Apple watch on family sharing shows wrong time zone

I just set up an apple watch SE on family sharing. I set it up when we were in another time zone, and now I can't figure out how to update the time zone.


How can I set the correct time zone?

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Posted on Aug 10, 2021 12:53 PM

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Posted on Aug 10, 2021 1:31 PM

The watch is supposed to get the time information from the paired iPhone. The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Aug 10, 2021 1:31 PM in response to dlebauer

The watch is supposed to get the time information from the paired iPhone. The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


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Apple watch on family sharing shows wrong time zone

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