I rarely nap. However, I took a nap tonight between 7 PM and 10 PM and the Apple Watch did not count it as a sleep period.
Nothing was recorded. Why?
No, no facts the fact 1: it works this way! fact 2 this way doesn't work for anyone !!!!! So nobody can like it! Why?
1: nobody sleeps by scheduling !!!!!! Maybe some under some specific reasons. Majority wont.
2: We have naps
3: One day we can go to bed at 10pm other day at 1am and wake up one morning at one time other morning at other time so sleep tracking in a this way will never ever be correct and precise.
4: who can like device feature where you have to adapt your life to the device but not a device to your life style.
And then you offer to buy something else think other way :
No info that describes how it works before you buy!!!!!!! And after you spend 1000euro you say buy another brand? Not sure you might are a millionaire who can afford many expensive devices but look I'm not that rich!
And you sound like a troll defending Apple fail. As always I found this forum to be very toxic unhelpful.
Have. A nice day!
Jfkosu wrote:
This is the most helpful reply I have seen. Thanks for taking the time to give such a comprehensive response.
Anyone can copy and paste text from a chat bot. Just happens to be off target by a mile.
DX-7, this is incorrect. I just took a nap and set both my watch and phone to sleep mode. Shocker: it didn’t record the sleep again. I remember my dream so the sleep definitely occurred. I try this every single time I nap, just in case magically it may work sometime. Without fail, the watch fails. Sleep tracking is a major Apple fail.
the watch also thinks I’m standing when I’m not- i will wake up in the morning, still laying in bed, and my “standing ring” says I’d been standing for 1 hour so far that day. Haven’t gotten out of bed.
I understand you don't like the way the Apple Watch works. I agree that must be frustrating if you were, as a result of not doing enough research, expecting something else. However, no one posting here in this user-to-user forum has any control over how it works. All we can do is tell you how best to use the tool you actually own, not the one you wish you owned.
You can let Apple know all the ways you think they went wrong here:
Its not the matter of if it was advt or listed in the product spec... its just a simple thing to do for a smart watch. Since most of us relay on these 'smart' features to track health it will be of a great help to extent the feature which it already has - ex - in the Sleep app one can find during the sleep time - how many hrs a person is awake/sleeping/rem/core. The change would be such trivial to extent the same feature set during non sleep hours.
SuzyPasadena wrote:
I see some snarkiness in this thread but the poor quality of the Apple Watch sleep monitoring is disappointing and unexpected. For the snarky, “too bad for you if you didn’t do your research” commenter: if I were planning on buying a Tesla, I wouldn’t think to double check to make sure it had a radio. I seriously am thinking about buying a Fitbit to track my sleep.
But if you didn’t check, and there was no radio, who’s fault would that be?
Jfkosu wrote:
You wrote" Except, of course, for the fact it doesn't answer the question. The native sleep function in the Watch doesn't recognize and record naps. " Yoyr response was not helpful/accuruate as the orginal post suggested to make sleep time 8-8 instead of 11pm-8am This way if i fall asleep on the couch from 9-11, it WILL record this as sleep. That sugestion worked. so it IS a WAY to get the watch to record that "nap"
It does not answer the original question, which was how to get the watch to record a nap. But, if the work around makes you happy, awesome!
Well I am also extremely disappointed in my watch. Got the series 9 for myself and my mom. It is a fail with sleep even in comparison to even the cheap fitbit, did a better job at tracking sleep. Oh boy I will never buy another apple watch unless their software gets better. I can’t believe they cant even program this simple feature correctly. I have seen knock off do better than this.
Possible fix.. I am assuming you can set your sleep schedule for a larger part of the day and use the ignore focus if it is on or don't use focus , then you might end up with weird data. But dang that is a horrible design.
more and more I am missing Samsung.
Here's what is available from Apple:
Track your sleep on Apple Watch and use Sleep on iPhone - Apple Support
There are also lots of third party apps out there for sleep tracking.
nareshkumarhk wrote:
Its not the matter of if it was advt or listed in the product spec... its just a simple thing to do for a smart watch. Since most of us relay on these 'smart' features to track health it will be of a great help to extent the feature which it already has - ex - in the Sleep app one can find during the sleep time - how many hrs a person is awake/sleeping/rem/core. The change would be such trivial to extent the same feature set during non sleep hours.
Tell Apple what you would like to see:
andriusk79 wrote:
It is tracking sleep only at scheduled sleep time as example 00:00 to 07:00 outside of theses hours its not tracking anything.
Yes, that is the way it works.
Its should track automatically then you get asleep without scheduling.
If you want a device that works in a different way, you'll need a different device.
You can let Apple know your thoughts here:
Have sleep sensitivity settings moved? I looked under sleep in the watch app but the only options are track sleep, charge reminder, manage focus and don't use this watch for sleep. I need to decrease it's sensitivity since it has me sleeping this minute I lie down despite the fact I'm listening to 30-60 mins of audio before I fall asleep.
SuzyPasadena wrote:
I see some snarkiness in this thread but the poor quality of the Apple Watch sleep monitoring is disappointing and unexpected. For the snarky, “too bad for you if you didn’t do your research” commenter: if I were planning on buying a Tesla, I wouldn’t think to double check to make sure it had a radio.
Definitely do not buy a Tesla if you're not willing to do careful research before spending a lot of money. Depending on the model you buy, you may have to pay additional fees or subscribe to get features.
I seriously am thinking about buying a Fitbit to track my sleep.
I suggest you do some research into Meta's privacy policies. I know at least one forum user who uses an Oura ring for sleep tracking. So, worthing looking at.
I’m posting this hair because I haven’t seen any others suggest it, but you can actually record naps with the Apple Watch. Just not using the Apple health/sleep native features.
In my case I have AutoSleep which I was using long before using apples version and I noticed that it does record my naps.
I did a lot of research before buying the Apple Watch. I read and read and I even spoke with Apple several times and asked a gazillion questions to make sure it did what I wanted.
They said "Yes" the apple watch records sleep and shows the data.
I believed them. I bought it.
I used it and there was NOT a sleep app in the watch.
After buying it, I found out the watch did not come with a factory sleep app.
One had to be purchased from the app store.
Utterly ridiculous. So, they lied.
They have since upgraded their software to include a sleep app.
But the watch still falls short in that it cannot detect naps.
Pretty basic stuff that other watches can do, for much less money one would expect the expensive Apple watch to be capable of even if one didn't put all the time I did into my pre purchase research.
But why i need to enable sleep mode manually - my nap times are usually drifty in nature and i cant really pre plan it.
Apple Watch doesn’t record my nap.
