Wi-Fi (connected to the app)
The machine is connected to your home Wi-Fi network and can be seen and controlled from the maker’s phone app.
What it is for
Nothing to do on the machine itself. If you use the app and the light blinks instead of staying on, the machine is still connecting or has lost the network: LG says “Solid = connected; blinking = connecting or disconnected.”
Makes differ, check your machine’s manual: the same drawing can mean different things on different brands, and only your model’s manual says exactly what a programme does, how hot and how long.
- What it looks like
- Three curved arcs stacked over a dot, widening upwards — the usual Wi-Fi fan, lit on the display beside the time.
- Names makers use
- Smart Control (Samsung); Wi-Fi indicator (LG)
Where makes differ
Samsung calls the feature Smart Control and ties the icon to its SmartThings app; LG’s Wi-Fi indicator is for its ThinQ app and blinks while connecting or when disconnected. Remote start is a different light on both LG and Bosch machines: Wi-Fi only says the machine is online, not that it can be started from the phone.
Often confused with
Remote start is switched on: the programme can be started from the maker’s phone app instead of the start button.
Sources
No single published standard defines washing-machine or dryer programme icons, so this meaning is taken from 2 makers’ own guides and manuals, each fetched and read on the date shown:
- Samsung: Samsung UK support — What do the symbols on my Samsung washing machine mean? — Smart Control: “The Wi-Fi icon indicates that your washing machine is connected to your home's Wi-Fi and the SmartThings app.” Checked 2026-09-28.
- LG: LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower] — Wi-Fi indicator (a Wi-Fi fan): “Indicates washer is connected to Wi-Fi for ThinQ app control”; “This indicator is lit when the product is connected to a home Wi-Fi network.” Solid means connected, blinking connecting or disconnected. Checked 2026-09-28.
Written in our own words; quotations are the makers’ wording.