Middle of the Night Stand Reminders on Apple Watch

You can adjust your Daily Stand goal. Here's how:

• Tap to open the Fitness/exercise ring app on your iPhone.
• Tap the rings then scroll down to Change Goals.
• On my Apple Watch, it takes three taps to see the Change Stand Goal.

From there, you can change how many hours per day you will be notified to stand. While you cannot specify which hours you want to be notified, I have mine set to 8 hours and that seems to work for me.

But here is another consideration - check your DND Focus settings to make sure it is blocking everything you want. To do this, open Focus, then tap the three horizontal dots next to Do Not Disturb. Then check that it shows No Apps Allowed.

On my Watch, between these two settings, Reminders to Stand are off until I wake up.

on the health app, the sleep focus was on silence none. Needed to switch to allow none same as dnd. While I was at it I set up to allow calls only from my favorites.

Hi. My girlfriend has the same problem but I don’t. So we compared different settings. The one we found that was different was to go into settings. Then to Focus. In Focus go to Do Not Disturb. Now go to Set a Schedule. Set a schedule for the hours you want to sleep and not be disturbed. Down below the Set a Schedule is Focus Filters. Make sure no apps are in the section and it is empty. I hope this helps. Fingers crossed it works for you.

My new SE usually hits me around 3AM, sleep schedule goes until 5AM and it was still in Sleep focus mode.

I doubt that getting up for 1 minute each hour is all that meaningful anyway, I'm going to turn it off....

edit: oh never mind, can't go lower than 6 hours.. however turning off stand reminders on phone (https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/turn-off-time-to-stand-reminders-apple-watch/) hopefully works around this.

Following advice posted elsewhere in this thread, I’m manually turning sleep mode on in my watch’s settings since the time that I go to sleep varies from day to day. It would be nice for the watch to know that I’m sleeping and to not alert me on its own but manually turning the setting on when going to sleep is a minor inconvenience.

On the Apple Watch app, from your iPhone go to actives and then notifications and turn off Stand reminders.

I posted in this chat that you can turn off Stand Up reminders from the watch app on the iPhone.

Catatonic wrote:

Exactly, nemo. Why would Apple devs ask the Watch to ignore our Sleep settings 😳 (Sleep=no apps and no people allowed to disturb) in order to send a wrist vibration at any hour, day or night? 🤓💀

Even if my personal goal is to stand up once per hour for 12 hours, the watch should be smart enough to realize I do not want to do this while I am sleeping. 🙃

Since the geniuses at Apple haven’t come up with solution, I have had to disable stand notifications entirely.🫠

What you're seeing is not normal behavior. If this is what you're seeing, there's something wrong with your watch. The first step would be to unpair and re-pair it to your iPhone. I would also consider disabling and reenabling Sleep. Sometimes Focus can get gummed up.

If you don’t want to setup a DND schedule on the Apple Watch. Open Focus in settings on the Watch and set it to mirror your iPhone. Set the DND from the iPhone. Why you have to do it this way I don’t know. The purple moon means DND.

The only other way is to Settings… Sounds and Hepatics… is to turn down the Alert Volume. Meaning when you get up you need to turn Alert Volume back up… that suxs.

I usually leave my iPhone at home. What if I get into a situation where I need to silence my watch and I don’t have my iPhone with me. Messing with the Alert Volume just suxs.

No that did not help. I sometimes take a nap in the middle of the day and this does not work. I posted in this chat that you can turn off Stand Up reminders from the watch app on the iPhone.

FLcapecod6019 wrote:

Just got my newfangled Ultra2. Am getting these alerts as well. SUPER ANNOYING. Especially for those of us who struggle to sleep. APPLE: Make it stop please!

1. Have you enabled a sleep schedule in Health?
2. Apple doesn't read here in this user-to-user forum for feedback or suggestions.

Product Feedback - Apple

I suggest you make an appointment at the Genius Bar at your local Apple Store. They should be able to help.

Genius Bar Reservation and Apple Support Options - Apple

I also disabled the stand notifications. It's the only solution that works.

Apple does not read this user-to-user technical support forum for feedback.

But you can send Apple feedback via:

Feedback - Watch - Apple

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely a decision maker will see it, and maybe take action.