How can I change time format of a label ? Swift

Question

In my App I want to show the user the Time he needed. At the moment it looks like this: This is the actual code:

if counter <= 59.0 {
            resultTimeLabel.text = String(format: "%.1", counter)
            resultTimeLabel.text = "in \(counter) seconds"
        }
        if counter >= 60.0 {
            let minutes = counter / 60.0
            resultTimeLabel.text = String(format: "%.1", counter)
            resultTimeLabel.text = "in \(minutes) minutes"

Which format is the right one to make it looks like: 1.5 and not 1.5000000023

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 14 '20 at 17:00

The issue there is that you are assigning a new string over the previous formatted string and it is missing an "f" in your string format:

if counter < 60 {
    resultTimeLabel.text = "in " + String(format: "%.1f", counter) + " seconds"
}
else 
if counter >= 60 {
    let minutes = counter / 60.0
    resultTimeLabel.text = "in " + String(format: "%.1f", minutes) + " minutes"

How can I change time format of a label ? Swift

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