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My iPhone clock is ahead

Hello,


After updating to iOS 9 yesterday I went on time.is to check my clock accuracy (I do this like twice a week) and it shows my iPhone clock is 5.2 seconds ahead.


My Mac Clock is 100% accurate. My Time settings on my iPhone is automatic.


Could y'all please help me with how I could get this to 100% accurate time? Honeslty with iOS 8 it was never off by ±0.200 Seconds


I'm using an iPhone 6


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iPhone 6, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 19, 2015 12:43 AM

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Sep 30, 2015 7:15 AM in response to nkh

On the Time.is site: click a city in your TimeZone. When I do that the time is exactly the same as on my laptop, although before my click it said that my iPhoen is 8.9 secs ahead.

I am very interested what the Apple Genius has to say about this phenomenon...

It seems from this thread that you are note alone...

Sep 30, 2015 7:45 AM in response to Lexiepex

I seem unable to locate the "Time.is" button on my iPhone. However, when I depress the clock icon, I get three clocks: Cupertino, New York, and Madison (that's me). The second hands on all 3 clocks agree at +43 seconds.


I tried jack_reacher's "trick" of switching on/off automatic time set: it did nothing for me. I wonder why it worked for him!

Sep 30, 2015 12:19 PM in response to Lexiepex

I took iPhone 6 to Genius bar and they were unable to fix the issue of drifting time. They figured it was a hardware problem (conflicting with iOS 9) so they replaced the phone!!! Time now is correct! 🙂


New problem, however... after I connect to my Wi-Fi, it no longer shows connection strength on top of screen... will have to work this out! 😟

Oct 1, 2015 2:49 AM in response to Lexiepex

It appears there was a conflict between the iOS 9 updates and the hardware in some iPhones. The 9.0.2 update of yesterday did not appear to correct the problem; my local Apple Store thought the best option (as they had no solution!) was to replace the iPhone (my data was secure on iCloud). As of this morning the clock in the new iPhone is correct and I can only feel that their analysis of there being a software anomaly in some earlier phones was correct!


Last Saturday at a regular social get-together I met another iPhone user (think it was a 5) who had updated to iOS 9 and I was dumbfounded when I saw his clock was absolutely correct, whereas mine was about +20 secs at that time. So, the problem lay in certain phones and not just the updates!


My Wi-Fi problem was an incorrect password - easily corrected!

My iPhone clock is ahead

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