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Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors

The tattoo problem is for those with very thick dark tattoos, basically the lights flash and pick up changes in the blood flow which show the heart rate, when heavily tattoo'd there is several layers of ink between the watch sensors and the major blood vessels that it will record from, it is simple physics really, and, no dark pigmented skin is not the same as heavy tattoos as light will still penetrate dark pigment skin.

Russlush3 - from what i can see from the edges around your moto 360 of your tattoo, whilst dark purple it doesn't seem as thick (not as many layers of ink) so apple watch may still work just like your moto.
 
Jibbajabba said:
So given that I have two full sleves, back and legs tattood means I will commit crimes ? HA - suckers for giving me top secret clearance .. they should have read the study before allowing me to work "there" ...
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No. Please read again. It means you are 10 times more likely to have a record. Doesn't mean you will. It's a stat and a pretty broad one at that. I'm surprised by the amount of tuffy sticker defenders who are getting really emotional about this. You made a personal choice, just tell everybody else to stuff off if they don't like it instead of carrying on about it and trying to justify it with lame arguments.

JackieInCo said:
I have many tattoos on my arms and back and have no arrest record. I also work at a college where I advise new students on what classes they should be taking with their goal in mind if they have one yet. I have never been asked to wear long sleeve shirts and I am asked about my tattoos all the time by students and so many of them have tattoos.
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Does being asked about your tuffy stickers make you feel cool?

I think it's these types of responses that give ammo to those who aren't keen on the old tuffy sticker.

But if you've got ink then you probably want to get along to a store and test a watch out first.
 
bluush said:
It should be fairly obvious from the article (and image) it refers to tattoos that are in direct contact w/ the watch.

Also, it's funny and sad watching the amount of conservative folks pretending this isn't a defect by instead bashing people with ink. I guess if you live on a farm in Kansas tattoos seem like this 'zany' thing, but in cities they're pretty much the norm. I'm almost in shock when I come across someone who doesn't have a tattoo these days. Either way, tattoo or not, it's sad to see so many Apple fans displaying vitriolic comments about other people's decision to get a tattoo. That kind of nastiness looks far worse on you than a tattoo ever would.
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Utter BS. Tattoos are not the norm is big cities. They're a tiny minority. Perhaps you need to be in a better area.
 
iKen1 said:
There's nothing illegal about discriminating against tattoos, it happens every time they try and get a job.
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Nope. Sorry but I don't want someone with ugly ink splattered all over their body representing my business. Tattoos are so "teenager". I suspect a huge number of adults that have them wish they did NOT get the damned things when they did. Besides, most tattoos are ugly and poorly done. Every clown out ther does tattoos now.

The Saturday night live skit about tramp stamp removal is hilarious but so true.

Oh well. I suppose people have a right to "express themselves" but they also have to deal with the consequences. Too bad.
 
smoking monkey said:
No. Please read again. It means you are 10 times more likely to have a record. Doesn't mean you will. It's a stat and a pretty broad one at that. I'm surprised by the amount of tuffy sticker defenders who are getting really emotional about this. You made a personal choice, just tell everybody else to stuff off if they don't like it instead of carrying on about it and trying to justify it with lame arguments.



Does being asked about your tuffy stickers make you feel cool?

I think it's these types of responses that give ammo to those who aren't keen on the old tuffy sticker.

But if you've got ink then you probably want to get along to a store and test a watch out first.
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No more emotional than most pro-Apple people here defending their gadgets no matter how bad said iGadget is 🙂

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s2mikey said:
Nope. Sorry but I don't want someone with ugly ink splattered all over their body representing my business.
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If you see a candidate with ink splattered all over their bodies, then I am not surprised you won't hire them. As it would mean they appeared to the interview naked 😛

You'd find me disgusting based on the amount of of tattoos I have, but I am sure you wouldn't see any of it when I apply for any job.

Gotta love prejudice ...
 
s2mikey said:
I suspect a huge number of adults that have them wish they did NOT get the damned things when they did.
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I didn't get my first tattoo until I turned 45, a weedy seadragon on my chest as a symbol of fatherhood. The next year I added an octopus on my upper left arm, as a symbol of motherhood. I have been working on a seaweed sleeve, loaded with lots of critters as a symbol for my children, ever since.

I am part owner of a multi-million dollar family business. We do not discriminate against people with tattoos, as that would be incredibly shallow. Years ago we had a "no beards" policy for our salesforce, as studies showed that people with beards were less trustworthy. Yes, we changed that policy shortly thereafter as it too proved to be ludicrous.

Personally, I wouldn't want a closed-minded bigot representing my business.
 
SSonnentag said:
Seriously people...you tat yourself up to look like a circus freak and get all upset when your your fancy new optical sensors can't recognize you as having a normal skin tone. Really?
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What kind of ignorant comment is that, I have many tattoos including full sleeves on both my arms and I guess my corporate job do not make me a circus freak.
Also my Apple watch works quite fine without any issues, so possibly it is a user error. 😱
 
AppleFan22 said:
Surely saying most Asians are smart is a compliment?
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Yeah, but even when well intentioned it's thin ice making sweeping generalizations about the majority of an entire race.

Asia is a pretty big, accounting for about 4.4 billion people in 49 countries.

So when you make that statement, are you including Indian people? How about Afghanistan; technically in Asia. Are you saying that Japanese people are the same as Armenians? Or were you just thinking of Chinese people when you used the term Asians?

As you can see, it starts getting pretty complicated, and I don't think you can claim that those 4.4 billion people are on average smarter than the rest of the Earth's population.

Bottom line, not a lot of good can come from a statement that begins, "Most Asian's are..."
 
smoking monkey said:
Enjoy...

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/da...oed_people_more_prone_to_deviant_behavior.php

I'm sure Apple cares about the special-little-snowflakes-with-arm-sleeve-toughie-stickers' money as much as the next bloke, but I think you'll find it's more to do with science and what's actually possible at this point in time.
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For the past two years, Jerome Koch, a sociology professor at Texas Tech University, along with his "Body Art Team," surveyed more than 1,750 students at four colleges and concluded that there is in indeed a correlation between multiple tattoos and piercing and socially unacceptable behavior
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I stopped reading the article right there.
 
Tattoo Gate My BUTT..!!!

Wouldn't you think that when he puts it on his right wrist, when he turns his arm back and forth he Positions his wrist up to hit the Crown button have anything to do with it? PLUS, when doing so he raises the entire bottom sensors of the watch off of his wrist...!!!!

I mean Come On Now..!!!!

It may Not be :apple:

Watch the Video Again... Notice at first How the left wrist is Completely Straight when he turns his arm back and forth...

Then.... when on his right arm How He Bends his right wrist to press on the Crown button of the Watch & also in doing so Lifts the Watch up off his wrist.

The Watch Must be Tight to the wrist to have correct functionality of the Sensors...

NO TATTOO GATE..!!!
 
LouieTheLug said:
Wouldn't you think that when he puts it on his right wrist, when he turns his arm back and forth he Positions his wrist up to hit the Crown button have anything to do with it? PLUS, when doing so he raises the entire bottom sensors of the watch off of his wrist...!!!!

I mean Come On Now..!!!!

It may Not be :apple:

Watch the Video Again... Notice at first How the left wrist is Completely Straight when he turns his arm back and forth...

Then.... when on his right arm How He Bends his right wrist to press on the Crown button of the Watch & also in doing so Lifts the Watch up off his wrist.

The Watch Must be Tight to the wrist to have correct functionality of the Sensors...

NO TATTOO GATE..!!!
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Do you own an apple watch and use it regularly on tattoos? I think you should first learn the watch first before commenting.
 
Tattoo Gate My BUTT..!!!

MacRumors said:
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A growing number of users have turned to social networks claiming that full sleeve tattoos, ones that stretch to cover the wrist, interfere with the Apple Watch's heart rate sensor and skin contact registration. Consequently, some Apple Watch users with tattoos have been unable to receive notifications and are frequently prompted to re-enter their passcode, if one is set, on the wrist-worn device.

A popular Reddit thread discussing the issue has received nearly 700 upvotes and 300 comments since being posted on Tuesday, and some users have unfortunately already coined the phrase "Tattoogate" to describe the problem. iMore soon followed up with a report confirming the issue, with the Apple Watch displaying inaccurate heart rate readings on the wrists of people with dark-colored tattoos.
The severity of problem appears to depend on the color and ink saturation of the tattoo, with darker, solid tattoos causing the most interference with the Apple Watch's sensors. A temporary solution for affected users is to toggle off Wrist Detection in the Apple Watch app under the General menu on the main settings tab, but doing so will disable Apple Pay from being used on the Apple Watch.

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iMore also points out that natural skin pigmentation does not have the same affect on the Apple Watch's sensors, so there is no reason to be worried if you have darker skin. But if you have tattoos, the best advice for now is to try out the Apple Watch yourself and rest assured that the device has a 14-day return policy. Apple has not provided comment on the matter, but we'll keep you posted if we hear anything.

Article Link: Some Tattoos Found to Interfere With Apple Watch's Sensors
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Wouldn't you think that when he puts it on his right wrist, when he turns his arm back and forth he Positions his wrist up to hit the Crown button have anything to do with it? PLUS, when doing so he raises the entire bottom sensors of the watch off of his wrist...!!!!

I mean Come On Now..!!!!

It may Not be

Watch the Video Again... Notice at first How the left wrist is Completely Straight when he turns his arm back and forth...

Then.... when on his right arm How He Bends his right wrist to press on the Crown button of the Watch & also in doing so Lifts the Watch up off his wrist.

The Watch Must be Tight to the wrist to have correct functionality of the Sensors...

NO TATTOO GATE..!!!

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lowendlinux said:
I wonder why?
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Wouldn't you think that when he puts it on his right wrist, when he turns his arm back and forth he Positions his wrist up to hit the Crown button have anything to do with it? PLUS, when doing so he raises the entire bottom sensors of the watch off of his wrist...!!!!

I mean Come On Now..!!!!

It may Not be :apple:

Watch the Video Again... Notice at first How the left wrist is Completely Straight when he turns his arm back and forth...

Then.... when on his right arm How He Bends his right wrist to press on the Crown button of the Watch & also in doing so Lifts the Watch up off his wrist.

The Watch Must be Tight to the wrist to have correct functionality of the Sensors...

NO TATTOO GATE..!!!
 
Tattoogate

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genshi said:
I don't even know where to begin... it's been quite awhile since a thread in a forum got me this riled up! I had a whole rant that I had typed, but surely it would have put me in "time out" so the cleaned up version instead (still written in the heat of the moment):
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Did you miss out on the thread where Tim Cook comes out as gay??

If this thread is getting your blood boiling, Tim Cook being Gay thread, would have led you to murder a few people....

You need to calm down and not take the words on internet forum so seriously...

If most of these Tattoo hating people met some tattooed members in public, they would be civil to them without a doubt. But it's easy to hide on the internet forum and pretend to be someone they are not...
 
OH well, that's what you get when you decide to do something so stupid as to tattoo your arm like that. So many people who have these tattoos will regret it later in life (except maybe someone who used a tattoo to cover up a scar, perhaps). But it's your body, you can vandalize it if you want. The Apple watch doesn't work on your wrist because you have a tattoo? That's your problem, not Apple's.
 
JackieInCo said:
I said earlier in this thread that my Gear S watch has a problem reading my BP when I wear it on the wrist that has a tattoo. It has no problem on the other wrist.

It's not just an Apple watch problem. I posted about this back in February in the Gear S forum on Android Central.
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How did that go? Did they criticize the watch or the person for having a tattoo on their wrist?
 
z chamber said:
How did that go? Did they criticize the watch or the person for having a tattoo on their wrist?
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I don't think anyone even replied. My reply was in another thread so it may have gotten buried easily. I never really mentioned it again because it's not a problem for me. Why would some anonymous person criticize me for what I wrote about tattoos maybe affecting the heart rate monitor? I'm female, many females have tattoos on their wrists.
 
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