I set up WatchOS 7 on my AW S4 yesterday and turned on sleep tracking. It wanted me to make a sleep schedule so I put in two days where I know I can have a set time to sleep. The other days it's impossible for me to schedule sleep due to my work.
So I went to sleep last night and woke up about seven hours later but sleep tracking shows nothing. What am I doing wrong?
from what i can tell so far... you MUST have sleep scheduled OR you must manually press the sleep button either in the control panel of the watch OR your iPhone when you lay down to sleep.
There are some caveats....
1. lets say you schedule your sleep to start at 11pm but you actually fall asleep at 1130... it will properly document that.
2. lets say you schedule your sleep to start at 11pm but you actually fall asleep at 1030... it will ALSO document that properly so long as your sleep continues into your window beginning at 11pm.
3. lets say you schedule your sleep to start at 11pm but you take a nap from 7 to 9pm... it will not document that because no part of it occurred in your sleep window.
4. lets say you schedule your sleep to start at 11pm but you feel like taking a nap at 7pm, so at 645pm you press the sleep button in the control panel of your watch and actually fall asleep at 7 and wake up at 9pm... it will properly document that because you alerted the system you planned to sleep outside your scheduled window with the button.
5. lets say you are scheduled to wake up at 7am but wakeup at 630a... it will properly document that.
6. lets say you are scheduled to wake up at 7am but wakeup at 8am instead... it will properly document that.
You HAVE to schedule sleep is the bottom line unless you want to manually press the sleep button when you climb in bed each night. You don't need to be super accurate, just schedule sleep around the time you might go to bed and so long as some part of your sleep period touches it, it will accurately capture your start time even if early or late compared to your schedule.
Another thing to know is you can set a weekly sleep schedule (for example I set 1130-630) but then everyday at anytime during the day you can go to the sleep app on the watch itself and quickly change your estimates FOR THAT DAY ONLY, like a 1 day override.
This IS frustrating. Fitbit captures sleep with ZERO interaction and no requirement to set a time. It will get naps, everything and you do nothing. It is very, very accurate and you don't have to do a thing. Autosleep an app you can put on the Apple Watch monitors normal movement data from your watch and it too can capture all your sleep just like a Fitbit with no interaction. Any mistakes you can just change or remove after the fact but it is 99.9% accurate. I find the built in Apple Watch Sleep system accurate but very, very fussy requiring you to have everything set. I think the idea is to try and force better sleep hygiene and make you think about when you should sleep, prepare your "wind down" for sleep etc. but if you just want something that monitors your behavior without you needing to do anything and without trying to modify your behavior it isn't the greatest system.
I'm sure they will monitor how many people use it and I suspect they will make it more transparent when they see we aren't a bunch of sleep monitoring nuts.
