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Series 3 Apple Watch screen goes from black to black/white lines

Had my watch for roughly 3 years. The screen goes from black to black/white lines. No icons etc show up.



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Posted on Aug 3, 2021 2:41 PM

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Posted on Aug 3, 2021 2:42 PM

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


But it sounds like a hardware problem. For repair & service:

watch Repair - Official Apple Support

watch Service Pricing - Apple Support


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Aug 3, 2021 2:42 PM in response to LJH76

The first (and simplest) thing to try if something isn’t working right is to restart your Apple Watch and its paired iPhone. If necessary (device not responding), try a forced restart. Both methods can be found here:

How to restart your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Restart your iPhone - Apple Support


If that doesn't help, the next steps would be to unpair and pair your watch again and restore from the backup just created. This should result in no loss of data. It deletes all temp and corrupted files and re-indexes the file system.

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Set up your Apple Watch - Apple Support


But it sounds like a hardware problem. For repair & service:

watch Repair - Official Apple Support

watch Service Pricing - Apple Support


Series 3 Apple Watch screen goes from black to black/white lines

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