How do I permanently turn off Sleep Focus on my Apple Watch?

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How do I permanently turn off Sleep Focus on my Apple Watch?

Every Saturday for the past month or so, my watch gets out of sync staying in Sleep mode. I was able to "fix" it by turning of Focus sync and re-enabling it. Now, it happened on a Friday and the hack isn't working. So I have to keep tapping my watch just to get the time.

My watch is up-to-date, 11.3.1, so it's not that. This is so frustrating.

How do I permanently turn off Sleep focus on my watch?

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Apple Watch Series 7

Posted on Mar 14, 2025 9:32 AM

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Ingo2711

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Mar 14, 2025 11:50 AM in response to JeffReynolds

Try these steps:

On your iPhone, open the WatchApp, tap on Sleep and disable "Track Sleep with Apple Watch" and tap on "Don't Use This Watch for Sleep"

In the Focus Settings on your iPhone, make sure that "Share Across Devices" is disabled.

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Mar 14, 2025 1:06 PM in response to JeffReynolds

Sorry about the battery issues. I guess you have already tried the general troubleshooting steps like

Force restart Apple Watch

Set up your watch again after unparing:

Unpair and erase your Apple Watch - Apple Support

In addition to that, I disabled the Smart Stack and the Live Activities, which brought back my battery life to the level of watchOS 10.6.1

You can make Apple aware of watchOS issues by using the Feedback link:

Feedback - Apple Watch - Apple

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JeffReynolds Author

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Mar 14, 2025 12:08 PM in response to Ingo2711

Thanks. That appears to have fixed it. It's disappointing since I like it to track my sleep. However, since the last update or so, the battery no longer lasts for 24+ hours as it did before the update, and it dies at night, even after turning off most notifications. Apple OS updates are a double-edge sword.

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How do I permanently turn off Sleep Focus on my Apple Watch?

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