If you tin't alter the time or time zone on your Apple device

You can use Date & Time settings to have your device adjust automatically for time zone changes and daylight saving time. If the wrong date, time, or time zone appears on your device, or if it doesn't automatically suit for daylight saving time, learn what to practise.

Bank check your settings

Check if you still demand help after each step.

On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

  1. Brand sure that yous have the latest version of iOS or iPadOS.
  2. Turn on Set Automatically1 in Settings > General > Engagement & Time. This automatically sets your date and time based on your fourth dimension zone.
  3. If a message appears saying that updated time zone information is available, restart your device and whatsoever paired Apple Scout.
  4. Allow your device to use its electric current location to decide the correct time zone. To do this, go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services and plough on Setting Fourth dimension Zone.
  5. Bank check that your device shows the correct fourth dimension zone in Settings > General > Date & Time > Time Zone.

On your Mac

These steps crave macOS Loftier Sierra or later. If yous're using an older version of macOS, you lot can set the time zone manually.

  1. Brand sure that your Mac is connected to the net.
  2. Choose Apple menu  > Organisation Preferences, and so click Date & Time.
  3. If a message appears saying that updated time zone information is available, restart your Mac.
  4. If the message doesn't appear, quit System Preferences, wait several minutes, then open Engagement & Time preferences again. If a time zone update message appears well-nigh the bottom of the Time Zone pane in Date & Time preferences, restart your Mac to become the update.

On your Apple Idiot box

These steps require tvOS 10 or afterward on Apple tree Television HD or Apple TV 4K. If yous're using an older version of tvOS or an older Apple Television set, you can set the time zone manually.

  1. Make sure that your Apple TV is continued to the internet.
  2. Go to Settings > General > Fourth dimension Zone. If a message appears saying that updated time zone information is available, restart your Apple Tv to get the update.
  3. If the message doesn't appear, press and hold the Back push button or the Menu button on your Apple TV remote to become to the Abode Screen. Look several minutes, then return to Settings > General > Fourth dimension Zone. If the message appears now, restart your Apple TV to go the update.

If y'all notwithstanding need assistance

If your device still shows an wrong engagement, time, or time zone,2 alter each setting instead of using Set Automatically. For example, you might take iOS 9 or earlier, and your land or region, or government changes the fourth dimension zone or the observance of daylight saving fourth dimension.

On your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch on

  1. Go to Settings > Full general > Date & Time.
  2. Plow off Set up Automatically.
  3. Now you can modify the fourth dimension zone or the date and time:3
    • Tap Time Zone and enter a city with the time zone that you need.
    • Or tap the appointment to change the date and time.

On your Mac

  1. Choose Apple tree menu  > System Preferences, and then click Date & Time.
  2. In the Time Zone pane, make sure that "Ready time zone automatically using current location" is deselected, so choose a fourth dimension zone. Yous might need to click the lock to unlock these settings before you lot tin can make changes.

On your Apple TV

  1. Get to Settings > General > Time Zone.
  2. Make sure that Ready Automatically is turned off, so choose a time zone.

1. The option to turn Set Automatically on or off might not 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 selection to turn Set Automatically on or off will exist dimmed, or grayed out.

two. If the time on your device is wrong afterward yous sync information technology with your computer, your figurer's time might exist wrong. Cheque the time on your computer in System Preferences > Date & Time. Yous might want to select "Set date and fourth dimension automatically."

3. Transmission adjustments to fourth dimension settings to change app behavior (like game timers) aren't recommended.

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