Many
iPhone users after upgrading to iOS 11 are facing issue that iPhone is showing wrong
timezone. The issue is while iPhone Time Zone set to "Set Automatically"
to OFF , iPhone will revert to home country time after a restart or switching back
from AirplanMode. The time zone reverts in iPhone is faced only after upgrading
to iOS11. This sometimes causes to miss an alarm, reminder or important
meeting.
The issue is even affects latest iPhone 8 + and iPhone X. iPhone X on
iOS 11.2.5 seems to switch ‘auto time zone’ setting back on a few hours after a
restart. The issue is very annoying as once you restart your phone it will
reset itself to whatever time it wants. The issue is more prominent if
you have bought a phone from one country and using it in some other country.
Many
users tried set the date time "set automatically" to be off (settings>privacy>location
services>system services) but even this does not seems to fix the issue as
after sometimes it will change back to “set automatically”. iPhone mysteriously
randomly changes settings back to auto. Surely Apple need to fix this as the
current time is basic functionality and many users are facing many problems as
they have lost the ability to control this basic functionality on their iPhones.
How to fix iPhone automatically changes timezone:
Fix 1: Remove app permission to use location services
For
many users turning off location services helped to fix the issue eg like
Facebook etc. Make sure you go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services
> System Services > Setting Time Zone and toggle this.
Fix 2: For calendar related
issue
In iCal
there is ‘time zone override’ option, of you chose to select that iPhone calendar
will stand in one location. But this would not fix issues related to alarm,
email timestamp etc.
There
are no permanent fix for the issue and Apple seems to looking at this issue so
it is recommended to keep upgrading to latest iOS releases.
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