Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Washing machines
Raised as a usability problem by 16 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 16 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
Every issue, all time, most people first
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 17 complaints
- Setting 60 degrees requires pressing the temperature button 8 times with delays, and settings are not remembered2024-02-03
- App breaks after iOS updates, so people can't do laundry for weeks2023-09-02
- Washer doesn't fill fully, so user must run four cycles to rinse2023-07-16
- Touch start needs repeated presses and gives no feedback that it registered2023-04-27
- Pairing needs a hidden switch timing, silently drops connection, and the permission button does nothing2023-01-10
- Must hold buttons for seconds to wake and select each wash mode2022-10-30
- Touch buttons often fail to register, or over-register and skip past the chosen option2022-08-17
- Child lock has no symbol and needs an undiscoverable button combination2022-08-15
- Touch controls are too easy to bump, changing settings or turning the machine off accidentally2022-07-26
- Too many settings; the commenter doesn't know what the buttons are for2022-01-31
- Setting temperature needs repeated presses cycling around a circle to go colder2021-11-06
- Machine alarm is extremely quiet and the timer is inconsistent2021-05-09
- Dial only registers one step per half second, so fast turns skip nothing2020-09-02
- Every button must be held about half a second or nothing happens2020-04-19
- Washer keeps beeping for over an hour after finishing, with no way to turn it off2016-02-29
- No way to predict when the washer will finish its cycle2016-02-29
- Cryptic icons and labels make the washing machine's controls hard to interpret2014-02-11