Apple Watch not tracking sleep after updating watchOS 9.1

[ndouglas]

Sleep tracking works fine for me. Not sure what the issue is for OP and a few others, it is strange to read about it. AW7 here… updated to latest OS a few days ago…

to the previous poster —-^ it does seem to auto-detect sleep for me, for example, not often but when I have a nap in the day time, Health app automatically detects that, as well as nightly sleep, and cycles.

 

[srknpower]

I have the same issue on my Series 8 and notified Apple Turkey about the issue. I hope Apple releases a bugfix before WatchOS 9.2 for this.

 

[ictiosapiens]

In reply to ndouglas:

Do you have autosleep installed? Because watchOS only tracks sleep when on sleep focus.

In my case, it stopped working properly when I installed 9.1.

 

[srknpower]

Today I talked to Apple Turkey again and they told me they are aware of the issue and Apple is collecting data for the bug and the bug will be addressed in future updates.

 

[hepokatt1]

Now I have got sleep data for three nights in a row like this: sleep schedule is off, and I turn the sleep focus mode on and off from the watch. Now I haven't had the notification that "seems like you're awake..." and the sleep data has been on the health app right away.

 

[hepokatt1]

Today I talked to Apple Turkey again and they told me they are aware of the issue and Apple is collecting data for the bug and the bug will be addressed in future updates.

Thank you for that and nice to know! I have sent feedback earlier, but as always I haven't got any answer.

 

[srknpower]

Thank you for that and nice to know! I have sent feedback earlier, but as always I haven't got any answer.

You are welcome

 

[DHA]

No sleep schedule last night. Turned on sleep focus on phone, didn't activate straight away on watch. Enabled on watch. I woke up just after midnight and the sleep focus was off on the watch but still on on my phone. Turned sleep focus back on on the watch.

No sleep data recorded last night

 

[RPhoto]

Sleep tracking works fine here but the ability to track sleep is awful. Multiple times the last few weeks I’ve had a few rough nights of sleep, yet the watch congratulates me on hitting my 8 hour goal every morning without fail.

 

[t2jd1967]

I find that the sleep tracking is working well including time in bed vs time asleep. I do always use the schedule even to the point that on Friday and Saturday night I set the schedule manually (Sunday through to Thursday night is set automatically) and if I go to bed after midnight I make sure that sleep mode is already active (somehow it cannot activate automatically after midnight and thinks this is for the following day). If I wake up early, I adjust the schedule accordingly, so it still triggers the alarm. Sleep tracking has always worked on the Watch 3 and now it works on the Watch Ultra (both with an iPhone 11 Pro Max). Of course the Ultra gives more detailed insights, but otherwise no difference.

By the way, does anyone know how to prevent the alarm going off on the second watch? The alarm on the Watch 3 goes off but is not stopped when I stop the alarm on either the Ultra or the iPhone, which is kind of annoying.

 

[srknpower]

I am not sure but in the changelog of newly released WatchOS 9.2, there is a bugfix which might be the fix of this problem.
Edit: The bug isn’t fixed.

 

[cilencer]

The bug is still there, but I found another way to activate it properly, don’t know if it was there before today’s update, but instead of using “set focus” use “turn on sleepingMode” in the shortcuts app

To get it, when adding the shortcut search under apps and settings, you’ll find it at the bottom

 

[srknpower]

The bug is still there, but I found another way to activate it properly, don’t know if it was there before today’s update, but instead of using “set focus” use “turn on sleepingMode” in the shortcuts app

To get it, when adding the shortcut search under apps and settings, you’ll find it at the bottom

Yes I just woke up. The bug persists.

 

[raf_sentinel]

Hi, I have similar issue. Since Dec 15th sleep tracking not working. Tried to unpair-pair, force restart, turn off sleep schedule. For me it started when I changed region and arrived in Brazil for work. I work nights here and sleep days between 7am - 2.30p.m. Updated to 9.2 - no change. Tomorrow I will have Apple Support phone call. Will see..

 

[srknpower]

I think this was resolved with WatchOS 9.3.

 

[DjMilitary]

It seems the issue was fixed in watchOS 9.3.

 

[GrandeLatte]

Sleep tracking is better now. I think it's more accurate. Previously, it always indicated I got 5-6 hours of sleep when I know I got more than that. Good sleep= health.

Now it's reflecting more hours asleep even though there has been no change in schedule.

 

[hepokatt1]

After updating 9.3 I put the schedule on again for the sleep mode. After two nights of testing no sleep data

So I'm turning the schedule off again and hopefully it will work when I put it on and off manually from the watch. I have been doing this way since it got broken, and this is the only way I get sleep data.

 

[hepokatt1]

I think I have finally figure out the problem. It seems, that when allowing the autosleep app to write sleep data AND putting sleep schedule on Apple's own sleep data won't appear. But when the sleep schedule is off, it works. I'm now using shortcut automation to put sleep focus mode on and another shortcut manually in the morning to put it off.

Of course I tried what happens when not allowing autosleep to write sleep data. Apple's own sleep data is fine otherwise, but the time in bed shows very inaccurate time. For example, if I'm awake in the middle of the night for 1-2 hours lying in bed, this doesn't count for the time in bed. With autosleep the time in bed works much better.

For example last night in the health app, autosleep shows time in bed for 9 h 24 min, Apple's own sleep data shows 8 h 28 min. Somehow it calculates 9 h 28 min in total, which is more correct than 8 h 28 min.