I recently bought Apple Watch Series 11. They’re set up and working fine, but for two nights in a row I’ve had the same issue: the alarm from Sleep Focus goes off on my iPhone instead of on the watch.
When I look at the watch in the morning, it’s asking for the passcode. From what I understand, that means wrist detection was disabled at some point, so the alarm was handed off to the iPhone instead.
I don’t have tattoos on my wrist, the band is snug, and I sleep without long sleeves. What could cause wrist detection to fail during sleep, resulting in the alarm triggering on the phone instead of the watch?
Sleep tracking itself looks accurate right up until the minute I wake up. Notifications also seem to have been delivered to the watch overnight — at least at a glance, I didn’t notice any obvious differences between the watch and phone notification history.
One theory I have is that this might be related to the watch being brand new. Similar to how a new iPhone may ask for the passcode more frequently during the first few days, maybe the watch does the same. But this theory doesn’t fully hold up, because during the day I don’t see any of these “lockouts,” and I also don’t see the “Apple Watch Unlocked by iPhone” message on the iPhone — which normally appears when the watch is unlocked via Face ID.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?
P.S. And an important addition: despite being locked, the watch still monitors my heart rate and records my sleep throughout the night until I wake up (today, for example, it was 99 points out of 100).
When I look at the watch in the morning, it’s asking for the passcode. From what I understand, that means wrist detection was disabled at some point, so the alarm was handed off to the iPhone instead.
I don’t have tattoos on my wrist, the band is snug, and I sleep without long sleeves. What could cause wrist detection to fail during sleep, resulting in the alarm triggering on the phone instead of the watch?
Sleep tracking itself looks accurate right up until the minute I wake up. Notifications also seem to have been delivered to the watch overnight — at least at a glance, I didn’t notice any obvious differences between the watch and phone notification history.
One theory I have is that this might be related to the watch being brand new. Similar to how a new iPhone may ask for the passcode more frequently during the first few days, maybe the watch does the same. But this theory doesn’t fully hold up, because during the day I don’t see any of these “lockouts,” and I also don’t see the “Apple Watch Unlocked by iPhone” message on the iPhone — which normally appears when the watch is unlocked via Face ID.
Any ideas on what could be causing this?
P.S. And an important addition: despite being locked, the watch still monitors my heart rate and records my sleep throughout the night until I wake up (today, for example, it was 99 points out of 100).
