You already have "% charged" on your lock screen... If you gotta be looking at the phone anyway, who doesn't lock their device?
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iOS 14 Sends a Notification When Your Apple Watch is Fully Charged
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You already have "% charged" on your lock screen... If you gotta be looking at the phone anyway, who doesn't lock their device?
I was waiting for a reply like this...
When I charge my 11 I leave it be, so a notification telling me it's charged would be great for me. YMMV
Sorry. Not my fault you can’t read. Asking for advice from people who use sleep tracking doesn’t imply anything about the adjustments they made to use it. I just mentioned at the end of the post why I was asking those questions.
“I can't think of a reason to change my charging habits to use this.”
But anyways. Thanks for the unintended advice.
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I use to work shift-work and started tracking sleep a long time ago. For me, I'm not sure what insight I expected to gain from sleep tracking. When on overnights I didn't get enough sleep, sleep tracking just proved what I knew but that was it. I didn't seek out ways to improve my sleep, I just knew that I didn't get enough of it. I realize that is all on me, I'm just sharing that sleep tracking didn't really help at all.
I'm not sure what app is tracking my sleep now, but something is and its frequently wrong. A few weeks ago we started watching a movie before bed, but in the living room, it was a 2 hour movie. Then we went to bed. I got up in the middle of the night to use the restroom, very briefly, the next morning the app told me I slept from the start of the movie until I used the restroom and that I had been up since 3 or 4am. I went back to sleep after using the restroom, but that time was not counted, but the time during which we were watching a movie was counted. lame
Thanks! Ya I do wonder if the watch will think I’m sleeping when really I just haven’t moved in 4 hours watching Netflix lol.
Now if the thing was able to tell me if I have sleep apnea or some sleep disorder then that changes things for me, but if it’s just to see how much I move around at night I’m leaning towards just continuing to charge overnight.
For example, there are some “at home“ sleep apnea tests that are based on heart rate, blood oxygen level, and breathing patterns. We may not be that far off from something like that that could refer you to a specialist like the ECG does.
Apple looks to have changed this at the core API level which most likely meant a major rewrite of the phone API which affects all apps that use them. I'm guessing that they been mostly using the same code from version one of iOS for phone calls...
I sleep with mine on, I only charge it while getting ready for work in the morning (dogs out, feed dogs, shower, etc.). Its a base aluminum apple watch 4 LTE, that 45-60 minute charge always gets me to 90+ percent each morning. Its almost 2 years old, amazing battery life compared to my previous apple watches.
My better half and I are now on similar, but still not the same, schedules. When we were on a schedule where I had to get up an hour earlier I liked that I could have my alarm go off on my wrist and it would not affect my partners last hour of sleep. We were on that schedule for so long that I just still continue to wear the watch to bed now. I do wonder about long term radiation effects but it is what it is, I wear it 23 hours per day.
Whoops... you may be right, BUT I realize I have not yet updated my AW to watch
OS 7. Doing that now. Will update to this thread after more testing. Will try first with iOS 14 and watchOS 7 and without sleep mode. Thanks!
OS 7. Doing that now. Will update to this thread after more testing. Will try first with iOS 14 and watchOS 7 and without sleep mode. Thanks!
iOS 14 is better about letting you know when your iPhone accessories are charged or need charging, and there is a new feature that sends a notification when a connected Apple Watch has finished charging
And yet years later the watch still can’t tell you about the iPhone battery.
Going back to the point of this thread, how do you make this notification work please?
Surely I don’t have to have my iPhone telling me when to go to bed before I can receive a charge notification for the Watch?
if that is the case, it’s crazy the Apple have tied the two together.
Me charging the Watch is a completely separate exercise to when I go to bed, especially as I wear the Watch in bed so I tend to charge it in the evening.
Surely I don’t have to have my iPhone telling me when to go to bed before I can receive a charge notification for the Watch?
if that is the case, it’s crazy the Apple have tied the two together.
Me charging the Watch is a completely separate exercise to when I go to bed, especially as I wear the Watch in bed so I tend to charge it in the evening.
I’ve just answered my own question in the above post.
For a completely bizarre reason, Apple have chosen to link the notification that tells you when your Apple Watch is charged completely to sleep mode.
This is nuts.
Apple Watch owners charge their phones at different times of the day to suit them – nothing to do with whether they want to monitor sleep.
Anyway, for those owners that wish to know where the setting is, you have to set up a sleep schedule first and then it appears in the Watch app as below.
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EDIT: i’ve just managed to delete the sleep schedule that I did not want (I tend to go to bed and wake up at different times depending on the priorities of the day). It seems that the charging notification has remained in place, so hopefully it will work from now on – I will let you know if that is not the case.
For a completely bizarre reason, Apple have chosen to link the notification that tells you when your Apple Watch is charged completely to sleep mode.
This is nuts.
Apple Watch owners charge their phones at different times of the day to suit them – nothing to do with whether they want to monitor sleep.
Anyway, for those owners that wish to know where the setting is, you have to set up a sleep schedule first and then it appears in the Watch app as below.
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EDIT: i’ve just managed to delete the sleep schedule that I did not want (I tend to go to bed and wake up at different times depending on the priorities of the day). It seems that the charging notification has remained in place, so hopefully it will work from now on – I will let you know if that is not the case.
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Thanks! Will wait to hear.
It seems the objective of this is to ensure your watch is sufficiently charged before bed. Hopefully that’s not the only time you get notified. I also like to top off my watch in the morning (and don’t want to mistakenly head out with the watch still on the charger).
I’ve been tracking my sleep to see what times I am waking up in the middle of the night and to see how much sleep I am getting. I suffer from PTSD and major depression so I only get 3-4 hours of sleep a day without medication, so this vital for me.
I have to wait until I get my 12 Pro Max on iOS 14.0 to use this. I refuse to update my jailbroken XS Max yet.
I can confirm that you don’t have to have an active sleep schedule in place in order to select the Charging Reminders in the Watch Sleep settings and you will receive the notification alert when your Apple Watch is fully charged. 😎👍
How do I enable this notification? I’m charging my AW right now and it’s already at 100% according to the Battery widget on my XS, yet I didn’t receive any notification.
Or do I have to have sleep schedule set up in order for these notifications to work?
Or do I have to have sleep schedule set up in order for these notifications to work?
@KeanosMagicHat - Awesome, thanks for letting us know. Any chance you can (or anyone can... Beuller? Beuller?) do a capture/screen grab of the notification you got/get? 
I've seen the notification in the sleep dialog but am hoping I'll get a notification at other times, like mid day (if I fully charge my AW). Will keep trying to 'make it happen' myself. Thanks!
I've seen the notification in the sleep dialog but am hoping I'll get a notification at other times, like mid day (if I fully charge my AW). Will keep trying to 'make it happen' myself. Thanks!
@KeanosMagicHat - Awesome, thanks for letting us know. Any chance you can (or anyone can... Beuller? Beuller?) do a capture/screen grab of the notification you got/get?
Although you do have to set it up within the Sleep settings of the Watch app, it will then notify you independently of a sleep schedule.
Notification pops up on the lock screen (and presumably as he banner) as below;
Awesome, thanks! Am now charging my AW and awaiting my first such notification. I can tell in my battery widget (sweet!) that I'm at 86% for my AW. Will sit tight. I judge from your screen grab you have an AW series 5, as do I, so it should work the same. Fingers crossed. Thanks again.