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Apple to Add Sleep-Tracking Features to Apple Watch by 2020
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Not to mentioned the beacon of light blasted through the room every time you roll over or move your arm.
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If the battery dies, you die.
Oh and before sleep tracking you didn’t know you felt better if you went to bed earlier
I think that's what the Beddit tracker does. It goes on your mattress and syncs data to your watch. I believe there's at least one other tracker like it besides Beddit.
AutoSleep has been super accurate and I don't even need to start it manually. I really hope they change the UI though. It looks quite bad in some parts.
I know some people who really want the sleep tracking with the watch. They’ve used some of the apps out there. I tried it for a few days but the watch is just too bulky for my preference. I also don’t like the idea of wearing the watch nearly 24x7. So I’m not sure how successful this will be overall.
I wear my Garmin watch at night to track sleeping. While I like the information it provides, wearing a watch all night (particularly that size) is a bit cumbersome. I'd almost rather have a separate lightweight device specifically designed for sleep monitoring.
How is it charged while you sleep? Charge it before bed, then wake up early to charge prior to work? Needs far more battery life for this type of function. Good idea, poor battery life for implementation.
And if you die quietly in your sleep, the watch sends a notification to your next of kin.
So, if you’re supposed to wear it at night to track your sleep, and then wear it during the day to do everything else, when are you supposed to charge it?
Its pretty useful my Nokia HR Steel tracks sleep and it helps identifying if we're walking up in the middle of the night or tracking long term trends.
If the Series 5 battery can last 2 full days then sleep tracking can be useful, but if it don't then just forget about it...
Wearing a watch while sleeping?
Yeah, no. Maybe if I was drunk.
Yeah, no. Maybe if I was drunk.
I've worn watches to bed pretty much my whole life. Many people do. What's the issue? It's not like it gets in the way or anything.
It doesn't sound like you're familiar with REM/Light/Deep sleep. Just because you wake up and feel okay doesn't mean you had a balanced sleep cycle that night. All it means is you woke up at the end of a sleep cycle, not mid-cycle.
The sleep function on my Fit Bit Charge 3 is really awesome. It has provided a lot of information about my sleep patterns that I had no idea about before. Especially interesting is how much awake time you actually have during the night. It's based on heart rate, and above a certain rate your body is considered awake (as in, not in REM, Light, or Deep sleep) even though you are not cognitively aware that you are.
Cinema/Theatre Mode is your friend
Apple seems to be more into the health uses for their watch than the Fitbit and Garmin watches which are centered around fitness rather than health. My Garmin watch tracks sleep very well, but most of the other functions are of no interest to me at 61 years of age. I couldn’t care less about how many steps I walk or how many steps I climb and all that fitness info designed for young folks. I want a watch that can track my health by alerting me to irregular heart beat, heart rate monitoring, sleep monitoring, and even track blood pressure and EKG info when connected to other monitoring devices. Fitness watches are not going to do that because they are targeted to young people who want to stay fit. They are not targeted to those who want to track health issues. Apple seems to be way more interested in health applications than the fitness brands.
Sleep tracking is fine on a Fitbit that lasts 5 days between charges but how would that work on an Apple Watch that barely lasts 1.5 days? If I wore it to sleep I’d have to charge it the next day and leave it at home? Or maybe it’s a way to get folks to buy more watch chargers for your car and office?
And I wear it during sleep - and most people I know do too.
Not every feature has to be for everyone.
I charge my watch (Series 3) during morning shower - it's enough for it to last 24 hours, including exercise tracking for at least an hour + sleep tracking all night long.
Has anyone had experience with this biometrics ring? A podcaster praised its abilities. The manufacturer claims it’s more accurate since it measures blood vessels in the finger rather than the wrist. I imagine it’s more comfortable than a wristwatch for sleep monitoring.
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