Changes on timer after latest iOS update, can I revert them?

New timer is terrible! Countdown image is smaller. The larger one was way better. I don't need a panel that shows "Label - Timer. I know I am using the timer. I don't need to know my sound when the timer ends, nor do I need the screen mucked up with a bunch of "recents". Please give us the old timer!

I came on here to see if I’m alone…I’m not, phew! I also dislike how it keeps all of the old timers you’ve set. I really hope they change it so you want see the time it will go off.

I'm also annoyed by the update and how it does not show the end time.

I also hate new timer update! It is useful to also see the end time when timer will ring. I do not want to set alarm for short times 12 or 18 min. Want to use timer n see end time.

Having the timer reset each time to a default alarm sound is not user friendly. I have been woken up a few times in the middle of the night thinking my timer would stop playing a podcast. Nope, instead abruptly startled awake and one unhappy wife. PLEASE put the timers back to the way they were….Please!

I think everyone understands the difference. The point is the end time is not there anymore.

Two camps here. Those that have been using Timer for the last ten years. And those that haven’t.

Why we used Timer.

1. time a task’s time. As a carpenter I set a 20-45 ( this 20-45 is important later) min timer around the end of my day. Hit repeat after it goes off. The Information that the timer would end after the set time AND the Day TIme was very important. Needing to touch three more buttons( one more to see what Time of day and then back up and then change it if the Day Time is not going to work is silly and unhelpful. I thought this was going to be obvious to Apple quickly. Here we are eight months later. Please put that feature back.
2. I set my timer for waking up. This again makes it important to see what DayTime it’s going stop and make noise. I’m assuming that Apple people have a set “day in day out” routine? I do not know? I need to change my alarm time every night. This Again, because of the reason stated above, is just an unnecessary button pushing Event. Please put it back to old style or add information to first screen.
3. Why would anyone want a list of timers that they used to do One time? This just makes a long list( blink blink? ) ? Because I don’t know what time I am going to start timing myself I set different times at the end of the day and for sleeping => so this app is making a list of useless times. I’m not going to scroll through and search for the timer that I think is best. I’m just going to chose it by selecting it from the start. Please make an option to Not have a captured list. 3.a if you must keep this? Please make a Delete All button. Having to go though each one ? And use a ->full swipe<~ to remove it is unnecessary. No one cares about the timer they set that much. Just a delete button if you must.

in conclusion. I have ten additional apps on my phone. That’s It. Apple has built robust apps that work very well. I’m looking at you Notes!!

Apple please fix this. I truly don’t want to get a timer App. This is a boiler plate tasks that a computer can do well. Its sort of embarrassing for Apple.

this critique is has no negative reflection on the people that designed this iteration of Timer. I need to believe this has something to do a with Apple Watch? Integration?

all the best !

I am so glad to know it’s not just me! This timer update is awful for all the reasons stated.

Please put the timers on the iPhone and watch back. The changes make things harder to use. And adds more clutter.

Hate it.

Seems like depending on the screen I’m in, it will just bump into notifications, then time out the screen and the phone turns off.

Also missing the no noise, vibrate only option. Just sloppy.

I use my timer multiple times throughout the day. I hate that it keeps a history of EVERY SINGLE TIME I USE IT! This is not helpful. Then I have to go through and delete them all.

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AGREED PLEASE REVERT TO OKD TIMER

Believe me there are MANY of us who wonder what happened. It was the last update-that-wasn’t, not anything we did. We want our timer to give us the time it will go OFF, the way it used to, and we don’t want to see our past timer settings so we have to delete all of them.

you can see the end time by clicking the ongoing timer [only for iOS 17]

I too hate the new timer. I want to see it reverted to what it was before the latest update??? I only need to set my timer, see what time it will end, set it and wait for it to go off. I don’t want to know whites I have set the timer for in the past!!!