KitchenAid undercounter ice maker Clean light blinking
KitchenAid's freestanding ice makers blink the Clean light throughout a cleaning cycle.
Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm
- Mode, not a failure
- No repair needed
- Source: KitchenAid
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What Clean light blinking
actually means.
KitchenAid's freestanding ice makers blink the Clean light throughout a cleaning cycle. When a cycle is stopped before it ends, the light carries on blinking, and pressing Clean resumes it; Cleaning Complete shows at the end.
KitchenAid ice maker display
What to do when Clean light blinking shows on the ice makerKind of codeMode, not a failure
Something the ice maker was switched into, often without anyone noticing, rather than something that broke: ice turned off from the panel or by the wire arm lifted while reaching into the bin, a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a cleaning cycle still running, a reminder that the water filter is due. No part has worn out, and the ice maker's own buttons or arm put it right.
Usually leads toNo repair
Leave the unit alone if you started a cycle; it takes roughly 70 to 90 minutes.
Shows up asIce Maker Light Flashing
An ice maker light flashing where it used to glow steadily: a blinking power or ice light, a flashing clean or descale symbol, an add-water light, or a status light on the ice maker itself.
MakeKitchenAid
KitchenAid ice maker service for the door, the freezer drawer and the water supply that feeds them.
SourceKitchenAid Product Help: Cleaning Light Blinking - Freestanding Ice Maker
KitchenAid freestanding (built-in or undercounter) ice makers covered by its Product Help pages.
Before you book,
in this order.
Each step comes from KitchenAid's own guidance for Clean light blinking on its ice makers. Follow it to the end: the last card says whether this is a visit.
Leave the unit alone if you started a cycle; it takes roughly 70 to 90 minutes.
If the cycle stopped, press Clean to continue it.
After a power restart, press Clean if the indicator is still on so the cycle completes.
Book a visit if the light will not stop after a full cycle.
Cleared?
The ice maker is filling and dropping cubes again and no part was needed. If the same code returns during the next harvest, or water shows up on the floor again, book it as a new problem.
What not to do
The blinking is not a report of a failed part. It follows the cleaning cycle only.
What you may
notice with it.
The ice maker problems Clean light blinking tends to arrive with. Answer these at the ice maker before anyone is booked.
All problems
No repair indicated
Nothing to repair.
Something the ice maker was switched into, often without anyone noticing, rather than something that broke: ice turned off from the panel or by the wire arm lifted while reaching into the bin, a control lock, a Sabbath setting, a cleaning cycle still running, a reminder that the water filter is due. No part has worn out, and the ice maker's own buttons or arm put it right.
KitchenAid
ice makers.
KitchenAid ice maker service for the door, the freezer drawer and the water supply that feeds them.
KitchenAid ice maker repairMore KitchenAid codes
Mode, not a failure 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 KitchenAid's own words
If the cycle is interrupted the Clean Light will continue to blink, press the "Clean" button to resume the cycle.
Every code on this site is taken from the manufacturer's documentation, never from a forum or a parts listing. KitchenAid freestanding (built-in or undercounter) ice makers covered by its Product Help pages.
KitchenAid Clean light blinking 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 Clean light blinking?
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.