Can the time of day be moved to middle or right side of status bar?

I dropped my iPhone yesterday, and the only problem is that the very top left of my screen was cracked, and there’s now a black blob where the time should be. I’m assuming the black blob is due to pixel damage. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing else wrong with the phone, but not being able to glance up to the left corner while on a zoom call, scrolling Facebook, or simply ANYTHING on my phone has been a total pain in the behind. I never realized how many times I checked the time on a daily basis, but it’s a lot and losing that luxury is not something I’m okay with. I thought this would be a simple fix. I’d just rearrange my status icons and put the Bluetooth, wifi, and cell service indicators on the left side of my screen, and move the time over to the middle or to the right, next to the battery icon. Nope! Not happening. Not even possible from what I’ve found. Spent over an hour with Apple yesterday. They have experts calling me at 2:30 tomorrow to discuss. I can’t even find an obnoxious app that will offer a status bar that shows the time of day on my phone. Googling and YouTubing hasn’t offered any help. I keep finding items that show how to keep the time on my Lock Screen (not my issue) or that want to help me find my screen time usage (not my issue). I simply want to look at the top left of my phone while using an app or just looking at my home screen and see what time it is. I really hate that a company with such wonderful technology can’t help me move the time a few millimeters from where the black blob is, or to the top center, or to the right, where the other status icons are located.


The circled picture (or a similar option) is all I want! The picture above that (with the time in the left corner) is no longer an option because of the crack and pixel damage. Of all places for this to happen!



Please help!

Posted on Oct 13, 2022 11:32 PM

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Can the time of day be moved to middle or right side of status bar?

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