Apple Watch it has been on the wrists of several million users around the world since last week and it seems that some of them have discovered some problems that prevent use in certain conditions. I'm talking here about users who have tattoos on their wrists, which affect the functionality of the sensors implemented by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC),, something that those from Cupertino did not explain very clearly from the very beginning.
Your sorry existence a tattoo on the wrist with which the case makes contact Apple Watch it prevents the attached sensors from correctly detecting the skin, implicitly preventing the almost complete use of the watch for most of its functions. Moving the watch to a hand on which a tattoo is not visible solves the problem altogether, but of course this implies using the product in an unnatural way for the user.
So I thought my shiny new 42mm SS watch had a bad wrist detector sensor. The watch would lock up every time the screen went dark and prompted me for my password. I wouldn't receive notifications. I couldn't figure out why especially since the watch was definitely not losing contact with my skin. My hand isn't tattooed and the Watch stayed unlocked. Once I put it back on the area that is tattooed with black ink the watch would automatically lock again.
Having the function of detecting contact with the skin activated, Apple Watch it freezes completely every time the screen closes, requiring the entry of a password to function and display even trivial notifications. Disabling the skin contact detection function prevents the use of the heart rate sensor or Apple Pay, but at least it does not require entering a password after each screen lock.
Considering that Apple did not explain to customers that they cannot use the Apple Watch even for notifications unless they completely disable skin identification, there will certainly be enough people dissatisfied with the purchase. Unfortunately, there is not and will not be a solution to the problem, and this is because those sensors that detect the skin need clean skin, without tattoos.
