Apple is forcing me to turn to Google because Siri won't do this one simple thing

Please, Apple-all I want to do is add time to a running timer.

- JASON CROSS

I love to use my Apple products to set timers, usually while cooking. I use my Apple Watch for this all the time, raising my messy hands up to tell Siri to start a timer. My HomePod is another favorite for the same reason when I'm cooking, touching my phone means getting gunk all over it.

I have a Nest Hub in the kitchen, and that's my go-to for timers for two reasons. One, it has a display, so it's really useful to glance over and see how much time is left (a situation my Apple Watch also solves, but not easily with multiple timers going). But the other reason I like to use Google's product to manage timers is that it offers a dead-simple, table-stakes feature that Apple still hasn't provided after all these years: the ability to add time to a timer.

When it launched back in 2018, the original HomePod didn't offer multiple-timer support.

HOW DID APPLE MISS THIS?