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I've done a fair bit of Googling, checking Apple's website, etc., but can't figure out what the red and green colors present on certain laps in the clock app's stopwatch represent.

Perhaps it's a common feature of digital stopwatches I'm unaware of?

Image showing the colored laps

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    It's not something I've seen elsewhere, but seeing the colours used and comparing the lap times I guess they though it was self-explanatory – Chris H Jul 14 at 15:03
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    Yeah, it's quite obvious now that it's been pointed out 😅 – CrunchyBox Jul 14 at 19:26
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The green lap is the fastest lap, i.e. the shortest duration of any lap.

The red lap is the slowest lap, i.e. the longest duration of any lap.

If you use VoiceOver or Speak Screen to verbalise the content, or other accessibility functionality like a Braille keyboard, these rows are read out with the suffix ‘fastest’ and ‘slowest’ respectively after the time.

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  • This screams for an additional label next to the duration. What a strange UX miss. – Tamás Sengel 2 days ago

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