Do you wear your watch for sleep tracking?

[xenoako]

To expand on my last post, the Health app is current with things like steps and headphone audio levels.

However, the following have not been updated since late Oct 24 if not earlier:
heart rate and high heart rate
ECG
Blood Oxygen
Sleep
Breathing Disturbances
Body temp

I spoke to an Apple tech that resolved my issue. Soon afterward I did a recorded interview that will air in January.
The taped interview was intense and erased my memory of all the steps we went through before making progress.
I do remember that the two Apple Ids were not the problem, but just a simple communication between the AW and iP that one can test in the control center when hitting the phone icon that causes a ping.
Also my post here was wrongly stated because the Health app for like steps and headphone readings from the iP.
Edited to say I finally remembered the solution was to turn off health app in iCloud backup. Turn off both devices then turn the health app back on. It took hours to sync but all is now okay. I did all these things but not in that sequence.

 

[Apple_Robert]

I wear my Apple Watch to bed. I like that it can record important data for me as well as give me the silent haptic alarm.

 

[goldmac2006]

I wear my Apple Watch to bed. I like that it can record important data for me as well as give me the silent haptic alarm.

10/10 the silent alarm ‼️ 🔥 I usually don’t like my alarm ringing off when I sleep in hotel rooms shared with my family. I like to be up early.

 

[dotnet]

However I am concerned about some recent studies that mention sleep tracking may be counterintuitive for people
With sleep issues like insomnia.

Meh, insomnia isn't something to lose sleep over...

 

[Whigu]

Has anybody got sleep apnea alert from their watch?

 

[XboxEvolved]

I do, when I remember to actually put it back on before I pass out. So far, my sleep is just terrible.

 

[goldmac2006]

Apple Watch wearers got a quick question. Did any of y’all seen that the sleep tracking automatically tracks your sleep if you go to bed early? I only see it if I sleep in a lot. And I got a business trip coming up; I am planning to hit the hay 🛌 Monday night at 9-9:30 PM and I have to get up early around 3:30-4 am to get on the company bus. When do I have to charge my Apple Watch to prepare it to wear for sleep tracking? After sleep tracking with it I am planning to charge it after that night once I get on the bus.

 

[Night Spring]

Apple Watch wearers got a quick question. Did any of y’all seen that the sleep tracking automatically tracks your sleep if you go to bed early? I only see it if I sleep in a lot. And I got a business trip coming up; I am planning to hit the hay 🛌 Monday night at 9-9:30 PM and I have to get up early around 3:30-4 am to get on the company bus. When do I have to charge my Apple Watch to prepare it to wear for sleep tracking? After sleep tracking with it I am planning to charge it after that night once I get on the bus.

The watch will likely track your sleep even if it's outside your regular sleep schedule, but to be extra sure, you can change your sleep schedule just for the day.

Open the Health App on your iPhone, Browse -> Sleep, scroll down until you see "Your Schedule". There's an option to change the next sleep time.

 

[goldmac2006]

The watch will likely track your sleep even if it's outside your regular sleep schedule, but to be extra sure, you can change your sleep schedule just for the day.

Open the Health App on your iPhone, Browse -> Sleep, scroll down until you see "Your Schedule". There's an option to change the next sleep time.

Thanks mate I always do that when I go traveling. Due to the early sleep time for next week I am planning to do my Fitness+ routine in the morning and hit the hay early next Monday. Thankfully no NFL games that day; divisional round is Saturday and Sunday only.

I plan to charge it up to prep for sleep tracking when I get my dinner in early on Monday around 5; is this good y’all?

 

[Momof2.1107]

Thanks mate I always do that when I go traveling. Due to the early sleep time for next week I am planning to do my Fitness+ routine in the morning and hit the hay early next Monday. Thankfully no NFL games that day; divisional round is Saturday and Sunday only.

I plan to charge it up to prep for sleep tracking when I get my dinner in early on Monday around 5; is this good y’all?

I always charge my watch 30 minutes to an hour before I go to bed, depending on what percentage my battery life is at that day. I have a fast charger so it’s usually 30 minutes before bed since it doesn’t take that long to charge my watch.

 

[BSG75]

I used to but it caused so much anxiety that I sleep much worse when wearing my watch. I would wake up tired and have low energy. Now, that I'm not tracking my sleep, I feel much better.

 

[goldmac2006]

I always charge my watch 30 minutes to an hour before I go to bed, depending on what percentage my battery life is at that day. I have a fast charger so it’s usually 30 minutes before bed since it doesn’t take that long to charge my watch.

I usually do that, when my Apple Watch is under 77% before bed.

 

[Momof2.1107]

As l

I usually do that, when my Apple Watch is under 77% before bed.

If my battery is above 50%, I don’t charge until the next morning before leaving to work. When I was using my Ultra 1, the battery was bad so I had to top up before bed and charge in the morning before work. Now with my Ultra 2, I only charge in the morning before work.

 

[goldmac2006]

As l

If my battery is above 50%, I don’t charge until the next morning before leaving to work. When I was using my Ultra 1, the battery was bad so I had to top up before bed and charge in the morning before work. Now with my Ultra 2, I only charge in the morning before work.

Are you an Apple Watch Ultra user? It's common for these users to manage battery endurance. Thanks for sharing! After my eleven-hour shift and evening workout next week, my battery should be under 50%. I'll need to charge during lunch only on the first day because I have an early start to catch the bus to work. Monday, I'll be up at 4 AM for the interns' pickup from campus to get on the company bus, work by 8 AM, and check into the hotel at 8 PM. On other days, except Friday, I'll wake up around 5:45-6 AM, start work at 8 AM, and finish by 7:30-8 PM. I'll charge in the morning and after my evening workout. Will this routine be enough? My S6 battery is 100% health, and my watch is currently at 43% since last charged at 11:40 PM. I also use it for sleep tracking and morning walks.

 

[ignatius345]

I've been sleeping with my Apple Watch SE for about 9 months, and I find the sleep data a pretty good piece of data. For instance, I learned recently that my sleep duration is actually quite consistent by the numbers, even when my subjective experience is that I'm more tired or less tired on different days. Maybe that's not earth-shattering, but it does help me look for other factors that might be influencing how I feel.

What I'm hoping for is that over time, the system will get smart enough to put pieces together and tell me more about the correlation between my different health metric factors.

I don't really love wearing the watch in bed, though. If Apple came out with a ring, I'd probably jump on it.

 

[Momof2.1107]

Are you an Apple Watch Ultra user? It's common for these users to manage battery endurance. Thanks for sharing! After my eleven-hour shift and evening workout next week, my battery should be under 50%. I'll need to charge during lunch only on the first day because I have an early start to catch the bus to work. Monday, I'll be up at 4 AM for the interns' pickup from campus to get on the company bus, work by 8 AM, and check into the hotel at 8 PM. On other days, except Friday, I'll wake up around 5:45-6 AM, start work at 8 AM, and finish by 7:30-8 PM. I'll charge in the morning and after my evening workout. Will this routine be enough? My S6 battery is 100% health, and my watch is currently at 43% since last charged at 11:40 PM. I also use it for sleep tracking and morning walks.

Yes I am an Ultra watch user. My Ultra 1 battery capacity was under 90%, so my battery life was horrible. I would record a 2 hour workout everyday at work and work a 9 hour shift. By the time I would get home my battery would be down to under 50%. I had to top up before bed to make it through the night for sleep tracking and charge in the morning. The Ultra 2 is new, so the battery life is fantastic again. The charging routine you will use should be enough to hold you through the day.

 

[goldmac2006]

Yes I am an Ultra watch user. My Ultra 1 battery capacity was under 90%, so my battery life was horrible. I would record a 2 hour workout everyday at work and work a 9 hour shift. By the time I would get home my battery would be down to under 50%. I had to top up before bed to make it through the night for sleep tracking and charge in the morning. The Ultra 2 is new, so the battery life is fantastic again. The charging routine you will use should be enough to hold you through the day.

Similar to what I was looking for. Thanks for your feedback. Btw does your workplace have a gym, or do you walk during your lunch hour?

I asked the same question to other Apple Watch wearers on other threads and via PMs who work long hours, one AWU2 user like you has asked me to test out the battery endurance through one full charge cycle so I charged it to full battery before I sleep track with it last night, and then never took it off until I finished my workout in the afternoon. Here is a graph of the battery endurance test results:


Today from 11:40 pm to 3:14 pm, my Apple Watch Series 6 gold stainless steel 40mm battery dropped from 100% to 14%. This remarkable battery test reassures me that my Apple Watch will endure an extensive eleven-hour shift during the last week of my internship. I'm grateful for all the helpful tips shared by fellow early-morning or late-night Apple Watch enthusiasts. Although many of these insights came from Apple Watch Ultra users, identified through their apple products they use and shared charging experiences, I now understand how to optimize my charging routine. This is 17 hours of battery life within one full charge. Even I can still squeeze in a half hour workout after I come back from work. 11.3 beta 2.

During the test, I logged two workouts: a comprehensive 1.5-hour Fitness+ stack of strength, dance, and a 45-minute yoga session, plus a 30-minute Time to Walk in the park. I used Low Power Mode and disabled Always-On Display during workouts and mindfulness sessions. The AOD was also disabled during Sleep focus by default.

Apple Watch Ultra users usually favor prolonging battery usage so they only charge once every 1-2 days, 3 days at most. Suggestion included turning off AOD, Low Power Mode, using a keychain charger while on the go or during lunch breaks, and minimizing full charge after workouts/showering and getting ready for bed. 🛌

 

[smirking]

Does anyone know of any good alternative ways to access Apple’s sleep data? Especially ways that will allow me to edit my sleep logs more easily than Apple Health?

My Ultra 2 does pretty good sleep tracking, but it often thinks I’m asleep when I’m just reading or working on the computer. I have to delete sleep all the time and it’s really confusing to do that in Apple Health. It’s even hard to figure out what time period or day a sleep session belongs to.

I came from a Fitbit and I’m shocked to say that Google did this much more intuitively than Apple did.

 

[Night Spring]

@goldmac2006

I'm not sure why you are so anxious about the watch's battery life. I charge my S8 to 100% every night before bed, wear it to sleep and keep it on all day, do about an hour and half of workout each day, and put it back on the charger after dinner. Aside from the hour or two it spends on the charger, the watch is on my wrist all day. I hardly ever hit the 10% warning.

Admittedly, this is with AOD off, but that's the only thing I do to conserve battery. Oh, and this is GPS only, I've heard cellular watches use up battery faster.

But still, if you are able to charge the watch twice a day, there shouldn't be anything to worry about!

 

[Night Spring]

Does anyone know of any good alternative ways to access Apple’s sleep data? Especially ways that will allow me to edit my sleep logs more easily than Apple Health?

My Ultra 2 does pretty good sleep tracking, but it often thinks I’m asleep when I’m just reading or working on the computer. I have to delete sleep all the time and it’s really confusing to do that in Apple Health. It’s even hard to figure out what time period or day a sleep session belongs to.

I came from a Fitbit and I’m shocked to say that Google did this much more intuitively than Apple did.

How are you deleting data? When I'm deleting sleep data from the Health app, I find it a bit tedious to find all the bits I want to delete, but all the times are clearly marked.

 

[smirking]

I'm not sure why you are so anxious about the watch's battery life. I charge my S8 to 100% every night before bed, wear it to sleep and keep it on all day, do about an hour and half of workout each day, and put it back on the charger after dinner. Aside from the hour or two it spends on the charger, the watch is on my wrist all day. I hardly ever hit the 10% warning.

A consistent daily charging schedule is difficult for people who have:

a) demanding schedules
b) irregular schedules
c) sleep disorders

I suspect @goldmac2006 has at least one of those. I have all three and that's why I have an Ultra2, which gets such good battery I don't really have to worry about running out of power. I easily go three days between charges and stretched it to almost 5 days one time without using low power mode.

 

[smirking]

How are you deleting data? When I'm deleting sleep data from the Health app, I find it a bit tedious to find all the bits I want to delete, but all the times are clearly marked.

I go into sleep, scroll all the way to the bottom and go to All Sleep Data. From there I see my sleep logged as many different lines. Where this gets tricky is because I have a sleep disorder and I might sleep a few hours here and there. If you sleep from 10pm to 6am every night, it's easy to figure this out and delete as needed.

If you slept from 6pm-9pm and then 3am to 7am and then had 2 hours of 4 hours you were working logged as sleep, it gets much harder to identify those periods the way Apple shows it to you. It's often difficult to even figure out what day you're looking at because the way Apple Health charts sleep, it doesn't know how to handle an irregular pattern like this.

The one thing I've figured out that makes this easier is that the invalid sleep registered is usually registered as "asleep" instead of the more specific core sleep, deep sleep, and REM sleep. Most of the time if I just purge all "asleep" periods, everything becomes correct.

Fitbit would get confused too, but it's just easier to understand and much easier to edit.

 

[goldmac2006]

@goldmac2006

I'm not sure why you are so anxious about the watch's battery life. I charge my S8 to 100% every night before bed, wear it to sleep and keep it on all day, do about an hour and half of workout each day, and put it back on the charger after dinner. Aside from the hour or two it spends on the charger, the watch is on my wrist all day. I hardly ever hit the 10% warning.

Admittedly, this is with AOD off, but that's the only thing I do to conserve battery. Oh, and this is GPS only, I've heard cellular watches use up battery faster.

But still, if you are able to charge the watch twice a day, there shouldn't be anything to worry about!

A consistent daily charging schedule is difficult for people who have:

a) demanding schedules
b) irregular schedules
c) sleep disorders

I suspect @goldmac2006 has at least one of those. I have all three and that's why I have an Ultra2, which gets such good battery I don't really have to worry about running out of power. I easily go three days between charges and stretched it to almost 5 days one time without using low power mode.

I forgot to tell y'all the backstory. I am going on a business trip with NASA to complete the last part of my hybrid internship. I am looking forward to the experience and the opportunity to learn from the best. However, the schedule is intense. I will be working overtime, 11 hours a day, Tuesday through Thursday, and a half day on Friday. I will need to charge my Apple Watch for 30 minutes to an hour when I get ready for my shift, and again when I wash up and get ready for bed after my post-shift Fitness+ routine. I won't be able to charge my watch during the day because I'll be working on rovers, seminars or in meetings.

The scope of the battery test I did and recommended by one of the Ultra users who gave me that tip was to determine how long a full battery cycle would last from full charge until the end. My AW lasted even more than 11 hours, faring at seventeen with two workouts logged, one 1.5 hr and another half an hour. I am determined to stretch it as there would only be a few events like when I am on break or working with my team and assembling a component where I can plug up my iPhone and laptop. That is my rationale of limiting charging my watch. I can only be at the hotel in the nighttime to early morning and I would workout in my room (hotel company gave us has no gym) for 30 mins after my shift.

Above all, I did not get all the way to 10% in the test and used the suggestions above when I surveyed a selection of Apple Watch wearers randomly on MR. Day 1 when I have to get to work next Tues., I would charge while I get ready and before getting on company bus and after my shift, we go to work first before checking in. Ultra users, I do understand your charging habits are different, and @Night Spring I would shut off AOD during the bus trips to the destination and when I am on the shuttle with my colleagues to work.

 

[smirking]

My bad @smirking I do not have OCD or any sleep issues.

If you're unhappy about something I said, you may want to re-read it. I don't think I said what you think I said.

 

[Night Spring]

@goldmac2006

You talk about your 11-hour shift as if it's some big thing -- I'm sure it's a big thing in your life, but in terms of keeping your watch charged, not so much. It'd be an issue if the watch battery lasted only 12 hours, but no, the battery lasts well over 15 hours, in my use case, I get close to 20 hours. You have a plan to charge the watch twice a day, that should be plenty. Now, stop thinking about the watch, surely there are other things to sort out as you get ready for this exciting opportunity.