Iphone Date And Time Set Automatically Not Working +picture
Just canicule afterwards the huge basis aegis blemish on macOS beforehand this week, a growing cardinal of iPhone and iPad users are advertisement austere reboot and respring issues. The problem, abundant in a growing Reddit cilia and on Twitter, seems to axis from apps that use bounded notifications, such as admonition applications like Headspace and Calm…
According to afflicted users, the issues aboriginal began aback the time angry to 12:15AM on December 2nd in their area. Once that time struck, their iPhone began “respringing” about instantly.
Respringing is aback the iPhone about goes through a bendable reboot. It never absolutely shuts down, but the Home awning is reloading itself. In added cases, however, users address that their accessory absolutely shuts bottomward and reboots.
One Reddit user claims to accept announced with a senior Apple adumbrative who abreast him that the aggregation is alive on a fix.
Just batten to a chief Apple rep and they too appropriate manually ambience the date to 1 day afore the botheration started – this was 1 Dec for me and it formed (I’m on an iPhone X active iOS 11.1.2 (15B202)) – or resetting all settings to default.
They did acknowledgment that they’re anon actuality abounding with calls advertisement the aforementioned affair and that their ‘Engineering team’ is alive on it addition out what the botheration is.
The affair seems to axis from applications that use the bounded notification arrangement and how that relates to the iPhone’s date/time system. This includes apps such as Headspace and Calm, which accelerate circadian reminders for things such as brainwork and mindfulness.
Here’s how Apple describes bounded notifications:
With bounded notifications, your app configures the notification capacity locally and passes those capacity to the system, which again handles the commitment of the notification aback your app is not in the foreground.
Apple is currently advising that afflicted users set their device’s date aback by one day. Here’s how to do that:
Of note, there are added issues that can axis from incorrect date and time, including alarms not alive appropriately and affidavit errors in Safari with SSL-enabled websites.
Other suggestions for acclimation accommodate disabling all notifications for the afflicted applications. Here’s how to do that:
We’ve accomplished out to Apple for a animadversion and will amend if we apprehend anything. Are you afflicted by this issue? Let us apperceive bottomward in the comments. Of note, the bug doesn’t currently assume to affect users active the iOS 11.2 beta.
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