Sleep focus turns off automatically in the middle of the night (iOS 16.2)

Ever since I updated my iPhone to iOS 16.2, Sleep focus has been turning itself off in the middle of the night and I get woken up by notifications.

Steps to reproduce:

Set Sleep Schedule to wake up at certain time (let's say 8:30am) with Alarm on
Turn on Sleep Focus

Expected behavior: Sleep Focus remains on until the wake up time set in step 1

Actual behavior: Sleep Focus turns itself off in the middle of the night (before wake up time)

I have tried:

Restarting all my iCloud devices (iPad, Apple Watch, laptops)
Deleting my Sleep Schedule from Health and creating agin
Deleting Sleep Focus and creating again

This is very frustrating since I keep getting woken up by notifications in the middle of the night, and I have to manually enable Sleep Focus again

Since I have an iPhone 14 Pro, Sleep Focus is generally useful since it completely turns off the Always On lock screen

iPhone 14 Pro

Posted on Jan 2, 2023 10:27 AM

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Mike Kenyon

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Posted on Feb 17, 2023 2:28 AM

Hi - I had exactly the same problem as everyone describes above. All updated to the latest versions (16.3), all rebooted multiple times (keep Apple support happy). I still had the same issue.

However, I seem to have fixed it by:

In Health -> Sleep -> Full Schedule & Options -> Turn off the "Use schedule for sleep focus".
In Shortcuts -> Automation -> Create a Personal Automation
- Set Focus
- "Turn Sleep On until Time X am Tomorrow"
- Schedule this to run at your bedtime, in my case 22:30.
- Of course if you go to bed after midnight it will need to read "Turn Sleep On until Time X am" but you get the drift of what I'm doing.
The sleep schedule alarm still works etc.. so there is no issue of you not getting woken up either.

This has worked perfectly for me for the last couple of nights.

Mike

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