Islamic date is one day behind in Apple Watch

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Islamic date is one day behind in Apple Watch

Islamic Date (Hijra date) is one day behind on Apple watch. Already done following steps in iPhone:

Go to Settings > calendar > alternate calendar make it off .

then go to General > language & region > region choose “ Saudi Arabia “ after that go again to calendar alternate calendar choose Islamic calendar.

Now you can go back and change the region to what it was.

It does correct the islamic date on iPhone but Apple watch itself still one day behind. There is no setting for calendar in Apple watch.

I have also power cycled the watch.

Apple Watch Series 5

Posted on Jun 29, 2023 02:04 PM

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Answer 1

Abui50

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Jul 24, 2024 09:17 PM in response to Abui50

Update: spoke with Apple Support. Went through a series of steps to try weed out the problem (software updates, ensuring mirroring etc). Eventually it turned out - at least in my case - to be an issue with the specific watch face, ie I face the issue when using my chosen watch face (Lunar) but when i chose certain other watch faces (eg Modular Ultra, Astronomy), the correct Hijri date would show. I am not sure if others here are also using the Lunar watch face or different ones, but try changing the watch face you use and see if the problem persists.

In my case they will look into the watch face and keep me updated.

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LD150

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Jun 30, 2023 02:52 AM in response to mrydhan

Unpair it and set up again as New Watch (no backup restore)

Try that. You can always unpair and restore if not fixed, in which case contact Apple Support

Click here > Contact - Official Apple Support

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LD150

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Jul 24, 2024 02:23 AM in response to mrydhan

mrydhan wrote:

the situation I reported is different. Apple Watch and Apple Calendar are not in sync for Islamic dates. Today on July 24th Apple Calendar shows Muharram 18. On the Apple Watch it shows Muharram 17. Nothing to do with moon sighting.

I suggested to Unpair it and set up again as New Watch (no backup restore)

Try that. You can always unpair and restore if not fixed, in which case contact Apple Support

Click here > Contact - Official Apple Support

if the re-pair didn't help, what did Apple Support say?

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mrydhan Author

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Jul 24, 2024 12:45 AM in response to dia103

the situation I reported is different. Apple Watch and Apple Calendar are not in sync for Islamic dates. Today on July 24th Apple Calendar shows Muharram 18. On the Apple Watch it shows Muharram 17. Nothing to do with moon sighting.

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Abui50

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Jul 24, 2024 01:08 AM in response to mrydhan

Yes this is the situation im facing. Phone says correct date, watch says different date, and yet everything on the watch is set to mirror the phone (and all my phone apps which have hijri date are showing the same date), so it’s as though the watch has an date-offset setting somewhere but i cant find anything

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Adilawad

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Jul 20, 2024 08:24 PM in response to mrydhan

I am facing the same issue

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LD150

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Jul 22, 2024 12:53 AM in response to Adilawad

Same answer.

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Abui50

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Jul 23, 2024 09:12 PM in response to mrydhan

Any new suggestions to fix this? Facing the same challenge

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dia103

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Jul 23, 2024 09:36 PM in response to mrydhan

It’s like that on the iPhone too if you look on the calendar for Eid but to know when Eid is it depends on the moon sighting (feel free to correct me)

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