If you woke up Wednesday to a notification on your iPhone saying “Updated Time Zone Information Available,” you’re not alone and there’s nothing wrong with your phone. The notification likely also showed up on your Mac, iPad and Apple TV as well.
Apple pushed out an over-the-air time zone update overnight for Canadian users. The prompt asks you to restart to apply new time zone definitions. Tap “restart” to apply it now or “not now” to deal with it later. It will stay staged in the background until your next manual restart either way.
The reason this is happening now comes down to recent provincial legislation. Both B.C. and Alberta have moved to adopt permanent Daylight Saving Time, and that change has been causing real headaches for some iPhone users, including random time zone jumps, calendar sync issues and clock glitches. We covered one of the weirder ones earlier this year when some B.C. users found their phones randomly switching to Edmonton time and then snapping back again after the iOS 26.4.2 update.
This update fixes that.
Image source: iPhone in Canada
To make sure everything stays in sync going forward, head to Settings > General > Date & Time and confirm that Set Automatically is turned on. That way any future time zone updates from Apple will hit your device without you having to do anything.
Did you get this notification on your Apple devices today? The notification actuallly popped up on our Apple TV on Tuesday afternoon.
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It didn’t actually fix it. Switched back to Edmonton time zone from Vancouver.
It’s actually worst than before now. It use to happen here and there. Now keeps going back and forth non stop
Same here. My phone has been jumping forward and back between BC and AB time the whole day.
Same for me too…I’ve actually turned off set automatically because as soon as I do it switches to Edmonton
Saw it this morning. Little concerned since once clicked, forced restart. But all is fine. Assume it fixed something but living in Ontario, can’t tell.
It doesn’t make sense the switch to permanent daylight time would cause this, because nothing about that change is materially different until the switch to standard time in the fall. If BC/Alberta hadn’t made this change, the time right now would still be as it is today.
For what it’s worth I’m also in Vancouver, on an iPhone on Telus and haven’t experienced this Edmonton switch thing.