iOS 11 - Clock on lock screen disappears

I thank you for the suggestion. I removed my fandango widget and then set my other remaining widgets to allow some sort of notification. I had a couple of them that I had previously turned off notifications for. Eg fandango. For this test I didn’t set all the notifications to the same settings or allow them all to show in the locked screen. It’s been 2 days now and I’ve not lost my time/date settings in my locked screen. I’m hoping for the best with this change bc rebooting multiple times a day every time it happens was getting annoying.

I realized in the end that if you navigate to Settings > General > Reset > Reset All Settings, and do that, that this problem goes away. You have to go back through and customize your settings again, but it's worth it as it solves the problem once and for all.

I had the same issue tried with my iPhone 7 after an upgrade.

Restarting works for some time but again prob starts in few days.

I found nice workaround on below site, hope this will help

http://www.techtalkzone.com/other/ios-11-notification-clock-lock-screen-disappea rs/

I am running iOS 11.0.3 on iPhone 6. The time on the clock icon on the home screen gets “frozen” to whatever time it was before that screen was last displayed. Anyone had this issue? Example: if I’m currently on home screen, the time on the clock icon appears correct, say 7:15 Then I open an app for 20 minutes. It is now 7:35, but when I close the app and go back to the home screen, clock icon still says 7:15. If I swipe left to the second screen of icons, then swipe back to the screen with the clock icon, the time on the icon becomes current (fixes itself). This also happens when phone not in use. When I open it from rest/dark screen, the clock icon is showing whatever time it was when I last used the phone (for any purpose, not just a call). Then I swipe left and back, and time on the icon is then correct. Annoying. I do need to update to 11.2.2, but could have the same issue then. Any ideas??

I have a suspicion it’s widget related. I had this problem a lot and I escalated to Apple Support. I tried all manner of restoring my phone and eventually the senior tech told me the issue was known by their engineers and they’re working on it. They’ll call me when they have a solution.

In the meantime, though, I’ve been experimenting with disabling widgets. I figured since the most recent restore attempt had me setup my X as a new iPhone, not restore from backup, it’s likely being caused by an app I downloaded. And since widgets are accessible from the home screen, that might be a cause.

So I tried disabling Find Friends and it didn’t help. BUT I disabled Blackberry Work Calendar, and it’s been a couple days without incident. I’m not sure just yet, but it’s something.

So, what widgets are you all running? Try disabling one at a time, starting with the 3rd party apps. And especially try BB Work if you have it.

I’m running the following:

Find Friends

Wunderground

BB Work (or I was until I disabled it)

Google Calendar

My Verizon Data

Crime & Place

Apple Batteries

✖ First of all, Apple does not care at all what we are asking here 🙂 I asked their "GENIUSES" few times at the different stores the only solution they all had was "Sir, you have to reset your phone", what actually worked for a few days then I had to ask them again, and again, and... you know.

Shame on you Apple!

✅ Secondly, If you wanna fix that follow these steps:

Settings -> Display and Brightness -> Bold text -> Turn on (then display is gonna turn off for a second) -> turn off (it will blink again and then your screen will be showing clock and notifications again)

ℹ IDK for how long tho - gonna test it..

So it could be related to widgets! I disabled Blackberry Work and that worked for a few days. Then I had another crash so I put B.B. Work back and disabled My Verizon. Haven’t had an issue since. Maybe it’s the amount of widgets that matters...

ℹ After I had tried pretty much everything I could I finally found a solution that works for me.

✅ If you guys install some app, which sends you the notifications / and has its own widget, but every time when you wanna open it also asks a password - in my case, it was the app from "DISCOVER" (bank in the US) then when it starts to conflict with some iOS 11 parameters. So, that conflict was a reason for disappearing of all stuff from my locked screen. After I removed that widget and turn off the notifications from that app I never see that issue again.

😠 Shame on you apple for keeping silence during all that time, you can continue ignoring us, but better start to respond and teach your "geniuses" to solve the problems like that one! The simple logic that what they all need - no more, no less... And better test all apps before you publish em in your store!

It’s gotten better as I’ve removed some widgets. Not entirely, and I’ve been removing / adding back widgets one by one. I’m starting to suspect that it has more to do with how many widgets are running instead of which particular widgets you have. Like too many is overloading the lock screen.

Seems like it's gonna have to get fixed with an update soon (hopefully) I'm running iOS 11.2.5 and it's still happening. I'm using an iPhone 8 plus and apparently doesn't happen to anyone since nobody I know has this same issue. Only solution for now is restarting your iphone, volume up, down, power until you see the apple when rebooting.

I’ve cut down on my number of incidents by reducing how many widgets I’m running. I’m down to 6. I wish there was a resource meter that showed how much ram/processing power each widget was drawing. That might provide some clues.

I had this same issue with my iPhone 8 I fixed it by removing some of my widgetets and adjusting my notifications of them. The problem has gone away for several weeks. I think the problem was caused by having a widget without any notifications turned on for that widget. Give this a try, hopefully it Surma for you too

I’m on 11.2.2 with iPhone X and I don’t have any View settings under Display/Brightness.

Been seeing this issue for almost 5 months now on iOS 11, multiple devices. Can’t imagine they don’t know what’s going on.

Sooooo Theres no official fix for this. has APPLE visited this thread to see if they can implement a fix or are we just left here sitting and waiting for a fix. This is extremely frustrating when Apple can't provide a **** fix for this. I don't want be turning off my widgets just to fix a small issue. This very problem happened to me as I was trying to pull up my ticket for the airline, causing me having to restart my phone and wasting time at the airport. Shame on Apple for not recognizing their mistakes of the trash that is IOS11 they put out, instead of relying on workarounds. Apple fix this issue!

I can confirm... it's definitely the widgets. I had the Discover Bank and weather widget, and, after I disabled both, I haven't had the problem recur for more than a month. I hope Apple fixes this... but if not, we iPhone X users may have to live without widgets until iOS12 :/