Three distinctive sleep-tracking capabilities to utilize on your Apple Watch
In the realm of health and fitness, getting a good night's sleep is just as important as maintaining an active lifestyle. With the Apple Watch Series 10, sleep tracking has become a breeze. Here's a guide on how to maximise your sleep tracking experience before bedtime.
To begin with, enabling the Sleep Focus mode is a must. This feature reduces distractions by silencing notifications and alerts, helping you wind down and prepare for restful sleep. It also triggers sleep tracking automatically when active.
Wearing your Apple Watch overnight with sufficient charge is crucial to ensure uninterrupted tracking of sleep stages such as REM, Core, and Deep sleep. Make sure the watch has enough battery to last through the night.
Setting and following sleep goals with reminders is another key aspect. The Apple Watch allows you to set sleep duration targets and provides reminders to start your bedtime routine, which improves sleep consistency.
The built-in sensors of the Apple Watch provide detailed metrics, tracking not only sleep stages but also heart rate, breathing, and temperature during sleep. These insights into your overall sleep quality and health are invaluable.
For those who want a more comprehensive sleep tracking experience, third-party apps like Sleep++ can be beneficial. These apps can provide automatic or manual sleep tracking and integrate with the Health app for enhanced analysis of sleep duration and restfulness.
In the near future, Apple is expected to introduce a sleep score feature, called "Watch Focus Score". This feature will summarise your sleep quality based on multiple metrics including stages and possibly temperature and vitals. This will help you better understand your sleep health at a glance.
To set a different bedtime schedule for the weekend, simply adjust it in the Health app on your Apple Watch.
Moreover, the Vitals app can spot changes in health before they occur, and Apple Fitness Plus offers Sleep Meditations that can be incorporated into a bedtime routine, providing 10 minutes of deep breathing and calm.
Lastly, ambient music can help individuals fall asleep with white noise. Four different categories of ambient music are available: Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing. Adding ambient music to the Control Center on iPhone is possible, making it easy to create a relaxing bedtime atmosphere.
As a health and fitness editor who is also a new mom, I find the sleep tracking features on the Apple Watch 10 to be incredibly useful. The morning report, including the weather forecast for the day, is an added bonus.
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In summary, activating Sleep Focus, wearing your Apple Watch fully charged, setting sleep goals, and considering using sleep tracking apps will get you the most detailed and useful sleep data from your Apple Watch Series 10. The forthcoming sleep score will further simplify interpreting your sleep quality in the near future. Sweet dreams!
- To fully harness the sleep tracking capabilities of the Apple Watch Series 10, consider activating the Sleep Focus mode, which reduces distractions by silencing notifications, triggers automatic sleep tracking, and helps prepare for restful sleep.
- Ensuring your Apple Watch has enough battery charge for the entire duration of sleep is important for uninterrupted tracking of sleep stages like REM, Core, and Deep sleep, which in turn provides valuable insights into your sleep quality and overall health.
- In the near future, Apple may introduce a sleep score feature called "Watch Focus Score," which will summarize your sleep quality based on multiple metrics, including sleep stages, temperature, and vitals, helping you better understand your sleep health at a glance.
