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

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!!

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).

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.

Found an alternate solution if you have only the City Clock widget with Cupertino noted in Standby Mode showing, it is to long-press the widget to get into the edit Widgets available mode, then (and this is what I haven't seen anyone else or anywhere else note) don't long-press the Clock Widget; but a quick double tap of your finger, should bring up the edit mode, where you can search of your closest city.

I am on an iPhone 14, and this only started working with IOS 17.0.3, prior to that, I couldn't edit the City Clock widget except to remove and add it anew; but then, it would default back to Cupertino.

I hope this helps someone.

Also, it is not intuitive and should be an option in the System's Settings > Standby Mode page to change or should default (as others have noted) to the System Settings timezone setting.

JLG89 wrote:

See above. If you pick one of the "City" clock widgets, the clock ALWAYS shows the time in that city, doesn't matter where the phone is in the world. The only way to have the clock always show the time that is shown on the face of the iPhone, you must pick one of the clock widgets that DOES NOT have "City" in its name.

I say that about once a page in threads like this. Maybe people will pay attention to you..... ;-)

You can edit the Widget.

While in StandBy mode:

Press and hold the widget to enter "Widget Editing"

Tap once on the clock you want to modify (one very quick tap)

Press on the city (Default value is Cupertino, U.S.A.)

Change the value and return to the widget editing section.

Tap "Done" to save the values.

You have two options. One, change the clock widget from the City Widget to a standard clock or two, change the city. To change, press and hold on the Clock on the screen in standby mode (authenticate as required). To change to a different widget, tap the plus button in the upper left corner. To change the city, just tap on the current widget. It will flip over and you can choose a different city in the list by scrolling down or by typing the name of the city you're looking for.

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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.

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.