I wear my watch to bed every night. I was very interested in the sleep apnea notifications because my wife seems to think that I have it, but for some reason it just stopped tracking after the 24th. From September 16th to the 24th I’ve had a couple days where it was elevated and then a couple days where it was not elevated but from the 24th to today, there is no data. Any ideas?
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Apple said that it needs 30 days of data collection, so too early…
And what exactly was elevated?
What I’m saying is, is that I’m not even getting any data. I have data for the first eight days of either elevated or not elevated but from the 24th till today there is no data so it’s not tracking.
I don't have any suggestions about the issue with tracking on your watch, but if your wife is observing breathing pauses or other symptoms of sleep apnea, it would probably be advisable to talk to your doctor about a real in-lab or at-home sleep study.
Yes, that is what I was going to do but when I heard sleep apnea was coming to AWU2 I said ok cool let me try it out
so the data you're looking at is breathing disturbances, right?
do you get your other sleep data for those days? I turned it on day 1 it was available and show data the whole time.
if you get sleep but no breathing disturbance data - I'd contact Apple. There really isn't much documentation on this topic from them yet
do you get your other sleep data for those days? I turned it on day 1 it was available and show data the whole time.
if you get sleep but no breathing disturbance data - I'd contact Apple. There really isn't much documentation on this topic from them yet
if you're already wearing the watch while you sleep, Check your blood oxygen, should stay above 95%. Assuming you purchased your watch before January of this year in the US, or purchased in any other country.
I'm recently diagnosed and have a cpap now, mine was regularly reading in the low 90s and occasionally high 80s, the average was still 95-96 though.
I use an app called auto sleep, it has a nice display and readout of just the readings from while you're sleeping,
the new vitals section in the home app will also give you the average percentage
someone else I work with also has it, and his doctor asked if he shook while he slept, and his partner said he did.
I'm recently diagnosed and have a cpap now, mine was regularly reading in the low 90s and occasionally high 80s, the average was still 95-96 though.
I use an app called auto sleep, it has a nice display and readout of just the readings from while you're sleeping,
the new vitals section in the home app will also give you the average percentage
someone else I work with also has it, and his doctor asked if he shook while he slept, and his partner said he did.
I think Apple wouldn’t give an answer as anyone one could speak with probably doesn’t know. I would do a sleep study. I did one years ago and was fine - but my wife told me I seemed to wake up and she thought I stopped breathing. But it was just me waking up the sleep study showed. Turns out if I do physical work, I sleep straight through the whole night like a child. Need that physical activity.
Best wishes to everyone here. I think Apple does the health stuff good but not as good as individual devices and studies can do most of the time. Although I read once the EKG on an Apple Watch is more accurate as can take it all the time???
I almost bought a series 10 coming from 7, but I quit wearing the 7 a few years ago as I like my real watches. But I do wear the 7 when working out and sometimes at night while sleeping. I figured probably not worth it just for Sleep Apnea detection when I all ready did a study for it.
Still wish Apple would invent a sensor that goes on the back of a real watch that can sense my steps and etc but not make me eliminate my Omega/Rolex/Seiko watches. I mean even if it connected to my watch strap somehow would be a cool feature to have. I don’t like notifications and that on me at all. I have since muted everything on Apple Watch as if I wear it I just want it to record my data not tell me someone is bothering me or I got a stupid email or message. The one notification I actually like is when I was wearing it driving and it would vibrate when I needed to turn. I expect things like this will be in AirPods sooner or later. Some cars all ready have vibration motors in seats to tell when a car on left or right or when backing up the car which direction a person or car is coming from. Nice features to have when you want them.
I was diagnosed in 2023 and have been using a CPAP machine since then. I upgraded to a AWU2 in November 2024 and have the sleep apnea and breathing disturbances notifications turned on. So far my breathing disturbances have been Not Elevated, so it’s nice to see the CPAP machine doing its job.
If you are a sleep apnea patient using CPAP, you can get much better information from the data collected by your CPAP machine than you'll get from an Apple Watch. There is free open-source software called OSCAR that will show you when you have apneas and hypopneas, how long each one lasts, the exact time of night it occurred, how much air your mask was leaking at the time, at what CPAP pressure, whether or not you were snoring and lots more.
I think the sleep apnea detection on the watch is far more useful for people who don't have a spouse or bed partner to observe breathing pauses (to let them know they should ask their doctor about getting an overnight sleep study), than it is to someone already diagnosed and being treated.
I think the sleep apnea detection on the watch is far more useful for people who don't have a spouse or bed partner to observe breathing pauses (to let them know they should ask their doctor about getting an overnight sleep study), than it is to someone already diagnosed and being treated.
I use both OSCAR and SleepHQ, to get a more in depth look at my data when I’m asleep. It’s been much more informative than the MyAir app. I only wanted the Ultra 2, because a new health sensor was added and I wanted to test it out, and make sure my watch took advantage of the sensor.