I already have "Push Alerts from iPhone" enabled. How do you fix the problem of starting a timer on your watch and then asking Siri how much time is left or to stop the timer, etc. just for it to say "There are no timers" moments before the timer on my watch literally goes off? What happened to this seamless Apple ecosystem?
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Apple Watch Series 7
It was DESIGNED this way so you could have different timers on each device, as I said, and that is very important to me that it work that way. If you think it should be otherwise let Apple know here→Product Feedback - Apple.
But if you suggest to Apple that it should work differently then I will let Apple know that they broke something that was working right.
Are you asking Siri on the watch or the phone? If you set a timer on the watch, the phone doesn’t know anything about it. If you set the timer on the phone, both the phone and watch know about it.
It works perfectly on my Watch. So there appears to be nothing wrong with the seamless Apple ecosystem. But if you are asking your iPhone, and the timer is on your watch that’s expected behavior. You can have different timers on the watch and the iPhone. I use that feature occasionally.
And if you are asking on the watch and it says there are no timers that means that the timer on the watch has expired while you are asking.
Yes I am trying to ask the iPhone because I'm back inside and my hands are full or maybe covered in something and I need to know how much time is left on the timer I originally set while I was outside at the BBQ, if you must know.
So it's kind of sad that this is expected behavior. Having multiple timers doesn't really make sense as a reason to not be able to tell me how much time is left on the....timer(s)
Right, start it on the watch and then expect a seamless transition to the phone - not asking for much just for Siri to be able to know what is going on, which to me is odd since it's all synced up for everything else and connected to Bluetooth.
And yet I can see and control my music, fully in sync, on both devices. I don't care that it's only the notifications, when it comes to timers, that are synced. I care about being able to have a seamless EXPERIENCE between the two, specifically asking Siri how much time is left on the timer. I'm still completely confused why you care so passionately about not being able to ask Siri this question when they're trying to apparently make it smarter. Just a simple ask.
I'm sorry, explain to me how, as KiltedTim just stated, "If you set the timer on the phone, both the phone and watch know about it." that doesn't break the ability to have different timers on each device, yet if you start one on the watch, Siri can't even tell you the status of it AND you're saying if it could that's what would magically break your ability to run multiple timers?? Why in the love of god is that discrepancy something you're defending? Why can't you run multiple timers on different devices while still being able to control them from Siri, regardless of where they originated?
That’s easy. KiltedTim is wrong. If I set a timer on my iPhone Siri on my watch does NOT know about it:
I set a 2 minute timer on my iPhone
I asked how much time on my iPhone and it replied "one minute and 40 seconds"
I asked how much time on my watch and it replied “No timers set"
However, when the timer on the iPhone completes it alerts on both the watch and iPhone; that is probably where the confusion is.
So they are aware of each other and you get an alert on both, which would lead the user to believe you could ask Siri "How much time is left?" and assume it could tell you, regardless of where you started the timer, how much time is left. Better yet, tell you how much time is left on all your active timers. So in my opinion, I think it would make much more sense so long as it doesn't break the multiple timer functionality, no?
Anyhow, thank you for the link earlier. I'll go that route and make a suggestion.
owmejobe wrote:
So they are aware of each other and you get an alert on both, which would lead the user to believe you could ask Siri "How much time is left?" and assume it could tell you, regardless of where you started the timer, how much time is left. Better yet, tell you how much time is left on all your active timers. So in my opinion, I think it would make much more sense so long as it doesn't break the multiple timer functionality, no?
Anyhow, thank you for the link earlier. I'll go that route and make a suggestion.
You don’t understand how the iPhone and watch interact. It is NOTIFICATIONS that sync between devices. NOTIFICATIONS are independent of the source of the notification, and are handled by a different process than the one that created the notification. So no, timers on the watch and iPhone do not know about each other, but the notification daemons on each device know about each other.
Why does Siri not recognize Timers on my Apple Watch?
