Clock missing from lock screen after iOS 11 update

I had the problem both on my old iPhone 7, new iPhone X, and iPad Pro.

Since disabling the discover card widget no reoccurrence for over 3 weeks. Kept News, WSJ and Maps active.

There may be other offending widgets but it is clear that the discover widget causes problems for many.

I deleted the discover widget as well, but only 4 days ago. While I’m not holding my breath, I’m encouraged by your 3 weeks. The longest I’ve gone was 8 days (with the discover widget enabled). I wonder if anyone has left feedback on the discover app? I also wonder if everyone who is experiencing this is using this particular widget or are other banking apps culprits as well.

I have iPhone SE. I had the disappearing / blank lock screen so I deleted all Widgets and problem went away completely. I did use the Discover Card so I may do some tests to see if re-enabling that widget causes the issue to reoccur

It hadn't happened in a month before yesterday so I hadn't been watching this forum. Hadn't noticed the Discover widget connection. I just removed it. We'll see if it happens again. Thanks! Still hesitant to upgrade IOS. iPhone 7 11.0.2

Same here . Powering it off and on works but after a while of normal use it goes back to not showing the clock, and it won’t show any pop up text notifications.

Iphone 6S 128 Gb with the latest iOS 11.2 installed.

Though this resolved the clock coming back, the camera from lock screen will display the blank screen with wallpaper. I am confident this is a bug with Camera and how they coded to invoke from lock screen. It gets messed up when you hold the phone by touching the screen accidentally.

Have the same thing with the camera app just showing the blank lock screen when triggered from control center on lock screen. Closing the camera app from multitasking did not bring back the clock though.

Last time I had this issue it was triggered by getting a message notification, not using the camera app. Also, when I pull down the notifications screen when unlocked, I get the same blank lock screen. It's not just a camera issue, it's something deeper where views are getting mixed up.

I had the same issue since iOS 11 was in beta. I got a tip from someone here that if you have the Discover App widget removed it will solve the issue and it’s actually worked for some time now. I also removed the weather widget and have kept 5 widgets. Hope this helps

I completely agree. I removed the Discover card widget and haven’t had an issue for 16 days and counting. I dont think it has anything to do with the camera, notifications or wallpapers at all. I tried everything else suggested here and it wasn’t until I removed the discover widget did it finally stop. I have every other widget enabled Including weather, news, find friends, Waze...

Oops. I was mistaken. Only widgets on for me: News, Amazon, Fandango, iShows, Waze, and Yelp....

So are you stating that we need to stop using all widgets to get this bug to go away?

This seems counter productive, in that I use the widgets daily, but this bug only happens occasionally. So I lose daily productivity over this bug? hmm... disappointing.

It’s defintely not a coincidence. However, I will acknowledge that it’s possible there are different widgets that could theoretically cause the same problem. Try removing widgets one at a time until the problem stops. I would be willing to bet money that this problem has something to do with a specific kind of profile being used by some builds under the widget feature.

I’ve had this issue since iOS 11 went on public beta and did remove my Discover Card widget and I haven’t had this bug pop up since, maybe it is a coincidence but it worked. Hopefully Apple addresses it soon

Not random luck. Many people have reported continued success with the removal of the discover widget. Some others have reported success with the removal of other banking apps. If you use Visa, I would suggest removing that one first. I went from having to reboot up to five times per day for 6 weeks and through four brand new phones, to not at all for the past 20 days and counting.

This has been addressed many many times on this post. You need to remove widgets. Some widgets are the cause of this issue. The one that I know caused my problem was the Discover CC. Ever since I removed it I have not had the issue.

Did you find any permanent solution? I visited to Apple store for almost 6 times for my iPhone7, even they were clueless, they suggested me to restart, hard reset, DFU reset and later they swapped my phone but still the same issue with the new one. They even blamed me saying my backups or apps are corrupted which was silly.

I also bought iPhone X on 1st January and today again I'm facing the same issue so ANNOYING 😟.