Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
No default sleep app just because the battery life is too short?
- Thread starter soft99
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Most of us are creatures of habit. In our case, we sit down and watch the news in the 6 p.m. hour most evenings. So that’s when we put our W4s on the chargers, and an hour later, they are fully charged, We put them back on for the night, in Theatre mode, with a third party sleep app, which works great. The Watch does not need 8 to 10 hours to re-charge. Solved your problem!
The problem is when you wake up the watch would be like 30% left if you turn on a sleep app for whole night, and most of the people would need to rush to work immediately and then they expect the watch has enough battery to use for whole day until they are back to home at night.
I am curious as to just how many people actually wear their apple watches to bed overnight? I wonder if sleep tracking is something which makes more sense as a sensor you place on your mattress (like that Beddit product), rather than a wrist wearable?
I don't sleep well with something on my wrist. Whenever I have tried a sleep app and wearing the watch to bed it tells me I have been tossing and turning all night, the reason for this is...I'm wearing something on my wrist!
What is the purpose of tracking your sleep? What will you do with this info? Do you trust an app on your watch/phone over an actual sleep study from a doctor? Does it just give you peace of mind of how great or how sh*tty your sleep was? I can usually tell how well I slept with how I feel when I wake up. FWIW I'm not trying to be argumentative. I'm just curious what you'd do with this info.
I also have to wonder what those folks used for a sleep app before the Apple Watch came along.. it seems like nothing really changed in this regard. Some of the things Apple does makes me think it’s nothing more than a solution in search of a problem for the sake of marketing alone.
I have the series 3 LTE watch. During the weekday I take it off the charger at 7am when I leave for work. When I get home from work (usually around 5:30) I normally have 50-60% battery left. Get home, eat dinner, take dog for walk, etc. Before bed I place my watch in airplane mode and theater mode and go to sleep. Wake up at 6 am probably with around 40% battery left. Place on charger as soon as I get up and when I leave at 7, watch is fully charged.
Now these numbers vary depending on daily usage but that’s about the norm.
And I track my sleep mainly to see just how much a toss and turn during the night. You might think you’re getting 8 hours of sleep when you’re only getting 6.
Now these numbers vary depending on daily usage but that’s about the norm.
And I track my sleep mainly to see just how much a toss and turn during the night. You might think you’re getting 8 hours of sleep when you’re only getting 6.
This is what my wife and I do with our S4 watches, and...
..it's not "like 30% left,", it's more like 80-85% with AutoSleep running.
The problem is deeper. Without electrodes in our head, we can't measure sleep. We can measure lying still. Worst tracking ever.
That’s not been my experience over the past year. Typically, when we (both my wife and I do the same thing) awake, we have 90% or more. (We typically have 50% after 24 hours when we begin to charge). Key is, I think, to keep both phone and watch in Do Not Disturb and Theatre mode during sleep time. The former doesn’t push any notifications from phone to watch and the latter prevents the watch face from awakening when you are tossing and turning.
I think most of the people would be lazy enough to not set to Do Not Disturb and Theatre mode every night
Same here. Enable do not disturb in theater mode at bedtime. Use auto sleep to track my sleep all night. Drains roughly 12 to 14% overnight. Charge watch while showering and getting ready, etc. And maybe a little bit before bedtime. The watch really only needs about two hours a day or less of charging time.