How can I change Standby mode's time zone after iOS 17 update?

Rather than make all your users go through all this nonsense, can Apple

just accept this is a bug that should be fixed immediately?

Press and hold the clock widget--remove the clock widget (-)--press (+)--scroll down on the left side and choose clock--on the right side, swipe the clocks left or right and choose clock l for New York EDT--choose 'add widget', then choose done.

This is the way. People, look at the widgets. There are "Clock" widgets, and there are "City Clock" widgets. Why in the world Apple made a "City Clock" widget the default instead of a standard "Clock" widget that automatically shows the local time according to your device settings...I'll never know. What a boneheaded decision THAT was. At any rate, as IdrisSeabright has pointed out multiple times, you have to DELETE the default "City Clock" widget and add one of the generic "Clock" widgets (which, conveniently, are at the beginning of the clock widget list).

Hi boaster_11! If you long press the clock face while in Standby mode you'll be able to edit your widgets. Tap the clock widget you wish to update and you'll be given an option to select a city for your time zone. Hope this helps!!

I moved the photographs in Standby to the left, and now I am looking at the second analog Standby clock. It takes up the whole of my iPhone screen. When I scroll up, I get several new digital clocks, none of which I want. How do I get back to the first analog clock and calendar that Standby first showed?

I've tried this a dozen times. Most of the time, it kicks back to the standby mode, still showing Cupertino, before I finish typing the city name, or scrolling down to the city. Three times after successfully selecting the new city, it still showed Cupertino when I got back to the standby mode.

Help!

Regarding the standby clock. I had the same issue. What you need to do is once you pick your new city is press black area outside of the city ID box. If you press cancel or let it time out it will go back to CUP...

Hmmm. I haven't had much difficulty with my iPhone 11 Pro. I put it on my wireless charging stand in landscape. Because I'm impatient, I tap the power button. Standby pops up. You have turned in on in Settings>Standby, right?

Then select a different clock widget. Anything but the ones with the word "City" in the title should work.

Thank you!

I think the user interface is very counterintuitive. I figured long pressing on the clock widget to get into widget edit mode. I then tried similarly long pressing on the icon in the widget editing display, and expected to see settings. There was nothing suggesting a simple tap on the widget would show settings. Why not just add a visible "Edit" icon or text that one can click? I don't think this is a very good UX the way it is currently implemented.

And why default to Cupertino timezone and not the local timezone? It's like the Apple devs thinks everyone either lives in Cupertino or wants to know their time.

Agree. It still doesn't work. And by select a different clock widget, I don't know what you mean. There are no other clock options when I hold press, I can swipe up for other things but no other clocks. I can swipe through but it just shows other options like calendar. Please advise. I could really use help

JLG89 wrote:

This is the way. People, look at the widgets. There are "Clock" widgets, and there are "City Clock" widgets. Why in the world Apple made a "City Clock" widget the default instead of a standard "Clock" widget that automatically shows the local time according to your device settings...I'll never know. What a boneheaded decision THAT was. At any rate, as IdrisSeabright has pointed out multiple times, you have to DELETE the default "City Clock" widget and add one of the generic "Clock" widgets (which, conveniently, are at the beginning of the clock widget list).

I agree this was not what I would consider one of Apple's better decisions. But, it's not unprecedented. The default city in the iOS Weather app is Cupertino. Over the years, there have been a lot of questions about that as well.

zitsky wrote:

What happens when you travel and cross time zones? You have to change the clock if it’s from a different time zone?

No, you chose one of the clock widgets that's not linked to a city. The widgets titled "Clock..." will change time zones with the iPhone.

kairos33 wrote:

Agree. It still doesn't work. And by select a different clock widget, I don't know what you mean. There are no other clock options when I hold press, I can swipe up for other things but no other clocks. I can swipe through but it just shows other options like calendar. Please advise. I could really use help

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/7bb6c8dd-91e9-48bc-9189-da87a3eceb81

Tap on the "+" button in the upper left, then, swipe down to "Clock". The first one that appears is called "Clock I" it has no city. Add that. Then, make sure you remove the City clock from the stack. Swipe up and down to move through the stack and delete the clock app with "CUP" on it.

kairos33 wrote:

Yep, good feedback. And good criticism. People are so afraid to criticize Apple on this forum, and when they do the defenders, get hyper defensive so many terrible decisions.

People criticize Apple all the time on these forums. As long as your civil, go right ahead. However, if you want Apple to hear your concerns, you should use the feedback page as Apple won't see it here.

Product Feedback - Apple

Also, note that what you perceive as people being defensive about terrible decisions may just be people who disagree with your assessment that the decision is terrible.