Resting heart rate

As soon as I turned off sleep tracking my resting heart rate came back. Thank you to everyone who suggested that!

I have Series 6 and 3. Bothe running watchOS 7.1

With Sleep mode enabled - Series 3 measures and reports the RHR right after getting up but Series 6 does NOT.

When I spoke to Apple over phone - they said - RHR isn't supposed to measure/reprot HR measured during sleep.

In fact if you go to RHR section in Health - the "About RHR" section explicitly says - "...RHR does NOT include your HR while you're asleep..." (see attached image)

So if this definition is to be trusted then Series 3 has a bug while Series 6 is doing what the Apple documentation says - i.e. not to include HR during sleep.

I suspect putting Sleep mode on - explicitly tells the Watch to "Stop including HR info now that iAm sleeping". But somehow this instruction isn't obeyed by Series 3 - maybe a bug.

But it's quite confusing.

Lucky you. I tested last night and didn't get a single reading. I did get reading the three other nights using Sleep mode. There is still one option to try tough. I used Theater mode to switch off the screen. I noticed that the enable readings during Theater mode was unchecked. I will try this as well.

Same happening here. My resting heart rate prior to iOS 14 & sleep tracking has always been around 38-40. After the update and with using sleep, it now isn’t even calculated when I wake up - it’s displayed as - - (uncalculated) when I wake up, and now is much much higher as it’s tracked while awake now (around 48). I use these feature a ton to track my resting heart rate while sleeping , so now won’t even bother using the new sleep feature because of this - I’ve found it does calculate when I sleep when I don’t use the feature. Please fix this Apple, otherwise I won’t use this feature (which I think has some promise!).

Hi there, the same thing happens with me. I wear a series 5 os7 and few weeks after the update came, my watch shows a higher resting rate compared to before the update. I guess the problem is within update. And yes, even i felt that the sleep app prevents the watch from collecting enough data, to show its user the resting rate in the morning

I was the same - I didn't feel ill but I could understand why my resting heart rate jumped from 56 to 82!

It was a relief to discover it's a bug...

I have this problem too. Resting heart rate displayed fine until I updated my watch to watchOS7 and iphone to ios 14 three days ago.

I have only had resting heart rate for a couple of hours yesterday - and that was 82 compared to my normal resting heart rate for the past nearly 2 years in the mid 50's.

Please fix this!

Further to my problem above, I've turned off the sleep app and my resting heart rate has return and is with expected limits.

So, I think there is a problem with the sleep app interfering with resting heart rae.

ThomasKlang "I have just bought a series 6 and suspect that the blood oxygen level will not be measured during the night if not using the Sleep app"

I also have just received my watch 6, and am delighted to see that if you set the blood oxygen to automatic, it updates at sometime in the night despite the sleep app being off.

So that's a win - and the always on display is so much nicer at night.

Hope that helps.

Just an update. Checking the Theater mode in the Oxygen app does the trick. The watch measures the oxygen level even though the Sleep app isn't used.

I thought I was losing my mind until I found this thread. My resting heart rate has jumped about 10 beats higher since ios14 too. I was initially worried it was me and not my watch since it has been a pretty stable number for years unless I was sick or something.

I too have had this problem....since the latest ios 14 and watchOS 7 updates, my resting heart rate is not being displayed while I am sleeping, and it shows a much higher resting heart rate during the day. I have "turned off" the Sleep tracking app that came with watchOS 7 hoping this will correct the obvious glitch/bug in the new update. My usual resting heart rate is around 49-52 and since the update it shows a resting heart rate of 65-68!

Same Problem here. I had this problem right after the Watch OS upgrade. I did the iPhone upgrade several days before the watch and everything was working fine until I did the watch

it seems like maybe apple change the algorithm or something. In my case, I do get the resting hear rate but only after 1 or 2 hours after I get up from bed. Before the upgrade the resting heart rate was available as soon I woke up

I think this issue has to do with the sleep feature apple introduced. I am going to try to disable sleep tracking tonight and see how it goes. I don't care about tracking my sleep using my apple watch. the data is useless . I have a third party app that does a way better job at tracking sleep

Same for me.

I looked at the recorded pulse data in Apple Health. When using the Sleep app, the contexts is stored as Background. When not using the Sleep app, the context is Sedentary. I think the resting rate is using the Sedentary data to calculate the resting heart rate. I hope I used the correct context terms in English since my language is set to Swedish.

I have just bought a series 6 and suspect that the blood oxygen level will not be measured during the night if not using the Sleep app. I will test this later.