Inaccurate sleep tracking after updating Apple Watch to watchOS 26.0.2

Here is 6 months of data including prior to both of the 26 updates and my sleep has improved m

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Yes, the Sleep app has been improved, especially the phases of being awake are back to normal.

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Yes, I'm also seeing this on my Ultra 2 after the latest watchOS update. Sometimes it shows more than one hour of being awake, just because I checked the time of a a couple of seconds.

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My experience since the latest (October 2025) watch update has been very similar to that reported by aport5. I've used my Apple Watch 7 to track my sleep since I bought it and have been generally happy. Since the latest updates, however, it has been recording quite frequently a high (15-20 at times) number awake times when my actual number has been around 4-7 (this includes my usual 3-5 trips to the bathroom). I've done all the suggested things (makes sure watch and phone are updated, restarted both, ensured watch band is snug, etc) yet the problem continues. Most recently, it told me I slept less than 6 hours when I am sure I slept over 8--something it has done more than once recently. Very disappointed as I have come to value my sleep tracking as a tool to track my overall health.

The plummeting of my deep sleep got me worried enough to try both an oura ring 4 for a few nights as well as my wife's Galaxy watch 7.

Both of those devices were pretty much in lockstep with deep sleep showing 1-1:20 minutes a night while Im lucky to get 30-35 minutes with my Apple Watch.

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Since the latest updates on iOS and watch, the sleep tracking is now way off what it used to be. It’s showing way way more awake time. The interesting thing for me is this: I wear a whoop and an Apple Watch 6 in bed and have done both for two years. My subscription with whoop ends in a few months and frankly I was not going to renew as my main target data was sleep. Until now I’d been hugely impressed how similar the data for whoop and sleep in Apple health were, hence me thinking of cancelling. I was going to buy a new watch instead. Unless this is fixed I won’t be