Middle of the Night Stand Reminders on Apple Watch

Does anyone have a solution for this yet? I’m writing at 2AM after I was woken up by my watch reminding me to stand…

Google told me to do the following:

How to fix this: 

• Adjust Active Hours:
• Go into your watch settings, navigate to "Activity", and then "Active Hours" to set the timeframe when your watch should remind you to stand up. Make sure your sleep time is excluded from this window.

The fun part about these instructions is my sleep watch nor phone have an “active hours” timeframe. I ended up disabling my stand notifications as a solution for now.

This probably has a lot to do with the watchOS 11.0-11.3 update, there have been a lot of different problems that were just not an issue before they added this update. Many things this "update" did is make peoples battery worse, mess up different sensors, make your Apple watch not able to receive calls and notifications- The list just keeps getting longer every day. I'm hoping they fix these bugs with future updates. In reality, updates should be making your device better, but it's doing the opposite.

Hold your horses… I just stumbled on this. Go to your control center… tap don’t hold the right bottom button. Set it there.

Restarting the watch helped in my case.

You should let Apple know directly about your wishes for future updates by using the Feedback link, as this is the only way to reach them.

Feedback - Apple Watch - Apple

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Hey Mam991

Did you ever get a resolution on this? I’m up at 5am because I got that watch haptic alert 10 minutes ago, coaxing me to stand, at 4:50 am, really? Now I’m researching the same issue and came upon your thread. I hope you’re not going to be disturbed about this reply on your thread until a sane time of day!!

FFS

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I have the same problem as the OP and I have the same settings:

Mirror iPhone’s Focus settings

I have NO APPS allowed during Sleep focus

I have NO PEOPLE allowed during Sleep focus

This watch will still vibrate on my wrist in the middle of the freaking night, in SLEEP mode, with NO APPS allowed.

The answer is not, as you suggest, to be forced by Apple to adjust my daily stand goals in order to accommodate the Apple Watch’s inexplicable idiosyncrasies. The smart watch should be smart enough to know if it’s 3 AM and I have sleep mode on; it should not vibrate on my wrist to wake me to stand!

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I encountered the same problem today. I feel the watch just should not send stand notifications while the watch already knows I'm asleep (based on the Sleep sensing and sleep schedule). We should not need to adjust it or turn on DND ourselves.

I have this too, I was woken last night with a stand reminder at 02:50am. Just had the watch a few days and trying to figure it out. Googled because I thought I must be missing the ‘don’t wake me up to tell me to stand in the middle of the night’ setting. Astonished to have found this thread. Kind of reassuring it’s not just me. FYI I had disabled the sleep focus before I went to bed, because that was putting my phone and laptop into sleep focus and (I think) making the watch display go turn off in the evening. I don’t want sleep focus, it’s actually important I get woken up by alerts in the night. But I do want the display to be dim when I’m asleep. Must be missing something, this functionality seems BONKERS. Will go to a Genius Bar and report back.

rogerc888 wrote:

FYI I had disabled the sleep focus before I went to bed, because that was putting my phone and laptop into sleep focus and (I think) making the watch display go turn off in the evening. I don’t want sleep focus, it’s actually important I get woken up by alerts in the night. But I do want the display to be dim when I’m asleep. Must be missing something, this functionality seems BONKERS. Will go to a Genius Bar and report back.

Sleep Focus is intended to be share across the phone and watch but you can turn it sharing so that it doesn't turn it on on the laptop. I do find that I'm curious about why this matters. Do you leave your laptop open and in the same room you're sleeping in?

You can also change the Sleep Focus settings so that the alerts for things you need to be alerted for still come through.

Hey I experiences this as well— for multiple night and sometimes more than once time in the night. I have a 2023 SE watch, it’s updated to the most version and I do have a sleep schedule.

This morning while opening the fridg the app asked me why “hand washing had stopped”…

This started about two weeks ago ( so in July 2024). Did you find anything to make it stop/better?

In part I got the watch for tracking my sleeping. I set up sleep from 10 pm to 6 am. And the watch is waking me up middle of the night telling me I need to stand??! Seriously? This is not helping my sleep. It should know that I have I set up my sleep time and wake time. Don’t wake me up before my alarm to tell me to stand

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I never had this problem until I updated my iPhone to iOS 18 and my Watch to Watch OS 11.2. Last night it woke me up every single hour from 11:50 pm through to 6:50 am. My primary reason for getting a Watch in the first place was to monitor my sleep and nighttime heart function. Being awakened every hour is NOT helpful. By the way, my watch is set to remind me about standing after 6:00 am. I need the daythime movement AND the nighttime sleep. Has this problem really been going on with no "fix" for more than six months. Shame on you, Apple. And I keep recommending your products to my anti-Apple friends! Shame on me.

Researching this at 3:30am because I was woken up at 2:50 with this problem. What on earth? I have a sleep focus on so why would it be telling me to stand? I had a Fitbit for years and it had stand alerts, but you could set the exact hours you wanted them, which seems like an obvious feature. Knowing myself I am now up for the night. 🙃