In previous versions of iOS, the clock/stopwatch/timer would default to whichever one you used previously. Now it always defaults to timer which isn't a big deal, but it is annoying if you are trying to use the world clock or stopwatch frequently and it keeps going straight to timer.
Has anyone found a setting that will change the default to be the most recent one used?
Mark
iPhone 5, iOS 7
If you go to Settings>Control Centre>Customise you can select alarm from the list of ‘more controls’. I also rarely use the timer, so removed it from the list.
seanfromtwickenham wrote:
If you go to Settings>Control Centre>Customise you can select alarm from the list of ‘more controls’. I also rarely use the timer, so removed it from the list.
Hopefully, in the two years since this thread was active, the OP has found a solution that works for them.
This is absolutely ridiculous.
I've been using an iphone for more than 5 years, and can probably count on 1 hand the number of times I've used the timer. The alarm clock on the other hand I use daily - in the morning to turn off and at night to set. Why the heck would apple make the timer the default and not the alarm clock.
Using Siri to set alarms is really easy. Of course, I just have a repeating alarm set so I don't have to set it every night. When I need a different alarm Siri is the fastest way to set it
Submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:
The way it worked before was for opening the Clock app on the phone. In Control Center, you are using a shortcut to open the Timer, so it is performing exactly how it should. As indicated in the User Guide, that shortcut opens Timer, not Clock, or Stopwatch. Again, you can provide feedback to Apple if you would like the shortcut to open something different. It wasn't color commentary, and it was not initially addressed to you either. This thread is over a year old. If you opened Clock in the past and tapped on Timer, the timer portion of the app was activated. This is the same process, except that you are eliminating the part of opening Clock first. Feedback to Apple goes to http://www.apple.com/feedback
If you use the clock app it still works like in iOS 6. If you use the control center short cut it always defaults to timer. It doesn't make sense, really.
I got rid of the the clock on my home screen because it is now in control center as I felt it was redundant. Now I am considering bringing it back because I use my clock a lot and it does get annoying after a while. I did the same thing with my camera app. That would be like the camera defaulting to panoramic mode every time you access it from control center.
Here's hoping for a fix.
I'm not sure about your phone, but in Control Center, my icon is to open the timer, not the clock, or the alarm, or the stopwatch. If I want that, or to open the last one I used, I have to go to the Clock icon. It defaults to timer because that is what the setting is for. If you would like to see Clock or alarm, then you can use the feedback link that Meg provided to let Apple know you would like to see a change. Kinda like complaining that the email icon brings you to email instead of phone.
Not quite the same type of complaint, but I suppose I understand the point of the icon actually being for timer. Didn't need the color commentary; especially since that's not the way it's always worked.
Yep, it's silly. The programmer in charge of the app probably had personal reasons to make it default to the timer. Either make it default to the alarm, or the last item used already.
Here's a work-around...sort of. Ask Siri to Open Clock. S/He will open the clock app showing the last used feature of clock.
iOS 7 clock/stopwatch defaults to timer
