A timer for Apple Watch and iPhone that starts the moment you open it — September 9, 2026
Open the app and your preset time (1 minute 30 seconds by default) starts right away. When it ends, the watch taps you once and stops. It never keeps buzzing, so you can leave it alone. Put it on your watch face as a complication and it is truly one tap. To stop early, just press the Digital Crown.
Tapping while the timer is running does nothing. That way a stray touch during a workout or a task cannot send the timer back to the start.
Press the Digital Crown. The timer stops and you are back on the watch face. While running, the top right of the screen shows “Cancel ▶”, and the arrow points at the Digital Crown.
Leaving the app clears the timer and its scheduled alert. Nothing keeps running in the background, and nothing buzzes later.
Tap the ⏸ in the top left. While paused, the water turns gray and “PAUSED” appears under the number. The button becomes a colored ▶; tap it to continue where you left off. The end-of-timer alert does not fire while paused.
Tap the round button at the top center (the stopwatch mark). Use −10s / +10s and −60s / +60s, or the Digital Crown (one detent = 10 seconds), then tap “Done”. The app remembers it for next time. Anything from 10 seconds to 60 minutes.
The colored circle at the bottom left cycles through ten colors. Both the timer screen and the watch-face complication follow your choice.
Yes. The app stays put while the timer runs instead of returning to the watch face, so the time stays accurate and the haptic lands exactly at zero.
One haptic, then it stops. No endless buzzing, nothing to dismiss. The scheduled alert is cleared at the same moment, so nothing happens afterwards. Lower your wrist and you are back on the watch face.
Tap the “DONE” screen, or open the app again. Either way it starts with the same time. Simply raising your wrist does not start it.
Long-press the watch face → Edit → pick a complication slot → choose “One Tap Timer”. The complication shows your preset in seconds (for example 90). If it does not appear in the list, restart the Apple Watch once.
Check Settings → Sounds & Haptics → Haptic Strength on the watch. Turning on “Prominent Haptic” helps too.
No. Haptics only.
Yes. You can install it on the Apple Watch without installing the iPhone app.
Yes. The same timer runs on iPhone. Settings are kept separately on each device.
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