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Resolved: Replacement Apple Watch (series 8) is not turning on and it's not clear if it's charging....

I received a replacement Apple Watch series 8 and it will not turn on. When it's on the charger, it just keeps showing "charger" icon with a red electric symbol on it, while connected to charger. I never saw this before on any of my other Apple Watches. There are a lot of useless YouTube videos regarding this issue - but none are resolving the problem. Is this something that I just have to wait an extended period for the watch to finally start?


After about 30 minutes on the charger, the watch finally booted up on its own. All good.




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Thanks for sharing your solution with us!