Surely you must have rebooted it since then? It's possible it could last through a reboot I guess, since it's only displaying the difference between current_time and start_time, not actually counting every millisecond when it's in the background.

Edit: ok, yeah, I just tried it: reboots don't reset the stopwatch, whaddya know!

Fun fact: The timer app doesn't even need to run in the background. When you started it, it recorded the start time. Now it's showing you now - then.

You could turn off your phone for 10 years, let the battery die, come back, reset the clock, and the timer will still be running!

And now lap 1 is finished.

Stopwatch: “I’m tired, boss.”

Seems more like a startwatch

Here's mine !! (Not accidental)

hah, made me check if the stop watch app I installed when apps were the new hot thing is actually still going..

Watch out man, my bf swears that leaving a timer going in the background will kill your battery

There was some person who started a stopwatch on their iphone and they were unhappy that there wasn't a way to keep it going when they replaced their phone.

Reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lygOY3sYWhI

I think my iPod Touchs Stopwatch from high school is still running. Wonder how its doing....

press lap and check it again in two years.

Sounds like a watch you can count on!

Nice uptime

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