Sunrise / sunset application does not show time

Hi extricated, I had the same concern.

But figured since I didn't have that much stuff (i haven't loaded that many apps yet) I'd go for it.

a. it *was* like starting over again with a brand new watch (in terms of the very first steps of pairing, setting a PIN, etc. at first

but then it

b. it restored my original settings after I put in my dot mac account ID and password from a back up

everything - data, apps, settings - is restored and better yet, now works.

(this situation happened all of the time with the early versions of the ipod, iphone, etc. -- now the progress bar is a circle rather than a straight line. But it's a déja vu!)

both steps took several minutes. (I didn't time it).

This worked perfectly! Thank you

I just wanted to update my recommendation from May 25.

I encountered the problem yet again when I left the house with the iPhone but without the watch. When I came home, sunrise/sunset were again blank on my watch.

This time I skipped step 2 altogether and didn't touch the wifi settings but followed all the other steps and it worked. It seems to somehow force the watch faces to refresh and therefore obtain the sunrise/sunset data again.

Thanks for the response CarolynD!

Bonus points to you for the "dot mac" reference! 😉

Those were the days ...

I'm having the same issue and none of the proposed remedies are working for me. Please halp!

Having same issue since updating to 1.0.1. Tried these steps and worked, but again times didnt show again 2 days later. I didnt want to reset again, so I went to the iphone Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Weather, select "Never", back out. Then go back and select "Always". Opened the weather app on the watch, (make sure you're on the first page if you have more than one location for weather, should have the GPS symbol to the left of the city name) and sunrise/sunset started showing again, as well as the solar and astronomy faces too.

Just to say I have this too and none of the (reasonably quick!) fixes here works for me - but it comes and goes anyway during the day (that is sometimes the data show and sometimes they don't). AND - world time (on the watch) is always showing sunrise/sunset and the watch clearly knows my location (maps etc.), and the phone knows location and sunrise/sunset, too.

This is clearly a bug which I hope will be fixed in 1.0.2.

Thanks. This solved the issue in mine as well.

After reading many suggestions...

I Just turned Airplane mode on my watch [Mirrored so my phone went into airplane mode also]. Put Watch back on leaving phone disconnected on airplane mode. Sat still inside with neither my watch or my phone connected to each other or WiFi. Saw the sunset time, turned airplane mode off on my phone and it worked ... so far :-)

The sunrise/sunset complication is very flaky. It will stop display after charging at times. This is clearly a bug.

Thanks for writing this up! It looks like a pretty thorough way of forcing a disconnection, reconnection, and location refresh.

After a couple of losses of sunrise/sunset over the past few weeks, my steps (and other variants of them) stopped working, and yours didn't work either. I've rebooted my watch and am waiting to see if I can get it to come back up.

Even after a reboot, the location for watch faces won't load. Bummer.

The loss of sunset/sunrise times (and loss of position on astronomy face etc) has happened to me several times and it seems to be when there is no wifi connected to my phone and also a period of disconnection between the phone and watch.

Once I'm back with the phone connected to a wifi zone eg at home, the steps I had described on earlier post so far has worked consistently for me (touch wood) to get the sunrise/sunset times back.

When I try the steps to get the sunrise times back when there's no wifi connection on the phone eg after a flight, it doesn't seem to refresh If there is only a cellular connection.

its definitely a frustrating issue which seems to takes some of the fun out of using the watch.

This is a pretty crazy bug. I left my phone's bluetooth off while I was out, so the watch would stay disconnected once I got home. When I got home and turned BT back on, it reconnected, it still didn't pull location. I turned off wifi and BT again, and as soon as it disconnected from the phone, it got a location fix in the Earth watch face. Hypothesis: the watch was on my home wifi, which has a known location in wifi databases, so that was enough.

All of this to say:

If you're having problems with your watch's location in the watch faces, try cycling Bluetooth and Wi-Fi off and back on on your phone. Next, try rebooting your watch. Next, try cycling Bluetooth and Wi-Fi again, and roaming off and back onto a known Wi-Fi network.

But! You shouldn't ever need to reset and re-pair the watch.

YES! Finally this is the easiest and quickest fix. Although the resetting re-pairing stuff does it too all its really doing is activating the location finding. Just do as stated and open maps on the watch. Once your location is found the sunrise/sunset data is refreshed on the watch. This is assuming you have location services allowed for watch faces (as most already do). Thanks for this and hope Apple fixes this bug in the next update.