THE APPLE WATCH DOES NOT WORK WELL WITH TATTOOS, AND HERE IS WHY
he issue is caused by the way Apple Watch senses your heartbeat. According to Apple support, the back of the watch flashes green and infrared light at your skin, which gets absorbed or reflected by your blood. When your heart beats, there is more blood in your wrist, while there is less blood between beats. By sensing the timing between your heartbeats, the Apple Watch can calculate your heart rate.
Because tattoo ink is opaque, light can’t penetrate your skin. Even more so if you have solid-colored tattoos, specifically red ones, which absorb green light and reflect red light. Black tattoos can be even worse; absorbing both green and red light, interfering with the Apple Watch’s heart rate sensor more frequently.
If you’re a die hard Apple fan who needs to make use of this functionality Apple has a suggestion(albeit impractical): “If you’re not able to get a consistent reading because of any of these factors, you can connect your Apple Watch wirelessly to external heart rate monitors such as Bluetooth chest straps”.
Apparently, if you have tattoos on your wrist and you want your Apple watch to work – the only suggestion is to buy more Apple product.
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