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Apple Watch not tracking sleep after updating watchOS 9.1

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hepokatt1

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After updating watchOS 9.1 my series 8 stopped tracking sleep (don't track even sleep time). It still tracks wrist temperature and breathing frequency. Yesterday I did hard reset both phone and watch. I also checked from the phone's watch-app, that the sleep tracking is on. And I also toggled it off and put on again. Obviously sleep focus mode has been on when I sleep.

Is anyone else having this problem? Any suggestions?

Edit. I also have AutoSleep app, that I yesterday "turned off" from the apple's health app just in case. It didn't help. And before 9.1 update both worked fine together.
 
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Now one hour after waking and turning off the sleep focus mode I got noticifation, which told that it seems that you are awake and asked to turn off the sleep focus mode (I already have turned it off about one hour before). And right after that I got sleep stages in the health app.

Yesterday I got this same notification, but sleep data didn't still appear in the health app.

So it seems that the issue is, that even though you have turned the sleep focus mode off, the watch still thinks it is on.
 
I am using auto sleep (is it called that?) and worked the same with 9.1 on my AWU as before the update. I have an iPhone 11 Pro Max to wich the AWU is connected to.
 
Thank you for the info. It might be that I have some settings wrong, I just have to figure out what. I'm using series 8 and iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Now I put the sleep schedule off and made automation which turns on the sleep focus mode at night (and I will turn it off manually). I'm just guessing that the sleep schedule might affect on that that the watch thinks the sleep mode is still on even though I turn it off manually. Well, tomorrow I know if this makes any difference.
 
hepokatt1 said:
Now one hour after waking and turning off the sleep focus mode I got noticifation, which told that it seems that you are awake and asked to turn off the sleep focus mode (I already have turned it off about one hour before). And right after that I got sleep stages in the health app.

Yesterday I got this same notification, but sleep data didn't still appear in the health app.

So it seems that the issue is, that even though you have turned the sleep focus mode off, the watch still thinks it is on.
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I believe there is a bug in sleep stage that if you turn off sleep focus on the watch the sleep stage will not appear. Only if you turn it off on iPhone it will appear. Been like this for me since 16.0.
 
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Thanks! I actually have used my own wake up shortcut on the phone which turns the mode off and also does some other things. But tomorrow I'll try to turn it off from the phone without any shortcuts.

Edit. My shortcut and sleep tracking did work after 16.0 though. So maybe there is still something different with 16.1/9.1.
 
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I also have this problem since updating to 16.1/9.1. No sleep stages, no wrist temperature and no breathing frequency.
Oh wait, last night breathing frequency and wrist temperature are back, stil no sleep stages.
What I did see is that after my shortcut, I could see that sleep focus was enabled on my watch but I didn’t get the sleep face, so I turned it off on my watch and turned it back on and the sleep face did appear. That’s maybe why the wrist temperature and breathing frequency did track last night.
 
S8 on 9.1, iP13 Pro on 16.1, sleep tracking working fine for me. I have a sleep schedule set from 12m - 7a (with no alarm), and manually activate Sleep Focus on my phone every night when I go to bed (it automatically deactivates at 7 am):

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I just updated my Apple Watch Ultra today (I know I’m late, so busy lately) to 9.1 and my iPhone 14 Pro Max was updated to 16.1 on Monday, so I will let you all know if my AWU tracks my sleep tonight or not.

If not we are going to have to put our heads together and see if it something we are doing with Sleep Focus (I doubt that) or if it is a bug with 9.1, which I would lean more to that if more and more people report the same thing you guys that are effected reported.

We shall see, but I would really encourage anyone that is having this issue to post in here about it, so we can get a sense of scale on this. Thank you for reporting, and good luck everyone.

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azhava said:
S8 on 9.1, iP13 Pro on 16.1, sleep tracking working fine for me. I have a sleep schedule set from 12m - 7a (with no alarm), and manually activate Sleep Focus on my phone every night when I go to bed (it automatically deactivates at 7 am):

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@azhava , how do you get “time in bed” displayed?
I only see “time asleep”
S7 9.1/12 mini 16.1.
 
So yesterday I took the sleep schedule off and made automation that enables sleep focus mode. Automation didn't work so I put it on manually when going to bed. At morning I put it off manually from the phone and sleep data was on the health app right away. But later I still got notification on the watch that seems like you have waken etc... so the watch still thought that the sleep focus mode was on.

Now I enabled sleep schedule again. Let's see if this has something to do with the problem. But as someone wrote before, for now solution might be that the sleep focus mode should be turned off from the phone. So if you have this problem, how do you turn it off?
 
After a bit of ‘Googling’ and playing with settings I found out that “Time in Bed” is measured by using “Track time in bed with iPhone“ in Sleep setting’s schedule.
Set it last night and it measured correctly.
 
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But as someone wrote before, for now solution might be that the sleep focus mode should be turned off from the phone.
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I'd like to emphasize that if the watch ask you if you'd like to turn off wake up alarm it's ok to do so. Only if you wake up way early and the watch doesn't ask you that you should turn off sleep focus on iPhone.
 
I also have this issue.

Prior to 9.1 and 16.1 I had no sleep schedule set and enabled sleep focus each night via an automation when I put the phone on charge.

Night 1 - sleep focus activated on phone via automation but not mirrored on watch. So enabled manually. No sleep recorded

Night 2 - manually activated sleep focus on phone, not mirrored on watch again. Deselected and reselected mirror iPhone focus on watch setting and it now mirrors the sleep focus. No sleep recorded.

Night 3, activated sleep focus on watch (was mirrored by iPhone). No sleep recorded.

Night 4, set up a sleep schedule. Sleep was recorded. But I don't like sleep schedule as I work shifts so it doesn't really fit in with my sleep pattern.

Will give it a shot without the schedule tonight and see what happens.
 
No. Sleep tracking works for me and I have sleep focus with no wakeup alarm. I own the Series 7 and I've noticed significant battery conservation.
 
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I'd like to emphasize that if the watch ask you if you'd like to turn off wake up alarm it's ok to do so. Only if you wake up way early and the watch doesn't ask you that you should turn off sleep focus on iPhone.
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I almost always wake up before my sleep schedule ends. So I have to turn it off manually.

Today I also turned it off from the phone but this time didn't get sleep data. Later the watch said "seems that you're awake..." (by the way my watch language isn't English so I don't know exactly what this notification says word by word), but even after this I didn't get sleep data. For me it seems that there is no logic. I mean yesterday I did exactly same things, and schedule was same, and I did get the sleep data.

Before after turning sleep focus mode off the watch has shown time, battery, and weather. But now it doesn't show that when I turn the mode off. Now I get that screen only 1-2 hours after waking and after getting the notification "seems that you're awake...".
 
I found out that when setting the sleep focus through a Siri shortcut the focus is not set on the watch.
I’ve been using a Siri shortcut with a HomePod mini when going to sleep which among other things activates the sleep focus (without using a sleep schedule).
Prior to 16.1/9.1 this was working perfectly. After updating I lost sleep, temperature and breath tracking. When manually setting sleep focus, either on the iPhone or the watch, I gain back the temperature and breath tracking but I haven’t got sleep tracking back since the update.
 
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I found out that when setting the sleep focus through a Siri shortcut the focus is not set on the watch.
I’ve been using a Siri shortcut with a HomePod mini when going to sleep which among other things activates the sleep focus (without using a sleep schedule).
Prior to 16.1/9.1 this was working perfectly. After updating I lost sleep, temperature and breath tracking. When manually setting sleep focus, either on the iPhone or the watch, I gain back the temperature and breath tracking but I haven’t got sleep tracking back since the update.
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Yes same here, I had an automation that when I put my phone on charge at night it went to sleep mode. Worked perfectly until 16.1/9.1
 
Same here. When I use the automation or shortcut, the sleep icon shows up at the top of the watch, but the sleep screen doesn't engage and the following day I get not sleep data. The only way I can get it to work is by manually enabling sleep focus either on the watch or the phone.

Why must the apple watch sleep tracking work like this, and not automatically detecting sleep like most other health trackers?
 
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