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iOS 14 and watchOS 7 Sleep Features: Sleep Mode, Wind Down, Sleep Tracking and More
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Serious question here (I don't have an apple watch or any watch for that matter), if you are wearing the watch to sleep, when do you charge the thing? It seems like a big trade off of using it at night time or using during the daytime. Or do you need to buy a second one? Does it charge quickly?
The Apple watch charges pretty fast. My mom sleeps with hers and she charges it while having tea in the morning. I have heard others can get through the day by charging it while they are in the shower.
I believe the walk-thru is geared towards those who may not be tech savvy, and appreciate a step by step guide. I see nothing wrong with the guide.
No matter the time, there are people on the internet who are wrong and need to be engaged. The watch helps accomplish that ever present task.
I used to use my Watch as an "on-the-wrist alarm clock". I had a charger on my desk at my office, and would charge it while I worked during the morning - it doesn't take all that long.
I actually didn't start this practice with the Watch... originally I was doing it with a Garmin Vivosmart, which eventually got replaced by an Apple Watch.
I’ve been using iOS 14 with WatchOS 7, was excited about the sleep tracking part, since I’ve used other apps in the past, and it’s a big mess. You set bed time, which enables do not disturb, but it’s unclear what else it does beside telling u ‘sleep well’ in the Home Screen. Does it not track sleep if i don’t manually put in bed mode? You’re never prompted to set all of that up, you have to go look for it in health, which is also unintuitive, a dedicated sleep app might have been better.
The sleep info is not presented in an easily-digestible format, having something like an additional ‘ring’ for sleep would be a lot more intuitive. All in all, I hope the watch Series 6 brings some extra tracking for more in-depth info, cause otherwise it’s like ‘you were asleep for this amount of time’ ‘oh and here’s your heart rate’ cool, so what? Tell me about the quality of the sleep? Did i move? Does my heart rate indicate anything? Was it higher or lower than usual? Seems like a job half done for now unfortunately.
The sleep info is not presented in an easily-digestible format, having something like an additional ‘ring’ for sleep would be a lot more intuitive. All in all, I hope the watch Series 6 brings some extra tracking for more in-depth info, cause otherwise it’s like ‘you were asleep for this amount of time’ ‘oh and here’s your heart rate’ cool, so what? Tell me about the quality of the sleep? Did i move? Does my heart rate indicate anything? Was it higher or lower than usual? Seems like a job half done for now unfortunately.
I’m hoping you’ve talked to your doctor about this. If not, you should.
She and I have both had watches since launch day. She just like to hear my alarm to get up in the morning and its been that way more than 20 years now. Just one of those things I guess.
Health app needs a good redesign, IMO. My sleeping pattern varies due to work, so I do not use schedule or wind down, so I'm missing out on all that. There really isn't any analysis of your sleeping patterns in Health app. It will give you hours you slept and you can go check on what your resting heart rate is but no detailed info on sleeping patterns such as disrupted, light and restful sleep (at least that I can find) and there is no correlation with heart rate, exercise, etc.
I have SleepWatch app on my phone (but removed it from my watch) and it is still reading data from the watch, so I use that to get a quick easy view of my sleeping patterns, my heart rate drop, trends and etc. It even analyzed that if I burn so many calories a day that I sleep better. Health app doesn't do any of that.
Is Big Sur getting a Health app?
I have SleepWatch app on my phone (but removed it from my watch) and it is still reading data from the watch, so I use that to get a quick easy view of my sleeping patterns, my heart rate drop, trends and etc. It even analyzed that if I burn so many calories a day that I sleep better. Health app doesn't do any of that.
Is Big Sur getting a Health app?
I'd like to have the option to run HomeKit scenes BEFORE the set wakeup time (ie. like you can do for Sunset/Sunrise). My coffee machine needs 30 minutes to wake up before I do...
I reckon the next Apple Watch is going to focus on sleep data a lot more. My prediction:
- Snoring detection
- SpO2 (pulse oximetry)
...with the aim of picking up those with undiagnosed OSA.
It can not ever measure depth or quality of sleep - none of these things can - but that doesn't mean what it can record isn't useful.
For me, it's mostly about good sleep hygiene & reminders. I love having the Watch & iPhone use the same alarm and the iPhone is silent if I wear the Watch, but the iPhone will alarm if the Watch is off. Very nice.
Just add the ability to run Shortcuts/HomeKit Scenes at a set time before/after Wind Down AND Wake Up and I'll be a happy camper.
- Snoring detection
- SpO2 (pulse oximetry)
...with the aim of picking up those with undiagnosed OSA.
It can not ever measure depth or quality of sleep - none of these things can - but that doesn't mean what it can record isn't useful.
For me, it's mostly about good sleep hygiene & reminders. I love having the Watch & iPhone use the same alarm and the iPhone is silent if I wear the Watch, but the iPhone will alarm if the Watch is off. Very nice.
Just add the ability to run Shortcuts/HomeKit Scenes at a set time before/after Wind Down AND Wake Up and I'll be a happy camper.
Maybe not from a design perspective, but in terms of speed and efficiency, I am expecting a big performance jump because last year’s watch reportedly uses the same or nearly the same system on a chip as Series 4. In other words, the upcoming watch should represent 2 years’ worth of processor advances.
I’d go to a doctor. Unless you get less than 7/8 hours each night, it could be a health issue.
In the "Do not disturb" mode you can allow calls. You can find this setting in the settings app of your iPhone under "Do not disturb".
I’d like to see more sleep data similar to the Pillow app, like REM etc. The sleep data on watch is pretty basic. Similar with beddit which Apple now owns.
Been using the sleep function on the watch the last four nights, and honestly it’s not very good.
after waiting years for this feature is lacks a lot data that other sleep tracking apps provide. Think I’m going to go back to using Pillow.
after waiting years for this feature is lacks a lot data that other sleep tracking apps provide. Think I’m going to go back to using Pillow.