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Time is wrong on iOS 9
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There are reports about it. Just not as many as I would expect. It must not be widespread. My iPad Air 2 was afflicted. A wipe and restore to backup fixed it.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ipad-clock-about-2-minutes-fast.1916215/
https://www.reddit.com/r/ios9/comments/3kabyt/ios_9_clock_running_fast/
http://forums.imore.com/ios-9/339609-clock-off-since-install-ios9.html
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/16872
It's mostly a bug that seems to have appeared during the beta process as it appears to affect those who ran betas. Those who didn't run betas (and most users didn't) or those who ran betas but then did a fresh install of later betas or perhaps the final release don't seem to experience it.
I doubt this will affect my schedule though.
No this is absurd. I find myself standing outside the office like a fool for 30 seconds until everyone joins me.
Not to mention that time I arrived early at the airport 30 seconds,
the lady behind the counter burst-out laughing..
I restored my iPad Air 2 yesterday through iTunes to 9.1b2 and from a backup, because my iPad was 166 seconds fast and gaining 2-3 seconds per day. The process restored the system time to the correct time. According to the Emerald app, my iPad was within 0.002 seconds of accurate. Now, 24 hours later, my iPad is 3.0 seconds fast again, while my iPhone is showing 0.000 discrepancy.
So it appears that a restore doesn't fix the bug, it just resets the error to zero.
Edited: NOW it just fixed itself somehow. I turned off automatic time. Manually reset the clock 1 minute slow. Turned back on automatic time. Still off 3 seconds....Left it running a few minutes. And boom, now it's off 0.006 seconds. Strange.
So it appears that a restore doesn't fix the bug, it just resets the error to zero.
Edited: NOW it just fixed itself somehow. I turned off automatic time. Manually reset the clock 1 minute slow. Turned back on automatic time. Still off 3 seconds....Left it running a few minutes. And boom, now it's off 0.006 seconds. Strange.
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its fixed in 9.1, go there or turn off auto time in ios 9.0.1
waiting for the breaking new story how some angry business person somewhere throws a tantrum & stands on a runway, blocking it, cause their 2 min inaccurate iphone made them miss their flight
waiting for the breaking new story how some angry business person somewhere throws a tantrum & stands on a runway, blocking it, cause their 2 min inaccurate iphone made them miss their flight
I have been running 9.1 but the time was still wrong. Just did a restore real quick and its fixed. Good thing a restore is an easy process.
There can likely be some smaller (perhaps temporary) discrepancies like that, although with betas some people had discrepancies of a little over 2 minutes in particular.
I had the same time issue on my ATT iPhone 6 with iOS 9.0.1 where it ran 2 minutes fast. On my ATT iPhone 6s with 9.0.1, the time is now correctly displayed.
Wow, this is odd as I have an app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/emerald-geneva/id347828665?mt=8
that uses NTP to get it's time and is consistently behind system time by 15 20 seconds. When I launch is I can see is synchronise and watch the second hand move until it is in the "correct" place.
My iPhone 6 is now 50-55 seconds ahead of my other devices after installing iOS 9. The clock in my car (set by GPS), an atomic clock in the house, and my Mac all agree, but the phone is wrong. I never installed beta versions of iOS 9.
My coworker has an iPad 2 where the clock is instantly 2 minutes fast if he has it set the time automatically. He had to change it to manual and set it to the correct time. Again, this problem appeared with iOS 9.
My coworker has an iPad 2 where the clock is instantly 2 minutes fast if he has it set the time automatically. He had to change it to manual and set it to the correct time. Again, this problem appeared with iOS 9.