I am seriously at the end of the line with the Apple Watch. I just received my 3rd watch, this time upgrading to the ultra, and while I love the size and look and all that, I have a massive issue with this product.

I can’t even get 15 seconds into a workout without the watch pausing the work out. I do have some tattoos but my previous apple watches worked much better than the Ultra iteration. I don’t understand why apple doesn’t just put out an update that tells the watch, hey don’t fucking pause constantly during work outs.

It’s such bs because if I start a run and don’t initiate the workout on my watch, it will prompt me at the end of my run to record the workout, and all the data is recorded perfectly. But if I try to start the run on my watch at the beginning, every 10 seconds it pauses.

Seems like an easy fix to me, just eliminate feature that pauses workouts constantly, there is literally no use for auto pausing a workout, if we want to pause I will look down and press pause.

Boggles my mind they haven’t fixed this yet. I’ve seen some threads on reddit about this but I am curious to know how many others are affected by this issue?

  • Emotional-Tea-9552@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s more like a physics problem than a software problem. Imagine if Apple decreses the sensitivity on wrist detection to make the Apple watch experience better for tattoed users, so they decide to ignore some instances when the light emitted by the sensors can’t provide enough feedback because they are absorbed by the dark spots. That would overall make the safety features of the watch worse, for example in theory someone could just snatch the watch off you on the street, then fasten it on their own wrist and carry on with it, using ApplePay and such… so overall it’s a difficult problem to handle, it’s no wonder Apple still could not address it after releasing 9 generations of watches. It’s not because they are lazy to release a simple software patch. You can influence them to maybe shift priorities and work on this issue more by submitting your feedback, that’s about all you can do right now unless you are willing to remove or lighten the tattoo.