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Apple Watch Displays the Wrong Time

Lately, when I do not have my iPhone with me, the time on my Apple Watch Series 5 with up to date operating system, is adding/displaying one additional hour to the correct time. When I am back in range of my iPhone the situation resolves itself.

Posted on Apr 8, 2020 2:21 PM

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Posted on Apr 8, 2020 2:39 PM

So, the Watch is connected to cellular when this occurs? On the Apple Watch itself, press the Digital Crown, then go to the Settings app. From there, go to Clock. Is that display time ahead at 0?

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Jul 8, 2020 2:24 AM in response to Apple_Watch_Wrong_Time

It actually might not be the digital clock that you are seeing and instead something quirkly like sunrise/sunset. Took me a minute to realize that. Try setting the section to a custom time/location by adding your city into the world clock and then having that be on the clocks home screen

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May 19, 2020 1:45 PM in response to Apple_Watch_Wrong_Time

I have exactly the same problem - the time is one hour ahead whenever my cellular Apple Watch is not connected to my iPhone, and fixes itself as soon as it reconnects to my iPhone.


I just updated to watchOS 6.2.5 this morning and the issue persists. Resetting the watch doesn’t help, and neither does unpairing and re-pairing the watch.

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Apr 8, 2020 4:08 PM in response to Apple_Watch_Wrong_Time

I'm not aware of any other setting for the two devices that would affect the time. The Watch gets is time from the paired iPhone location settings. Have you changed any date/time settings on the iPhone. Do you have the settings in the Watch app on the iPhone like Language and Region different than Mirror my iPhone?

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Apple Watch Displays the Wrong Time

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