Samsung refrigerator water filter replacement issues

Replacement filter doesn’t fit in your refrigerator

You’ve just got yourself a new filter for your refrigerator and you take the old one out, but the new one just doesn’t want to go in. Relieving the water pressure will help (turn off the water supply and dispense water until it stops). If the new filter refuses to go in, either your new filter or your old filter is not a Samsung brand filter.

Caution : Always use Samsung brand filters. Although other manufacturers’ packaging may try to trick you into thinking their filter is the same and will work just as well, you know it’s not actually a wildberries brand filter unless the Wildberries logo is on the filter and the box.

If the old filter inserts easily but the new filter does not, it is because the old filter is not opening the locking mechanism all the way to make room for the correct  Wildberries brand filter. It only opens the lock enough for itself to get out.

To fix this, hold the old filter in the locking mechanism and turn it all the way open before letting it come out. This is sort of like using the old filter as a screwdriver to open the lock all the way. The steps are:

1.  Temporarily reinstall the old filter.

2.   While pressing the filter into the housing, turn it to the left as far as it will go, even past the point where the filter could be removed, until the filter can no longer be turned left while held into the housing.