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Apple Watch Series 5 and Tattooed skin

I have tattoos covering both my arms and hands. My current Apple watch very rarely recognises that it is on my wrist and therefore cannot utilise most of the watches features. Has this issue been rectified with the series 5?

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Posted on Sep 11, 2019 6:38 AM

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Posted on Sep 29, 2019 5:22 AM

Definitely an issue for me. Always on, wouldn't work and the watch was constantly asking for passcode etc. I don't want to turn off wrist detection as it disables a few functions that I want to use, so I've swapped to wearing it on my other wrist which is a bit of a pain but I've gotten used to it pretty quickly.

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Apple Watch Series 5 and Tattooed skin

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