Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

Health app (sleep question)

H

hashsi99

macrumors regular
Original poster
Jul 7, 2011
216
72
How do you get the app to track your sleep patterns? Mine is blank?

Also, I just noticed that the app started keeping track of my steps. Was this enabled in 8.1?
 
hashsi99 said:
How do you get the app to track your sleep patterns? Mine is blank?

Also, I just noticed that the app started keeping track of my steps. Was this enabled in 8.1?
Click to expand...

It's been tracking my steps fine since 8.0. Sleep is tracked by another device, like a watch band I think and synced to the phone.
 
The app itself doesn't track anything other than steps. You have to use other apps to track sleep. The point of the health app is it's a consolidated place for all the info. I use Sleep Cycle to track sleep.
 
u all can use the app called lark.

it sort of figures out ur sleeping patterns (by not using ur iphone, i guess) and add it to the healthkit data.


it doesnt run on the background, and it uses the M8 data. so no worries about battery drain :D
 
Sleep Cycle alarm clock here too.

Realistiic said:
How accurate do you think the health app tracking your steps is? I've noticed mines going up while driving
Click to expand...
Mine doesn't count anything but my actual steps. I'm not saying it's 100% accurate step for step, but I've never seen it count car rides added in or anything else.

Nor does the stairs climbed count anything but when I actually climb steps myself (which I don't do if I have a choice, because of a health issue). I have a stair climber at home, and since launch day, it hasn't once erroneously counted flights of stairs.
 
The downside is "Sleep Cycle" currently only writes the "total bed time" into HealthKit. Motion 24/7 is going one step further and subtracts the "awake phases" from the total bed time, making it the actual sleep time.
However I found Sleep Cycle's sensor-algorithm a bit better... I hope they introduce this in an update.
 
ttmrn said:
u all can use the app called lark.

it sort of figures out ur sleeping patterns (by not using ur iphone, i guess) and add it to the healthkit data.


it doesnt run on the background, and it uses the M8 data. so no worries about battery drain :D
Click to expand...

I've found Lark's sleep results to be wildly inaccurate. I usually have to look at my Misfit data and edit based on that.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back