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Average time in bed less than average asleep time?

I am using the new sleep feature on Watch OS 7 and finding an annoyance with how the app is tracking time in bed.


I have a sleep schedule set for 12am - 8am.

I go to bed around 1am and sleep till 10am.


The watch and phone are accurately detecting when I go to bed at 1am but when do not disturb turns off at 8am the phone is tracking this as an "out of bed" event.


4 day Averages

Time in Bed: 6 hours 57 minutes

Time Asleep: 8 hours 55 minutes


Doesn't it make sense for time in bed to exceed time asleep? How do we fix the phone thinking its out of bed when do not disturb turns off via the sleep schedule?


Does sleep schedule even need to be turned on for sleep tracking?

iPhone 11 Pro Max, iOS 14

Posted on Sep 30, 2020 5:21 AM

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Posted on Nov 15, 2020 1:48 PM

I’ve been experiencing the same thing for months now too! I cannot figure out what is causing the strange difference in Time In Bed vs Time Asleep either :/

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Dec 31, 2020 2:34 AM in response to Yello5

I think I have found out a way to fix at least some part of the problem, if not the whole issue. At least it will make the «in bed»/«asleep» ratio seem more realistic.


Open the Health app on your iPhone. Choose the Sleep option, scroll down to the bottom and choose the «Show all data» option. There you will be able to delete registrations you don’t want there.


So this is what I did: I deleted «in bed» registrations from my iPhone laying still (not registrations from my Watch) that I either know is wrong because it clearly is based on my sleep schedule (ending 7.30am), or because it only shows a few hours of «in bed» in the middle of the night.


As the screenshots can tell, there was a faulty «in bed» registration on saturday 7th of November. In the «Show all data» option, I could see that my iPhone had registred 39 minutes of «in bed» 1 hour after I actually woke up (based on the registrations from my Watch), which I know is not the case.


Therefore I deleted the registration and as you can see, the «in bed» average actually goes up afterwards.

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Jan 3, 2021 6:36 AM in response to Yello5

Go to the health app —> sleep—> scroll all the way down Click on Options —> Shut off track time in bed with iPhone if u sleep with your watch on so you get just Time Asleep tracked.

from my understanding their two separate tracking options .....


time in bed: iPhone


time Asleep: Apple Watch


you can see this for yourself by clicking Show All Data which is a few spots up from the “option button”

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Nov 5, 2020 7:19 AM in response to i_rina

I am also curious about this, and the linked page does not seem to have any clarifying information on it related to the original question.


Could you please point out the details related to why the time is bed is shorter than the time asleep?

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Dec 25, 2020 7:53 PM in response to Ohmyandreaa

I don’t completely understand it yet but I think I’m starting to figure out why it shows less time in bed than it does asleep (which makes no sense). For the “in bed” hrs it sometimes takes the total amount of time you spent in bed awake or not wearing the watch and doesn’t include the time you are actually asleep. Like In some weeks where I don’t wear the watch one night, it will show for that night only “time in bed” but doesn’t register “time asleep” at all (since it can’t since I’m not wearing the watch). So then it takes that number and divides it by the days in the week so my average hours in bed is like 2.5 but my average hours asleep is like 7.5. It doesn’t seem consistent though- on weeks where I am asleep almost all of the time I am in bed, the two numbers are usually very close. Maybe one of you can figure it out... or maybe it’s just a bug. It seems like the “in bed” and the “asleep” trackers might be almost unrelated.

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Oct 6, 2020 11:14 AM in response to Yello5

Hey Yello5,


It looks like you have some questions about the Bedtime feature of your Apple Watch. We can understand wanting to know more about that. We want to help.


We'd recommend reviewing the information here: Track your sleep with Apple Watch


If you need additional assistance, contact Apple Support here: Get Support


Thanks!

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Dec 17, 2020 5:14 AM in response to Yello5

I’ve had the same issue. After a week with Apple Watch I’m happy with sleep graph but Apple thinks I’m not in bed half the time. 😂


But I think I’ve found a clue. Click More Sleep Data in the Sleep section of the Health App on iPhone. Scroll down to Average Time in Bed and click. You’ll see a graph of your “time in bed” what ever that means.


I say that because my chart shows I wasn’t in bed ever on two nights and for about 45 minutes another. Only four nights does it seem accurate. I’ve attached my screenshot as an example.


Despite this I AM impressed with the “sleep” graph. It clearly shows the trouble I had getting back to sleep a couple nights ago. Pretty accurate!


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