How to manage Haptic notifications for better sleep on my Apple Watch?

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How to manage Haptic notifications for better sleep on my Apple Watch?

This very energetic haptic notification happens during sleep focus:

"Looks like you're awake. Do you want to turn off the alarm and sleep focus?"

There are many people who prefer to gently wake up or doze off in bed before the alarm goes off and this is annoying them. Myself I had to stop wearing the watch because of this.

There is no way to disable this notification.

I do not want to manually turn on/off a custom focus state for when I sleep, because when I would forget to do either I get woke up by a random notification at 3am or my notifications would be disabled the entire day.

I do not want to use custom alarms because they are very loud, the good morning ones have more gentler choices.

I'm pretty sure no user ever requested this "feature", how hard can it be add an option to disable it? It would make everyone happy.

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Posted on Nov 21, 2024 9:04 AM

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KiltedTim

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Nov 21, 2024 9:23 AM in response to wyewye43

You’re apparently moving around so much that the watch thinks you’re actually up and awake…

Not sure what you’re doing, but it must be fairly extreme or there is a hardware problem with your watch.

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KiltedTim

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Nov 21, 2024 12:25 PM in response to KiltedTim

Hmmm. Mine doesn’t trigger if I get up to take a leak… hasn’t even triggered if I have to get up to let the dog out.

It will trigger when my dog decides she’s going to roll around on me at about 5:30 every morning because she knows breakfast time is coming soon.

I have an Watch 10. What model do you have?

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Carol B.

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Nov 21, 2024 11:22 AM in response to wyewye43

wyewye43 wrote:

I know WHY it is happening. It is not "extreme". I'm not the only person in the world that ever woke up to urinate or turned from side to side.

Your answer makes it look like you try to shift the blame to the user: I'm not the only one having this problem with the Watch.

What I'm asking is for Apple to provide an option to DISABLE this notification, as it has a big impact, big enough for some users to not use the device.

You are posting to a community forum. Apple is not here. We are just other Apple users, trying to help other users. If the sleep feature is too sensitive for you, turn it off. You can also send feedback directly to Apple here:

Product Feedback - Apple

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WheelieNick

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Nov 21, 2024 12:07 PM in response to wyewye43

For me it only comes when moving around, as for example standing up to go to the toilet

Not when I am still laying in bed doozing

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wyewye43 Author

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Nov 21, 2024 9:41 AM in response to KiltedTim

I know WHY it is happening. It is not "extreme". I'm not the only person in the world that ever woke up to urinate or turned from side to side.

Your answer makes it look like you try to shift the blame to the user: I'm not the only one having this problem with the Watch.

What I'm asking is for Apple to provide an option to DISABLE this notification, as it has a big impact, big enough for some users to not use the device.

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Nov 21, 2024 11:41 AM in response to wyewye43

wyewye43 wrote:

I know WHY it is happening. It is not "extreme". I'm not the only person in the world that ever woke up to urinate or turned from side to side.

I'm a fairly restless sleeper (you would be, too, with a five month old kitten deciding that you're a play toy at 3am) and I get up to go to the bathroom once or twice most nights. I've never had those actions trip that notification. It will happen if I get up within about 30 minutes of the alarm time but not always.

Why would you stop wearing the watch? Just turn off the sleep feature and use the regular alarm.

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