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Luis Ortega

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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

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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.
 
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