You would never guess how your iPhone stopwatch works - iDrop News

Think about how the stopwatch works on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Pretty easy, isn't it? Except that it doesn't work as you probably think.

In general, consider a stopwatch as a simple mechanism that only measures the elapsed time. In other words, it's a device or application that "counts the seconds". And the stopwatch app on your iPhone works like this, but there's one little thing that really needs to be considered.

Instead of counting the seconds after you press Start, the stopwatch application actually records the time and date that you pressed this key.

Then write down this start time and calculate the time since.

The bottom line is that the stopwatch can measure time even if you close the app or turn off the phone. You don't need to know how much time has passed since you can easily calculate it yourself. (The timer works the same way, of course, but backwards).

This is the reason why your stopwatch can go days without errors in the calculations. You have probably forgotten it at least once and saw a large number on the screen .

Once you know this little detail, the next thing that comes to mind is how far you can go beyond these limits.

While there is no official world record that is mostly stored on an iPhone stopwatch, there are unofficial results. For example, Joshua Mallik from Kuwait City is said to have recorded about 9 years on his iPhone . This corresponds to approximately 78,888 hours and 32.80 seconds.

In fact, there are many people who just run their stopwatch to set similar records.

In any case, your iPhone's stopwatch is a useful tool for tracking time and events. And with this little knowledge, you can be sure that you can track the time precisely thanks to an iPhone restart or an empty battery.

It should be noted that the Apple Watch stopwatch probably works a little differently. Apple provides at least determine the maximum operating time is 11 hours and 55 minutes.