Is the Apple Watch able to read my stats through tattoos?

This is an interesting post:

Tattoos and Apple Watch - Apple Community

PoliteViking wrote:

Hi, just to let people know I have both arms fully tattooed down to the wrist. I have tried various workarounds with sticking see through plasters, bottle caps etc to the back of the watch and all work to a degree but if you buy tattoo artist second skin on Amazon etc it works perfectly…stick it to the area under the watch directly on your skin. Just change the sticker when you shower. I have full functionality with my series 8.

No. Opaque ink blocks the Apple Watches ability to see inside your wrist and monitor blood flow.

However, I do believe I read something that said they may have at least solved the "Wrist Detection" issues for tattoos, which would allow you to use things like Apple Pay.

I would suggest you research that before you spend any money.

Confirming wrist detection is still not fixed. I read that the newest watch os update was supposed to fix it but my Ultra 2 will not register as on my wrist unless the sensor is in a tiny little spot on my wrist that isn’t tattooed. I got my watch just before Christmas 2023.

Whoop has a firmware specifically designed for tattoos. I had the same problem and they changed the firmware on my device and never had the problem again. Apple will hopefully do something similar eventually.

Sorry! Whoop is another device (not Apple related) for monitoring body metrics and exercise performance. My point there was whoop has a watch-like device with a similar sensor on the back and managed to find a way to make the sensor work through tattoos. I am hoping Apple can do the same considering the cost 😅

side note: I found these bottle cap pendant epoxy circles with reviews suggesting it works to help the sensor. So far my watch has stayed unlocked on my wrist since I put it on the sensor! Im sure we’d all really prefer the watch to just work correctly on tattooed skin but it’s decent a work around for now.

100-Piece Epoxy... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AFRWIRQ?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Thanks! I wasn’t sure if it was some third party software like a jailbreak type thing!

I bought some of them bottle cap stickers but my watch doesn’t charge sadly. Everything else works as it should apart from the charging sadly 😞

Complete novice here. But what is “Whoop”?