[edswife1970]

I was just looking at the support page - community - on the Apple website. I was shocked to see that many people have experienced their Apple Watch screen shatter for no apparent reason. Has anyone here had that happen? Apple is blaming user abuse.

[Just_Me_D]

I've had the original series Watch and am currently wearing the Series 3 model with out any protection whatsoever, and I've yet to experience a shattered screen on either of them. I'm with Apple on this one. I refuse to believe they just shattered on their own.

[Annie_M]

Granted, I'm a relatively new Apple Watch user, but this seems hard to believe!

[doogald]

It has not happened to me, but I know it happens often enough (from reading reddit in particular). The glass is probably relatively thin, in order to be touch capable, and even if you have the more scratch-resistant sapphire glass on the stainless and edition models, sapphire glass is more brittle, so more fragile.

I would have LOVED a raised bezel around the watch (as most "real" watches have) to help protect the crystal from accidental strikes with hard surfaces. Less pretty, more functional.

[Snoweagle]

I've dropped my Series 2 onto the floor of my home previously at a height of around 3 to 4ft, screen down and it hasn't shattered, nor even has a chip on it. Using SS one.

[Garz]

I've dropped my Series 2 onto the floor of my home previously at a height of around 3 to 4ft, screen down and it hasn't shattered, nor even has a chip on it. Using SS one.

The SS has the sapphire glass which is much stronger against scratching and breaks. A huge advantage. When I had the sport, my glass would start showing micro scratches everywhere. I’ve had my series 2 SS for a year and a half and not a single micro scratch.

[doogald]

The SS has the sapphire glass which is much stronger against scratching and breaks.

As I said above, sapphire glass, though more scratch-resistant, is more brittle than the "ion-x" glass that Apple uses in the aluminum models, so should be more rather than less prone to shatter. So, stronger against scratching, probably not against breaks.

[Snoweagle]

As I said above, sapphire glass, though more scratch-resistant, is more brittle than the "ion-x" glass that Apple uses in the aluminum models, so should be more rather than less prone to shatter. So, stronger against scratching, probably not against breaks.

The SS has the sapphire glass which is much stronger against scratching and breaks. A huge advantage. When I had the sport, my glass would start showing micro scratches everywhere. I’ve had my series 2 SS for a year and a half and not a single micro scratch.

Yes precisely. the sapphire glass is more susceptible to shatters and at that time when it dropped, my heart stopped and I thought ‘it’s finished’.

Fortunately, not a scratch and from then on I’ve been extremely careful handling it.

[imwjl]

I'm kind of in disbelief regarding what my Series 2 took without breaking and my wife having them break twice. One was a drop from low bench by the door to rug while tying shoes. The other a minimal tap on wood door frame compared to what often occurs.

The glass on my 2 has a nick but it happened long before the screen when whacko and it being sent in this past week.