# Background Timer

**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/background-timer/1888112
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Tags:** notification, background
**Created:** [May 21, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/background-timer/1888112 "2022-05-21T18:16:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![thomas.lorentzonsi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/aeb1de/32.png) [@thomas.lorentzonsi](https://community.thunkable.com/u/thomas.lorentzonsi)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/background-timer/1888112/1 "2022-05-21T18:16:28Z")

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Hi,

Ho do I create a Timer that runs in background of the app that shows the running timer in the phone notifier menu?

Kr  
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### Author: ![Dean\_Artis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@Dean\_Artis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Dean_Artis)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2022, 6:55pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/background-timer/1888112/2 "2022-05-21T18:55:21Z")

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You have a read time of less than 1 minute. Please search the forum as your question may already have been answered.

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### Author: ![mimostel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/mimostel/32/107661_2.png) [@mimostel](https://community.thunkable.com/u/mimostel)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/background-timer/1888112/3 "2022-05-23T12:19:59Z")

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> [@Dean\_Artis](#):
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> You have a read time of less than 1 minute.

Off topic… you made me curious to check my reading time… 4 days… haha… i read a lot here… 😊

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/0/f/0f59f292712368bce16ff80133ae10de8a6f27e8.png) [@system](https://community.thunkable.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/background-timer/1888112/4 "2022-08-21T12:20:40Z")

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