It reminds me of silent alarms I've used on Fitbit and even Pebble way back. I think I missed the first few minutes it was going off. In the morning, the Apple Watch thumps with a wake-up alarm. Also, a dimmer, more low-key watch can mean saving battery life, which is smart anyway. Tapping and turning the crown brought me back to other features if I needed them. It looks like a basic watch face, shutting down complications and other details.
SLEEP TRACKER FOR APPLE WATCH SERIES
I realized, as it was time for bed, that the watch screen was really dim, like the Watch Series 5's ambient always-on display mode, but all the time. The Apple Watch dims and becomes bedtime-watch at night I work from home now and the kids aren't in school.Ĭonsistent, but I go to bed way too late. I picked eight hours, spinning the clock around so my bedtime would be midnight, waking at 8 a.m. Sleep schedules get set up on the Apple Watch, or in Apple's Health app. Setting up sleep tracking feels very much like an extension of the years-old iOS feature inside the Clock app that allows bedtime reminders and triggers a yellow shift in the light from your phone's screen to enter a wind-down experience. Along with that, there are wind-down and bedtime reminders. Much like what Apple's Kevin Lynch told me in June, WatchOS 7 sleep tracking is more about bedtime awareness and total time in bed.
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On Fitbits, on the Oura ring, with bed devices, with Withings and more than I can count. I tried the beta on an Apple Watch Series 5.īut I was curious to sleep with the Apple Watch, because I've tracked my sleep before. Betas are experimental, it needs iOS 14 public beta to also be installed on your iPhone and Apple's final version of WatchOS 7 should be here in the fall, maybe in a month or so based on previous years.
SLEEP TRACKER FOR APPLE WATCH UPDATE
The first public beta for the Apple Watch is here and I've been trying it out to see how it compares next to a Fitbit Versa 2 and Oura ring, all of which I've been wearing at the same time.įirst of all, don't update to the WatchOS 7 public beta if you can help it. Apple WatchOS 7 adds a new sleep app and tracking features, including a wind-down mode, sleep schedules and even an alarm. Apple Watch never did native sleep tracking before - unless you downloaded third-party apps - but it will soon.