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Quickly set, manage, and customize timers right from your wrist.
Staying on schedule often comes down to managing the little things in your day-to-day life, such as taking power naps that don’t turn into full-blown sleep sessions or pacing yourself during a workout. A timer can be your best friend for such moments, and it’s much more convenient if the timer lives on your wrist.
Instead of reaching for your iPhone, the Apple Watch lets you set and manage timers in seconds. You can stay on schedule without skipping a beat with just a few taps or a quick voice command to Siri. Let’s see how to set and manage timers on an Apple Watch.
There are two ways to set timers on your Apple Watch, each with its own advantage.
Similar to the Stopwatch app, your Apple Watch comes with a built-in Timers app that helps you stay efficient, organized, and on schedule. Here’s how to use it to set a timer:
Once set, tap the Start button to start the timer. You can then:
The quickest way to set a timer on your Apple Watch is to ask Siri to do it for you. All you need to do is summon Siri on your Apple Watch and ask, “Set a timer for X minutes.” Siri will confirm your voice command, and the timer will appear in your watch’s Smart Stack.
You can also use Siri on your Apple Watch to pause, resume, or cancel the timer in between or even ask how much time is left.
If you have a watch face that supports compilations, you can edit and customize it and add the Timers app or a preset timer compilation to it. This way, you can access the Timers app or start a preset timer with a single tap on your watch face.
Here’s how you can customize the watch face to add a timer compilation to it:
Once done, you can simply tap the Timer complication on the watch face to start or set a timer on your Apple Watch.
Starting watchOS 8, Apple lets you set multiple timers on your Apple Watch at once. Here’s how to go about it:
Each timer will run independently, and you’ll receive separate haptic alerts when each one finishes.
Stay on track…
Those are all the ways you can set a timer on your Apple Watch. While every method is quite straightforward, using Siri to set a timer has an added benefit. With Siri, you can give a custom name (label) to each timer so you can easily identify them, which isn’t possible with the other two methods. However, if you often need a preset timer, adding it to the watch face as a compilation is the best approach.
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