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Sunrise / Sunset times not working on Apple Watch

BillGates1969 said:
YES!!!! it worked! Thanks :)

I tried everything - even though it was a stupid thing it was annoying me :)

Thanks again NV ;)
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You're welcome!

If it happens again, you can even try just doing the location settings, or just the bluetooth toggle. I'm not sure if all the steps are necessary. I suspect it is mainly the location settings toggle that does the trick.
 
It's an incredible annoying bug! I find myself turning it on/off every 36-48 hours. The Solar, Astronomy face, and affects the Modular face.
Sunrise, sunset times are blank and Longitude/Latitude shows up as "--/--/--"

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NovemberWhiskey said:
No need to unpair your watch. So much of a hassle.

Restarting the phone/watch worked for some people. Not me.

What did work was:

1. On the iphone, go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Apple Watch Faces. Toggle from "While using" to "Never"

2. Turn bluetooth off on iphone

3. Toggle from "Never" back to "While Using"

4. Turn Bluetooth Back on.

Almost immediately after, sunset/sunrise data started working again.
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Didn't even see this,..doh!
I'll try this when it happens again. Thanks for this, hopefully that solves the issue for the time being without resetting the watch.
 
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I've been trying to figure this out all day and I finally got it! Worked for me at least. I did the following.
1)Went to Settings- Privacy- location services(made sure it was on of course) Scrolled down to the native maps app- and checked the "while using the app" option.
2) On my apple watch i went to the maps app and let it find my location. Then went to the weather app and let it update. When i returned to my watch face, the sunrise/sunset displayed the time.
Hope it works for other people as well.

rock6079 said:
I understand that some users, myself included, are having issues with Apple Watch not displaying sunrise / sunset times on any watch faces.

Has anyone found a solution? This Apple support page currently does not have any working solution:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7010586

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NovemberWhiskey said:
No need to unpair your watch. So much of a hassle.

Restarting the phone/watch worked for some people. Not me.

What did work was:

1. On the iphone, go to Settings, Privacy, Location Services, Apple Watch Faces. Toggle from "While using" to "Never"

2. Turn bluetooth off on iphone

3. Toggle from "Never" back to "While Using"

4. Turn Bluetooth Back on.

Almost immediately after, sunset/sunrise data started working again.
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Ugh, this doesn't work on my end. Only thing that works is turning off the watch, powering back up.

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On both mine/my wife's Watch running OS1 we just open Maps on the Watch and hit the arrow to locate us. Then, maybe 15 minutes later (can't tell you exactly how long) the sunrise/sunset is back. It's not instant, but this trick has worked every time. OS2 apparently fixes it, thank goodness.
 
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WilliamG said:
On both mine/my wife's Watch running OS1 we just open Maps on the Watch and hit the arrow to locate us. Then, maybe 15 minutes later (can't tell you exactly how long) the sunrise/sunset is back. It's not instant, but this trick has worked every time. OS2 apparently fixes it, thank goodness.
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Ok, the Maps loading screen took about 20 seconds to fully load, but that actually worked. Yeah, I can't wait until OS2
 
I hadn't been using this complication until a few weeks ago when I was on vacation at Yellowstone and the Tetons and added it so I would know how long until it got dark. I noticed it wasn't always working and assumed it had to do with not having cell service most of the time. I didn't pay real close attention to when it was and was not working, but it almost seemed like it was every other day. One day it would be working, the next it would not.

Now that I'm back to work, I noticed it wasn't working today. I restarted my Watch and that seems to have fixed it for now, but it took it a few minutes after reboot before it was updated.
 
PhillyGuy72 said:
Ok, the Maps loading screen took about 20 seconds to fully load, but that actually worked. Yeah, I can't wait until OS2
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Creek0512 said:
I hadn't been using this complication until a few weeks ago when I was on vacation at Yellowstone and the Tetons and added it so I would know how long until it got dark. I noticed it wasn't always working and assumed it had to do with not having cell service most of the time. I didn't pay real close attention to when it was and was not working, but it almost seemed like it was every other day. One day it would be working, the next it would not.

Now that I'm back to work, I noticed it wasn't working today. I restarted my Watch and that seems to have fixed it for now, but it took it a few minutes after reboot before it was updated.
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Patience. I've been using Watch OS 2.0 for a bit now, and it definitely fixes it, thank goodness. Hopefully Apple will get around to releasing it sooner rather than later so you guys can be free from the misery of first-world problem-dom. :)
 
Not to rain on the parade here, but though sunrise/sunset on 2.0 / 9.1 has worked well for me for the past week, today it suddenly stopped working right.

I noticed this afternoon that it seemed to be stuck on sunrise. I've done various things to try to restore it, including the various tricks in this thread (turning Bluetooth/location off and on on the phone, opening maps on the watch, etc.) and also power cycled both the watch and the phone... but the complication either stays blank or says "sunrise/sunset".
 
Grrr... did the nuclear option and unpaired/re-paired, and still not working. It just says "sunrise/sunset" initially, and then after a while it goes blank.

Edit: the weirdest part is that the Solar face seems to be working.
 

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