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

once you tap the clock widget, you also have to double tap it again to bring up the option to select another city.

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.

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 :-(

Deleting the widget and adding it back is the ONLY way that I was able to get the correct time zone! Thanks!!!

Hi Everyone,

There are a lot of answers here. They are all wrong. I figured it out. It is indeed a glitch and I give apple a bad apple because the default clock is wrong and will remain wrong (for many people). HERE IS THE FIX: 1) Delete the clock, 2) choose another clock or even choose the same one after deleting. That's it. However, if you keep the clock widget they gave you by default, that time does not reconcile, at least not on my iPhone 15 Pro so I recommend deleting and adding a clock and it should resolve. .. I hope. Good luck!

I found the trick is DO NOT TYPE IN the city name. Select it from the list. Use the letters on the right side to scroll. I had to do it twice because first time I was scrolling I must have clicked on the screen somewhere. Still overly complicated.

kairos33 wrote:

Apologize if I was mistaken. Shouldn’t have come off so strongly. When I read the things above, I didn’t find one that said you must first delete the widget. I only read that you can play with other widgets

Both are options. If you want to use the City widget, you need to change the city to one and the same city. You can have widgets for up to three cities, in fact. But, if you don't want to see the time in another city, it makes sense not to use the City widgets and use the Clock widgets instead. In that case, delete the City widget from the stack.

Hit the ➕ on upper left for additional add ons. Type Clock into search window for other clock options. You’ll see 1 appear. Touch it and a display appears you may swipe through to select other clocks.

Delete the City time widget and select a different one.

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..

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!

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.

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.

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.

Bottom line is their default widget will not work (on many phones) so you cannot get it to work. It won’t. You have to use another widget and that needs to be made abundantly clear that it is an apple error.