The shower vs rain comment? You have shampoo and soap in your rain?
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Not sure about you, but when I wash my hands the water tends to be soapy.
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Apple Watch Vs The Shower
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Not sure about you, but when I wash my hands the water tends to be soapy.
It wasn't my point. I was refuting someone else's point.
Here's the post I was replying to.
As I said in another thread on this subject, I had a Pebble watch before my 
Watch, it is listed as waterproof, not water resistant like the Watch; I did not even wear that one in the shower.
Watch, it is listed as waterproof, not water resistant like the Watch; I did not even wear that one in the shower.Maybe the watch is rated higher then IPX7 and Apple doesn't want us to know so that when you get water damage they can deny your warranty claim just a thought.
Testing it once immediately after does not prove it is safe to reliably do this every day for the life of the watch. Furthermore, these only test if the screen and basic functions work. No one is doing exhaustive testing on all features, after long-time use in water (showering day-in and day-out for 365 days, swimming everyday, etc.).
Apple made this watch water resistant so people wouldn't destroy their watches when some water from the sink splashed back while washing their hands, or if they got caught in a rain shower. Not so people could shower with it and go swimming with it.
I'm not showering with mine, except accidentally. But since I wore a waterproof automatic for years, I'm very used to my watch never coming off my wrist. So I've started a few showers with my Apple Watch on. Once I realize, I take it off and put it aside. But I don't worry about it. I believe it is sufficiently waterproof, but that there is a small chance of the water resistance getting breached. So I don't think you want to test it daily.
Everyone reporting that it still works after a shower are only measuring success based on if the watch is completely dead after. They have no way to know if and how much water actually got inside but did not cause immediate damage. Over time it can easily build up and corrode the internals, so it would start to fail slowly over time. All of the current tests are bogus unless people are fully taking them apart each time and inspecting for any drop of water inside.
The apple watch isn't waterproof its water resistant. Watch companies can't advertise their watches are waterproof because it's a liability. This is a good article as to why you don't want to swim or shower with a watch ever. Any watch. Ask any good watch repair man and he will tell you the same thing. It's not about, it's working still today, tomorrow or next week. It's about later after the water has sat and rusted. Since it wasn't built to be waterproof( which no one can and does except dive watches) there are many spaces where water gets in and just sits and will ruin the watch over time. Also void the apple care warranty.
http://deloachwatchservice.com/other_stuff/water_resistancy.htm
http://deloachwatchservice.com/other_stuff/water_resistancy.htm
My favorite response was that they did not want to miss any calls or messages
Same people are likely the folks that talk on their phones while standing at urinal in a public bathroom....which grosses me out.
I wash mine with soap and water under the faucet when it gets dirty. I'm not going to baby my watch. If it breaks, it breaks. I'll replace it and be more careful with the next one (maybe), but I think it'll be just fine.
You take a shower daily?
You don't?
Most people do in the USA, but I know that other countries have different customs.Apple has said that it's OK to wash like this, and even recommend it if the crown has gotten stuck, so that's fine. The problem is when there's pressure like at a depth or a harder spray of water.
The Problem???? So far even with several million sold there is no evidence of this being a problem unless you know something we don't. Can you provide info on any
Watch that has failed (no counting cracked crystals or manufacture defect) due to water ingress under depth pressure or spray?
You don't?
Apple has said that it's OK to wash like this, and even recommend it if the crown has gotten stuck, so that's fine. The problem is when there's pressure like at a depth or a harder spray of water.
Us Cats lick our self clean
"Harder spray of water?" It would take a pressure washer to likely hurt the AW. Nothing you can do in the shower is going to harm your watch. Like I said before I see no advantage in wearing my watch in the shower if I were human.
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My favorite response was that they did not want to miss any calls or messages
There have been several threads of people that do wear their AW in the shower. It should not hurt the watch but I see no purpose in it. Might as well leave you socks on, too!
Actually I have a very practical use for it. I use it to control the bluetooth speaker in my shower and select songs from my music library.
Can i get a tripleNow that will be a reason to wear it during a shower for real!
As I said in another thread on this subject, I had a Pebble watch before my
The pebble is listed as water resistant up to 50 meters on their own website, not water proof. There's no such thing as a waterproof watch.
The DCRainmaker video gave me the courage to not take the watch off for showering and swimming.
If that thing doesn't leak at 40M, I'm pretty sure it will be fine at my surface swimming. I'm of the impression that Apple would welcome someone who pushes the watch to its limits. If I have any waterproofing issues, I'll let you all know.
Here's my belief as to why Apple isn't touting the watch as waterproof: The HR sensor for swimming workouts. I went swimming laps with the watch a couple of times and used the Workout App. I know my HR was elevated much more than the ~120~130 BPM noted on the watch during the exercise, so I'm wondering if the optical HR monitor has trouble reading blood flow when swimming. I'll try wearing the band a bit tighter on my next swim.
If that thing doesn't leak at 40M, I'm pretty sure it will be fine at my surface swimming. I'm of the impression that Apple would welcome someone who pushes the watch to its limits. If I have any waterproofing issues, I'll let you all know.
Here's my belief as to why Apple isn't touting the watch as waterproof: The HR sensor for swimming workouts. I went swimming laps with the watch a couple of times and used the Workout App. I know my HR was elevated much more than the ~120~130 BPM noted on the watch during the exercise, so I'm wondering if the optical HR monitor has trouble reading blood flow when swimming. I'll try wearing the band a bit tighter on my next swim.
The Problem???? So far even with several million sold there is no evidence of this being a problem unless you know something we don't. Can you provide info on any
Us Cats lick our self clean
"Harder spray of water?" It would take a pressure washer to likely hurt the AW. Nothing you can do in the shower is going to harm your watch. Like I said before I see no advantage in wearing my watch in the shower if I were human.
You guys don't know what you're talking about. The AW is rated at IPX7, so please read what that means here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code
All of the reports that people have posted only say whether the watch "didn't die" after water exposure. That doesn't mean that some water hasn't gotten in and will cause damage in the long-term.
Actually swimming can put more water stress on a watch than a static depth test. However before DC Rainmaker did the static depth test he also did a 10' meter diving board jump and an even more stressful a full 1000 meter swim
.A 1000 meter swim is far more than most of use will (or can) ever do.
Holding up to this test shows how well the
Watch is made (can be said to surpass an ATM5 rating). I bet on the Watch 2 we will see an ATM5 water rating even if case construction is the same.As far as water is concerned, it's a computer, not a watch. If water gets in there, it's going to show up right now and the watch will die, just like our iPhones.
Sorry but that's just not true. A phone is not any level of water resistant, which means it has a lot more holes that water can get into more easily, so that is a bad comparison, and also there are many phones that do get wet and still work at varying levels of functionality. Some still work completely, but that doesn't mean there isn't some level of damage inside that could cause problems over time.
It's the same with the watch. If the inside is completely inundated with water then it will fail completely, but if only smaller areas get wet then there may be non-specific damage and only certain functions may not work, or it can start a corrosion process that could spread to other parts of the watch and eventually make it fail.
Please stop with the blatant denial just because you saw a few videos of people on youtube. This is all really basic logic to follow and if you don't want to see it then I'm not going to waste my time anymore trying to explain it.