Odd new sleep behavior

[Luis Ortega]

I have a watch 9 and like to use the sleep function manually. I set it to sleep when I’m going to bed and turn sleep off when I wake up.
The phone app shows me the sleep session correctly.
I usually take off the watch to recharge it around 6pm and put it back on about 9pm, and then go to bed around midnight wearing it.

But since I updated to the latest watch os, the watch seems to record the time from when it is recharging as if I am asleep and then continues to record my time until I turn sleep off the next morning.
I do not set it to sleep until I go to bed at midnight, but when I look at my sleep data the next day, it shows me sleeping from 6 to 9pm and then as being awake from 9 to midnight, and then it shows my actual sleep monitoring from midnight to about 7am when I wake up.

Needless to say, it doesn't inspire confidence to see the watch monitoring the recharging as sleep, including some rem, core and deep sleep segments when it is just sitting on the desk recharging.
Can anyone tell me what’s going on?
Why is it including and interpreting recharge time and times when it has not yet been set to sleep as part of my sleep monitoring?
Did the update change some settings? I do not have any sleep schedules set up since I do it manually.
Thanks for any advice.

 

[jz0309]

I have a watch 9 and like to use the sleep function manually. I set it to sleep when I’m going to bed and turn sleep off when I wake up.
The phone app shows me the sleep session correctly.
I usually take off the watch to recharge it around 6pm and put it back on about 9pm, and then go to bed around midnight wearing it.

But since I updated to the latest watch os, the watch seems to record the time from when it is recharging as if I am asleep and then continues to record my time until I turn sleep off the next morning.
I do not set it to sleep until I go to bed at midnight, but when I look at my sleep data the next day, it shows me sleeping from 6 to 9pm and then as being awake from 9 to midnight, and then it shows my actual sleep monitoring from midnight to about 7am when I wake up.

Needless to say, it doesn't inspire confidence to see the watch monitoring the recharging as sleep, including some rem, core and deep sleep segments when it is just sitting on the desk recharging.
Can anyone tell me what’s going on?
Why is it including and interpreting recharge time and times when it has not yet been set to sleep as part of my sleep monitoring?
Did the update change some settings? I do not have any sleep schedules set up since I do it manually.
Thanks for any advice.

I think watchOS 11 added auto sleep tracking, there have been some threads here on this. Why it would track charging time as sleep - I'd contact Apple support, the feature might still be buggy.

 

[Luis Ortega]

It’s definitely buggy.
anytime I recharge the watch and then put it on and later turn on sleep mode, it is recording the whole time since it was put to recharge as sleeping, and even provides segments of wake, rem, core, and deep sleep when it is just being recharged sitting on a desk.
I no longer trust sleep mode to be accurate about sleep monitoring if it can’t tell the difference between charging and sleeping. What a waste.

 

[Luis Ortega]

Also, the other sleep monitor (auto sleep) I have installed in addition to Apples‘s default app does monitor the actual sleep session correctly.

 

[Graham4723]

Also, the other sleep monitor (auto sleep) I have installed in addition to Apples‘s default app does monitor the actual sleep session correctly.

How do you know ? Surely you were asleep so how can you (accurately) quantify the breakdown.

This is what ‘concerns’ me about AUTOSLEEP, if it is 100% accurate why does it need an adjust function ?

 

[Luis Ortega]

I don’t care about Autosleep. It tends to mimic the same values as the default Apple health app anyway, but it doesn’t treat the charging time as a sleep session.
My problem is that the watch health app keeps treating the time when it is charging as a sleep session and records a series of sleep core, rem and deep segments while it is just sitting on the desk recharging.
This began with the latest watch os update.
That is not right.

 

[waw74]

have you rebooted the watch?

after that, you could try an unpair and re-pair. You should be able to restore from backup so you loose no settings, just make sure to do one before you unpair.

 

[jz0309]

I don’t care about Autosleep. It tends to mimic the same values as the default Apple health app anyway, but it doesn’t treat the charging time as a sleep session.
My problem is that the watch health app keeps treating the time when it is charging as a sleep session and records a series of sleep core, rem and deep segments while it is just sitting on the desk recharging.
This began with the latest watch os update.
That is not right.

Have you contacted Apple support?

 

[jz0309]

have you rebooted the watch?

after that, you could try an unpair and re-pair. You should be able to restore from backup so you loose no settings, just make sure to do one before you unpair.

just for clarification re backup (have seen a few posts recently that suggested to "backup") - AW data is automatically sync'd to your iPhone. The settings etc are ONLY backed up during the un-pair process.

Back up your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Learn how your Apple Watch data is backed up and what the backup includes.

support.apple.com

 

[Luis Ortega]

I rebooted the watch and the iPhone but nothing changed.
I now noticed that the watch is also recording the time i am not wearing it as a sleep segment.
I took it off around 7pm to bathe and then put it back on and when I went to bed at midnight I started a sleep session.
The next day it showed a sleep session from 7pm to 7am, with a variety of core, rem and deep sleep segments and the time I was awake and wearing it from 7:30 on.