So after the one system crash I had on Friday, there has been no other issue since, I wonder if it was just an app that was unstable or a gremlin that needed to be sorted? A whole bunch of apps came up for update yesterday morning on App Store and I’ve not had a single issue since.
I’ve also used the timer quite a few more times since and have not seen it go blank again, seems there may have been a little gremlin hanging around, I have never done a system reset on my 11 Pro Max, seems it had to sort itself out that system crash was the equivalent to a big dump.
The iPad on the other hand has been great, iPad OS 16 Public Beta seems to be mostly good for what I do.