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navaira

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Hi all,

I replaced S5 with S10 on release day. It’s gorgeous and so on. It has two problems, though.

1) When I take it off and then put it back on, it takes a while to figure out it’s on the wrist. I have to move it a bit back and forth, and sometimes enter the passcode a few times. Mind, I have tattoos on my forehand/hand, so there is a tattoo directly underneath. S5, however, never had this problem. (Also, phone unlock is hit and miss. But since S5 didn’t have problems unlocking, I can’t tell whether there is much difference.)

2) It registers sleep during the day while I am awake. True, sometimes I am sitting playing Balatro+ on my iPad which isn’t a very moving experience ;) but S5 never detected sleep when there was none had. But I haven’t discovered Balatro yet when I had the S5, so… is it possible that since I simply sit without moving my wrist at all, my resting HR drops (unless I have almost-great jokers, but that’s a digression…) recording that as ‘sleep’ is understandable?

I can’t decide whether this can be software-related. There seems to be no way to adjust sleep detection sensitivity (I use AutoSleep and every day just unclick the wrong recordings from daytime, but that’s not exactly perfect). On the plus side, despite my tattoos, it manages to measure my HR accurately during workouts, which S5 often couldn’t do (the HR would grey out on the last reading and stay like that) – so… that would suggest the sensors work correctly?

Did/does anyone have experiences like that? Is my AW broken, is that a S10 thing, possible software issue? And can sleep detection sensitivity be adjusted? AutoSleep has the option, but it doesn’t work as expected, it ends up telling me I got little sleep at night and then napped throughout the day :p
 
The sleep detection is definitely software related. Previous watchOS didn't detect daytime naps at all, that feature was introduced in watchOS 11, and many people have been complaining it mistakenly detects naps when they weren't sleeping.
 
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The sleep detection is definitely software related. Previous watchOS didn't detect daytime naps at all, that feature was introduced in watchOS 11, and many people have been complaining it mistakenly detects naps when they weren't sleeping.
Oh thanks, that’s good to know! (Have they found any solutions? I’d love to switch that off.)
 
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