iOS 11 - Clock on lock screen disappears

Reading through this thread and based on my own experiences I see that this issue started with iOS 11, Affects multiple different models of iphone, and affects phones both purchased new as well as those upgraded to iOS 11.

I’ve also noticed on my phone that the clock and any messages are sometimes visible for a split second before disappearing and the lock screen image fades slightly. This makes me suspect that there’s a bug in the alert screen or notifications routines. Either way, it’s pretty clear that it’s A bug with iOS 11 and that we’ll need to wait for Apple to fix it.

The only way I have found to open the phone is to ask Siri to unlock the phone and then the PIN screen will appear. Hope they fix this soon, it is very annoying. Otherwise it requires a restart. I did somehow get into the emergency call screen once and was able to open the phone through that, but haven't been able to repeat that again.

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.

Yeah apple is acting like this is not a problem and ignoring the complaints. They must not know what's wrong. I was ready to send the phone back and get an 8. My phone was doing it since the phone was released in November and it was very annoying. Hopefully others are able to resolve the issue. Changing my wallpaper did the trick but others may have a different cause.

In my experience it’s not widget specific. It’s more about the amount of widgets. Clear them all and then add them back one at a time in order of importance.

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swipe right or swipe down from top. clock appears

I guess we just have to wait for a software update.

I spoke to apple today and they said the permanent fix will come in form a Software update.

Just remove the non native widgets

I’m currently down to using 2 Apple widgets and 4 third party widgets and I haven’t had the issue for a few weeks. I’ve been disabling them one at a time. The latest I removed was Crime & Place. Current active are Find Friends, Blackberry Work, Wunderground, My Verizon Data, Google Calendar and Batteries. I think it’s a system resource cap thing. My last round I removed Verizon instead of Crime and Place, and before that BBWork keeping the others, and while that didn’t ultimately fix the issue the recurrence did go down significantly. It seems to be more the sum of which widgets you’re running as opposites to particular widgets causing problems.

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You are right. I have tried to restore all my widgets one by one and the only one left is a bank widget. Havent had this problem in more than a week.

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 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.

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: )

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/