Sleep tracking broken after update watch to watchos 11.6

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Sleep tracking broken after update watch to watchos 11.6

After upgrading my AW 10 to watchos 11.6 - sleep tracking is broken. Automatic sleep tracking not working. After sleep, watch shows some weird metrics. Tried to restart watch, iPhone. Unpaired my watch. Problem is still there. For instance, I go to sleep around 23:00 and wake up in 08:00. That should be 9 hours of sleep right? Wrong. According to watch I either did not sleep at all or I was sleeping for example 3 hours? I don’t use sleep schedule for sleeping because only complete children come to an idea that you need sleep schedule to be able to sleep? I go to sleep whenever I want. Wake up too.

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Apple Watch Series 10, watchOS 11

Posted on Aug 4, 2025 10:27 AM

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Answer 1

Ingo2711

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Aug 5, 2025 03:26 AM in response to dragan73

You will have to set up a Sleep Schedule to be able to track your sleep in the Health App.

And the watch does not care if you go to sleep according to the plan you have set up, this marks just the time span when you are most likely being asleep and in which the Sleep Focus settings will be enabled.

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dragan73 Author

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Aug 5, 2025 04:25 AM in response to Ingo2711

@Ingo2711 Thanks, but I’m not in military so I have to go in time for sleep or wake. Nevertheless, thank you for answer, didn’t know till now that sleep schedule works in a way that you describe. Helpful info, will try that for sure. 👍

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aud160

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Aug 7, 2025 02:59 AM in response to dragan73

mine is completely out of sync and not recording at all since new update and I have two programs on my watch that worked perfectly beforehand, also with sleep schedules are already active and set.

I also use AutoSleep because I need detailed information and since the update this has not been working along with the sleep data in Apple health. Not quite sure what to do now because I really need to rely on that for my job.

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Answer 4

Ingo2711

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Aug 5, 2025 04:41 AM in response to dragan73

You‘re welcome 🙂

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