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

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

I'm dealing with the same thing!! It's driving me bonkers because I have foreign friends who text in the middle of the night.

This is important and needs a quick fix. We can't wait for the next major update.

Hello ezequiel_ar,

You've done a lot of great steps already. Since you've completed those steps and if you are on 16.2, the next best thing to do is reach out to Apple directly since they'd have more resources and be able to look into this matter further with you: Get Support

Enjoy.

I have an update after 16.3. First night after 16.3 install it didn’t work - Sleep Focus turned off automatically (but note, my watch was still on 16.2).

Last night it seem to have worked fine. Things I’ve made sure:

• All my devices were on 16.3 (I have more than one iPhones)
• I have deleted Sleep Focus - made sure it got deleted from other devices too and restarted all the devices including Apple Watch (this step probably wasn’t necessary but I did it anyway)
• Recreated Sleep Focus
• And it worked fine last night - stayed on till my Sleep Schedule turned off

I think the issue is very much linked with the Apple Watch - make sure it’s on 16.3 - do a restart as well to be 100% safe (or other iOS devices). My wife doesn’t have any other iOS devices and she never had this issue

Good luck and I hope it continues to work for me - I will give an update after few days

It’s happening to me too! I feel like it’s around midnight that I get woken up and have to turn sleep mode back on and then try to fall back to sleep. It just started in the last week.

I have the exact same problem and tried everything that you’ve tried. It’s started after installing 16.2. When the Sleep Focus turns on automatically via the Sleep Schedule, Sleep Focus automatically turns off at some point at night, it could be before midnight, after midnight - I couldn’t find any pattern/reason for this behaviour. But if you activate Sleep Focus manually then I think it stays on till your Sleep Schedule ends. Only hope is now 16.3 which is out in couple of days but worries me not seeing anything regarding this in the list of bug fixes for 16.3

Few times I tried manually switching the Sleep Focus back on after it got deactivated at night it stayed on till morning. But not 100% sure if this works every time. I’m just waiting for 16.3 now and see if this gets resolved

Since my last post I figured out it was automatically turning itself off just minutes after I’d turn it on, but I’d I turned sleep back on it would stay until morning. It also has stopped doing that the last few days, so maybe it downloaded a fix? 🤞🏼

I turn my Sleep Focus on manually when I go to bed every night. Within about five minutes, Sleep turns itself off and my Always-On screen turns back on. When I manually turn Sleep back on a second time, it then stays on. This scenario has been happening literally every night since about 3-4 weeks ago. I have tried deleting my Sleep Focus and then recreating it, but that doesn’t help.

I manually turn my on as I get into bed, firstly to mute notifications and secondly to turn off my always on display so this doesn’t keep me awake.

This can literally turn itself off as I receive a notification with in as little as 15minutes of me turning it on. Soon as I toggle it back on for a second time it does seem to then stay on for the remainder of the night.

Same here. I work nights and manually turn my sleep focus on during the day. I have no idea when it turns off on its own but I’ll inevitably be woken up around 3pm. It’s infuriating. Started happening after iOS update 16.2. PLEASE FIX.

Similar. My sleep focus turns off every morning at 06:00 rather than my setting of 06:30 for weekdays and 07:00 for weekend. 06:00 was a previous sleep schedule. I’ve checked the health app has the right schedule. Toggle is on to use focus with my schedule and I can see the right times in the focus schedule yet it switches off early and notifications start pinging

I have the same issue too… very annoyed.

What time do you all go to bed?

I go to bed past midnight, and it seems to turn off for me sometime between 2-3 AM.

Mine does it around midnight central time. But that’s also within an hour of me turning on sleep mode usually.