Thermador Refrigerator Sabbath Mode (Lights and Messages Off)

What Sabbath Mode means

With the interior lamp dark, no ice arriving and the alarm silent, a refrigerator looks defective, yet Sabbath mode is merely a setting. Per Thermador's column and French-door guides it pauses everything nonessential: ice making, audible signals, the interior light and on-screen messages, along with Super cooling and Super freezing on French-door units. It ends by itself when the chosen duration expires.

Usual causes of Sabbath Mode

Sabbath mode scheduled for a holiday with a lengthy duration
The mode enabled by accident while changing settings

✓ A safe check worth trying

1. Open the basic settings. 2. Turn Sabbath mode off. 3. Check the lamp, ice maker and alarm again. Do this first whenever someone reports a dark cabinet, missing ice or a quiet alarm. 4. If a part still misbehaves, note which one.

! Why you should stop here

If the lamp, ice maker or alarm remain dead once the mode is off, the problem sits in that particular part and calls for a technician's test.
Ending the mode takes seconds at the panel, so no service visit is needed to find out.

Taking off a panel yourself does not by default void a manufacturer warranty, yet it can lead to accidental damage, and some manufacturers attach their own service terms. Read your warranty paperwork, or ask us, before you decide.

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Sabbath ModeSabbath Mode questions

Does the refrigerator quit cooling during this mode?

No. Cooling continues as normal and the food stays cold. Only the convenience functions named in the guide are paused until the mode ends. Lights and ice come back once it ends.

The door alarm went quiet. Is it defective?

Check for Sabbath mode before anything else. It mutes audible signals deliberately, so a silent alarm while it is active is expected behavior, not a defect.

How can I end it sooner than planned?

Switch it off in the basic settings. That is faster than waiting for the selected time to run out, especially if a long duration was chosen.