If you open the timer app on a Xiaomi phone, you can click on a recent time to set the timer. Here I click on “19:00” and get 13 minutes. Why? Because if you click “go” before their gee-whiz animation is finished, you get whatever time happened to be on the dial at the time you pressed the button. Like, all they had to do was just have the button set the timer. And God forbid you just want to type a number. Nope. You have to spin a dial. It’s literally easier to do this right, but they chose to make it suck because it has to look cool.
I am pretty sure spin dials constitute torture according to the Geneva convention and Cruel and Unusual Punishment according to the US Constitution.
I am particularly salty at the stupid spinners for year when you have to enter birth year. I am old enough that it takes a minute to scroll to my birth year, and every second of it I hate the person that decided spinners are a great UI. Entering a date by keyboard takes 10 seconds, and the spinners multiply that time without providing any advantage.
Those suck. Even worse are the calendars that force you to scroll by month (or hide the secret menu to pop up the year selection.)
Just let me enter a date!
I forgot about those! Enter birth day: pops up monthly calendar of January 2026, and you cry trying to figure out how to scroll back in time.