An iPhone question

The biggest issue going on with Verizon currently is they are removing 3G. My iPhone stays on LTE most of the time.

 

I think I solved the issue. Keri's Army guy is here and one of his sisters is an Apple tech. He called her and went through some settings. I had location for time and date off. This is why when I was in time and date I kept getting that * that circled. Now location is on for the time zone and it is showing properly. Somehow an app or something set my phone back to pacific time and location could not fix it.

 

I have been using Verizon now since 2013 and never had an issue with missing an SMS message while out of tower range. In fact, before 2013 I was using AT&T going all the way back to the late 1990s and don't ever remember a missing SMS message. I have spoken to some friends that have mentioned they have had missing SMS messages using T-Mobile and another using U.S. Cellular. I took the time to speak to someone that does Tech work for T-Mobile and they told me that all across the US different providers either own or lease a tower. Sometimes a piece of equipment can go bad and cause all sorts of issues. I know this for a fact because one of my neighbors had an issue with getting good service from Metro because the T-Mobile tower that services this area was bad. I am not a network engineer, but the ones I have spoken to have told me there is no cell phone provider anywhere in the world that is immune from these types of problems.

 

If I were still driving OTR I would set this to manual IF I wanted my phone to stay on my home time. I asked Keri if her iPhone was changing time zones properly when she was at work and she said yes.