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to think that I really can't be the only person who hadnt noticed this?!

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PyongyangKipperbang · 27/09/2022 21:01

Years of owning a smartphone, years of using my clock app for timers, alarms etc and YESTERDAY I realised that the app button on my homescreen shows the actualy time and not just a stylised picture of a clock!

I noticed it and thought "Oh its 4pm and its on 4pm...what a coincidence" in that way you do when the time is 12:34 or 12:21 or whatever. Nothing particularly interesting, you just notice it.

Then a couple of hours later it was showing ten past six....blew my mind!

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oakleaffy · 27/09/2022 23:46

Mxyzptlk · 27/09/2022 23:44

Isn't it 1.50?

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Ten to two or 10:10 for clocks with hands. Looks ''smiley'' with the hands at this angle.

Mxyzptlk · 27/09/2022 23:47

@OnTheBrinkOfChange Yes .

SheilaWilde · 27/09/2022 23:51

OnTheBrinkOfChange · 27/09/2022 23:42

I don't understand you lot! Do you really mean to say that you thought it was a picture of a clock with some random time on it?

Yes, exactly that. I thought it was a picture of a clock. Like the calculator is a picture of a calculator.

ThatWasThat · 27/09/2022 23:51

Omdfg
well we’ve all got a lot to learn. Let’s get started!

pteradactyl · 27/09/2022 23:54

This is all news to me. Whaaaat?!?

Crispynoodle · 27/09/2022 23:54

Shock I've had iPhones since the 3s.....never knew!

TheHateIsNotGood · 27/09/2022 23:55

YANBU - just a few weeks ago I realized that it is actually cheaper and more convenient to buy larger packs of Loo Roll and Washing Powder. Please don't ask for my previous rationale as I can't even explain it to myself.

I'm 60.

CJsGoldfish · 27/09/2022 23:56

people thought the clock on their phone wasn't a clock. Confusing

I don't understand you lot! Do you really mean to say that you thought it was a picture of a clock with some random time on it?
🙄
It's an icon. Like all the hundred icons also on the phone. I click on it when I want to set my alarm, use a stopwatch or check what time it is where my children are travelling. Never noticed that the time actually changes on the icon. Now I know 😝
I'm more intrigued that, apparently, people use that tiny thing as a clock rather than the big arse time at the top of the phone screen 😂

OldTinHat · 27/09/2022 23:56

Oh dear me...! 😆

MissPollysFitDolly · 28/09/2022 00:00

Another one who hadn't noticed! On the Samsung it just looks like another icon.

TheHateIsNotGood · 28/09/2022 00:01

But I did know that the clock things on various devices were actual clocks.

NancyDrooo · 28/09/2022 00:02

Milkand2sugarsplease · 27/09/2022 23:07

The measure app (iPhone) is useful too. I've used it many times both to measure things and as a spirit level.

The spirit level is brilliant and we use it often. I’ve used the measuring thing a couple of times to get an estimate, so clever!

whynotwhatknot · 28/09/2022 00:05

well i never -thats a new one on me

Blueberrywitch · 28/09/2022 00:09

Woah! This must definitely be because of the new update!

mondaytosunday · 28/09/2022 00:12

Really? You just noticed?
However my mind was blown when a friend showed me that if I leave the window open in my car after I get out, keeping the lock button on my key fob pressed makes the windows go up too! And she doesn't even own a car! I've owned mine for years and never knew.

Charlize43 · 28/09/2022 00:44

Oh I hadn't noticed that! It actually tells the time!

Has anyone found the little knob to wind up the phone?

Nymeria6 · 28/09/2022 00:58

Omg me too!!! Hahahaha how did we all not know this already! Thanks OP!

MaMisled · 28/09/2022 01:09

I noticed this about a month ago! I still can't get over it!

trilobiterevival · 28/09/2022 01:14

no , sorry, you sound mad.

trilobiterevival · 28/09/2022 01:15

you is all a true incredible set of proles. good job the upper classes dont notice you !

MistressoftheDarkSide · 28/09/2022 01:24

Ooh - bugger me - so it does- I am agog…. I only look at the big digital numbers and never realised this….. I’m a general technophobe operating on a needs must basis - this feels like a monumental revelation ……. (To be fair I’m just back from the pub….. but mind slightly blown!!) ((Diary of a sad middle aged woman aged 53 and three quarters))

rosyvalentine · 28/09/2022 01:44

Wow! I never noticed that either! Blush

dottypencilcase · 28/09/2022 01:46

Omg- I've just realised this too!

sashh · 28/09/2022 02:18

PyongyangKipperbang · 27/09/2022 21:36

Mind Blown Mk 2.....

My calculator does that too!!!!!

Every days a school day!

The calculator on your PC/laptop changes too. You have to change the view but you get scientific, graphing etc.

BrokenCopper · 28/09/2022 04:00

I know the calendar shows the date (not Google calendar which always say 31).

I didn't know the clock icon hands actually move nether.