iPod Touch Randomly Changing Time After iOS 4 Upgrade
Posted: August 23rd, 2010.
Many iPod Touch users have been complaining on the Apple support forums about a new iOS 4 related issue – the time on their device appears to be randomly changing. Most of the users who have been experiencing this issue have been noticing it only after their device was upgraded to the latest iOS 4 platform. One user writes,
“Similar issue here with my 2nd gen iPod Touch, after upgradeing to iOS4. My time keeps “resetting” to exactly 1 hour 13 minutes behind the actual time, no matter what I set the time to. I’ve noticed it does this when I open certain apps. In particular it seems to be apps that use Location Services, like Yelp, Facebook, and even the preinstalled Maps app. Whether Location Services is on or off makes no difference, opening the app will reset the time.”
There is no word of acknowledgement or possible fixes being offered by Apple right now. Here is a solution you can try out. But this does not work according to some users.
- Power off the iPod Touch by holding the Home and Power button together
- Restart by holding down the Power and Home buttons together once again
- Connect your iPod Touch to iTunes and attempt to Restore via a backup. If possible, try the ‘Restore as new’ option.
Does this work? Do you have an alternate solution? Please tell in the comments.
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Comments
Comment from swfl
Time September 7, 2010 at 10:01 am
Started having same exact issue with my 2nd gen and iOS4. Apps like Netflix, Google Earth, What’s On?, TideApp, etc. change the date and time when opened. Everytime this happens, the iPod changes itself from whatever I have it set to August 8th, 2010 and 9:32 AM. Annoying as all hell.
Comment from lamesauce
Time September 25, 2010 at 7:17 am
Mine too. Only everywhere I read users experience this after syncing it- mine does it out of nowhere! I found out after setting my alarm one night, and waking up the next morning hours after I should have. The time had changed to some weird time zone, like Prague or something! I hadn’t touched the thing all night though! When I last touched it to set the time it was correct. WTH!!! I’ve reset it to the right time zone so many times since then, it keeps changing it back some random amount of time later.
I swear, apple just cant get their sh*t right…
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Comment from Alison
Time November 11, 2010 at 4:12 pm
Mine started out when I attached it to another computer to charge but not synch. It jumps 15 hours ahead to a time zone that doesn’t exist. When I got back to my own computer it still kept happening. Now it’s changing seemingly at random without connection. I haven’t worked out if certain aps are involved. Annoying as all get out.
Comment from Joe LaPierre
Time September 2, 2010 at 5:05 am
I thought it was an app causing it. It was driving me crazy. They better have s fix for it soon!