Hi there.
I just bought the Apple Watch 8. It works perfectly well except for the Sleep tracking. I tried everything mentioned here on this topic. No result. Re sync, re boot, erase content etc etc.
Nothing works. The Apple Watch doesn't even appear on my iPhone (12), in the Sleep section: Data Sources and Access.
Any new suggestion would be immensely appreciated!
Thank you.
Apple Watch Series 8
I'm not sure what topic you read, was it this one by chance?
This is chock full of information:
Track your sleep with Apple Watch - Apple Support
If this is the one that you've already read, let us know and one of us can continue helping you.
Thanks Pilerman. I did read it, amongst other things. I followed the (simple) instructions completely and still, no Apple Watch in the Data Sources and Access, Sleep app on the iPhone.
Until it does, it can't obtain any sleep tracking which is one of the reasons I bought the watch for...
I got my Series 8 in December and everything just magically worked after updating from the Series 3.
Long ago, my wife had set up "sleep" for me so that I'd get an alarm going off automatically every morning instead of needing to go into the clock app on my phone every night to turn the alarm on.
Well... Reading through that article, I saw that they tell a person to set up their "Sleep" (like a focus, or it is a focus, idk lol). I have one of those setup JUST for the alarm but I also have it stopping all notifications that come in during those times. The phone itself will ring 24/7, it has to for my job.
I don't know if a person really has to set one of those up so that the watch knows when to start looking for sleep stuff, but that's why I just posted the link and said that it's chock full of information.
There are some settings in the watch that allow the watch to be used for sleep tracking (From within your watch... Settings, scroll down to Sleep, scroll down to Sleep Tracking, is it on (green)?
The same setting can be found in your phone in the My Watch app. Open the app, scroll down to Sleep and click it. Is "Track Sleep with Apple Watch" on (green)?
Then from within that same screen (in the My Watch app), there are orange letters that say, "Manage Sleep Focus in Settings", click on it.
It opens up the Sleep Focus. Scroll down a little ways until you get to a section titled "Schedule". Do you have a "Next Schedule" showing in a white box?
Pilerman, thank you so much for your time and for trying to solve this issue.
Alas, green lights where they should be and 'Next Schedule' shown in a white box.
It should work and it doesn't.
It is driving me nuts...
Umm... Dumb question coming right up 🥴
You are wearing your watch to bed, right?
I know that it was a dumb question but I had to ask 🙄
What about a "Sleep Goal", did you set one? Mine is set for 8 hours.
From within the My Watch app on your phone...
Scroll down to Sleep and click it.
Does yours look like this:
Yes, I wear the watch.
And same Sleep Goal but I don't think it has anything to do with the problem.
Yes it does. And guess what, it worked last night! Out of the woods, on that one...Thank you so much Jeff for your very gracious help. You've been ace.
Apple Watch 8 App Sleep doesn't work properly
