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I don't have as many issues with the Timers UI as the author does, but I will say for me that using Siri while cooking is mostly a no-go, because I have my Watc

I don't have as many issues with the Timers UI as the author does, but I will say for me that using Siri while cooking is mostly a no-go, because I have my Watch, my AirPods on, and a HomePod somewhere within earshot, and I only want the Timer to start on my Watch, which is not usually what's going to happen.

CharlesW 3y ago
Now that's a far, far more annoying problem than Timers UI changes.
- jdminhbg 3y ago
  Yeah, I don't necessarily expect it to know that I always want my Watch, but I wish I could say "start a 10 minute timer on my watch" and have it do that.
  - CharlesW 3y ago
    Yes! Or sync timers and do the expected thing regardless of what device "catches" subsequent requests.
satya71 3y ago
Long press the crown and say timer 5 minutes
- Wowfunhappy 3y ago
  You can't use your hands.
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  - wlesieutre 3y ago
    If it’s because you’re cooking and your hands are dirty you can press it with your wrist or forearm
kemayo 3y ago
Raise-to-speak is the answer here. It's guaranteed to go to your watch, without all the device-negotiation that saying "Siri" causes: so long as you don't say "Siri", it'll be unambiguously on the watch. That said, very annoyingly, WatchOS 10 seems to have regressed the raise-to-speak behavior, and it's being super-finicky for me. I've had to retry a lot of times, and had to fall back on long-pressing the crown sometimes, which reacts really slowly now when this is happening. (I think this might be it trying to negotiate microphone usage with my AirPods when I'm wearing them or suchlike, in which case Apple needs to stop doing that.)