The feature is not completely gone as users can give their smartphones a voice command (either through Search or Google Assistant) to set up a timer and it will work, partially. On Android devices, ...

For a short while last year, you could access a countdown timer directly via Google Search on the desktop. To do so, you just had to do the obvious, like type ‘set timer for 10 minutes’. In October, ...

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You can set a quick timer by typing, "set timer X minutes" into Google. Once you hit enter, the timer will count down, and then sound off when the time expires with an obnoxious, possibly never ending ...

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An issue caused the handy feature to disappear last month An issue caused the handy feature to disappear last month It turns out that Google hasn’t decided to remove the handy feature without warning.