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title: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerator signal Cooling off"
description: "Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerator signal Cooling off — cooling off is an indicator rather than an error."
url: "https://kenmoremiami.support/error-codes/whirlpool-refrigerator-cooling-off/"
date_modified: "2026-09-01"
Appliance type: "Freezers, Refrigerators"
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# Whirlpool-built Kenmore refrigerator signal Cooling off

### Whose code this actually is

Kenmore did not write Cooling off, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Whirlpool’s, and it appears on the refrigerator that Whirlpool built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Four different manufacturers built refrigerators under this badge, and several of them use an F with a number for unrelated conditions. That is the single most convincing way to reach the wrong component.

### What the appliance is telling you

Whirlpool's wording: the refrigerator and freezer will not cool while cooling is turned off, and the display says COOLING OFF.

This one is an indicator rather than an error. It is published in the same table as genuine problems, and treating it as one is how a working appliance gets a service call.

### Which Kenmore models can raise it

The Kenmore refrigerator whose model number begins 106 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Whirlpool’s, which is why Whirlpool’s table is the one that applies to Cooling off and no other manufacturer’s does.

### Worth trying yourself, in this order

- Turn cooling back on at the panel.
- This is a setting, not a failure, and it accounts for a real share of not-cooling calls. It costs nothing to check.

### Where this usually goes

The job this most often becomes is [refrigerator not cooling repair](/services/refrigerator-not-cooling-repair/), and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore refrigerator in this humidity hands its defrost circuit more work than it was sized for, and in a Miami kitchen a floor-level condenser blocks well ahead of any published interval. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears Cooling off, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis.

### Where this meaning came from

Whirlpool’s own documentation: *Refrigerator display and indicator guide — Whirlpool Product Help*. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer’s document instead.

What the machine is telling you

Whose code this actually is

Kenmore did not write Cooling off, because Kenmore has never built an appliance. This one is Whirlpool’s, and it appears on the refrigerator that Whirlpool built and Sears sold under the Kenmore badge. Four different manufacturers built refrigerators under this badge, and several of them use an F with a number for unrelated conditions. That is the single most convincing way to reach the wrong component.

What the appliance is telling you

Whirlpool's wording: the refrigerator and freezer will not cool while cooling is turned off, and the display says COOLING OFF.

This one is an indicator rather than an error. It is published in the same table as genuine problems, and treating it as one is how a working appliance gets a service call.

Which Kenmore models can raise it

The Kenmore refrigerator whose model number begins 106 — the three digits before the period on the rating plate. Those digits are Whirlpool’s, which is why Whirlpool’s table is the one that applies to Cooling off and no other manufacturer’s does.

Worth trying yourself, in this order

Turn cooling back on at the panel.

This is a setting, not a failure, and it accounts for a real share of not-cooling calls. It costs nothing to check.

Where this usually goes

The job this most often becomes is refrigerator not cooling repair, and that page carries a starting figure and the reasons that move it. A Kenmore refrigerator in this humidity hands its defrost circuit more work than it was sized for, and in a Miami kitchen a floor-level condenser blocks well ahead of any published interval. Photograph the display before you cut the power: a reset clears Cooling off, and on a Kenmore the characters plus three digits off the plate are most of the diagnosis.

Where this meaning came from

Whirlpool’s own documentation: Refrigerator display and indicator guide — Whirlpool Product Help. Kenmore publishes none of its own, which is why every entry on this site names the manufacturer’s document instead.

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