If you can't change the time or time zone on your Apple device

Y'all tin can use Date & Fourth dimension settings to have your device adapt automatically for time zone changes and daylight saving time. If the wrong date, time, or time zone appears on your device, or if information technology doesn't automatically adjust for daylight saving time, learn what to do.

Check your settings

Bank check if yous however need help after each footstep.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

  1. Brand certain that you accept the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.
  2. Turn on Set Automatically1 in Settings > General > Date & Fourth dimension. This automatically sets your engagement and fourth dimension based on your time zone.
  3. If a message appears maxim that updated fourth dimension zone information is available, restart your device and any paired Apple Picket.
  4. Let your device to use its current location to determine the right time zone. To do this, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services and turn on Setting Time Zone.
  5. Check that your device shows the right fourth dimension zone in Settings > General > Date & Time > Time Zone.

On your Mac

These steps crave macOS High Sierra or later. If y'all're using an older version of macOS, you tin can set up the time zone manually.

  1. Make sure that your Mac is connected to the internet.
  2. Choose Apple bill of fare  > Organisation Preferences, then click Appointment & Time.
  3. If a message appears saying that updated time zone information is available, restart your Mac.
  4. If the message doesn't announced, quit Organization Preferences, wait several minutes, and so open Date & Time preferences once more. If a time zone update message appears nearly the bottom of the Time Zone pane in Date & Time preferences, restart your Mac to get the update.

On your Apple Idiot box

These steps require tvOS x or afterwards Apple tree Idiot box HD or Apple Telly 4K. If you're using an older version of tvOS or an older Apple tree Telly, you lot can set the time zone manually.

  1. Make certain that your Apple TV is connected to the internet.
  2. Go to Settings > General > Time Zone. If a bulletin appears saying that updated time zone data is available, restart your Apple Television to get the update.
  3. If the message doesn't announced, press and hold the Back button or the Menu push button on your Apple Television receiver remote to go to the Dwelling house Screen. Look several minutes, and so return to Settings > General > Time Zone. If the message appears now, restart your Apple TV to become the update.

If you lot still need help

If your device still shows an incorrect date, time, or time zone,2 change each setting instead of using Prepare Automatically. For example, you lot might have iOS 9 or earlier, and your country or region, or government changes the time zone or the observance of daylight saving time.

On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

  1. Become to Settings > General > Date & Fourth dimension.
  2. Turn off Fix Automatically.
  3. Now you tin alter the fourth dimension zone or the date and fourth dimension:iii
    • Tap Time Zone and enter a metropolis with the time zone that you demand.
    • Or tap the date to change the engagement and time.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, so click Date & Time.
  2. In the Fourth dimension Zone pane, make sure that "Gear up time zone automatically using current location" is deselected, so choose a time zone. Yous might need to click the lock to unlock these settings earlier you can make changes.

On your Apple Television receiver

  1. Go to Settings > General > Time Zone.
  2. Make sure that Set Automatically is turned off, so choose a fourth dimension zone.

i. The pick to turn Set Automatically on or off might non be available with all carriers or in all countries and regions. If the device has a Screen Time passcode or a corporate profile with device restrictions installed, then the option to turn Set Automatically on or off volition be dimmed, or grayed out.

2. If the fourth dimension on your device is wrong after you sync information technology with your computer, your computer's time might be wrong. Check the time on your computer in System Preferences > Date & Fourth dimension. Yous might want to select "Ready date and time automatically."

3. Manual adjustments to time settings to change app behavior (like game timers) aren't recommended.

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