Do you have to use Sleep Focus to track sleep?

[The Cockney Rebel]

I like to use DND.

My sleep is all over the place at the moment, so setting a sleep focus is not exactly suitable.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Ament]

Mine is always set from midnight to 6am. This is also the time frame in which I go to sleep and wake up. So far, my AWU2 reads sleep data flawlessly, even if I go to bed earlier or wake up later.

 

[tcuprof]

No, your watch does not have to be in Sleep Focus to track sleep. I have mine in Sleep Focus at night, but I've taken mid-afternoon naps in either Personal Focus or DND and it tracks it.

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

Mine is always set from midnight to 6am. This is also the time frame in which I go to sleep and wake up. So far, my AWU2 reads sleep data flawlessly, even if I go to bed earlier or wake up later.

Many thanks.

I might do as you do. I also Googled, and another option is to enable & disable manually.

Sweet dreams 😴.

 

[jz0309]

Many thanks.

I might do as you do. I also Googled, and another option is to enable & disable manually.

Sweet dreams 😴.

I do manually, have a DND focus from way back when from 8:30pm - 6:15am and turn on/off sleep focus manually.

 

[azhava]

My bedtimes are very erratic, so I set Sleep Focus manually when I get in bed.

There are times I've forgotten to set it and it still tracked my sleep, and it also tracks my afternoon naps just fine without turning Sleep Focus on (I usually put my watch in Airplane mode for naps). Also, sleep focus automatically turns off at 7:00 am for me and it still continues to track it if I sleep beyond 7:00.

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

Thanks, everyone.

I was going to use DND, but the light would have kept me awake. I turned on Sleep manually, and it did pretty well.

Thanks again 👍🏼.

 

[Pug72]

Just a note, Sleep Focus needs to be on to track temperature.

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

Just a note, Sleep Focus needs to be on to track temperature.

Cheers bud.

 

[chalmers4three]

it crazy to me that my watch cant auto detect when i go to sleep and because of this i have to remember each night to put it in sleep mode.

 

[ignatius345]

No, your watch does not have to be in Sleep Focus to track sleep. I have mine in Sleep Focus at night, but I've taken mid-afternoon naps in either Personal Focus or DND and it tracks it.

Oh, interesting! I'm not a great napper, but I will try this next time.

 

[Graham4723]

it crazy to me that my watch cant auto detect when i go to sleep and because of this i have to remember each night to put it in sleep mode.

It can. How else would it detect ‘naps’ ?
I have DND set on mine but often go to sleep outside this period, the watch always detects correctly.

 

[jz0309]

It can. How else would it detect ‘naps’ ?
I have DND set on mine but often go to sleep outside this period, the watch always detects correctly.

I believe auto-sleep detection was introduced with watchOS 11, so if people are running older OS versions it should not be working. And as usual when folks here have questions/complaints about certain features they don't tell us what watch model/OS version they have...

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

 

[Graham4723]

Not sure what your point is ?
Your question asked about "tracking sleep".
Plus, it's obvious you need a scheduled wake up time if you’re expecting a wake up alarm !
I track my sleep every night but I don’t want a wake up alarm.

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

Not sure what your point is ?
Your question asked about "tracking sleep".
Plus, it's obvious you need a scheduled wake up time if you’re expecting a wake up alarm !
I track my sleep every night but I don’t want a wake up alarm.

Yeah I know about the alarm.

The “other Sleep features” has me puzzled, though.

 

[WU27f1xcCs]

No, your watch does not have to be in Sleep Focus to track sleep. I have mine in Sleep Focus at night, but I've taken mid-afternoon naps in either Personal Focus or DND and it tracks it.

It’s also started recording naps for me in the last year, don’t recall it being advertised as an update. For me when it tracks an afternoon nap, it only records the “dumb” data, knowing I’m asleep. It doesn’t categorise it into REM, deep, etc.

 

[JapanApple]

Mine is set from 10:00 pm to 6:30 am. Mine is doing what it's intended to do. No issues.

 

[azhava]

No, your watch does not have to be in Sleep Focus to track sleep. I have mine in Sleep Focus at night, but I've taken mid-afternoon naps in either Personal Focus or DND and it tracks it.

I don't turn on any focus when I take mid-afternoon naps, and it still tracks it. I sometimes put my phone in Airplane mode for naps, but not always. It doesn't show the phases (REM, Deep, etc.) like nighttime sleep does, but it does show me as being asleep.

 

[azhava]

Yeah I know about the alarm.

The “other Sleep features” has me puzzled, though.

I don't know every feature triggered by Sleep Mode, but the one most important thing for me is that turning on Sleep Mode blacks out my watch face. I can tap it if I want to see the time, but otherwise the display is blank, which I prefer while sleeping.

I have a sleep schedule set, but the alarm turned off. I set my alarms manually using the Clock app, because I get up at different times on different days - and some days I don't need an alarm set at all.

 

[The Cockney Rebel]

I don't know every feature triggered by Sleep Mode, but the one most important thing for me is that turning on Sleep Mode blacks out my watch face. I can tap it if I want to see the time, but otherwise the display is blank, which I prefer while sleeping.

I have a sleep schedule set, but the alarm turned off. I set my alarms manually using the Clock app, because I get up at different times on different days - and some days I don't need an alarm set at all.

That's why I decided to use Sleep Focus, because it turns off the display.

However, I've found that it tracks "sleep" even when you are just laying still, and not sleeping.

 

[chalmers4three]

I believe auto-sleep detection was introduced with watchOS 11, so if people are running older OS versions it should not be working. And as usual when folks here have questions/complaints about certain features they don't tell us what watch model/OS version they have...

Sorry, I guess I should have been more specific.

It crazy to me that on my 49mm Titanium Apple Watch Ultra 2 running watchOS 11.6 I have to either schedule sleep time or put it in sleep mode for it to track all my sleep metrics. I would think it would be smart enough to know when I fall asleep and track all sleep metrics automatically.