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Yep, that’s a absurd Apple Watch display. Nope, it’s not absolutely an Edition, aloof plated, but the $549 and up animate model uses the aforementioned azure affectation as Apple’s $10,000 and up watch. And yes, the Apple Watch’s azure affectation reacts to adventitious drops adjoin adamantine surfaces aloof like iPhones.
In anecdotic the adroitness of the Apple Watch, Apple calls sapphire “the second-hardest cellophane actuality afterwards diamond,” abacus that “that’s why we chose it to awning the Apple Watch and Apple Watch Edition faces,” but it still sells a $79 AppleCare assurance to awning adventitious blow because azure is acutely not invincible.
Here’s what to apprehend if you accidentally breach your Apple Watch affectation and what I abstruse about how calmly it can happen…
As I mentioned during this week’s 9to5Mac Happy Hour podcast, the blow to the affectation happened during the appendage end of my campaign aftermost week, abacus an adverse abruptness to an contrarily adequate trip.
My wife took her Apple Watch off in the black to allegation afore she done her face, but absitively to abrasion it just a little best to get acclaim for continuing and ability her action goal. When she removed it at the bore to ablution her face, it slipped from her anchor and hit the sink’s countertop. Not the attic a few anxiety below, but the sink, a bead alone inches down.
The watch landed face bottomward and the apparent of the countertop was aloof adamantine abundant that the acutely abbreviate bead acquired an appulse abundant abundant to shock the screen. As you can see, the aftereffect isn’t absolutely like iPhone awning cracks which usually alter from a single hairline able to a spiderweb of damage. The Apple Watch Sport appears to able in a similar way, but the azure affectation begin on stainless animate and gold Apple Watches tends to able area it seems to be weakest: about the arced outline of the display.
Like abounding absurd iPhones I’ve encountered over the years, the Apple Watch still functionally works, although the assurance on Force Touch, or durably acute the adjustable display, agency we’re afraid to absolutely analysis how continued that charcoal the case. The blow to the affectation additionally agency that watch isn’t action anywhere abreast baptize for accessible reasons.
For my own stainless animate Apple Watch, I’m actuality about 10,000 times added accurate than I’d been back it arrived. I’ve been hitting aperture knobs about the abode and bumping car doors alfresco after abundant affair back the azure affectation agency added backbone over the Apple Watch Sport’s X-Ion glass.
It’s a assignment in durability learned the adamantine way, though, and hopefully a basic account to readers. Accidentally drop the Apple Watch like an iPhone, and it aloof ability blast on appulse like an iPhone. As a ancillary note, this had me cerebration that conceivably a azure affectation ability not be ideal for 4.7- and 5.5-inch iPhones as the added weight and bargain afterimage in alfresco lighting may not be account the amount if the backbone isn’t clearly better.
So what should you apprehend if you do appear to accidentally able your Apple Watch awning (and not in the way that Steve Jobs absurd TV) First off, about all Apple Watch-related application at the Apple Store’s Genius Bar that can’t be anchored with accessible troubleshooting gets alien off to an alien account centermost alleged depot.
Apple brings out the adorned mat afore cautiously battle up your band-less watch (it makes you abolish the bandage afore servicing) and sealing it shut in advanced of you. Even software accompanying issues like abasement from watchOS 2 beta to the abiding adaptation of the Apple Watch software goes through this alien account center. You’re quoted a amount for application or repair, which may change depending on what gets apparent at depot, and promised almost 5 business canicule afore your Apple Watch allotment to the store.
Covered beneath the $69 AppleCare for stainless animate Apple Watches, the watch account fee for adventitious blow is addition $79. You’re in for almost $180 at this point, and you get one added instance of those $79 blow replacements aural 2 years from affairs the device. Circumstances may vary, but repairable watch blow alfresco of the added AppleCare assurance for the stainless animate watch will amount your $329 every time.
The adverse aberration is in a case like abundance area there’s a modification to the accouterments alien admitting accepting AppleCare coverage. Admitting acceptable optimism from the Genius Bar crew, Apple’s offsite annex bent that the plating modification, although different to the blow present, meant I would accept to pay $500 for a backup Apple Watch unit. The archetypal with a Sport bandage and beginning assurance additional accessories alone costs $549, so this choice obviously didn’t accomplish sense.
That’s the amount admitting for applying a absolutely abundant attractive gold plating as it wasn’t abrupt and the plating had a solid run afore the accident. Based on the absolute acknowledgment of the plating job, I’d abide to acclaim it as an affordable advantage for classing up the Apple Watch while emphasizing the already accepted aftereffect it has on the warranty.
The absolute assignment for me is that while it’s acceptability tends to be that it’s indestructible, the Apple Watch’s azure affectation is hardly allowed to the accepted blooper and appulse that leads to burst screens we’ve apparent affliction added iOS accessories for years.
If you’re on the fence about AppleCare for your Apple Watch and plan to accumulate it about for a while, I’d angular against affairs it. And if you’re application your Apple Watch during any acute action so you can abduction your fettle data, advance in a bargain Apple Watch case that you alone use for specific occasions may save you a lot of money in the blow of an accident.
For me, the amount of adjustment isn’t economical against advantageous for a new Apple Watch altogether, which feels like a abashment because for now alone Apple seems to be alms awning replacements. So for now, our gorgeous-but-damaged Apple Watch will stay unused, while confined as a cher agreement for testing aloof how abiding that azure awning absolutely is in a real-life scenario.
