FB10849326: Apple Watch should continue sleep tracking after you wake up to catch you falling back asleep

[dgriffinjones]

• Date: 2022-07-24
• Resolution: Open
• Area: Sleep
• OS: watchOS
• Type: Suggestion
• Keywords: watchOS, sleep tracking

Details

What does the Sleep issue you are seeing involve?
Sleep Mode

Was it enabled in Control Center at the time the issue occurred?
Yes

How often does this issue occur?
Sometimes

Description

If you’re really groggy or if you’re sick, and you wake up in the morning thanks to your Apple Watch, it’s really easy to fall back asleep after turning off your alarm — or even intend to hit Snooze but accidentally hit Turn Off.

Apple Watch knows what stage of sleep you’re in immediately before you wake up. Apple Watch knows if you’re up and moving or if you’re sitting still. Unless Apple Watch detects movement from your wrist after you say you’re awake, it should extend sleep tracking to about thirty minutes after you turn off the alarm to make sure you don’t fall back asleep.

This would save many hundreds of thousands of people from heart attack in the morning.

When did the issue last occur?
More than 24 hours ago

Do you know which day?
Yes

Please enter the date the issue last occurred.
July 22, 2022