My Apple Watch stopped working after showering (ironically it was completely fine after my one hour swimming practice just prior to the shower). The watch should be able to handle showering so I’m surprised that it broke. Do I just toss it in the bin or is there something I can do?
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it’s the shampoo who did this
Really? How is it so?
Shampoo/conditioner/soap is not water…
I’m following you so far. Let’s see how long I can keep up.
Soap can gets through the seals better than water. Steam doesn’t help either.
And it breaks down the seal.
Soap breaks water tension. Usually water sticks together instead of flowing everywhere if possible. Add soap and water will go everywhere it previous would not
Makes sense. Just didn’t think that it was this sensitive. Thanks for the input
nah, my died even without contact with shampoo.
Yes. Waterproof ≠ shampoo/conditioner/soap proof.
Send it for service
Will probably do that. Hopefully it’s not too expensive 😔
It is.
How much?
Too much.
It’s built for swimming, not soap, steam and high pressure water.
Even without touching soap, shampoo and other products, showering with a watch is not recommended since the seal can get dry and produce leaks because of the high temperature water.
I’ve used regular non smart waterproof watches all my life (before switching to an Apple Watch) and I used to shower with them until once that I went to replace the battery and the person doing the work immediately noticed the dried seals and told me I shouldn’t shower with the watch and share the reason why.
I once wore a watch with a rubber strap in a hot tub for a few hours - and it was a hot hot tub! - and the strap was softer than normal for a few days before becoming really brittle and eventually snapping. I’ve avoided high water temps ever since.
Why do people shower with their watch on? You do need to clean your wrists you know and it takes two seconds to take it off!
This, shower time for me is charging time for the watch.
Yeah, for me, shower time is charging time.
After a quick swim, my watch started acting up. Bad touch reg, boot loop, terrible battery life, ambient light sensor dead, etc. I was scared, but somehow it managed to revive each thing on its own.
But it was a swimming pool, not shampoo.
Never wearing my watch near activities that require me to turn on water lock
For the last 3 years i shower, swim, wellness sauna, into the sea on holiday, etc. And it’s still working fine.
I’ve never dared to bring it into the sauna, but apparently it just took a shower to break it
You could try the old phone trick of setting in rice for 24 hours, charging it, then trying again to turn it on.
I have no idea if it would work, but it is a cheap option to try before going to Apple.
Rice doesn’t do anything.
Like all water resistance watches it’s water resistant until it’s not and one only knows this when it stops working. As long as one looks after AW by not dropping it or subjecting it to certain substances (as defined by Apple) or environmental conditions (again defined by Apple) then there is a good chance it will still be water resistant after many years. But this is not guaranteed to be the case as the seals will degrade over time anyway. Just a fact of “water resistant” products and very unsatisfactory for us consumers.
- Dry watch carefully
- Head to Apple Store immediately
- Ask for an exchange under warranty
Traumatized Apple Watch users rushes to store unclothed and pleads with Genius to save device
😂
Soap damages your Apple Watch.
I don’t think they used soap The watch should be able to survive a water shower
If they used soap in the shower, it could drip onto the watch.
The op has not specified a water shower or soap shower or golden shower
Apple will recycle it if it’s dead. Don’t throw it away. Recycle it.