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This Apple Watch setting keeps me from annoying my partner during work sprints


Constant timers are useful for productivity, but they can also annoy loved ones, so I turned my noisy alerts into private wrist taps. Here's how.

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple Watch timer boosts productivity but annoys partners. I even set them to limit how much time I dig around on Facebook or doom scroll on the Drudge Report as a break from work. It got particularly annoying when we were both in our office/family room and she was on a Zoom call, and I had a timer going off every 10 minutes to help me push through some work speed run or another.

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