World clock complications not refreshing

Try this:

Using your paired iPhone, go into Settings (gear icon), > Privacy & Security, > Location Services, > Apple Watch Faces

Change Apple Watch Faces to "While Using the App"

This will likely fix the issue 😉

Oleg___,

There is a connection 😉

For your issue, and since you've confirmed that Apple Watch Faces is set to "While Using the App", check this one for me:

From the paired iPhone, open Settings, > Privacy & Security, > Location Services, > Clock.

Is it set to "While Using the App"?

Here's what Apple has to say about this setting:

App explanation: "Your location is used to show the local city name and global position in the World Clock app on your Apple Watch."

Hi jagälskarhundar,

It seems you're having trouble with complications staying up-to-date and we want to help.

If you haven't tried this already, issues like the one you're describing that's preventing apps from staying updated can often be solved by unpairing and pairing your Apple Watch again:

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch

That should clear any caches and restore your Apple Watch data and give this a chance at behaving correctly of you.

Let us know if that helped.

Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities.

Hey, Apple Watch se2 here with iphone13. Both devices update to the latest OS are having the same issue as yours. I was searching online for solution turn out it is still an open-ended problem. By the way pairing and unpairing is not working.

Having the same issue with Apple Watch SE2 and iPhone SE 2020.

What I end up doing is opening the World Clock app for it to refresh then editing the complication on the watch face to a different one and then editing again to the original world clock complication/ widget.

This refreshes the data but won’t refresh till I do this again. Or maybe hours later it does. This night it refreshed once I think.

Hi Pilerman,

Thank you for your input - I think this is the default setting as it was already set to "While using the app". Also, I don't think this relates to location but simply a complication that don't get updated while others do. This is most likely a bug in how the complication is handled by the face/ watchOS.

Same here. It happened right after the update and never worked correctly again. If you click into the app, it’s correct, but the clock face does t refresh. Yes, tried all the recommended steps. Something broke it on the update that isn’t being diagnosed correctly.

same Issue here. Following your advice, I see that the setting is already set to “While Using App”, but the entire screen is greyed out and cannot be updated. The cause of that may be affecting the ability to refresh the watch face properly. As mentioned elsewhere, the app works fine, just the static clock face does t refresh.

Same issue since updating to 9.3. Was working fine before. Switching face does not help

Still not fixed with update 9.3.1

Hi Pilerman,

Yes, all apps are set to "While using" in the Location Services settings.

Thanks for your input

Oleg___,

From the paired iPhone, what about:

Settings, > Privacy & Security, > Location Services, > System Services

There is a setting in here for Setting Time Zone. Is it on?

Hi - yes it is :) only the large world clock complication does not refresh, other complications seem to behave as expected

I had the same problem. What fixed it for me was turning on the Always-On display on the watch.