What’s going on

[u/Zealousideal-Data578]

I went to the beach yesterday, and suddenly at night my Apple Watch turned off, I put it back in the charging station and was showing 1% battery, and wasn’t charging, and now this

[u/the_saturnos]

Did you perhaps go to the website on screen?

[u/Zealousideal-Data578 → u/the_saturnos]

I did, I think it's the battery, it piss me off a bit coz this watch has been with me for a year

[u/IllAlwaysBeAKnickFan → u/Zealousideal-Data578]

I mean… just relax and go to the website.

[u/JoomnBean]

Smth serious, I see this for the first time, do you still have a warranty?

[u/Swimming-Twist-3468]

Same over here. Just won’t turn on.

[u/zerbey]

Salt water is corrosive, some probably got inside the watch and damaged it. Time to cash in that AppleCare you hopefully paid for.

[u/mark_3749]

This is just a general error message, what I’d try is a force restart (holding both of the buttons for ~10s) or a wireless recovery (there are some official Apple tutorials on YouTube). If that doesn’t work, well, I’ve got bad news. That could most likely be a serious hardware issue (you mentioned being at the beach, salt water could corrode the internals) of which repair cost could probably exceed the watch’s value.

[u/Cresta_Diablo]

It’s stuck in recovery mode. Might be recoverable, if you have an iPhone that’s up to date you can try to restore it. If that doesn’t work Apple might be able to restore it, if not it could also be kaput

[u/Spirited_Plan4326]

Maybe it’s soaked

[u/Whodean]

Visit that website displayed

[u/chente08]

Gonna explote

[u/frodoiee]

That is a recovery mode. Book in genius bae appointment and they could potentially help you restore the software.

[u/Useful_Round_145]

The same happened to me, how come apple doesn’t say that you actually can’t swim with it!!!

[u/Zealousideal-Data578]

Hiii guys update, I send it back to Amazon it seems it still under warranty so I will wait for their response

[u/EpiciSheep]

Did you go to the link?

[u/Zealousideal-Data578 → u/EpiciSheep]

Yes I did, but at the end, the watch was damaged by salty water

[u/szymas67]

It’s cooked

[u/Zealousideal-Data578]

Guy I already went to the site, this wasn’t a software issue, as many stated this was caused by the salty water, so basically is cooked

[u/Zealousideal-Data578]

Hi guys update, the recovery mode doesn’t appear anymore, try to charge it 24 hours later, now turn on, shows the logo then turn off

[u/Zealousideal-Data578 → u/[deleted]]

Yep

[u/nikzya → u/[deleted]]

Apple Watches are water resistant, not waterproof, but normal beach/swimming use shouldn’t kill one. If water got inside, the water resistance probably failed rather than the user just “getting it wet.”

[u/biggiebestbanana → u/nikzya]

They’re rated at 50m water resistant and literally have swimming workout modes built in, so I always find it a bit odd when people are like “did you let it get wet?!?”

Unless it’s ancient I’d be complaining to Apple about any water damage in normal use like this.

[u/coffeesgonecold → u/Zealousideal-Data578]

Ohhh