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Does anyone at Apple wash their hands? (timemachiner.io)

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Over eight years, the Apple Watch has sensibly evolved—activity rings, rest-day pauses, Walkie Talkie, widget redesign—and become an indispensable daily companion. Yet its clever hand-washing feature from watchOS 7 is plagued by incessant false “loud environment” alerts from hand dryers and repeated dish-washing triggers that never get fixed. It’s baffling that a device capable of life-saving crash detection can’t handle drying your hands, making me suspect Apple’s engineers never actually wash theirs.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (15 children)

Most public restrooms have air dryers that blow air forcefully and loudly. And what happens every single time I use one? This annoying AF alert telling me "Loud Environment Detected" and imploring me to get to a quieter spot before I damage my hearing.

Air dryers are dirty AF, it is cleaner to wipe your hands on your pants.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/the-dirty-truth-about-hand-dryers

Myth: Hand dryers help kill germs

Fact: Hand dryers can spread viruses and bacteria

Solution to the noise alert? Stop using air dryers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Agreed!

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