watchOS Sleep app: Sleep stages not captured by Apple Watch in Sleep App during short daytime sleep nap even though sleep focus was activated manually

[uandme72]

watchOS Sleep app: Sleep stages not captured by Apple Watch in Sleep App during short daytime sleep nap even though sleep focus was activated manually during that time period.​

Anyone else facing the behaviour described below in watchOS Sleep app?

Expected behaviour:
If Sleep focus is manually activated for any sleep time duration of the day- even while taking a short sleep nap, the Apple Watch should capture sleep mode and sleep stages during the said period of sleep focus activation while I take the sleep nap. The sleep stages must be captured during the period sleep focus is activated irrespective of whether the sleep is a short nap during daytime or a long full nighttime sleep.

Observed behaviour:
The sleep stages are not captured by Apple Watch during daytime sleep nap, even if sleep focus had been manually activated on the Apple Watch for that period.

Sleep stages get captured only for full night sleep while sleep focus has also been activated. This capture of sleep stages does not happen even after lapse of hours after the sleep focus duration has lapsed. This is not expected behaviour.

 

[BullHorn]

This is the same behavior as iOS 16 and WatchOS 9.

 

[addamas]

Known bug mentioned several times on forum - sleeping is not monitored during day

 

[uandme72]

This is the same behavior as iOS 16 and WatchOS 9.

Although same as in iOS 16 and watchOS 9, but nevertheless a bug which should be rectified.

 

[RTWG]

I think sleep tracking on the Apple Watch is really quite bad in terms of user experience. It can't do naps, it requires a schedule to be set up that you have to remember to alter if your daily routine is interrupted, and even the "are you awake now?" prompts don't always trigger even if you've gone from a deep sleep to getting up and being obviously active for 20 minutes.

Before getting her Apple Watch my wife had a FitBit and that would track night sleep and naps automatically without any kind of sleep schedule setup or manual intervention. That was a much better experience for the user (even if perhaps not quite as accurate).

I was really hoping that they'd eventually make the Apple Watch smarter in this regard.