Usually I’ll take the watch off for an hour or two in the morning hours to charge and then wear it all day and all night - works fine for me. Sure, quicker charging is nice, bit not really necessary for me anymore.
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Apple Executives Discuss watchOS 9's New Health Features Like AFib History and Tracking Your Sleep Stages
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tracking sleep might be nice, if the watch lasted multiple days. but with it only lasting less than one, overnight is when it gets charged.
You're not taking long enough showers in the morning then.
If the always on display is turned off, my 6 can last 48 hours with 20-25% left.
I was actually surprised by the “awake“ time. I’ve always felt like it takes FOREVER for me to fall asleep, but the sleep tracking has been putting my time ”awake” at less than a half hour a night and that is including the time I wake up to get some water. It’s always felt like forever, but looking at the tracking data, I’ve actually been able to account for all that time. I’m surprised.
Kinda confused by the battery life posts. My AW6 usually only uses about 50% charge per 24 hours, and I only take it off to charge. And a typical day uses the workout app for 45-60 minutes. I have "Always On" off though. I usually charge it up to about 80% - 90% for 30-40 minutes while reading before bed time.
I'm excited for the enhanced sleep tracking. It doesn't have to be perfect in an absolute sense. The relative changes over time should be good enough to get a sense of my sleep hygiene.
I'm excited for the enhanced sleep tracking. It doesn't have to be perfect in an absolute sense. The relative changes over time should be good enough to get a sense of my sleep hygiene.
Sure there are compromises. It sounds like you'd prefer to have NO tool instead because practically speaking, not many would wear something that required the daily application of multiple sensors on different parts of their body. So, we take the compromise of the single package solution with (hopefully) some understanding that it is not a hospital grade monitoring system.I am FULLY convinced that this kind of detection is NOT accurate.
As a lot of other kind of measurement performed by Apple Watch (and the problem is not the Apple Watch itself, but the fact that it measures on the wrist, that it is not the best place for some measurement -like O2, temperature- or it is good but it is insufficient, in the sense that MORE sensor placed ALSO elsewhere are needed to gather full data, see EGC).
In this specific case of sleep tracking, the big problem is that it is based on accelerations (and heart rate), not by measurement of cerebral activity (the only thing that can tell you your REAL sleep phase). Me for e.g., sometime I had difficult to fall asleep but sometime will waiting sleep I stay motionless.
This is the reason because most 'health' related features are a complete ********. Instead of doing a real measure of you want measure, they measure ANOTHER thing, then they try to deduce what they want measure with machine learning.
Like for e.g. if I want to estimate how it is tall a person from a picture without having any reference size in this picture, but basing myself on suppositions about other objects in the picture. Yes, I could obtain a value that most of time is reasonable... but not real, only reasonable, and only some of the time.
Even the activity tracking is a ******** (BTW each ride with my electric scooter is recognised as a bicycle ride, and calories burned are are completely useless). Also drop detection sometime is triggered by a very fast arm movement (e.g. pound the table with fists because you are very angry), even if you are sitting!
It would be interesting to place one sensor for each limb (maybe two), to have multiple accelerometers, multiple limb leads for ECG (and a real heart rate measurement, based on electric not on supposed color changes in blood). I could be an Apple Watch + multiple and lighter 'smart wristbands' on each limb connected to the Apple Watch.
In this case we could have real data and not simply ********. But it is too cumbersome for a consumer product, I dont see the interest to develop such product...so...smartwatches, for health related data, are simply toys.
(And I am an Apple Watch fan, I like a lot. But for another kind of usage)
My own experience: it identified multiple instances of 'signs of afib', none of which were actually afib. BUT, I had another condition that was previously undetected. I am now in the care and monitoring of a cardiologist where perhaps it would have taken a much more serious event to get there. So yes, it was inaccurate, but recognized something was not right.
How do you know it’s accurate through the sleep stages if you are sleeping?
This guy is very good and compared devices to actual sleep monitors.
I’m specifically referring to the time I go to sleep. Let’s say I look at the clock at 12:05 and I fall asleep around 12:15. When I wake up the next morning, my sleep start would show 12:15AM.
I can’t confirmed that the stages are accurate while I sleep, though. But the Sleep Start and Sleep End are nearly spot on while wearing my watch.
Solely a question of routine, as others have mentioned here before. You’re free to charge it for a bit in the evenings or in the mornings. The watch will require about 30% charge to run sleep tracking, as a ballpark point of reference.
I am FULLY convinced that this kind of detection is NOT accurate.
As a lot of other kind of measurement performed by Apple Watch (and the problem is not the Apple Watch itself, but the fact that it measures on the wrist, that it is not the best place for some measurement -like O2, temperature- or it is good but it is insufficient, in the sense that MORE sensor placed ALSO elsewhere are needed to gather full data, see EGC).
In this specific case of sleep tracking, the big problem is that it is based on accelerations (and heart rate), not by measurement of cerebral activity (the only thing that can tell you your REAL sleep phase). Me for e.g., sometime I had difficult to fall asleep but sometime will waiting sleep I stay motionless.
This is the reason because most 'health' related features are a complete ********. Instead of doing a real measure of you want measure, they measure ANOTHER thing, then they try to deduce what they want measure with machine learning.
Like for e.g. if I want to estimate how it is tall a person from a picture without having any reference size in this picture, but basing myself on suppositions about other objects in the picture. Yes, I could obtain a value that most of time is reasonable... but not real, only reasonable, and only some of the time.
Even the activity tracking is a ******** (BTW each ride with my electric scooter is recognised as a bicycle ride, and calories burned are are completely useless). Also drop detection sometime is triggered by a very fast arm movement (e.g. pound the table with fists because you are very angry
It would be interesting to place one sensor for each limb (maybe two), to have multiple accelerometers, multiple limb leads for ECG (and a real heart rate measurement, based on electric not on supposed color changes in blood). I could be an Apple Watch + multiple and lighter 'smart wristbands' on each limb connected to the Apple Watch.
In this case we could have real data and not simply ********. But it is too cumbersome for a consumer product, I dont see the interest to develop such product...so...smartwatches, for health related data, are simply toys.
(And I am an Apple Watch fan, I like a lot. But for another kind of usage)
Hear you.
Had to turn off Fall Detection as it kept triggering when I play with my Shiba.
pita.
New features some time this fall.... I appreciate new features. However, I would appreciate them a lot more if Apple would save the fanfare until a feature is actually released.
That would be cool if ...
I can get at most 36 if I'm lucky.
IMO for sleep to really be useful the AW needs at min a 3+ day between charge cycle
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You charge it during shower. So, twice daily.
It’s also recommended that you charge it during sex, otherwise it may accidentally call someone and broadcast whatever you are doing. So, a few times a week I presume.
Those times will more than keep it charged.
Look one post up.
I easily get at least 36 hours with my Watch 7…
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If I do that during sex, how fast can it charge in 2 minutes?
Well I have the constant on display turned off, also I don’t have it make sounds, just vibrations, & I limit what notifications & apps I have on it to just those I actually use. That’s about it…