Track your sleep with Apple Watch (2024)

With the Sleep app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (1) on AppleWatch, you can create sleep schedules to help you meet your sleep goals. Wear your watch to bed, and AppleWatch can estimate the time you spent in each sleep stage—REM, Core, and Deep—as well as when you might have woken up. When you wake up, open the Sleep app to learn how much sleep you got and see your sleep trends over the past 14 days.

Siri: On Apple Watch Series 9 using watchOS 10.2 or later, say something like: “How much did I sleep last night?” (Not available in all languages or regions.)

If your AppleWatch is charged less than 30 percent before you go to bed, you’re prompted to charge it. In the morning, just glance at the greeting to see how much charge remains.

Note: AppleWatch tracks your sleep based on the sleep schedule you create. AppleWatch can also track your sleep when your Sleep Focus starts. To receive sleep data from AppleWatch, it must track your sleep for at least four hours each night.

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You can create multiple schedules—for example, one for weekdays and another for weekends. For each schedule, you can set up the following:

  • A sleep goal (how many hours of sleep you want to get)

  • What time you want to go to bed and wake up

  • An alarm sound to wake you up

  • When to turn on the Sleep Focus, which limits distractions before you go to bed and protects your sleep after you’re in bed

  • Sleep tracking, which uses your motion to detect sleep when you wear AppleWatch to bed and the Sleep Focus is active

    Note: Sleep tracking is available on watchOS 8 or later.

Tip: To turn off the Sleep Focus, press and hold the Digital Crown to unlock, press the side button to open Control Center, then tap Track your sleep with Apple Watch (3).

Set up Sleep on AppleWatch

  1. Open the Sleep app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (4) on your AppleWatch.

  2. Follow the onscreen instructions.

You can also open the Health app on iPhone, tap Browse, tap Sleep, then tap Get Started (below Set Up Sleep).

Change or turn off your next wake-up alarm

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  1. Open the Sleep app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (6) on your AppleWatch.

  2. Tap Track your sleep with Apple Watch (7).

  3. To set a new wake-up time, tap the wake-up time, turn the Digital Crown to set a new time, then tap Track your sleep with Apple Watch (8).

    If you don’t want your AppleWatch to wake you in the morning, turn off Alarm.

You can also open the Health app on your iPhone, tap Browse, tap Sleep, then tap Edit below Your Schedule to change your schedule.

The changes apply only to your next wake-up alarm, after which your normal schedule resumes.

Note: You can also turn off the next wake-up alarm in the Alarms app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (9). Just tap the alarm that appears below Track your sleep with Apple Watch (10), then tap Skip for Tonight.

Change or add a sleep schedule

  1. Open the Sleep app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (11) on your AppleWatch.

  2. Tap Track your sleep with Apple Watch (12).

  3. Turn the Digital Crown to scroll down to Full Schedule, then do one of the following:

    • Change a sleep schedule: Tap the current schedule.

    • Add a sleep schedule: Tap Add Schedule.

    • Change your sleep goal: Tap Sleep Goal, then set the amount of time you want to sleep.

    • Change Wind Down time: Tap Wind Down, then set the amount of time you want the Sleep Focus to be active before bedtime.

      The Sleep Focus turns off the watch display and limits distractions before your scheduled bedtime.

  4. Do any of the following:

    • Set the days for your schedule: Tap your schedule, then tap Active On. Choose days, then tap Track your sleep with Apple Watch (13).

    • Adjust your wake time and bedtime: Tap your schedule, tap Wake Up or Bedtime, turn the Digital Crown to set a new time, then tap Track your sleep with Apple Watch (14).

    • Set the alarm options: Tap your schedule, then turn Alarm off or on and tap Sound & Haptics to choose an alarm sound.

    • Remove or cancel a sleep schedule: Tap your schedule, then tap Delete Schedule (at the bottom of the screen) to remove an existing schedule, or tap Track your sleep with Apple Watch (15) to cancel creating a new one.

Change sleep options

  1. Open the Settings app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (16) on your AppleWatch.

  2. Tap Sleep, then adjust these settings:

    • Turn On at Wind Down: By default, the Sleep Focus begins at the wind down time you set in the Sleep app. If you’d prefer to control the Sleep Focus manually in ControlCenter, turn this option off.

    • Sleep Screen: Your AppleWatch display and iPhone Lock Screen are simplified to reduce distractions.

    • Show Time: Show the date and time on your iPhone and AppleWatch while the Sleep Focus is active.

  3. Turn Sleep Tracking and Charging Reminders on or off.

    When Sleep Tracking is on, your AppleWatch tracks your sleep and adds sleep data to the Health app on your iPhone.

    Turn on Charging Reminders to have your AppleWatch remind you to charge your watch before your wind down time and notify you when your watch is fully charged.

    You can also change these sleep options on your iPhone. Open the AppleWatch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, then tap Sleep.

View your recent sleep history

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Open the Sleep app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (18) on your AppleWatch to see the amount of sleep you got the night before, the time spent in each sleep stage, and your sleep average over the last 14 days.

Note: Information about sleep stages is available on watchOS 9 or later.

To see your sleep history on iPhone, open the Health app on iPhone, tap Browse, then tap Sleep. For more details—the average time you spent in each sleep stage, for example—tap Show More Sleep Data.

Review your sleeping respiratory rate

Your AppleWatch can help track your breathing rate as you sleep, which can give you greater insight into your overall health. After wearing your watch to bed, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Health app on your iPhone, tap Browse, then tap Respiratory.

  2. Tap Respiratory Rate, then tap Show More Respiratory Rate Data.

    The Sleep entry shows the range of your respiratory rate as you’ve slept.

Note: Respiratory Rate measurements are not intended for medical use.

Turn off respiratory rate measurements

  1. Open the Settings app Track your sleep with Apple Watch (19) on your AppleWatch.

  2. Go to Privacy & Security> Health.

  3. Tap Respiratory Rate, then turn off Respiratory Rate.

You can also open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, tap Privacy, then turn off Respiratory Rate.

For more information about Sleep on iPhone, see the iPhone User Guide.

See alsoUse Focus on AppleWatch

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