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Announced September 9th, 2014, this device is Apple's first foray into smart wearables. iFixit's repair manuals are applicable to Apple Watch (steel) and Apple Watch Sport (aluminum).

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help... sealed my watch and replacement force touch gasket not working

hey folks,

I was waiting a while for my replacement apple watch force touch gasket to come in (a screen protector had ripped my display off when trying to remove it, and torn one of the force touch gasket's cables)... so when it finally came in, I jumped the gun and sealed everything up before testing (d'oh).

Now I can't for the life of me get the screen back off--a testament to iFixit's replacement part, but I never had to do this before as the screen just popped off both of the last two times I tried to remove my tempered glass screen protectors.

Help--I really don't wanna break the screen but I still have no force touch and it's driving me crazy.... I guess I didn't seat the connector well enough.

Any tips on getting display off without damaging it?

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Hello,

in behind every screen lies pile of glue so you need to heat your watch so glue is soft then with the IFIXIT iOpener toolkit pick blue guitar picks and slowly pop open your screen. (a lot of tutorials on youtube.com if needed)

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@ulees - Its always a good idea to complete the answer by posting the part and/or tool info. So in this case: iOpener I would also have posted this: How to Replace the Display on an Apple Watch Series 2 While this is for one of the newer Apple Watches the same process is used to take the original Apple Watch as well.

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@danj Thanks for the tip. I will follow it.

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