Apple Watch Ultra, setting time zone manually

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Apple Watch Ultra, setting time zone manually

I have an Apple Watch Ultra, and I live on the border of two time zones. I set my phone to stay on Eastern time, otherwise, it will jump back and forth and I won’t really know what time it is. As long as my watch is connected to my phone, it stays on Eastern time as well. But, if I leave my phone somewhere and go without it, my Apple Watch jumps back and forth between time zones, which has caused problems on multiple occasions. I’ve looked through the watch settings and the watch app on the phone, and struggle to find a solution. On older Apple Watches this wasn’t an issue, my watch would keep as its settings whatever my phone settings were, regardless of whether they are connected. As you can imagine, going for a thirty-minute run and finishing half an hour before you started can be a bit of an issue (not to mention when you are an hour late because your watch arbitrarily decided to change the time). Any help would be much appreciated.

Apple Watch Ultra, watchOS 9

Posted on Sep 23, 2023 5:13 AM

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Answer 1

Vilas_S

Community Specialist

Sep 26, 2023 6:07 PM in response to Herston

Hello Herston,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities. We want to help you with your Apple Watch. To start off let's try the following steps below to see if that helps address this time zone issue:

1.) Refresh thing by restarting both your iPhone and Apple Watch:

2.) Make sure all updates have ben installed on both devices. This can help fix unexpected behaviors:

3.) If these steps don't help out, you might need to unpair and re-pair your Apple Watch to your iPhone and test to see if this issue gets sorted out. Just in case, the resources below can guide you through the unpairing process:

We hope these steps help you. Thank you for using Apple Support Communities. Take care.

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garciaxa

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Oct 22, 2023 11:16 PM in response to Herston

Set your time zone manually on your iPhone then disable location services, try disable it only on your Apple watch. If that don't work disable it on both. That's the only way I have been able to keep the watch from automatically changing time zone when not connected to your phone via Bluetooth.

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Herston Author

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Oct 23, 2023 7:44 AM in response to garciaxa

Thanks. The previous responses didn’t do anything but waste a good bit of time, so I’m more than happy to give that a try.

I haven’t been able to find a specific location services setting on the watch, but I’ve gone ahead and disabled it on my phone.

if you know of a specific setting that needs to be turned off on the watch, please let me know. Thanks

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Apple Watch Ultra, setting time zone manually

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