A report from The New York Times over the weekend highlighted the trend of people wearing an Apple Watch on their ankles, instead of the wrist.

A somewhat strange trend is currently emerging from North America: users are wearing their Apple Watch elsewhere. This supposedly helps with accuracy.

A growing number of people are wearing their Apple Watch on their ankle, according to a new report, with five different reasons cited. The most mundane of these are people with tiny wrists who find that the Watch is too loose during workouts, even with the smallest of bands …

In pursuit of tracking fitness goals in a comfortable manner, a growing number of people are relocating their watches (and causing some confusion along the way).

Some Apple Watch users are wearing it on their ankle instead of their wrist to get better workout data, but we've done some testing, and it's not a great place to wear the device.