers is very annoying. Thank you!!
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vzamorales wrote:
And yes, the ability to see the time of the day that the timer will end was removed in iOS 17 - just yesterday we were using the latest version of iOS 16 and the feature was there.
I participated in at least on thread prior to the release of iOS 17 where someone complained of the same issue. I remember it well because no one who was trying to help, me included, had ever noticed that the timer ever had that information.
Please fix. This is a must in the timer function.
Tell Apple:
No one participatin in this thread can "fix" anything.
Me three! I really miss that awesome feature that told me "In 21 minutes it will be three o'clock!" I used it all the time! For cooking, planning how to arrive at a destination at a particular time. It is a brilliant feature for a timer. I am sure glad Apple thought of it!
I can only imagine why they abandoned it!! A lion attack? Some other entity won the Copyright battle for this brilliant idea. Some Apple engineer that doesn't have kids, never cooks, and has no boss hoping for reports to be on time, must have convinced the Apple Team to remove this awesome function! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
LOL, love you Apple crew and Pleeeease bring back our old timer!!!! No pun intended! 😉
CL-59 wrote:
i find it ridiculous that a very useful feature like the « end time » has been removed - what possible reason is there to make a feature less useful?
No one here in this user-to-user forum can answer that question.
You can let Apple know your thoughts here:
Exactly the same for me. They really messed. This up should be fixed immediately is absolutely no functionality of having multiple times. What’s the point of having four different timers with different settings I can figure out how long one timer needs to be. I don’t need five of them.
Yes!! Please bring back the old timer. I use it to take a Power Nap or instead of snoozing to see the end time which was SO helpful. Also, having to delete multiple timers is very annoying. Thank you!!
MoxieMeemaw wrote:
love you Apple crew and Pleeeease bring back our old timer!!!!
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rh2023 wrote:
Please tell APPLE about your annoyance →Product Feedback - Apple.
Maybe if they fix the app people will stop voicing their opinion on a discussion board, although I’m not sure why you have an issue with that…
That’s what I said. I find it interesting that if a feature isn’t liked by someone they assume that all 2 billion iPhone users must agree with them.
And I have sent feedback, thanking Apple for the improvements to the timer function.
cristina475 wrote:
The previous timer was excellent. The new one is useless for all of the reasons shared already. The new list of previous times set is not really useful and a waste of time clearing them off. It was incredibly USEFUL to know what time the timer would end at. Please go back to the what it was like before. It worked perfectly well. Thank you.
Interesting. I use the list of previous timers CONSTANTLY. It is a really powerful new feature.
Timer option missing in iOS 17?
