Ah, maybe. Guess it makes more sense moving it up on a round watch so it’s not at the furthest point of the horizontal radius.
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Digital crown durability
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You’ve proven my point. Bend-gate actually existed. There are articles and videos about it. I see no articles written and no videos on YouTube about Crown-gate.
You genuinely don’t know what ‘gate’ means and it’s often taken out of context as you did in your post. The digital crown or any other Apple hardware issue, doesn’t apply in the the way you mean it.
Wait so what you’re saying is that the digital crown isn’t using a regular dome switch underneath as its mechanism? That’s interesting.
My understanding is that there is a dome for mechanical purposes (spring/return), but not for closing an electrical contact.
Just re-reading this thread from this time last year. How did it go with the crown these last twelve months? Any accidents. I also worry about mine from time to time but I bought Applecare+ about a month after my initial purchase, just as a safeguard against accidental damage.
Hope your watch is still good.
Only problem I ever had with my crown on AW5 is some grunge collects around it sticks or depress all the way, so I clean it with a very small dental brush and some soap & water where it meets the case. Works great.
I stopped using my AW5 a few months ago after more issues than the crown (still think it's annoying having two buttons instead of one, though). The final straw was it losing all my special medals from challenges. They all disappeared from both the watch and paired iPhone after all the work it took to earn them. Couple that with a broken ECG (doesn't like my high resting heart rate--perfectly normal for me, but 'inconclusive' and useless for this 'feature'), broken exercise detection, rings that don't fill when they should (the stand ring always got stuck) that going to Galaxy watch was just a better experience.
Never snagged the crown during the time I used it but I was extremely careful with it given I lost tons of mechanical watch crowns (yanked the one from the LG Watch Style completely and EOL'd that watch) and worried I'd lose the one on the Apple Watch as well. Still got both my series 5 and Series 3 though.
For a few weeks I returned to my iPhone and Watch 5 and I still had the same issues, and then went back to Samsung. The Watch I kept trying to bring up control center or select icons in the apps list with the crown (it just seems like it should work!) and finding out that doesn't do anything. I couldn't even dismiss the control center with it. Siri still couldn't enable water lock mode. The crown became hard to press as well.
Never snagged the crown during the time I used it but I was extremely careful with it given I lost tons of mechanical watch crowns (yanked the one from the LG Watch Style completely and EOL'd that watch) and worried I'd lose the one on the Apple Watch as well. Still got both my series 5 and Series 3 though.
For a few weeks I returned to my iPhone and Watch 5 and I still had the same issues, and then went back to Samsung. The Watch I kept trying to bring up control center or select icons in the apps list with the crown (it just seems like it should work!) and finding out that doesn't do anything. I couldn't even dismiss the control center with it. Siri still couldn't enable water lock mode. The crown became hard to press as well.