assistive access clock not active / Can I add Widget instead?

Yes, exactly. Not showing the date is pretty close to a show-stopper for my grandma.

For someone who is really challenged to remember what the date is or what day of week it is, this is so critical.

And the calendar icon normally shows this correctly, but in Assistive Access all the app icons become static which is really frustrating. The calendar icon always says WED 28 which is absolutely worse than not showing any date or time.

Assistive Access has been out for nearly a year and it's still a bit buggy. I'm very glad Apple is thinking about this and doing something, but it needs more attention urgently.

@Apple if you're listening, I will buy a new iPhone for my grandma if you fix this. Just give us the date on the home screen (and preferably a setting to allow the dynamic app icons because the calendar icon always has the wrong date).

Thank you for posting about this. We just faced the same issue. Apple - assistive access is wonderful however if the time and date icons are fixed on the wrong date and time the usefulness goes away. People with dementia don’t understand to tap it in order to find more information. It creates confusion. As update would be wonderful.

Still the same problem July 2024. The clock is a fixed icon set at the wrong time. When is there likely to be an update please? It is causing SO much confusion for my mother.

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