iOS 11 - Clock on lock screen disappears

Yep same here, This issue also followed me from iPhone 6s to the iPhone 8. The only conclusion I can come up with is that it might have something to do with my iTunes account because the problem comes back even when I configured my iPhone as a new iPhone.

I use my Gmail account go log into my iCloud and such. Maybe it has something to do with that? Anyone else?

I am also trying your wallpaper theory. I also never changed my wallpaper from default to custom. Now I have!

And I really hope Apple releases a software update soon because this is just really getting on my nerve. We pay so much money for an iPhone because we all love it's functionality but this is just taking waaaay to long.

Are you using a banking widget? Discover perhaps? I, and others, seem to have narrowed it down to that. One guy removed his discover card widget and was at three weeks when he reported. I gave it a shot and did the same. I’ve been 10 days and counting.

At first I thought it had to do with my account as well except I have no issues with my iPad. So that ruled out an iCloud issue

Changing wallpaper had absolutely no effect for me at all.

Yea ill wait till it happens again. If it does, I will remove the banking widget and see from there.

Also, last iOS update: "Introduces three new Live wallpapers for iPhone X"??? REALLY? why can't Apple focus on fixing bugs first and then introduce sh*t like new live wallpapers, that will only drain your batteries more. nobody cares.

Also what is happening to this forum? When I am writing an reply I get send to the top of the page. They can't even make a forum work.

You are on the right track here. The problem for me is all centered around the widgets in the widgets page (press the Home button and swipe right to get to widget page). I eliminated ALL widgets (still have the apps though)- losing the clock problem stopped - it’s bedn 14 days now vs multiple reboots per day. I’m sure it’s one of the widgets causing the problem - and I may test out which one is causing the problem. For now I’m enjoying the peace of having the iPhone act normally!

This fix worked for me

When the clock does not show on the lock screen swipe up and turn on portrait mode lock. Go to llock screen. Log in. Swipe up and turn it off and the clock comes back on the lock screen.

UPDATE: 15 days and no problems with the clock disappearing on the locked screen. I eliminated all widgets (I don’t care about that function at all) and I’ve not lost the clock in 16 days. I’m done with playing with this. I’m leaving as is as I’m not missing any functionality.

I removed my ING banking widget. No problems after that. Maybe because I haven't been using my phone a lot lately but it might have to do with widgets that retrieve data from apps. But I also have the coinbase widget that also updates frequently....

Totally agree - I have “still” wallpaper and got rid of all widgets (I still have the apps). It’s over a month... no problems. I didn’t care about the widget page anyway - information overload for me.

Have you tried disabling any banking widget, especially the Discover Card widget? I removed my Discover widget on 11/21 and it hasn’t happened since. I was resetting my phone up to 5 times per day prior to that.

Yes, you are right - I deleted all widgets and the problem of losing the clock stopped for over a month (was losing it and rebooting 4-5 times a day before). Added widgets back in one by one - for me, the Fandango widget started the problem again. Deleted it and I’m good again. The “bad” widget may vary for each person - I had no banking or credit card widgets - but that area is the problem... has nothing to do with wallpaper for me...

I can also confirm that this issue has to do with one of the widgets. In my case a banking widget (ING bank) and since then I have not encountered any issues. FINALLY!

I seriously hope that Apple will solve this problem ASAP. this issue has been there for long enough now.

I'm fighting with the same issue as you mentioned in description above. But I can't find "view-zoomed" menu in my iPhone setting. Where do I find it, Setting -> Display & Brightness -> Text size?

My settings are on standard but still every week de clock dissapears and notification screen stays empty. Only solution so far is a reboot.

I’m not on any beta but based on my experience with iOS11 it looks like it still is. It does not feel stable. Never had to reboot on iOS 10.

The same problem here in the Netherlands. For me it started in ios 10.3, so before iOS 11! I read everything about this subject, but no solution until 6 days ago .... a Dutch site about Apple, iCulture.nl, recently gave some possible solutions Sorry, only in Dutch. One of them was found in banking widgets.

I found THE solution in switching off the widget from my homebank, ING Bank.

I realise that most of you won’t have that particular widget, but finding, finally, a solid solution is great news.

My conclusion is that a mix of iOS and some Apple language in a widget causes all our frustrations.

I have this problem too! It's been incredibly frustrating as I have an iPhone X (it occurred on my 6s+ as well). Screen with wallpaper only (no clock, no date, can't swipe right or left).

Turning the bold text option (Settings>General>Accessibility) on then off again always works, but the phone has to restart. I use the Discover widget, so hate to get rid of that, but I may try to attempt to isolate the problem.

I called Apple and they weren't helpful (they couldn't figure the issue out). It does seem to be something buggy with an App or widget vs. a direct software issue (although it's still on Apple's onus to fix this extremely annoying problem).