I've never been a fan of wearing my watch while sleeping but I do have a habit of putting my watch on an hour or so before my alarm goes off so I have a haptic feedback wake up and not a loud alarm from my phone. In WatchOS 8 when the watch would enter sleep mode the screen would turn off and require the crown to unlock and turn the screen back on. Something changed in watchOS 9, that no longer appears to be a be a feature, I find my watch with the screen on when I put it on in the morning, and still on when I wear it past the sleep hours. I've done things like checking the focus settings on the phone and watch, they are set to be the same. Has anyone else seen any similar to sleep focus not working the same as it did in watchOS 8?
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WatchOS 9 sleep focus changes
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I went and toggled those, in limited testing it doesn't appear to change anything for me. I'm going to try setting the watch up as new and see if it changes anything.Mine works the same. On phone, Try going to focus settings, sleep focus, screen setting options and see if these are turned on
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I’ve found the same. I just started to use the Sleep function out of curiosity on my watch 5 series. The screen stays on my selected watch face and only dims a bit but never goes out. I do have the always on display enabled. I’ve been playing around with various settings to try to get around this but haven’t found anything other than enabling theater mode when getting into bed. That does what I want, if I wake and want to know the time I can tap on the screen but it’s not always shining at me or my wife. But it would be nice if there were a setting that would do this automatically.
In waiting to chat with Apple support I toggled some focus setting and now it’s working.
In focus status I turned off all share focus and turned them back on. After when I set the watch/phone/iPad to sleep focus the watch responded correctly.
In focus status I turned off all share focus and turned them back on. After when I set the watch/phone/iPad to sleep focus the watch responded correctly.
On my S7 in Watch OS9, my Sleep works like this:
I have a scheduled Sleep Focus to turn on at 11:15pm Mon-Fri and goes off again in the morning at 6:30am.
When I get into bed (most times, it is before the 11:15pm time), I wear my watch and tap the bell icon (which silences the watch), and also tap the bed icon which then turns on Sleep Focus.
The screen then remains off all night until my haptic alarm wakes me at 6:30am the next morning (the screen remains off, even if I have the 'Always On' enabled within Settings) .
This is how my watch has always behaved even before Watch OS 9 and has even been the same on my older S4 watch for multiple years since I have been wearing it to bed.
The behavior hasn't changed for me as far as I can see.
I have a scheduled Sleep Focus to turn on at 11:15pm Mon-Fri and goes off again in the morning at 6:30am.
When I get into bed (most times, it is before the 11:15pm time), I wear my watch and tap the bell icon (which silences the watch), and also tap the bed icon which then turns on Sleep Focus.
The screen then remains off all night until my haptic alarm wakes me at 6:30am the next morning (the screen remains off, even if I have the 'Always On' enabled within Settings) .
This is how my watch has always behaved even before Watch OS 9 and has even been the same on my older S4 watch for multiple years since I have been wearing it to bed.
The behavior hasn't changed for me as far as I can see.
My series 6 works the same on WatchOS 9 and it did on 8. In sleep mode the face stays dark unless I tap the screen to see the time, the “unlock” it by using the crown.
I’m having a similar but different issue. I have wind down set up, and my phone would always go into bedtime mode when wind down started but the watch would stay usable until bedtime. Now, both the phone and watch go into bedtime at the same time, which is an hour before my bedtime. It was still working right on my series 3 after the update, but since switching to the Ultra it’s not working.