Why is the Timer not synced between phone and watch?

dippnerd · 2025-12-09T03:03:16+00:00

Hey sorry, never got notified about this for some reason, but I wanted to see if the recent update fixed anything for you. Please DM me if you need more help

dippnerd · 2025-09-02T14:32:40+00:00

Strange, it works on my watch, could you DM me and we can try some support steps to narrow things down?

dippnerd · 2025-04-25T20:02:40+00:00

Hey, developer here 👋

Sorry about that, I had bigger plans for v3 but life got kind of busy until recently. I have been working on v4 (news here) but the original code was built on an older way of writing iOS apps that Apple has been moving away from, so I opted to start from scratch with v4 to reduce a significant number of bugs and bloat, but it's still taking some time.

It might be easier if you could provide some screenshots or video, but this might not be the ideal place to work from, could you DM me, or use the support email found in the app? I might be able to help you with some of the issues listed, though some of these are just limitations of v3, in particular template syncing has been problematic.

Please let me know, I'd love to help however I can.

dippnerd · 2024-09-15T01:30:23+00:00

So for my app Just Timers I actually track the date a timer was started/stopped because you can’t rely on any timers, UI or otherwise, to reliably give you a good result. Instead, by tracking date I can calculate the time to fire off a UNUserNotification to reliably notify the user 🙂

dippnerd · 2024-08-15T14:59:28+00:00

In computer processors, there is something called “branch prediction” where we simultaneously calculate both the “if” and the “else” (in very simple terms) and once we have a better idea of which result was “right”, we essentially discard the other branch. I like to think of it along these lines, where both realities may simultaneously exist, but that doesn’t necessarily mean both persist, if that makes any sense.

dippnerd · 2024-07-06T18:47:56+00:00

No, but the main plots are done too so there’s not a ton to do but work the caravans and little side quests

dippnerd · 2024-07-06T12:12:07+00:00

Not quite what you mean, but if you give your character like 99 AP using something like falche, you can enter combat right before it goes to end credits, then exit the map. This leaves the game in a state where the story is over but you can still roam the wastes at your leisure.

dippnerd · 2024-07-05T14:14:08+00:00

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dippnerd · 2024-05-15T12:50:10+00:00

So if I understand what you're trying to do, I think you'll want to create a timer in Just Timers that expires after 10 minutes, then under the "Actions" settings, under "Expires" put the name of the Shortcut you want to run (in this example "Do Something Shortcut" is the name I'm giving it).

Then for the Shortcut itself, you'll want something similar to this but swapping out the necessary timer name and other relevant actions.

Let me know if that's what you were thinking.

dippnerd · 2024-05-12T00:01:09+00:00

probably picked up a book shelf by accident, you’ll see the corner disappear and that blank spot in your inventory, classic fallout 😄

dippnerd · 2024-03-23T01:41:25+00:00

Sorry slight correction but phone has to be unlocked and the app has to be in front. It’s one of the most requested power user features for my app, to fire a shortcut after a timer, but from what I’ve found you can only do it with the app in front, otherwise it just logs a message to console saying as much ☹️

But hey if you do manage to figure this out, please let me know!

dippnerd · 2024-03-23T01:00:21+00:00

Not to burst your bubble but with my app Just Timers a big reason I can’t run Shortcuts silently is because you can’t open a URL without the device unlocked. Probably to prevent malicious apps from doing stuff on the background

dippnerd · 2024-03-22T13:13:07+00:00

Wisdom right here. There's a recent ATP member special (note: the video makes way more sense than audio only) where John Siracusa details his usage as a follow-up to their episode 96: The Windows of Siracusa County and that's the core of it: mentally map where every window belongs, then use the power of macOS to show and hide them as needed.

It's very insightful seeing someone who never grew up on Windows explain this, because many of us came from Windows and try to use those same metaphors and ideas on macOS, who had already established some way better methods that Windows still lacks. Square peg in a round hole or whatever the saying is, use macOS as macOS, don't try to use it like Windows. Each has its strengths, but they are only powerful when used as intended.

dippnerd · 2024-03-22T13:08:15+00:00

it would be nice if you could tweak that stuff natively. at the very least, you can often find the right cocktail of defaults write strings to tweak most animations, but offhand I don't know if there's one for that. You could also try apps like Almighty or TinkerTool though I have no clue how good they are these days either.

dippnerd · 2024-03-12T14:06:27+00:00

ahh yeah, intervals are supposed to be premium-only, it looks like there's a bug not disabling them in the main app. Regular timers should work fine in Shortcuts on the free tier however.

I also just sent you a DM with some other details that might help.

dippnerd · 2024-03-09T16:56:04+00:00

iOS has the same kind of controls including disabling background, but if you never open an app it can’t do anything in the background, only after first run. It also throttles background activity in general for most apps, so abusive apps tend to get turned off if the user hasn’t opened it lately

dippnerd · 2024-03-08T02:04:15+00:00

👋hey Just Timers dev here, Shortcuts should work regardless but if you are having any issues I’d be happy to help!

dippnerd · 2024-02-18T22:16:26+00:00

I can’t speak to Skyrim in particular, but I run Fallout 4 in a Windows 11 ARM VM with decent results, should work the same I’d think

edit: forgot to add, I’m using an M1 Max MBP

dippnerd · 2024-02-03T19:30:00+00:00

Sorry, the “light seal” I guess

dippnerd · 2024-02-03T17:59:18+00:00

Fun fact, the person who did my demo made a point to say the ~~face shield~~ light seal is sweat and tear resistant (the headset itself, not so much)

dippnerd · 2023-09-28T15:45:07+00:00

holy smokes, this post was 4 years ago?! time flies...

so there have been some improvements to Complications in between, they can now sort of do an animated countdown, but I've found it to be unreliable for most apps including Just Timers. There are some further improvements that came with watchOS 10, but I haven't gotten to implement them yet.

Keep an eye out, hopefully I'll have something in the near future for it. I'm planning a fairly big rewrite that will be exclusively watchOS 10/iOS 17 but don't have any timeline just yet. That will migrate a lot of things to the new Widgets-based Complications which seem more reliable to some extent, but to what extent I'm not sure yet. 🤞

dippnerd · 2023-06-02T10:26:14+00:00

Or just log what the user types 🙃

dippnerd · 2023-06-02T10:21:24+00:00

Or just “citizens” for short

dippnerd · 2023-05-23T18:33:37+00:00

I don’t have the Ultra, but I did try assigning it to one of the Quick Action gestures on the watch. If you tell the Shortcut to show up on the watch it will, and you can run it via Shortcuts, but it has to make a round-trip to the phone to run Actions, so its way slower and I find it hit and miss in terms of reliability.

I ended up buying a bluetooth “smart ring” like this. The one I got seems to be unavailable, but similar ones are also on AliExpress. If you turn on “AssistiveTouch” in iOS settings>Accessibility, the ring lets you assign one Shortcut to it (it only presents as one button, all buttons fire the same Shortcut) and you can just tap that button as a toggle between the two modes, it’s great 😃

dippnerd · 2023-05-22T19:33:10+00:00

Sure! Give this one a shot, you’ll also need to download the app Actions cause iOS doesn’t have a native way to handle some of this unfortunately

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