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Pretty much what everyone has said, plus I use it to time my insulin pre-bolus for myself and my daughter. I also use it to set a timer to check-in on my daughter to make sure she is eating her food.

I can’t tell you (before the watch) how many times I’ve pre-bolused, then completely forgot to eat. I start getting low glucose alerts, then realize what I’ve done.

I previously used to set timers on my phone, but you could only have one at a time.

breaks. cooking.

Every day, mostly for cooking.

I usually ask Siri to set timers, for cooking or waiting in general.

Laundry

Cooking, laundry and baby nap timer.

Planking.

Tea, 5 min timer for my drip coffee vessel to mostly finish dripping, toasting poptarts, toaster strudels, garlic bread, toast etc to perfection.. Laundry, my aquarium’s water conditioner working (takes 10 min) and probably most important, a 1 hour timer after I finish a meal while drinking soda or Coke, so I make sure my enamel isn’t soft and it’s safe to brush my teeth.

I have two.

I’m bariatric so I can’t drink 30 minutes after I eat. So I have one for that.

Then I have a water goal I have to meet. I have a 5 minute timer to remind me to drink water.

I use it for my 30-second warmup and cooldown exercices

Cooking and beer cans in freezer. I go “timer for beer, 25 minutes”, Siri confirms “timer for dear”, “timer for bear”, “timer for brear”, “timer for beear” 99% of the time.

Timing my AeroPress brew! Anyone else a little underwhelmed with the responsiveness of the Ultra 2 double-tap gesture to dismiss the timer, though? I often have to try 3 or 4 times to get it to work.

For resting maximum one minute per set during workout

Usually when I’m cooking and have my earbuds in. I tend to have my shit on full blast and on noise cancellation lol

Cooking. Setting an alert for when a task will be completed on an idle game.

Cooking and exercise.

Eggs

Everything. I use multiple timers for checking time sensitive tasks like loading wood into our basement wood-burning furnace/boiler is a big one because it needs to be fed more frequently when it's cold and less frequently when it's warmer in the winter. Cooking, laundry, remembering to leave the house in time to pick my kids up from school, letting the cat back inside if she wants it to go potty...

ADHD medication countdown to when it wears off.

Tea timer, or to remind me to turn the sprinkler off after 10 minutes

Laundry

Everything

All the time. Laundry, cooking, reminders to leave or go somewhere.

Stuff like cooking, face masks, etc. But more recently for my guinea pig’s nebulizer treatments ☹️

Sauna. Ice baths. Meetings. Naps. Cooking. Easily My most used daily feature of Apple watch.

I use it to time my lunch breaks so I don’t have to constantly watch a clock, and I also use it to keep track of cooking times.

One of the few things I use Siri for : I hold down the crown and say "set timer for....".

And I use it for cooking, brushing teeth, drying clothes, and tons of other stuff.

Cooking and tea

mostly cooking

when I used to dye my own hair before I got a girl to do it for me on the pro tip

and stopwatch for fire drills at work

Laundry, cooking, and so I don’t forget soda or beer in the freezer. I also use the alarms on the watch to remind me when the lunch truck arrives so I don’t miss it.

I know timer is so useful for daily life, but after reading all comments, I've just realized it's far more useful than I thought!

Personally I use it frequently for boiling eggs and some kind of Pomodoro method in work.

preheating the BBQ and then burninating the meats

I use mine for making tea and for my breaks at work mostly.

I use it to keep track of my assigned job cards for aircraft maintenance. Because supervision complains for going over the allotted time amount on tedious tasks.

Pickup time for kids. Cooking. Cutting the kids off from screen time. Naps. Flip laundry. Cut myself off and get my ass to bed on time. Lots of things.

Connnnnstantly. For cooking, to remind me to head to my airport gate, everything!

Cooking

As a dentist, I give injections and set a timer for how long anesthetic needs to kick in.

15mins nap after lunch

I have ADHD and it helps me be aware of time, kind of like a kick back so I don’t get lost in what I’m doing.

Cooking ie poaching eggs and for grilling.

I use it as a reminder for parking too eg if I park on the street in a time controlled area.

Frozen pizza in the oven.

Flipping steaks on the grill.

Cooking, laundry, breaks at work, lunch at work, to remind me to do something in a certain amount of time.

Laundry, cooking, naps, my daughter’s reading time.

I probably use it even more than Apple Pay. I use countdowns for so much! I have an issue with missing time so it’s really helpful in getting through my day.

Workouts in general, holding stretches, cooking, during meetings

Laundry, lunch break

for keeping track of my 15 and 30 minute breaks at work

for keeping track of my 15 and 30 minute breaks at work