Recently updated my iPhone 6S to iOS 10.0.1.
After a recent power failure, I was re-setting various clocks and discovered that the Apple "Clock" app no longer displays seconds in the "WorldClock" pane. In addition, I'm unable to change to the "analog-style" clock faces in that app. The app icon does have a tiny second hand in the home screen, but that's kind of hard to use when trying to set clocks to the second. Any thoughts?
iPhone 4, iOS 5, Siri
The option to show seconds either on the status bar or lock screen (or ideally both) is a badly needed feature. I work in the transportation industry and seconds are critical to us. I hope Apple can devise a fix with the next iOS update.
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I've been browsing iphone blogs for years looking for a solution for the missing clock seconds on the lock screen. Since my iPhone opens with a clock face, I stopped wearing a watch about 3 years ago, which has me check in every now and then to see if Apple has possibly responded to this clock-seconds request. Unfortunately they went in the opposite direction and removed second from the world clock.
Recently I ran across the Zoom feature, which may help some of those who need seconds. It's not an elegant solution and may cause more problems than it's worth for some, but it works great for me. I turn it on when I get in my car in the morning and it gets me to the train station with seconds to spare.
Settings, General, Accessability, Zoom.
It's got a lot of features to experiment with (window, etc.), but I just turned the switch on (I also set it to maximum zoom). When I want to see seconds I double tap the screen with 3 fingers and pan with 3 fingers to the clock icon. The icon is now huge and the second hand is clearly visible. Double tap again to turn it off.
It took me 3 or 4 mornings for my brain to get used to judging the minutes without the tick marks, but it's just like riding a bike...
As far as I know, the World Clock can't do that anymore, which is a pity. I wonder why they decided to remove it. Maybe it used too much battery power?
Thanks for pointing out that the app icon displays the second hand, I never noticed that before.
It's been discussed here too, but the only solution they suggest is to get an app:
Very sad apple removed this very basic feature. Getting another app just to get a second hand seems ridiculous.
If you place your clock icon just below and to the left of the digital time shown on the top row, then with max zoom you can pan to include both digital minutes and analog seconds.
iOS 10 - How to get Clock to display seconds?
