GE Profile top display
showing Leak Detected
On GE Profile bottom-freezer models with the XWFE filter, the top display reads Leak Detected when water is sensed at the filter.
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- Water supply and fill
- Ice maker water inlet valve repair
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What Leak Detected
actually means.
On GE Profile bottom-freezer models with the XWFE filter, the top display reads Leak Detected when water is sensed at the filter. The manual's fix is to replace the filter or fit the bypass plug, and the display resets once the condition is corrected.
GE Profile ice maker display
What to do when Leak Detected shows on the ice makerKind of codeWater supply and fill
The ice maker asked for water and got too little, too slowly or none at all, or water kept arriving after the fill should have ended. A closed shutoff, a kinked line, a clogged filter and low house pressure are ruled out before the water inlet valve is replaced or the fill tube is thawed. If water is on the floor, close the supply valve before reading anything on the display.
Usually leads toIce maker water inlet valve repair
The electric valve that lets water into the ice maker, tested and replaced when it will not open, opens only partway, or keeps dripping after it should have closed.
Shows up asIce Maker Leaking on the Floor
A puddle that spreads from under the door dispenser, from the kickplate of the freezer, from beneath an undercounter unit or around a countertop model, and comes back after you mop it up is the classic sign of an ice maker leaking on the floor.
MakeGE Profile
GE Profile ice maker repair, including the countertop nugget ice makers that run from a reservoir instead of a water line.
SourceGE Profile bottom-freezer owner's manual 49-1000713
GE Profile bottom-freezer models with the XWFE filter and a top control display (owner's manual 49-1000713).
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from GE Profile's own guidance for Leak Detected on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Close the water supply valve if you see water in the fresh food section or on the floor.
Remove and reinstall the filter so it seats fully, or replace it if it is cracked or old.
If you have no replacement, install the filter bypass plug.
If Leak Detected stays after a new filter or the bypass plug, book a visit.
Still there?
It usually turns into ice maker water inlet valve repair. Book with the code and the model number.
What not to do
Leak Detected is not the same as Expired Filter, which is a six-month timer. It points at water where it should not be, so it is treated as a leak until the filter head is checked.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Leak Detected tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
Where Leak Detected usually leads
Ice maker water inlet valve repair.
GE Profile
ice makers.
GE Profile ice maker repair, including the countertop nugget ice makers that run from a reservoir instead of a water line.
GE Profile ice maker repairMore GE Profile codes
Water supply and fill on other makes
Door ice maker
The ice maker that feeds the dispenser on the outside of a door: tucked into an insulated box in the left door of a French door model, or at the top of the freezer side of a side-by-side, with a chute and an auger carrying cubes to your glass.
Freezer ice maker
The ice maker that sits inside the freezer compartment itself, a tray that twists or a mold with a heater and an ejector, dropping cubes into a bin or drawer you open by hand, with no dispenser on the door.
Undercounter ice maker
A built-in residential ice maker that lives under a kitchen, bar or basement counter, making clear cubes or chewable nugget ice on its own cooling system, with a water line in and a gravity drain or a small drain pump out.
In GE Profile's own words
Leak Detected when water is detected at filter indicating a leak is present.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. GE Profile bottom-freezer models with the XWFE filter and a top control display (owner's manual 49-1000713).
GE Profile Leak Detected ice maker repair,
where we come out.
The same visit in every metro below: the code, the model number, and a diagnosis before any part is ordered.
All service areasTampa BayFL · 31 areas
Miami / South FloridaFL · 47 areas
New York MetroNY · 75 areas
HoustonTX · 36 areas
ChicagoIL · 50 areas
Los AngelesCA · 95 areas
San DiegoCA · 31 areas
Questions
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Back to your everyday
Still showing Leak Detected?
Book with the code or the blink pattern written exactly as the ice maker shows it, the full model number, and whether there is any water on the floor — when there is a code, that is where the diagnosis starts.