My watch didn’t seem to be able to charge on the second day of our trip last Dec.
At first thinking it could be a faulty charger, thought I’ll try to charge at home since nobody else in the family wore their Apple watch this trip. Came home but didn’t work with the charger at home too. Tutorials from YouTube didn’t help to solve the problem so I decided to bring it to the professionals instead.
Screen shows this, sometimes I need to press very hard I get to see this pop up on the screen. However it doesn’t mean that it’s charging. I can leave it there for a day to a week to a month it’s still not charged at all.
Kindda forgot all about it for the whole month until I brought it to an authorised Apple service provider on Tuesday. Was told that it could be a spoilt battery but there’s no way they can change it at all. Apple watch is “unlike other watches where we can just change the battery. It’s in the watch so need to do a 1 to 1 replacement.” $455 to change. What?! That’s daylight robbery, it means I’m paying for another old Series 8 for $455 when a new Series 10 costs $599. I might as well get a new watch? Or perhaps this is the place’s trap - to make me pay $455 to help them clear old stock. Kindda reminds me of what Dyson would do if we ask to change the vacumn battery.
I paid the same price back in 2022 when they just launched Series 8.
Was deciding if I should get a new watch instead but decided there’s one more place I can try. Not willing to part with $599 when now I have to come out with money to buy a new printer. Yah lor! Things spoil at the same time!!
This place with few branches across SIN quoted me $68. Sounds more promising. Maybe can still last me 2 more years? By then if it spoils again, I’ll just change a new watch coz it’ll only get harder to get spare parts for old old watches. Already he didn’t have any in this shop, they had to request for a spare parts transfer from another outlet.
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