Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors

An anonymous reader writes: A number of early Apple Watch adopters have complained that their tattoos cause interference with many of the new product's key features. According to multiple tattooed sources, inked wrists and hands can disrupt communication with the wearable's sensors installed in the underside of the device leading to malfunction. Owners of Apple Watch have taken to social media to voice their frustration using the hashtag #tattoogate and sharing their disappointment over the newly discovered Apple flaw. One user reported that the Watch's lock system did not disable as it should when the device was placed on a decorated area of skin – forcing those affected to constantly enter their security pins. A further source suggested that notification alerts would fail to 'ping' as they are supposed to, and that heart rate monitoring differed significantly between tattooed and non-tattooed wrist readings.

Comments

Obviously product testing...

[jd2112]

Didn't include Apple Store employees.

Again?

[spiritplumber]

Another Apple fail that everyone will make excuses for.

Re:Struggle

[AmiMoJo]

Maybe you can share some insight into the mind of a person getting a tattoo, but it seems like they can't be thinking too far forward at the time. Most of the designs look terrible after a decade or two, and are often things that are trendy now but won't be in a few years time. Quite a few people seem to get Chinese or Japanese tattoos without even bothering to figure out if they say what they think they say.

So unless I'm missing something it doesn't seem all that surprising that people would not think too hard about how the watch is supposed to work. I'm am surprised that this is the first big issue to come to light with the Apple watch though, I thought it would be people having reactions to the metal that they never knew about because it's the first time they are wearing a watch.