Apple Watch doesn’t record my nap.

Can I ask? do you work for Apple that you cannot accept their fail on this feature? Im 44 years old man who bought a h.. expensive smart watch to find its one of the best features as sleep tracking works in a most strange way. So you offer me to give up with apple and go back to Samsung who does it the right way or Garmin who does it the right way? I don't want a device which works this way and nobody wants read all around everyone blames this way of work. Did you see any positive comment? This is a forum where I can express I like or no and the least I expect someone advising me to drop Apple device and go to other manufacturer. This was so rude :/

andriusk79 wrote:

Can I ask? do you work for Apple

This is a user-to-user forum. No one participating in this thread works for Apple. And, Apple doesn't read here for feedback or suggestions.

I'm sorry that you find statements of fact "rude" just because you don't like them. But, they are still facts. If the device, as it currently exists does not meet your needs, you should absolutely buy something that does.

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!

I’m someone who used to have an ancient Samsung activewatch 2 (several years old) which detected sleep relatively well, so I’m in the camp that apple should step up their game and get some features that other smart watches have had for years. And I will mention that to Apple like you suggested.

However, I appreciate the integration features with my iPhone in general, Samsung didn’t do that much for iOS, so on the whole I like my new watch (Ultra 2). However, I’d like to have it detect my variable sleep schedule better too. I generally wake up at 6:30 but I stumbled out of bed today to turn am alarm off then crawled back in for another 45 minute nap (I’m off today, I can do that). But my watch doesn’t show the extra nap (which is why I looked for a post like this here). What I want to know is if I defined my sleep schedule as longer (eg, until 8 or 9) would this mess up any of the features in the watch? Are things turned off during your sleep schedule even if you’re awake? Same with defining the window earlier - I know that there’s turn down, will certain features of the watch be off even if I’m still awake? And will sleep stage detection still work ok? I had one night when I stayed up later than my start sleep time and it measured sleep duration but not stages. Was this a fluke or will that happen if I define my start sleep window too early?

Basically I want to know if I just need to define a really big sleep interval/window. It’s a kludge, but if that will detect my sleep accurately with not many side effects, I’ll consider doing that.

Thanks in advance for any info that you can provide.

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.

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?

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.

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.

1: as per your suggestion you have to set sleep schedule for longer time period to get naps it to it gaps. Then the sleep function kicks in watch behaviour is changing it goes to sleep mode. This is absolute nonsense to use watch while it is in sleep mode

2: to switch off all sleep auto functions and manually put in to sleep focus before you go sleep or go for nap? Look it’s not an option as well as you naps can come even watching tv sudden so no manually turn on do not work as well. We clearly know other brand does it perfect automatically and very precise so why apple all the time struggle?

I defined a sleep period of 2200-0900, fell asleep on the sofa @ 2230 for about an hour or so. However, it still only tracked the sleep data once I moved myself into the bed!

I did try switching Focus on on the watch itself for 5-10 secs, and then turning it off, but it still didn’t pick up the sleep on the sofa.

Not sure then if your suggestion simply doesn’t work for naps on the sofa, or if I misunderstood your instructions. I can’t think of anyone that has a nap in bed, in the evening, and then goes to bed at night - like nap 1900 hours, in bed, wake up @ 2000 hours. Then go back to sleep, in bed, @ 2200 hours. Then that would pick it up if you set your sleep schedule to start @ 1900. But again, can’t think of many instances when people would do this! Most just fall asleep on the sofa 😂.

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.

I have switched to apple from Samsung. Before I switched all I saw was high praises. Now that I am using Ultra 2 this is crazy. I could have bought 3-4 samsung watches which tracks so much better.

I am in disbelief. This is crazy.

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.

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

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

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.

Not just time spent in bed like it did before.

One of the reasons I switched to apple things was so I didn't have to mess with 3rd party apps.

Lesson learned.

Several months to a year later the software update "included" a sleep app at no charge.

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

In any case, it has one now.

It just needs to be better.