Learn how to set up and use the camera timer on your iPhone to capture perfect group shots or selfies without rushing.
How to set up and use the camera timer on iPhone
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iOS 18 brings major improvements to stopwatch multitasking
iOS 18 brings Live Activity support for the stopwatch feature, allowing the timer to run in the iPhone's Dynamic Island and the Lock Screen.
YouTube’s sleep timer has encouraged me to get to bed a little earlier
A YouTube sleep timer automatically pauses video playback after a set period, helping curtail your usage of the app before nap time.
How to use the Check In feature on iPhone and Apple Watch
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How to set and manage multiple timers on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Learn how to set two or more timers simultaneously on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac so you can easily keep track of multiple tasks or to-dos at once.
How to use timers like a pro on your Apple Watch
Learn how to start one or more timers on your Apple Watch to track time and pin custom timer durations for quick access.
iOS 17’s App Store download timer tells you how long until the download completes
iOS 17's new App Store download timer automatically appears when downloading something from the store that'll take more than a few seconds.
How to set a vibrate-only alarm or timer that makes no sound on iPhone
In this tutorial, we will show you how to set vibrating alarms and timers on your iPhone. These alarms and timers won't play a sound but only vibrate.
Apple Music for Android is getting a sleep timer with extensive options
Apple Music for Android is gaining an integrated sleep timer function with time increments ranging from 15 minutes to 1 hour, plus other extensive options..
StatusBarTimer puts the remainder of your iPhone’s active timer in the Status Bar
After setting a timer on your iPhone, you can either glance at the Lock Screen or open the Clock app to see the remainder before it rings. Sadly, there’s no in-between; your iPhone either needs to be locked or you’ll have to glue your eyes to the Clock app.
That’s something that a new and free jailbreak tweak called StatusBarTimer by iOS developer ldefix2020 aims to fix, as it puts the timer remainder in the Status Bar so that you can see it from just about anywhere in iOS.
iOS 14.7 brings HomePod timer controls to Apple’s Home app
Apple's iOS 14.7 and iPadOS 14.7 software has gained a new feature that allows you to set timers on your HomePod speaker from within the Home app on your iPhone, iPad and Mac.
TimerIcon gives the Clock app an animated timer countdown icon
It was only yesterday that we showed you a jailbreak tweak dubbed Gears, which animated the Settings app icon on the Home Screen such that the gears depicted inside the icon actually rotated, much like one used by the OTA software update mechanism from the days of iOS 7.
Today, we look at an entirely different type of animated Home Screen icon – one that impacts the likes of the Clock app to depict the current state of any active timers you might have counting down in the background. Such an icon is brought to us by way of a new jailbreak tweak called TimerIcon by iOS developer Idefix0202.