Sleep tracking stops tracking if you wake up in the middle of the night

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Sleep tracking stops tracking if you wake up in the middle of the night

Apple Watch stops monitoring sleep states if you wake up in the middle of the night to drink water and take a while back to sleep. It assumes you stopped sleeping and is set for the day. It also never tracks sleeps out of the strict scheduled window, so no monitoring for days overslept and afternoon naps.

Please, excuse the stupid name, I’ve set it as a teenager 15 years ago and can’t change it

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Posted on Aug 4, 2025 12:00 AM

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Answer 1

Alpha Sirius Author

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Aug 4, 2025 05:58 AM in response to WheelieNick

It was, I never disabled it, nor removed the watch from my wrist.

I’ve also increased the sleep schedule to cover a longer period of time as it has in other situations happened that it stops monitoring in days I sleep over the schedule.

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Answer 2

WheelieNick

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Aug 4, 2025 04:08 AM in response to Alpha Sirius

Make sure that the sleep focus is still on when falling back asleep to see if the issues persist

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