Clock app and calendar app are crashing

It just started happening yesterday and/or today, right? Do you live in Beirut? Apparently there’s a bug with Beirut’s timezone because today I got several calls from device owners living in Beirut having the same problem. We switched to Cairo’s timezone and it got resolved.

Apple has had such bugs before by end of a year or end/start of a Month. Usually the problem resolves itself the second day. Good luck!

Thank you for the tip, it was very helpful as many other apps were crashing on my device specially my finance app Money but Jumsoft, I reached out to them but they could not replicate the crashes I was experiencing.

Then I reached out to apple to see if the issue is related to my Calendar & my Reminder app, basically any app with a date & it was a full hour of disappointment, I felt like I was talking to someone from Microsoft, who the basic reply is always wipe the system & re-install, or even worse, AT&T with their generic answers.

I tried to ask him why should I wipe everything & restore, since I will be restoring the same corrupt system, I got no feedback, I just got a recommendation to restore. He didn't even ask any intelligent question. "Basic trouble shooting"

I still did not listen to them.

Once I change the time zone to manual & chose Cairo, my Money app started working again.

So, again, thank you

Apparently this is not a bug. This happens when your region is set to another country, so all you have to do is go to the settings app > language & region > change the region to your country of residence (Lebanon).

This should solve it.

Hello Rania,

If you wish to keep the Beirut time zone, I suggest you try to switch your automatic clock off.

after reading iTaher’s message, I switched the automatic clock in General Settings off and both applications are now working without crashing with the Beirut time zone.

I hope this helps.

Try a forced restart.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph8903c3ee6/ios

Try the workarounds suggested in the below video:

https://youtu.be/dyyVTv6GwJI

• Turn off screen time
• force restart your idevice
• reset network settings
• reset all settings

changed the time zone to greece since its closer to beirut and both apps worked flawlessly

Turn off screen time and then change the time zone from Beirut to anything else in General: Time and date

sadly I had to turn off the screen time while I have to control my 3 kids devices... I hope these crashes will be soon fixed!

Hi Manal - unfortunately I tried that on both the iPad and iPhone but it doesn’t work. For now best option still seems to be turning of the set automatically option AND changing time zone from Beirut to Cairo which is also +2 GMT.

I’d File a bug report but I’m currently using an older iOS version (13.5) which doesn’t have the bug.

But you can go to https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/

and report the bug stating that both calendar and clock apps are crashing when Beirut timezone is selected. Good luck!

Oh God! Apparently everything is crashing in Lebanon :S also having issues with Instagram and fb platforms as well ! Anw for me whenever I change the language on my iPhone it gets resolved try changing to UK, mine is set for Italian but keeping same time zone

I had the same problem too. I’ve been searching for hours. I changed to Cairo and it works! Thank you!

Very helpful. Once I switched to Cairo time zone it worked out.

Please everyone in this thread file a Bug report to Apple and it has a chance of being fixed. Apple will not pick it up from the forum.

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html