Apple Watch doesn’t record my nap.

Yeah, for whatever reason Apple watch doesn’t detect my naps either.

My previous smart watch, Samsung, didn’t require me to tell it when I was going to sleep. No sleep scheduled business required. It just automatically detected sleeping, whether it was a full sleep at night or a nap.

Assuming it detected heart rate was lowered and movement stopped, and realized hey, this person is asleep.

Not sure why Apple can’t do that.

But, at least Apple Watch now has its own built-in sleep app without having to buy one.

They actually don’t provide detailed specs on the website. And when I called sales to ask specific questions regarding what it could do before purchase I was told it had a sleep app, which it did not.

I thought I was doing something wrong, but turned out it literally had no app to record sleep.

It had the ability to record sleep, but no actual app for it until the update that came about a year later. Until then, you had to go to the App Store, take your chances and buy one.

Who would ever imagine that if it could record sleep it couldn’t record all sleep, including naps anyway. Again, I thought it was user error until figuring out it actually cannot record naps.

New devices take longer than 14 days to get to know unless you have all day every day to fiddle with them.

Wrong, sorry. sleep app has been standard, already installed since os7

Check out the drop down menu here Track your sleep with Apple Watch – Apple Support

also for example

Apple Watch Series 8 - Technical Specifications

was available for anyone buying a new watch, and early adopters for series 9 would know that it would be better than series 8

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:

Product Feedback - Apple

I have got this ultra watch too and I'm very disappointed the way sleep tracking works.

It is tracking sleep only at scheduled sleep time as example 00:00 to 07:00 outside of theses hours its not tracking anything. Its should track automatically then you get asleep without scheduling.

I tried to follow these your mentioned apple recommendation but could not find most of mentioned settings.

"Set a consistent sleep schedule in the Sleep section of the Watch app" no such setting at all on watch app.

the way apple watch is tracking sleep is useless as very little people goes to sleep at manual pattern we are not robots to switch of ourselves at 11pm and wake up at 7am.

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:

Product Feedback - Apple

Lamaree wrote:

It's an Apple Watch 7. Bought it brand new from Apple.

That has been capable of tracking sleep since the day you bought.

I called Apple after getting the watch and they confirmed the watch was "capable", but that I would have to purchase an app.

You misunderstood.

I don't know what you're referring to as a sleep app, but I'm talking about where it shows time spent in the different sleep cycles.

Yes, the Apple provided app does that:

Track your sleep on Apple Watch and use Sleep on iPhone - Apple Support

You can say it had one all day long, but Apple confirmed that it did not and would have to be purchased.

Again, you misunderstood.

But why i need to enable sleep mode manually - my nap times are usually drifty in nature and i cant really pre plan it.

Except Samsung smart watches have no problems detecting sleep versus resting. We still move when awake, heart rate still elevated enough to tell the difference.

Apple just isn’t programmed for it.

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.

It doesn't record if you just put it into sleep mode outside of your sleep window.

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.

I don’t think Apple accepts returns based on what a customer expected a product to be able to do.

Most of us aren’t rich enough to just go buy another smart watch.

Hopefully, Apple will continue to improve their products.

They do provide detailed tech specs before purchase. Sleep Detection would be a new feature not currently offered..

What is advertised is Sleep Tracking.

You had 14 days to return it if it hadn’t lived up to expectations

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.