iOS 17: Siri Substitutes a Timer for Alarm

That's not the issue. We used to be able to say "Siri set an alarm for 1 hour from now" and if it was 4:45 pm it would set the alarm for 5:45 pm. Now, we say "Siri set an alarm for 1 hour from now" and it sets a timer for 1 hour. Added to the fact that this eliminates the options for snoozes (helpful for anything from naps to laundry) since the timer only gives the options of "stop" or "repeat timer", if your hands are busy and aren't holding the phone (cooking for example) you might not have the current time available to you in order to do the correct math.

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Here is an article that may help

How to set and change alarms on your iPhone - Apple Support

How frustrating! I’m sure you did but did you wait for siri to ask “for when” after you said “hey siri set an alarm”?

Yes. He replies "set the alarm for when?"

If I say for x minutes/hours from now, he responds with "x minutes/hours counting down."

I just reported my feedback about the alarm app and Siri interaction. Everyone should do it as well so this gets more attention

Help us get apple to fix this. Took me 1 minute to file my report.

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

Well, it worked last night using 17.1 and now this morning it's back to setting a timer instead of an alarm no matter what I say short of telling it the exact time to set the alarm. It's frustrating when they change something a lot of us use in a specific way. Now I have to look at the clock, figure out exactly when the 45 minutes is from that time (math, ugh!) and set the alarm that way.

Does anyone know if this has been corrected with iOS 17.1.1?

I used the "Siri, set an alarm for x minutes/hours" all the time, often taking advantage of the snooze feature, so this is definitely an issue that's inconvenient. I'm afraid to update because every time I do, Apple manages to screw something up.

Me too I use alarms for medication. I need to see what time it’s going to go off (not a time countdown) and I need to be able to snooze. This is a ridiculous change it worked fine. Put it back the right way please

Pnutbuta wrote:

Put it back the right way please

No one participating here in this user-to-user forum can change anything bout how the phone works. You can, however, let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Please apple, just bring this back. The new multiple timers are great (for cooking especially), it's baffling this wasn't implemented before... But when I want to set "an alarm" for 30 minutes from now please SET AN ALARM. I don't want to repeat a 30 minute timer, I want to snooze if I choose to!

Alarms and timer has different purpose and it is because of that they are both present,

it is still present after updates, surprisingly it was working fine for a day with updates but same again. Hope this bug gets fixed.

when I say “set an alarm” and siri replies, “set the alarm for when” and when said after 20 minutes, it starts timer, super frustrating as timer stays in the top of the display as well.