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What do the two small white dots in Clock app - Stopwatch do?

In the clock app, on the Stopwatch there are two small white dots between the Reset/Lap and Start/Stop buttons. What do these dots do?

Someone already asked this question but never got an answer to what the white dots are for.

They changed the topic and gave an answer about swiping left to change from digital stopwatch face to analog but never answered the original question.

So what do the two white dots do?

Or is it a bug in the clock app that it's _supposed_ to toggle between digital/analog clock faces, but does not?

iPhone 7

Posted on Aug 21, 2018 12:07 PM

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Posted on Aug 21, 2018 2:33 PM

What they do is actually indicate that you can swipe left or right to change the stopwatch mode.


Like the dots at the bottom of the home screen indicate how many pages of home screens of icons you have, and can swipe between.


The Stop watch only has 2 pages or modes.


The dots will light up depending on what mode you are currently in. Left dot for digital, right dot for analog.

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Aug 21, 2018 2:33 PM in response to petegfb

What they do is actually indicate that you can swipe left or right to change the stopwatch mode.


Like the dots at the bottom of the home screen indicate how many pages of home screens of icons you have, and can swipe between.


The Stop watch only has 2 pages or modes.


The dots will light up depending on what mode you are currently in. Left dot for digital, right dot for analog.

Aug 21, 2018 2:43 PM in response to Phil0124

Thank you.

I can see when you swipe left or right to change the display, that the two dots do update correctly.

Swipe left to show analog clock face and the right dot highlights and left dot diminishes.

Swipe right to show the digital clock face and the left dot highlights and the right dot diminishes.

So that seems to work properly.

However when you tap on the two dots, they swap highlighting as if they should be controlling something.

But the face of the clock does not change. This appears to be a bug.

The two dots in the clock app do not function like the little dots on the home screen where if you tap on the dots it cycles through home screen pages.

Or like in the camera app where tapping on the labels (time-lapse, slo-mo, video, photo, etc) cycles through the camera modes.

What do the two small white dots in Clock app - Stopwatch do?

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