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

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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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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[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 months 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.

[–] TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (10 children)

I'm not that old, and have only seen a single, filthy example, but the older style of discontinued public washroom hand drying towels were disgusting in a really intense kind of way. It never got the opportunity to completely dry, and add to that situation that every single asshole who only rinsed his dickbeaters after shitting instead of washing them was griming it up instead of just drying their hands.

[–] mriguy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The towel is not a loop. When you pull down you get fresh towel off of a roll. The used towel goes onto a different roll and when the clean roll is used up they change it and wash the dirty one. They are geared together so the amount hanging down is pretty constant but sometimes they got out of sync and the “loop” was either huge or so tight you couldn’t really dry your hands.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

And today you could build one that has like a micro washing machine / mangle / dryer combo integrated.

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