During Apple's WWDC 2023 keynote, Apple senior vice president Craig Federighi broke the news that the iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 updates would both add a long-missing feature to the iPhone and iPad — the ability to run multiple timers at once. "We truly live in an age of wonders," he said.
Federighi was being sarcastic, of course, in an acknowledgement that Apple had perhaps waited a little too long to add what seems like a pretty basic capability. After all, the iPhone is essentially a pocket-sized computer. It features a voice-activated assistant that can do your bidding and the ability to run any type of app you can imagine. Yet, ask an iPhone running iOS 16 to start a second timer, and you've apparently posed an unsolvable riddle that has driven our wisest philosophers to madness.
