Sleep tracking in watch os8

[TorontoSS]

Hello - for those who may have tried watch OS8 (or just know), is sleep tracking any better on it? I don't mind the lack of information around say REM sleep or anything, but what i find frustrating, is that you can't really dig deeper into past info. For example, if you wake up, you can see you slept 7 hours 15 min. great. But if you look at yesterday's reading, on your iphone, it will say you slept at 11:37 and woke up a few times and finally woke up at 8am but not if you slept 7 hours, or 6 hours 52 minutes.

Does watch OS8 fix this or provide more detail?

thanks!

 

[Grayburn]

It's exactly the same.

 

[TorontoSS]

thanks for letting me know. that is a shame, as i was hoping for SOME improvements. thanks though!

 

[ericg301]

thanks for letting me know. that is a shame, as i was hoping for SOME improvements. thanks though!

autosleep. $2.99. no IAPs.

 

[musicpenguy]

iOS 15 does show more of the health trends like sleep data so it is a bit better there - no big changes - something I have heard from sleep scientists is that unless you are in a lab the at home stuff is really great at telling you how much sleep you get and it is more or less guessing what stage of sleep you are in and that data is not that useful, the how much sleep you are getting is what should be the focus with the current tech.

 

[TorontoSS]

iOS 15 does show more of the health trends like sleep data so it is a bit better there - no big changes - something I have heard from sleep scientists is that unless you are in a lab the at home stuff is really great at telling you how much sleep you get and it is more or less guessing what stage of sleep you are in and that data is not that useful, the how much sleep you are getting is what should be the focus with the current tech.

I would agree with this too. I’m more interested in the hours I get, but what I don’t like is that you don’t get that fully. You do on the day you wake up. But if you want to see how much you slept the previous night, it weirdly doesn’t tell you, just what time you went to sleep and when you woke up, and if there was an interruption. So does the new iOS 15 health data show that?

 

[musicpenguy]

Yes it does now! Displays time in bed and time asleep just tap on the bar

 

[TorontoSS]

Yes it does now! Displays time in bed and time asleep just tap on the bar

Oh awesome! That does help a lot thank you. makes a big difference to me. Also I really hope you get more sleep soon!

 

[IW1206MT]

I like the streamlined approach to sleep tracking in Apple Watch- but do have one challenge I’m hoping you all could assist with.

How do you handle sleeping in past your alarm/schedule? On a weekend I may decide to sleep in past the scheduled time. If I do Apple Watch assumes I am awake.

The options seem to be:

Set a weekend schedule with a later wake up time.. in this case the watch takes between 1 min- 2 hours to decide I am awake… if I turn off sleep mode manually it looses the whole sleep session.. so I go for the first hour or so awake with the watch still in sleep mode

Manually add a sleep entry for the period I slept in… downside … resting HR assumes I was awake when I was sleeping… and annoying to add manually…

How do u manage sleep in days?
Thanks