User has his tattoo painfully removed out of love for Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch won’t like your wrist tattoo, but how far are you willing to go for the love of the Apple Watch? For Apple Watch users with wrist tattoos, there’s a hidden conflict: Tattoos can actually interfere with your Apple Watch’s ability to measure your pulse.
The culprit? Light. The Apple Watch uses light to measure your pulse. Different colored lights shine on your skin, and the watch’s sensors detect how that light interacts with your blood flow. Tattoos can block that light, especially if they’re dark and dense.
This isn’t exactly groundbreaking news. Apple itself warns that tattoos can affect sensor performance. But a recent TikTok video on the subject has gone viral (with over 3.5 million views).
The video shows a person undergoing laser tattoo removal to restore the sensor on their Apple Watch to working order. The cost? Around $418 in this particular case + a few hundred dollars for the Apple Watch.
Laser removal seems like a drastic solution, but if I were in a similar situation, I might get it done too because I love Apple Watches, whose CAD models are supposedly here, and because I like tracking my stats. This problem has been going on for years, ever since the Apple Watch came out. Similar news came a few years ago when FaceID didn’t work for a user with a facial tattoo.
So before you get that awesome new wrist tattoo, you should check if it might cause any conflicts with your beloved Apple Watch. But I hope the tech giants are working on a technology that will allow even tattooed users to use similar technology without any issues.
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