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Apple Watch Has Issues With Tattoos
Some Apple Watch users say the very expensive smart watch and iPhone accessory won’t work properly if you have tattoos on your wrist. The watch senses your heartbeat by flashing light on your skin and determines your heart rate by bouncing it off the red blood in your veins.
It seems that tattoos, especially red ones, can confuse the high-tech heart rate monitor. Than doesn’t only interfere with fitness apps. The determines if you’re wearing it by looking for the heartbeat. This issue could interfere with receiving calls or using the Apple Pay function.
Since around 40% of people 18 to 29 have tattoos this could turn out to be a big issue with the target demographic for the smart watch.
Apple Watch Has Issues With Tattoos
Some Apple Watch users say the very expensive smart watch and iPhone accessory won’t work properly if you have tattoos on your wrist. The watch senses your heartbeat by flashing light on your skin and determines your heart rate by bouncing it off the red blood in your veins.
It seems that tattoos, especially red ones, can confuse the high-tech heart rate monitor. Than doesn’t only interfere with fitness apps. The determines if you’re wearing it by looking for the heartbeat. This issue could interfere with receiving calls or using the Apple Pay function.
Since around 40% of people 18 to 29 have tattoos this could turn out to be a big issue with the target demographic for the smart watch.
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