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watchOS 7 Adds New Sleep Tracking Feature to Apple Watch

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Apple today during its WWDC keynote unveiled watchOS 7, which comes with a new sleep tracking feature for Apple Watch.

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The new sleep tracking feature helps users to make recommendations about waking up and when to go to sleep. A "Wind Down" feature minimizes distractions to create a personalized evening routine.

iPhones can be set to display a Wind Down screen before users go to bed. It turns on do not disturb, and can suggest things like meditation or quiet music listen to.

Wind Down puts Apple Watch in sleep mode, and when it's time to wake up, it can wake up with quiet alarms, or a silent haptic-only alarm. It can also wake up with a friendly greeting to start the day.
According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, a bedtime routine helps the body prepare for sleep. To support this, Wind Down allows Apple Watch and iPhone users to create a customized routine before bed, including setting up a specific scene in the Home app, listening to a soothing soundscape, or using a favorite meditation app. In Sleep Mode, Apple Watch turns on Do Not Disturb and automatically darkens the screen overnight.
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In the morning, the wearer will see a visualization of their previous night's sleep, including periods of wake and sleep. They will also see a chart showing their weekly sleep trend.

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Sleep tracking uses machine learning to sense motion, and detects micro motions from the rise and fall of the breath. There's also a new sleep section in the health app, including a view of trends over time.

Depending on personal charging behavior, if the battery is too low within an hour of bedtime, Apple Watch will remind users to charge it ahead of sleep. Sleep data is encrypted on device or in iCloud with iCloud sync, and data is always in the user’s control.

Sleep tracking, Schedule, Wind Down, and Sleep Mode will also be available on iPhone without a watch with iOS 14.

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I cant even get through an 8 hour work day on a single charge how am I supposed to wear it all night too?

EDIT: Since im getting private messaged so much about this. I do maybe one to two hours of calls on it a day while mobile without my phone. Use it to track runs and as an ipod first thing in the morning so charging then isn't an option. Yes I have disabled the fall detection and background noise alert stuff as well.
 
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BrennanWDavis said:
I'm excited about this! Sleep tracking, and silent haptic-wake alarms were some feature I was sad to lose when I swapped my FitBit for an Apple Watch.
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I just charge my watch for the first 30min of my work day once I get to the office.
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charge it 30 minute before bed....30 minutes after waking up.
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really shocked they didnt push this as a "hardware only" feature' for the Series 7
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hitteam said:
Please improve on the battery first, I ain't have time to wait for the watch to be charged in the morning... Come on Apple upgrade the battery with the new S6 processor.
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i've used 3rd party apps to track my sleep for years. it never uses more that 5-8% of battery overnight, and i imagine that this OS-level sleep tracking will be even more power efficient.
 
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My battery is good for about a day and a half and I have been doing sleep tracking with a 3rd party app. Not sure that will change yet but I do look forward to trying the native version.
 
Airforcekid said:
I cant even get through an 8 hour work day on a single charge how am I supposed to wear it all night too?
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BS

I leave my watch on Airplane mode/Theater mode overnight and drop just 7-8 at most for a 7 hour sleep session.

I get 30 hours on a single charge, charge when making coffee or taking a shower. it's not hard
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satchmo said:
Nothing on oxygen monitoring.
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How is this software?
 
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I've been sleep tracking for a couple years now too. Charging is no issue for me. I basically slap the watch on the charger when I get up and it's good to go when I start work. 1.5 hours max.
 
I would love to monitor my sleep better but wearing the watch in bed might not work well. It's gotta be charged. Note that Craig mentioned 'charging in the morning' so maybe they think we will charge while having breakfast or at work?
Also the watch is quite bulky to wear but I will give it a try.
 
gsmornot said:
My battery is good for about a day and a half and I have been doing sleep tracking with a 3rd party app. Not sure that will change yet but I do look forward to trying the native version.
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What are you running on your watch? You should get way better battery life.
 
What’s the betting the Series 3 won’t get this Sleep App. Battery life isn’t really the issue as I top mine up before bed and on average overnight I loose around 5% battery. I can actually get my Series 3 through 2 full days when I forget to charge it. That being said I rarely manually trigger workouts etc, I use mine for Time/notifications/music control/ & background activity monitoring so nothing hard core.
 
Cloudane said:
Yeah that confirms what I thought - although the existing sensor is allegedly capable of monitoring it in a software update, they're obviously saving that one for the Series 6 hardware.
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That’s exactly the point. If it’s a question of software, it makes me wonder if they’ll crippled it to work only on AW6.
 
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