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Apple watch series 3 - screen glows bright white when u touch Digital Crown then quickly gets darker

Apple series 3 glows bright white when you touch Digital Crown - then gets darker - shows horizontal lines like old TV when they went off air ( showing my age)! Did a restart - held down Digital Crown and button - Apple icon appeared - but no change in performance

breathe app was appearing before with watch vibrating but screen was still dark gray/black

Apple Watch Series 3, watchOS 7

Posted on Aug 16, 2021 3:13 PM

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Posted on Aug 16, 2021 4:27 PM

It may be a hardware problem, but 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


For repair & service:

watch Repair - Official Apple Support

watch Service Pricing - Apple Support


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Aug 16, 2021 4:27 PM in response to Woodford1

It may be a hardware problem, but 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


For repair & service:

watch Repair - Official Apple Support

watch Service Pricing - Apple Support


Apple watch series 3 - screen glows bright white when u touch Digital Crown then quickly gets darker

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