APPLE WATCH SLEEP TRACKER MANUAL
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The interface is as minimalist as the music, and on the Apple Watch it feels more like using some kind of scientific instrument than an audio app. The aim is to help you relax, sleep, focus or study better by creating the perfect personalized soundscape, with AI responding to changes in inputs by adjusting your soundscape accordingly. It automatically generates audio soundscapes based on multiple inputs: the weather, your heart rate, your location and more. Best Apple Watch apps for music, podcasts and audiobooks EndelĮndel is an ambient audio app with a difference. It integrates with Apple Health and Siri Shortcuts, and it also works as a complication for your chosen watch face.

If you do wear it to bed, though, the app will analyze sleep quality based on restlessness, time awake and heart rate – and you can adjust the sensitivity if you’re a very restless sleeper.

The Watch app even works if you don’t wear your Apple Watch to bed: simply touch the Watch in the morning and AutoSleep knows you’re up. The interface is strongly and deliberately reminiscent of Apple’s own activity tracking, with the same use of colored rings to show what you’ve achieved. Now in version 6 it delivers more information than you could ever ask for, with good use of color-coding to prioritize information.ĪutoSleep presents its analysis in three key areas: Sleep, which as you’d expect tells you how long you slept for Quality, which tells you how restless you were and Readiness, which is an attempt to predict how well you’re going to cope with the day’s demands based on your recent sleep history. There are plenty of sleep tracking apps in the App Store, but AutoSleep is among the best.

APPLE WATCH SLEEP TRACKER MANUAL

If you wish, the app can also record any frightening noises you happen to make in the night or play a particular song from your iTunes library to wake you up, although audio features are not available in the automatic tracking mode: you’ll need to stick with manual mode if you want recordings or music playback. It syncs with the Apple Health app to input into the wider picture of your overall health, so for example if you also sync data from fitness trackers or from Apple’s own fitness tracking then you can develop insights into what behaviors seem to lead to the best night’s sleep.

APPLE WATCH SLEEP TRACKER FULL

The app is designed to do two things: to let you know about the quality of sleep you’re getting, and to use that information to detect the optimum time to gently buzz you awake so you bound out of bed full of joy and optimism for the beautiful day ahead. Pillow is a sleep tracker with an interface very similar to Apple’s own Activity app, but where that analyzes what you do when you’re awake, Pillow does the same when you’re asleep. The next time you go to bed, take an extra pillow – one that lives in your Watch. Pillow Automatic Sleep Tracker (opens in new tab).To begin with the app is available through the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) health care system and the Department of Defense Military Health System (MHS). The app generates data that’s stored and sent securely for review by your healthcare professional. If that doesn’t work, it increases until you’re back in a gentler sleep mode. If your sleep goes through that threshold it indicates that you’re having a nightmare and the Watch intervenes with a low intensity vibration. The app works by monitoring your sleep patterns for around ten days, using the heart rate, accelerometer, and gyroscope data to calculate what the makers call a “stress threshold”. It’s a good example of how wearable computing can be used for more than just fitness monitoring and vital sign tracking. It then uses the Watch’s haptic engine to rouse you without waking you up – so it breaks the nightmare without breaking your sleep. It’s a US, FDA-approved app for people who suffer from PTSD-related nightmares, and it uses the Apple Watch motion and heart rate sensors to detect when you’re having a nightmare. NightWare is an app that you can only get if it’s prescribed by your doctor, and for now it’s focusing on ex-military personnel.

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