Watch is leaving a red circle on my wrist

Has anyone who has or had a red circle on their wrist from the Apple watch figure out what it’s from, if not from it being too tight, an allergy, dirty watch or dirty skin? I’ve had my series 6 for over a year and still cannot find out why. I do not have an allergy to anything on the sport band and have worn other activity tracking watches, including FitBit, with no issue whatsoever.


I’m thinking it has to do with the biometrics and the technology Apple created to collect data while wearing. Some like to say there haven’t been a lot of people reporting this issue, however, from searching online I see many.


Apple makes it difficult to report issues which don’t fall into one of the buckets they have as choices on their website. That could be part of the reason why they say reported issues are too minimal to report. I’ve reported this to them before with no response and no cases show up in my account when I view past activity. There were a couple of cases I opened in the past. Maybe they delete them after time, not sure.


Thanks!

Apple Watch Series 6, watchOS 8

Posted on Aug 14, 2022 6:29 AM

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Aug 14, 2022 9:46 AM in response to ugh1ugh

Please contact support. Tap Get Support at the top of the page. They can help better than we can. I strongly suspect it’s more a matter of an allergy or sensitivity to the material in the Apple Watch. If it were the technology, more of us (Apple Watch wearers) would be having the same problem since we are all using the technology.

Aug 14, 2022 8:55 PM in response to Carol B.

Thank you. I’ve contacted them already and am waiting for a response back. As mentioned above, I’m looking to hear from people who have experienced this. There are TONS of people who have had this same problem.


I’m not bashing Apple and have enjoyed their products for many many years. I do find it interesting, though, that people like to quickly squash this question (Apple employee or not).

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