Griping about the Clock app

I'm a heavy user of Apple's Clock apps on the iPhone and Mac. (They're called "Clock" but also handle alarms, stopwatches, and timers.) They do many things well and many things badly. This post is about the bad stuff. When you make an alarm, it adds an entry to your list of alarms, even if you don't set it to repeat. I currently have 108 alarms on my phone's list, even after culling some. This is annoying and makes it harder to figure out if you have live alarms.1 When a timer goes off on the Mac, the only way to silence it is by manipulating the notification that appears (either dismissing it or selecting an option from its menu). This is both annoying and confusing: annoying, because the targets are small; confusing, because it violates the expectation that notifications are notifications, primarily to be consumed and not interacted with. (Even quitting the Clock app doesn't stop the noise!) The most important reason to display a big grid of recent timers, by far, is to facilitate…