Apple Watch doesn’t record my nap.

Hey nowhereman473!

You took a three hour nap, and it didn’t count your saying. If everything when well and it still didn’t count, then it might be because of the duration you slept. Usually Apple would count your sleep as a sleep session in its four hours or longer.

Hope this helps,

thaman32

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 think if you define a bigger sleep window it will record you as having been asleep but it won’t identify it as light, deep, rem, awake. It will do the same thing if you wake up and don’t get out of bed.

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"

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 😂.

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.

This is the most helpful reply I have seen. Thanks for taking the time to give such a comprehensive response.

Why do you think recording naps is of any use whatsoever?

Worth a try.

Thank you for the helpful response

Why do you think recording naps is of any use whatsoever as a health indication?