Why does my dryer take multiple cycles to dry clothes?
Clothes dryers often fail to dry loads completely due to overly sensitive automatic sensors or trapped moisture that seeps back into the fabrics after a cycle finishes. This leaves laundry feeling damp hours later or forces users to run multiple cycles to achieve full dryness.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Running multiple consecutive drying cycles to get clothes dry
- 2Pulling clothes out immediately after the cycle finishes
- 3Keeping the dryer door ajar
- 4Turning the setting to More Dry or running an extra 10 minutes
- 5Doing a liberal timed dry
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“We’ve been having an issue with our Samsung dryer for the better part of a year where, if clothes end up sitting in the dryer for basically any length of time after the dry cycle is done, they end up slightly damp.”source ↗
“We’ve checked on the clothes right after a cycle to make sure they dried all the way and they would feel dry, but then we’d come back a few hours later and they’d be damp.”source ↗
“The automatic sensor on the dryer always seemed much too sensitive and will frequently leave loads damp on regular settings.”source ↗
Where this came up
People with this problem also raised
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- 5Why is my washing machine shaking and leaking?
- 2Clothes coming out of the wash covered in lint
- 6Gas dryer runs and tumbles but stops heating after a few minutes