[MawKKe]

The whole timer/alarm app experience in iOS is also the worst of all mobile OS's I've ever used. The best one was in Jolla SailfishOS. In 2014. It was so easy to add/remove/enable/disable multiple timers and alarms. And when they triggered, you could snooze or dismiss it with a simple gesture.

In iOS, you can't even have more than one active timer at a time. Like wtf??? Also, when the timer or alarm clock triggers, you are presented with view containing two buttons (yellow and purple). One of them snoozes, one of them dismisses. Which one is which, you ask? You see, to keep things simple and consistent, the button actions (and labels) switch places depending on whether the view was triggered by an alarm or a timer. Oh! and the label text color is white, which makes it reeeeeeally difficult to tell which of the fucking buttons is which, especially in a rush or in the morning when your eyes are foggy.

I would have replaced this shitty ass app in a heartbeat, except Apples strict controls kneecap all third party apps by preventing them from running in the background...

[rconti]

10 years (?) later, when an alarm goes off in iOS, and I tap/swipe/shove it away, i still never have any fucking idea if it got snoozed or cancelled/stopped, or what I was supposed to do, or what I'll do next time. I mean, yeah, clearly I could spend 2 minutes to research it and try to remember to do the 'right' one next time, but it just never made it into my muscle memory, so I'll keep fumbling with it.

The problem is probably that you don't get immediate feedback of having done the 'right' thing. 9 minutes later, when your alarm goes off again, and you realize "oops, I snoozed it rather than dismissing it", you sure as hell won't remember which action was the 'wrong' one. Especially because you were half awake at the time.

[signal11]

The clock app in iOS 17 has added multiple active timers.

[BakaRakuda]

iOS 17 has multiple and named timers, why make a rant when a major part of it is already a non-issue?

To fix your confusion: Timers - generally considered one time. If you swipe away the notification the timer is finished. If you press the circular arrow button it will restart the timer. Pretty obvious. On the Lock Screen they are clearly labeled as "Done" and "Repeat"

Alarms - by default alarms are set with snooze on. Swiping away will snooze. There is a "ZzZ" and "X" button on the notification. On the Lock Screen they are clearly labeled as "Snooze" and "Stop". If the snooze function is disabled on an alarm the only option is to stop the alarm.

How is any of this unclear?

[MawKKe]

When I posted the comment, iOS 17 had been out... ~1 week? You really think everyone upgrades in lockstep on day 1? I've been annoyed by this for all the 4 years I've used an iphone.

I haven't upgraded yet, so I'm not sure what to make of your comment. But for pre-iOS17 the lock screen notification/dismissal view is anything but "clear" or "obvious"...