And after Apple beefed up the Shortcuts app in iOS 15, I realized I could package all my actions into a single neat shortcut. Since it’s a system app, it was much more reliable and didn’t suffer from the same issues. So, sometimes, the timer would run out and make no sound.Īfter a while, I switched to using the native timer app. The apps that do actually set timers or alarms often don't seem to have privileges to override Do Not Disturb and/or silent mode. Unbeknown to me, these tracks would pause if my AirPods thought they were out of my ears (they weren’t) or due to some other rogue system event. So instead of a 20-minute timer, it’s a 20-minute (mostly silent) track. Some timers often use custom starting and ending bells, so the app and the system treat it as a piece of media. Here’s my guess as to what was happening: To make things worse, I’d often forget to set my phone to Do Not Disturb and get inundated with notifications (I guess those can be meditation objects too). Every meditation timer app I’ve tried (Oak, Insight Timer, Headspace, etc.) mysteriously stopped my timer on a regular basis. ![]() While I appreciated the potency of “timer anxiety” as an object of meditation, it started disrupting my practice. I was also ridiculously late for that meeting. This is a perfect challenge to apply my skills, I thought - just meditate on that anxiety! It turned out to be a productive meditation session. And with that thought came the tinge of anxiety - “I only had 20 minutes, I’ll be late for my meeting if it’s dead”. “Did the timer die again?” That’s the question that popped into my consciousness 28 minutes into my 20-minute meditation.
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