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Do you wash your watch?
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I haven't had any issues personally
But I do prefer to wear a bathing suit
After contact with water I usually find my Apple Watch is wet. Apart from that, works great
I rinse mine under the tap when it gets sweaty, and dry it off with a towel. Sometimes I wash the sports band with mild soap and water. I don't usually wear my leather straps working out, so those stay pretty clean. It's an original Apple Watch Sport that will be two years old in one month!
I have a series 0 from release day that I rinse under the faucet after every run (I run 4-5 days a week). Still working perfectly.
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Nope. I've put my series 0 under water a few times accidentally (cleaning the pool skimmer etc) and its still fine.
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Nope. I've put my series 0 under water a few times accidentally (cleaning the pool skimmer etc) and its still fine.
Should be fine but if there are issues you will know soon enough and want to know before the warranty is out! A few have found there is a leak but very few with the newer watches.
I rinse my Series 2 under the faucet or quickly in the shower after workouts and in the morning, spinning the crown a bit to get any grit out. But I take it off before using any soap.
I don't trust water. I use Starbucks napkins to clean it. I always do that with iPhone and iPP too
I may wipe the back of the watch down every so often and clean the face like I would an iPhone but that is it. I do however at times remove the Milanese Loop band and wash it with dish detergent and then blow it dry with a hair dryer. I does need it at times.
Wipe it down with a wet washcloth, then towel dry. With the Series 2 I occasionally shower with it...
I use bleach, scrubbing powder and ammonia mixture with a wire brush 3 times a day. However to be safe I don't use any water and rinse with mineral spirits.
Every day I wore AW0 which I wore with the Milanese band, and with soap and water. It's very easy for something to be trapped in the Milanese band. I saw a woman who didn't wash her Milanese and it was obvious as her band had "dirt" trapped in the band. With waterproof AW2 I feel even more confident in washing every day with soap and water. I've now decided to not ever get a non-waterproof band.
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1st gen/S0/Original ? Since first released.
I swim in my pool with it on, down to around 6' deep regularly. Showers. Washing hands. Running, work outs. I throw pretty much everything at. Still going strong after 2 years of this.
Skipped v2 and depending changes I'm planning on v3.
S0 still doing everything I need the watch to do.
I swim in my pool with it on, down to around 6' deep regularly. Showers. Washing hands. Running, work outs. I throw pretty much everything at. Still going strong after 2 years of this.
Skipped v2 and depending changes I'm planning on v3.
S0 still doing everything I need the watch to do.
Oleophobic coating can be easily damaged and discolored. My Apple watch 2 has been replaced by Apple once for discoloring oleophobic coating after 3 months. Apple didn't think underlying sapphire was problem. Since its replacement, my replacement is already doing same thing after 2-3 months.
I am a physician and work in hospital. I probable use hand sanitizer at least 20 times a day. That is only thing I can imagine causing this problem with oleophobic coating. It is too inconvenient to take watch off to use hand sanitizer.
I have different dress watches with sapphire crystal that are not affected hand sanitizers, but those standard watches dont appear to have oleophobic coating.
The coating is the problem. Normal dress watches don't require one because you don't touch the glass/sapphire.
I would just scrub the coating off and then it won't have any issues. I suspect the alcohol in the rub is causing the problem.
I wipe my S0 down with a microfiber cloth every few days to get rid of the fingerprints and skin oil build-up, and occasionally give it a nice wash with tiny bit of hand soap and running water. I think I remember reading this is Apple approved. Haven't had any problems. I certainly would not shower with it everyday, and frankly I see no reason I would need or want to. I can take it off for 10 minutes.
The speaker can get muffled after it gets wet but that will go away after it dries (which is likely why Apple couldn’t replicate the problem). Source: almost daily showering with stainless steel S0 Apple Watch since launch.
If water fills the speaker hole then the sound will be hindered and therefore muffled trying to get out.. Until the water evaporates or is dislodged it will cause this effect. It has nothing to do with the water rating since that is based on case ingress.
Hi everybody. I had a similar problem with my Series 2 Aluminium. It looked like the oleophobic coating was discoloured and i had a vertical yellowish strip on the left side of the Display while the rest of the Display seemed to have a blue/violet gleam in certain perspectives. How did the discoloured coating look on your watch? Apple replaced my watch as well. I thought it was an manufactoring defect. But know i wonder if it could be caused by clothes softener or something else and the replacement will suffer from the same defect.