The negative effects of insomnia and sleep deprivation appear in your life in various forms such as: b. Feeling tired frequently during the day and not being able to concentrate throughout the workday. While getting enough sleep can boost your energy and focus, tracking your sleep is important for understanding your sleep patterns and identifying the source of your daily stress. If you have an Apple Watch, you can take advantage of the sleep tracking feature that is built into it.
Here's how to set a sleep schedule, turn on sleep tracking, and monitor sleep pattern stats on your Apple Watch:
Sleep tracking on the Apple Watch
If you have an Apple Watch, your watch has sleep tracking, allowing you to monitor and record your sleep patterns each night. Sleep tracking is available on Apple Watches running watchOS 7 or later. You also need an iPhone 6S or later with iOS 14 or later to sync sleep stats in the iPhone Health app.
If you wear a compatible Apple Watch while you sleep, it tracks your total sleep time. When you wake up in the morning, the Sleep app tells you how long you slept at night, and the iPhone Health app tracks your daily and weekly sleep patterns.
However, one thing to look out for before using the Apple Watch to track sleep is the battery level. You should set aside some time during the day to charge your Apple Watch battery to at least 30% in order to track sleep.
How to track sleep on the Apple Watch
You can use your Apple Watch alone to track your sleep patterns using the Sleep app. In the morning, the sleep app will record your sleep time. It also records your sleep patterns for 14 days. The Sleep app allows you to add sleep schedules and enable sleep tracking.
Add a sleep schedule
You can create one sleep schedule for each day of the week, one schedule for each day of the week, or a different schedule for each day of the week. To set a sleep schedule on your Apple Watch:
1- Open the Sleep application and click on the Full Schedule option.
2- Activate the sleep schedule option.
3- Click here to configure your first schedule.
4- Enable the (Shutdown) option, the sleep focus function works automatically, which turns off the watch screen and stops the watch making any sound when a notification is received, so that the notification does not disturb your sleep time.
5- Enable the screen saver option to dim the watch screen and lock the iPhone screen connected to the watch during standby time.
6- Set the alarm time using the watch's digital crown, then press the green tick in the lower right corner to confirm the time.
7- Scroll down to Bedtime and set the time in the same way.
Add sleep goals and turn on sleep tracking
In addition to setting a sleep schedule, there are other options in the Sleep app on your Apple Watch that you can use to track your sleep, such as: b. Add sleep goals and turn on sleep tracking to get stats on your sleep habits.
To set a sleep goal and turn on sleep tracking:
1- To set a sleep goal, click on the “Sleep Goal” option and enter the number of hours you want to sleep.
2- Activate the sleep tracking option to measure how well you are achieving your sleep goals. When sleep tracking is turned on, your watch records your sleep patterns and adds the sleep data to the Health app on your iPhone.
3- Open Alarm Clock and click on the Sounds and Haptics option to select the alarm sound. When your watch is in sleep mode, it will vibrate on your wrist to wake you up, but there will be no sound from itself.
4- Enable the (Shutdown) option, the sleep focus function works automatically, which turns off the watch screen and stops the watch making any sound when a notification is received, so that the notification does not disturb your sleep time.
5- Enable the screen saver option to dim the watch screen and lock the iPhone screen connected to the watch during standby time.
6- You can view your sleep stats and average sleep time over the last 14 days on your Apple Watch directly through the Sleep app. To see more details about your sleep stats, open the Health app on the iPhone connected to your watch.
