Apple Watch: The watch’s battery exploded and sent its owner to the hospital

In a new report, our colleagues at 9to5Mac tell the incredible story of one of their readers who saw his watch battery explode. While it’s not uncommon to see Apple Watches save lives by detecting heart attacks or calling for help, Apple Watches can ultimately be dangerous.

Indeed, an owner of the Apple Watch Series 7 suddenly felt that his watch was overheating on his wrist. When he removed it, he noticed that the back was broken and WatchOS was displayed. a warning that the system has been shut down due to too high temperature. However, the ambient temperature was just over 21 degrees.

Watch the battery rise in smoke

The user notified Apple support by phone immediately after removing the device from his wrist. Not surprisingly, the subject was taken very seriously, the call was quickly transferred to several higher levels of the Apple Support hierarchy. An official of the American manufacturer created a case for further investigation. Apple cannot fully identify the problem with this call, and the victim is simply Do not touch the watch until it is called by the service.

While the story might end there, the next morning the owner of the Apple Watch Series 7 was unpleasantly surprised to find it.the clock was even hotter than the day before and The screen began to shatter from the heat. By leaps and bounds, The device finally started to smoke., until the owner decides to throw it out the window. It was too late, there were several burn marks on her sofa.

The owner of the watch after this disturbing new episode He eventually went to the hospital for fear of lead poisoning.. Fortunately, the watch does not appear to contain enough to cause this type of poisoning. The victim did not report any burns as he was able to remove the watch just in time.

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Apple wanted to keep the matter private

Returning from the hospital, the victim contacted Apple services again to report the new incident and send them several photos taken at different times of the crime scene as evidence. Apple assured that its problem was a top priority for the company.and promised to contact him again the next Monday. However, it took much longer for him to hear any news about his case.

As might be expected, Apple collected the watch from home to take to their lab for further testing, possibly to try to determine the exact cause of the problem.

Even the Cupertino company would be tried to gloss over the issue.. Owner of Apple’s faulty Apple Watch Series 7 signing a document not to share the story with anyone. The latter refused and eventually decided to publicize the case.

It’s clear that such a glitch isn’t really good publicity for Apple, which is more used to highlighting its life-saving connected watches. For now everything indicates that this is only an isolated case, because such failure reports are rare. But Apple could have persuaded other victims to keep the cases private.

Source : 9TB5Mac