[gfxgirl]

I'm I alone in thinking the new timer app UI sucks? The old app where it used a spinner to set an alerm time and where I had N alarms that I could edit was simple and easy to use.

The new app where hour and minutes are separate text fields and where you can't edit an alarm you can only delete old ones and create new ones is utterly unintuitive to me and much slower and more error prone than the old one. Clicking in the hour or minute section is a much smaller target. Editing sucks. I want to set an alarm for 10:00 and it defaults to showing the current time 09:33 so I click the 09 and type 1000 but it only edits the 09 to 10. The 33 stays and I have to click the other side and enter 00.

To be snarky it's like some UX designer from Google went to Apple. This is not a UX I'd expect from Apple.

[mikestew]

I guess I'm with sibling commenter that I must use Siri to set my alarms for the last few iOS versions, because I just opened it to see what you're on about (I mean, c'mon, that UI is fine) and...OMG, you're right. What tiny-fingered designer thought that time field was acceptable? The only thing they seemed to have gotten right is allowing the direct typing of digits to set a time. The rest? Exactly the hot mess parent describes.

[cyral]

You can still edit them, just tap edit in the top left and then the alarm. Why we can’t just tap the alarm and save a step I don’t know. The small text input UI instead of the old scrolling thing (I’m aware it still scrolls, just harder to use) is terrible though.

[mrlambchop]

YES! This is so irritating - I assumed I was just being blind to some amazing UX as I fat finger the smallest fields know to human kind trying to eek out a few more minutes before my first zoom call.

[withinboredom]

I just ask Siri to "set an alarm for...", much less painful.

[gfxgirl]

Asking siri is noisy, (people sleeping next to me).

[withinboredom]

You can type to Siri, under the accessibility settings.

[gfxgirl]

Typing "Hey Siri, set an alarm for 10am" doesn't sound remotely like an improvement over the old alarm UX.

[withinboredom]

It's an improvement over the new one. IMHO anyway :)