iOS 11 - Clock on lock screen disappears

Looks like this is (maybe) a perm fix. I have had this issue since 11 and re-boot no luck, reset and reinstall from backup no luck, reinstall totally clean no luck. But this easy fix / workaround seems to have worked:

Settings -> Display -> View -> Zoomed and then Settings -> Display -> View -> Standard.

So far almost a full day and no disappearing clock.

I have the same problem after upgrading to iOS 11 on iPhone 7 (I didn't use beta previously), but swiping down doesn't help it, I have to wait until it randomly fixes itself or restart the device, it's very annoying.

Yeah I'm having the same issue and today I noticed that none of my notifications are coming through. My phone lights up like a notification has been received but my lock screen is blank except for my wallpaper.

The only banking widget I have is the ING bank app (dutch bank) When my Clock disappears again I will remove it and see if that works.

And does the iPad also have this issue?

(I deleted my bank details but this is how my bank widget looks like: )

Hi sampaul_d, and all others who came upon this problem,

Your problem is a bug which Apple might resolve in a future update.

You can try sending feedback directly to Apple: Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Then, the only thing that you can do is wait patiently untill the next update.

I hope this helps.

+1 For zoom/standard. So far so good. I was in fact messing around with the zoom, in an effort to get the landscape keyboard to be big again. Sorta works... but I can't deal with the jumbo icons. I like the clock more than the big keyboard. But I wish it would come back the way it was.

I have tried everything to resolve this issue, even deleting my entire iCloud backup and reinstalling my iPhone. After some time the issue came back. Sure, the issue is fixed when you change your display zoom back and forth but this also a temporary solution.

I think it's up to apple to give us a permanent solution. Shame they haven't replied yet. Customer service at it's finest.

Blunt,

With mine (iPhone 7) I was able to change the view to zoom, exit, go back and change it again to standard and its been good so far. Maybe not when I reboot but who cares how often do you reboot an iPhone? I'm sure some day it will just start working again much like the BT issue last year on the SEs.

Having same issue on iPhone 8 with 11.0.2. Clock disappears. Reappears after restart ONLY. Nothing works when I swipe down or change zoom. It’s freaking annoying. You’d think Apple would have fixed this after the beta did the same thing.

After I upgraded to 11.0.1, my clock started disappearing. I updated to 11.0.2 and my clock starts disappearing again. C'mon Apple, get it together. I'm also not seeing any notifications and when I do, they don't clear out. This upgrade is absolutely the worst.

I don't understand what this post is suggesting. There is no Settings -> Display screen in iOS 11. It is Settings -> Display & Brightness. Under that there is no View. Where exactly is "Settings -> Display -> View -> Zoomed"?

Same for me but if you go to Display & Brightness>Bold Text and just turn that on it doesn’t really do a power but just requires a password. It did the trick just setting it bold then back but we will see. I have the 6SE so this may be the reason for the missing of the zoom.

I have found another Zoom under

Settings>General>Accessibility>Zoom and setting the zoom on, and changing the zoom then turning it off may be what they are talking about here. Not sure if that did anything as I have been messing with a few other things as well.

I did notice that I can tell when this was about to happen by looking at the widgets. They would be stuck not showing as well as the camera not showing. I removed 2 widgets 1 for my bank and 1 for weather and the missing clock has not happened for the last 2 days.

Has anyone else tried removing some of the widgets?

Ok so this is what is am seeing. I put my Bank widget back on and now and see what I think was going on. The Bank widget is never supposed to display the balance on the lock screen. When it was on before it would actually show the balance and never show the message that it can’t show it on the lock screen.

What it appeared to be doing was eventually getting to the point of trying to not show the balance on the lock screen but not getting there and that was blocking everything from displaying their data on the lock screen as well. This also looks to be what blocks the clock and the camera from displaying on the lock screen.

I would guess that this may happen with any broken widget timing out the display of data.

So please see if pulling widgets off till you get rid of the broken ones eliminates this clock missing on the lock mess.