iPhone XS Weird Auto Time Adjustments...

[Dino F]

My iPhone XS's time settings are set by default to 'Auto' so it auto adjusts when travelling to different time zones. I also have my my Roaming settings turned on.

So at the weekend, I spent a few days down in Dover and for those who don't know, France is just a short boat ride away, across the English Channel via the Dover to Calais crossing.

Whilst I was down in Dover, I noticed that my iPhone's time kept jumping an hour forward because even though I was indeed in Dover, the phone kept thinking I was in Paris so kept adjusting the time - so my S4 Apple Watch also adjusted to what my iPhone showed?!?!

Even though I kept manually turning the 'Auto' feature off, in order to reset the time to the correct UK time, once I then turned 'Auto' back on, after a while, the phone would again pick up 'Paris' and would adjust to French time??!?

This was also happening on my wife's iPhone 7 too whilst we were both in Dover (both on current iOS firmware)???!

Thoughts?

 

[squizzler]

Settings > Mobile Data > Network Selection > Set it to manual and select your network.

It sounds like your phone chose to connect to a French network. It might be that the French network had a stronger connection and your phone would automatically connect to it as your phone’s network selection was set to Automatic.

 

[Dino F]

...just found this old article:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ne...g-charges-over-the-White-Cliffs-of-Dover.html

,which was exactly what was happening to our phones (and this was the exact area we visited in Dover too!!).

Luckily we weren't charged for roaming (as roaming charges are different now) but it does go on to explain why this happens.