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title: "Samsung refrigerator error code AP"
description: "Samsung refrigerator error code AP: The refrigerator has made itself into a temporary access point so a phone can find it during SmartThings setup."
url: "https://samsungmiami.support/error-codes/refrigerator-access-point/"
date_modified: "2026-09-04"
Appliance type: "Refrigerators"
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# Samsung refrigerator error code AP

### What AP means on this make

The refrigerator has made itself into a temporary access point so a phone can find it during SmartThings setup. It clears when setup finishes or times out. When it appears with nobody setting anything up, it is usually a button held by accident while the panel was being wiped.

### Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

### What to do about it

- If you are connecting it, carry on and it will clear itself.
- If you are not, leave it — it times out.
- No service is needed.

### Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is [diagnostic visit](/services/diagnostic-visit/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

Access Point mode

What this one means

What AP means on this make

The refrigerator has made itself into a temporary access point so a phone can find it during SmartThings setup. It clears when setup finishes or times out. When it appears with nobody setting anything up, it is usually a button held by accident while the panel was being wiped.

Where this appears, and why not to clear it

On the appliance’s own display. Samsung reports errors two ways: machines with a digital display show a code, and the same machines without one blink their cycle lights instead. Both are published by the maker and both are on this site. Photograph what the panel shows before cutting the power — Samsung asks for this itself on its refrigerator and dishwasher pages, and it is the one thing that makes a first visit more useful. A code that has been reset is information a technician no longer has.

What to do about it

If you are connecting it, carry on and it will clear itself.

If you are not, leave it — it times out.

No service is needed.

Where this goes next

The job this usually becomes is diagnostic visit, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. If it turns out to be nothing — and on this make a real share of these are modes, reminders and settings rather than problems — the visit ends there and you pay the diagnostic and nothing else, or call [(305) 506-1256](tel:+13055061256) and describe what the panel is doing before booking anything.

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