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

To change the standby city/clock time do the following:

• In standby mode with phone on the side, plugged in and clock visible, long press the clock until you get the widgets.
• Tap the clock widget
• You should now see a city change box where you click on the city to change
• A city list of available cities appear and you can scroll or search for the city and SELECT the city. The city change box now shows with your selected city.
• You MUST click on the screen somewhere OUTSIDE of the city change box.
• The widgets appear and press done.

The standby city/clock time should be correct.

No -- it was set to Cupertino, but it took me less than 5min to figure how to set this clock to EDT which I posted in the beginning of this thread when I did it.

FWIW, I have tried time and again to get my iPhone to ENTER Standby mode. No deal. You cannot imagine all of the acrobatics I have done with the phone while it is plugged in and charging, and no go. All Standby settings are correct.

JOe21569 wrote:

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.

Or chose one of the clock widgets that is not tied to a city. Or edit the city.

I have two clocks in the Standby window. The first is the one that has all twelve hour numbers. It is set to Cupertino. The second clock is the stylized one. It is the one with only 12 3, 6, and 9 on it. I do not remember what city this second clock was set to. I would prefer to use the first clock.

I went into the edit window. I held down the face of the first clock. It turned over. I entered the name of my city. I let the iPhone go back into Standby. The first clock reopened to Cupertino time.

Following the instructions in this thread I went into the edit window. I could not delete the first clock, the one set to Cupertino. I did not try to delete the second clock.

I went into World Clock. In there I had two cities. The first was New York City. The second was where I am. I deleted NYC from my World Clock.

I returned to the Standby clocks. Now I cannot edit either clock, nor can I delete them. The first clock, the one I prefer, still shows Cupertino time. The second clock, the stylized one, shows my correct time zone, but whether this clock is set to the correct city, I do not know. Neither this clock nor the one I prefer will turn over and show me what cities they are set to.

I try pressing on the minus sign in an attempt to delete these two clocks. IOS does not respond. These two clocks are still there in Standby.

I do not see in Standby any area on the right offering replacement widgets--unless it is the blue tool "widget suggestions." I have "widget suggestions" on, BUT I get no response from the iPhone when i press the blue icon above the caption.

R_55a wrote:

I do not see in Standby any area on the right offering replacement widgets--unless it is the blue tool "widget suggestions." I have "widget suggestions" on, BUT I get no response from the iPhone when i press the blue icon above the caption.

The additional widgets are on the left side of the screen. You access them by tapping the little "+" in the upper left corner.

Now my Standby screen is showing me a photograph of a flowery bush. Standby instructs me to open the photograph in Preview.

I have no idea why I am looking at pretty flowers. How do I get back to the first Standby clock and the Standby calendar that appeared earlier this afternoon?

It worked different for me. When I opened the Cupertino clock, I found that, if I scrolled down fast enough, I could find my city way, way down the list. Then I clicked on the name of the city. That name replaced Cupertino. When I closed the clock, it spun around and showed the correct time for my time zone.

What I had tried to do yesterday was to type the name of my city into the window on the back of the clock. That did not work. The clock refused to accept the name of the city that I had typed in. What I find today is that I have use the pull-down menu on the back of the clock.

But I have to be fast on using the pull-down menu within the clock. Three times I was too slow, and Standby took me to the next widget.

In contrast to what others have written in this thread, I did not have to delete my clock and then go look for the same clock with the name of my city.

I did not see a plus sign. But i did find my missing widgets hiding off to the left of the screen. All I had to do was to keep moving my finger to the right, and eventually I found Standby moving back to the widgets that I had started with and was looking for again.

The name of the city appears on the back of the clock widget. It turns out that that city-name window is actually a pull-down menu. I found the pull-down function by random finger movements. Pull down that menu to a city in your time zone and click the clock to go back to its obverse.

Be persistent in using the pull-down menu. Three times this menu took me to the next Standby widget instead of the name of the city I wanted in the clock.

Using this pull-down menu obviates the necessity of deleting and reinstalling a widget.

I felt the same as you for what seems the same frustrating time, alas I found instead of writing the city in the search, scroll through and select, once you’ve selected the city and it turns and says your city instead of Cup etc tap the clock and it returns to the main screen with the changed city..

While I managed to select the correct city / time zone, it would never be remembered.

Till I found out by chance that after having selected the correct city, just tapping outside of the widget would close the selection dialogue and save its new setting.

Somewhat clandestine. And no Save button to be seen :-(

Yup. All settings are correct. I'm beginning to suspect you need a stand for this to work, but from my understanding you just have to plug it into the charger and "set the phone on its side".

Go figure....

Finally got the phone to "react". Had to turn it on its side, back...on its side again...etc...; turn off the screen; tap it multiple times to get Standby to "wake up". Once it happens the first time, it usually works once it is on its side.

Apple seems to default to feeding customers the time and weather in Cupertino, as opposed to defaulting to current location. Don't know why they think anyone outside Cupertino wants that? I had a hard time getting Cupertino to stop showing up in my weather app an iOS version or two ago, as well.