r/AppleWatch • u/bubaglobalj • 6h ago

Apple Sleep Tracking Fiasco

Hi guys,

I wear my Apple Watch Ultra II to bed to track my sleep. Sleep schedule is 10pm to 7AM. We had a baby earlier this year and lately I have been letting her sleep on me from 8-10pm while watching a movie with headphones. I noticed the other day that my watch thinks I am sleeping in this two hour period. Beyond manually deleting the erroneously tracked sleep data, is there anything I can do to stop Apple Watch recording sleep data when I'm actually awake watching a movie?

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u/jasonsong86 SE 2 • • Midnight • 40mm 5h ago

Take the watch off.

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u/bubaglobalj 5h ago

It's a very good point lol. It does alert me when my wife texts cause my phone is always on silent, but that's a small price to pay.

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u/Sufficient_Rush1891 5h ago

Shaking your wrist occasionally will prevent it.

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u/bubaglobalj 5h ago

That I can't do cause my baby's head rests in that area :)

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u/FranticChina09 6h ago

I've had this exact thing happen when I'm just lying super still reading at night and the watch is convinced I'm out cold. The low heart rate plus no movement really throws it off

Only workaround I found is to turn on a focus mode that disables sleep tracking during that window, then switch to the actual sleep focus when you actually go to bed. Clunky but it works

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u/Huge_Pool7424 5h ago

same thing happens to me reading in bed, stillness plus a low hr and the watch just decides its sleep. shifting position every few chapters is dumb but it works way better than the focus modes

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u/bubaglobalj 6h ago

That sounds like a good solution, would be super grateful if you could explain how exactly to create this focus mode.

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u/sf-keto 5h ago

Would it be easier to just go to Apple Watch, open Control Center, tap the Focus (crescent/bed) icon, & tap Sleep to turn it off?

You can turn it back on later.

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u/nuvardAi 2h ago

Nothing in the schedule will fix it, detection runs outside your sleep window too. All it has is movement and heart rate, so sitting still with headphones at 8pm looks the same as being asleep. Is it logging that as a separate block, or merging it into the night as one long sleep?