Is it possible to make an only minutes (1m) countdown in a Live Activity?

Question

It's weird because in documentation (SwiftUI, Live Activities, Dynamic Island) I keep seeing images like:

Or even

And in iPhone clock app (timer):

But it seems like the only way to make a functional timer is:

Text(context.state.startTime, style: .timer)

But it's very limited when it comes to formatting.

It has it's own behaviors for example on Stand by mode; it changes to things like: "< 1 minute" or "5 minutes" but on the dynamicIsland limited space its not helping. You end with "2:45:56" when maybe you need "2h"

Is any way to achieve this behavior that we se so often in Docs and videos?

Smirch

You are supposed to update the live activity using push notifications. See developer.apple.com/documentation/activitykit/… – Gradey

I don't think that updating a local timer through a server with push notifications every minute for hours only to show a different format of String is the right solution for me. @Gradey – Smirch

Hey Fran, did you ever find a solution to this? I'm having the exact same usecase. – Latreese

Hey @Latreese not yet I used as it is. Hopefully with new updates some changes come. – Smirch