--- title: "The interior lights have stopped" description: "JennAir the interior lights have stopped: a cabinet that is cooling perfectly and is dark inside." url: "https://jennairmiami.support/symptoms/refrigerator-lights-not-working/" date_modified: "2026-08-24" Appliance type: "Freezers, Refrigerators, Wine cellars" --- # JennAir the interior lights have stopped ### The fastest diagnosis is the code Press the door switch by hand — the small plunger in the door frame — and see whether the light responds. If it does, the switch is working and the problem is downstream. If nothing happens, the switch itself is the likeliest answer, and it is one of the cheapest parts in the appliance. ### Usually small, occasionally a signal Lights out on their own is a door switch or an LED module, and both are among the cheapest repairs on a refrigeration cabinet. What makes this worth its own page is the version where the lights go at the same time as something else — a display behaving oddly, a temperature drifting, a fan that has changed note. Together those point at the control rather than at the lighting, and catching that early is worth more than the lights are. ### The one to deal with quickly A light that stays on with the door closed. Inside a sealed insulated box, a light is a heater, and a cabinet fighting its own lighting works harder for nothing. It is a stuck door switch, it is inexpensive, and it is worth a call rather than a shrug. The door switch What tells the cabinet the door is open. A cheap part, and the commonest cause. An LED module These are assemblies rather than bulbs, so a section going dark means a module rather than something you can screw in. A demo or showroom mode Rare and worth ruling out, because it makes an appliance behave oddly in several ways at once and is cleared from the panel. The control board When the lights go together with something else, which is the version worth calling about. Moisture in a fitting On a cabinet with a seal problem, water reaches places it should not. The light is the symptom and the seal is the cause. Press the door switch by hand The plunger in the frame. If the light comes on, the switch is fine. Is it one section or all of them? One section is a module. All of them together is usually the switch or the control. A minute at the breaker Worth trying, because a control that came up confused does this among other things. Check whether anything else changed Lights out on their own is a small repair. Lights out alongside a temperature or a display problem is the useful version and is worth mentioning. And what it says about the rest What it usually means One section dark, the rest lit All the lights out and the cabinet still cold Lights flickering or coming on late The fastest diagnosis is the code Press the door switch by hand — the small plunger in the door frame — and see whether the light responds. If it does, the switch is working and the problem is downstream. If nothing happens, the switch itself is the likeliest answer, and it is one of the cheapest parts in the appliance. Usually small, occasionally a signal Lights out on their own is a door switch or an LED module, and both are among the cheapest repairs on a refrigeration cabinet. What makes this worth its own page is the version where the lights go at the same time as something else — a display behaving oddly, a temperature drifting, a fan that has changed note. Together those point at the control rather than at the lighting, and catching that early is worth more than the lights are. The one to deal with quickly A light that stays on with the door closed. Inside a sealed insulated box, a light is a heater, and a cabinet fighting its own lighting works harder for nothing. It is a stuck door switch, it is inexpensive, and it is worth a call rather than a shrug. ### Can I just change the bulb? On these cabinets, no — the lighting is LED modules rather than bulbs, so there is nothing to unscrew. That sounds like bad news and mostly is not: the modules last far longer, and when one does go it is a straightforward replacement rather than a rewire. ### The light stays on with the door shut. That is the more urgent version of this, because a light left on inside a closed cabinet is a heater. It is the door switch stuck closed, and it is worth dealing with rather than ignoring — it puts real load on the cooling and it is a cheap part. ### They flicker when the door has been open a while. Possibly heat protection working as intended, and possibly a connection. If the cabinet is otherwise perfect it is not urgent, but it is worth mentioning at the next visit rather than waiting for it to go dark. --- **[Read full article: The interior lights have stopped](https://jennairmiami.support/symptoms/refrigerator-lights-not-working/)**