iOS 11 - Clock on lock screen disappears

I posted that I had this clock problem earlier, but I have no widgets (broken or otherwise) vying for the lock screen, so the problem is not necessarily anything to do with widgets. I did the Zoom on and off workaround and the clock is still displaying on the lock screen. The question now is: dare I upgrade again to iOS 11.0.3? Nothing in Apple’s notes to say this latest upgrade fixes this...

If the zoom worked then I would guess that there is a different item causing the lock screen to stop updating the clock display. I’d guess it’s one of the graphic drivers that crashes when it reads a stored zoom state that doesn’t make sense.

Anyway I’ve had no difference in any upgrade. They have not fixed the fact that the display of the lock screen gets into an error state and will not get out until a recycle is done. This recycle is in the reboot, power cycle, and bold text settings, and imagine elseware but I haven’t found it.

I am having the same issue on my 7 plus. Empty wallpaper on my lockscreen and the clock is missing. Restart/reboot/reset, none of them helped me solve the issue. Very annoying! Wanna get a fix from apple ASAP!

Have you tried shutting off some of the widgets and the notifications? It’s possible one or more of them are just not behaving well. It seems that once something crashes the clock display it won’t come back until the display is recycled which only happens on rare events like power and reboot. Also it seems that the apps that are having issues wont clear their data and stop crashing the display until after it’s been off for a while. And some may still crash. Apple could solve this by putting a frown on the culprits and stopping them but it’s been going on a while.

I WANT MINE TO DISAPPEAR!

I customize my lock screens and everything is positioned around the lock screen clock being on the left, now it’s plastered over everything I put up and it’s infuriating.

3,000 + pics ruined because I cannot move the clock!

IssaBous may be on to something.

This issue began 48 hours ago....when I changed my home screen background picture for the first time in over a year.

The 'zoom display' fix seems to have worked for now (whilst totally destroying my apps layout.

If the problem returns, I will attempt to see if changing my back ground picture again will fix it.

For what it’s worth this seems to be triggered on my device by the DND driving mode blocking a notification. I have to reboot and get the clock back on the lock screen until driving mode blocks a notification again. This only started in the last day or two for me.

I had it on iPhone 6s and also on iPhone 8 and once on iPad pro 10.5. Changed background, reduced widgets. Nothing helped. Temporary reboot or setting zoom level helped. Btw zoom settings is not present on iPad.

My girlfriend uses that 6s and it doesn't happen to her.

It has been suggested to me that it could be provider related. I was loathe to believe this because it happened while I was in Indonesia and then again in Taipei. Hardly the same provider but who knows. Now in Japan, no issues for 48 hrs.

I wished for this issue to be corrected in the new ios 11.1 update! I freaking hete it as it HAS PERSISTED WITH MY 7 plus!!!!!!clock and all the notification just disappears leaving a blank screen!!! Itz better apple addresses this **** soon!it is very irritating!

Settings - Display - zoom worked for me, but note that doing so actually re-starts the phone, so it’s essentially the same as restarting the phone.

I’ve been having this problem on my 6s since updating to iOS 11.0.3 (from iOS 10.) Clearly a bug - one of many bugs I’ve encountered in iOS 11.

It has been suggested to me that it could be provider related. I was loathe to believe this because it happened while I was in Indonesia and then again in Taipei. Hardly the same provider but who knows. Now in Japan, no issues for 48 hrs

Reading one of the posts about carrier related is interesting, but I think it's just coincidental. I switched from T-Mobile to Verizon right around the time I started experiencing the problem.

Here's where I am now. I believe it to be the Goole Keyboard Gboard or maybe just a 3rd party keyboard. As soon as I take Gboard off the problem doesn't return. I had the problem on the iPhone 7+. I upgraded to the iPhone X over the weekend and thought I'd give the Gboard a go and sure enough, the clock disappeared shortly afterwards. I removed it and so far it hasn't returned. Too bad, I really enjoy the Gboard keyboard.

I'm going to try another 3rd party keyboard.

Don’t think it’s carrier specific - it seems like a bug in the notifications display routine of the OS. I’m on T-mo and am routinely experiencing it. I don’t have any 3rd party keyboards installed, so I can elimanate that. I tried the display zoom - unzoom trick and the problem returned within an hour. Then I tried just leaving it zoomed and it hasn‘t recurred for about 16 hours, which is a start.

Going to updated to 11.1 - sounds like that doesn’t fix it either, but maybe it will fix some of the other bugs. iOS 11 is an entomologist’s delight.

Unfortunately 11.1 didn't help. I'm experiencing it pretty often on my iPhone X (GSM only), iPhone 7 (Verizon) and iPhone SE (GSM only).

The workaround of using zoomed display does not apply on iPhone X as this option does not exist for this model.

Greg