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.
the animation is incredibly fast, even the Max timer to the shortest one, it took significant effort to press start before it finished
It happened to me quite a few times before I realised what was going on. You click the time and then click “go”. It takes less than a second.