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Apple Watch Sleep Tracking, Schooltime Mode, AR/VR Headset Icon, and More Revealed in iOS 13 Code
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With Schooltime mode discovered maybe this is a hint of a low cost Apple Watch coming for kids and budget minded users?
I've been tracking my sleep with my Samsung Galaxy Fit on my iPhone 7+ and it reports a lot of info about sleep patterns, rem, deep, light and waking times along with heart rates. Sleep only uses like 5% of battery.
Their health app is quite mature and provides a lot of features from steps, workouts, calories and sleep with trends, charts and goals with rewards that are less obscure than the HealthKit app's cryptic information and app navigation.
I think if you download their app you can connect some of the data from an Apple Watch into the Samsung Health app. It asks me what source I want to choose from with steps either iPhone or Fit or both.
And with raise-to-wake turned off I only need to charge every 8-9 days. Display only dims below 5%. The screen display is the biggest battery usage second to continuous heart monitoring which will give you about 5 days of continuous readings and high pulse alerts before a charge is needed.
I've been tracking my sleep with my Samsung Galaxy Fit on my iPhone 7+ and it reports a lot of info about sleep patterns, rem, deep, light and waking times along with heart rates. Sleep only uses like 5% of battery.
Their health app is quite mature and provides a lot of features from steps, workouts, calories and sleep with trends, charts and goals with rewards that are less obscure than the HealthKit app's cryptic information and app navigation.
I think if you download their app you can connect some of the data from an Apple Watch into the Samsung Health app. It asks me what source I want to choose from with steps either iPhone or Fit or both.
And with raise-to-wake turned off I only need to charge every 8-9 days. Display only dims below 5%. The screen display is the biggest battery usage second to continuous heart monitoring which will give you about 5 days of continuous readings and high pulse alerts before a charge is needed.
No one obviously....Apple hasn’t allowed for that simple and needed feature to keep storage free on the watch. I’ve heard several people talk about it but never seen it mentioned in any comments or blogs. Just saying, something simple yet overlooked by Apple.
So, I've to sleep less in order to track my sleep.
Just kidding. Current Apple Watch is quite good at keeping charge as others pointed out.
My s4 runs for a about a day and an half with workouts, that's a couple of 5k runs (morning/night) and another 30 minutes of spin etc.
Jealous of the battery life already. I have about 20% left when I get home from work. That’s not using the watch for anything other than for notifications and charging nightly.
I’m due for an upgrade. Just so far not impressed with this years watch. Makes sense since we just had a redesign.
I’m due for an upgrade. Just so far not impressed with this years watch. Makes sense since we just had a redesign.
If your not desk based during the day just pop it on the charger an hour before bed. Most people are winding down for the evening anyway.
Why would you sleep with the watch on your wrist? It's really uncomfortable. You'll be doing this just a few times, just to see how well you sleep
Considering their push into health it wouldn’t be a huge surprise for me if this actually was a reason for holding back sleep tracking.
My Series 3 will be replaced now! Going LTE this time also.
I like that some reports are you can just use a second Apple watch, lets be honest they aren't worth much when they are second hand so that could actually work quite well. I doubt I will sell mine on.
I can see millennials now stressing about their sleep tracking not being optimal and not being able to sleep..
I can see millennials now stressing about their sleep tracking not being optimal and not being able to sleep..
Tried tracking successfully with Autosleep. However I've found that I need to allow my wrist to breath overnight as wearing AW continuously (even with an hour or two for charging) causes skin irritation.
I think that if Apple would just go ahead and change the laws of physics, then devices with the functionality of an Apple Watch would last 'a few days or longer'.
In the meantime, for anyone who eats a meal or has a shower during the day, there is already plenty of time to recharge the battery when you're not sleeping.
Why would you sleep with the watch on your wrist? It's really uncomfortable. You'll be doing this just a few times, just to see how well you sleep
I've been doing it for months, as have many others. Sleeping with a watch on your wrist isn't really that uncommon?
If you're wondering how to charge your Apple Watch at night and use sleep tracking, the official recommendation from Apple is to buy 2 Apple watches.
The Nike sport band definitely helps but it’s not really my ‘go to’ setup. I guess I could just switch wrists at bed time assuming it doesn’t interfere with the readings etc