iOS 11 - Clock on lock screen disappears

After upgrading my iPhone SE to iOS 11, the clock on lock screen disappearred.

When I restart, the clock reappears, but again it disappears.

Is there any other solution other than restarting the iPhone?

iPhone SE, iOS 11

Posted on Sep 21, 2017 10:36 PM

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Posted on Oct 2, 2017 8:07 PM

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.

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Nov 8, 2017 7:56 AM in response to sampaul_d

I began having this issues on my iPhone 7 following the iOS 11 update. I reset the phone and set up as new. Nothing. Took the phone into apple countless times. They reinstalled 11, reset the phone again as new. Nothing. They gave me a brand new 7. Same thing. All the same steps again. I decided to upgrade to the 8 figuring that would get rid of the issue. After all, the 8 came installed with iOS 11... Set it up as new.. SAME THING. Take it back in. They swapped it out for another new 8. Mind you, it cost me money to upgrade in terms of new applecare and tax, for a phone I really didn't want as I was happy with my 7 and planned to own it in a year. I get a call back from applecare and they escalate it to engineering. They ask for a diagnostic and screenshot of the blank screen, and I provide it. The woman was very helpful at first, now she won't return my calls...


Nothing works for this issue. I thought possibly I had a corrupt file in the cloud, however, I have no problem with my iPad Air 2 running iOS 11.0.3 (same as my phone) and I have everything synced. So that's not it. Thought it was a horoscope website I started using. Cleared my Safari history and it stayed away for 8 days (!!!) before happening again. NOTHING WORKS to keep this horrible bug from returning.

Feb 2, 2018 6:35 AM in response to sampaul_d

I disabled all my widgets except the weather and calendar a couple days ago and so far so good, haven't had the issue considering it was happening every day. I'll be turning on my widget one by one on a weekly basis to see when the problem surfaces again. Regardless this isn't a fix for this issue. We should not be forced to turn off a convenient feature because Apple has no fix for the issue.

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