Hey folks, it's Ray from DCRAINMAKER.com here. And today I've got your first look at Apple's new
sleep tracking. They announced it earlier
this week as part of WWDC, but now I've
got my hands on it, and actually
installed it, and finished up my first
night sleeping with the Apple Watch, in
sleep tracking mode, to see how it all works.
Now I've detailed all this on the
website as well so if you want to check
that out for even more details you can
see it there. I'm basically gonna walk
through from start to finish what it
looks like last night setting all up. And
then walk you through this morning what
happened. And of course over the night
what happened. And then comparing data.
I also had on my wrist a Garmin Fenix
6 Pro, a Whoop band and then below the
mattress I had a Withings Aura sleep
sensor thing as well. So lots of comparative
data to see how it's stacked up.
Now keep in mind this is just a beta, in
the first two days of beta. It's not
expected to release it until September
so plenty of stuff can and probably will
change between now and then. So the first
thing you're going to need to do is to
go ahead onto the watch itself and launch
the sleep app. Now it looks like you can do
it some portions that on the phone, we'll
talk about that later on.
But you need to go here, down to the
Sleep app that's the one with the bed
icon right there And then you'll have
the option to start setting up a sleep
schedule now in this case because this
is the morning after it's a little
different looking than the first time so
I'm going to show you some photos video
I took last night to kind of walk you
through each of those steps so the very
first thing I'm gonna do is to set up a
sleep schedule now it looks like later
on after you've done this one so you can
go turn it off and not set up again but
the first time it really wants you set
this sleep schedule so the first thing
is just set your sleep goal in other
words how many hours of sleep that you
have there and then once you've done
that you can set an alarm now you can
turn off floor if you want to that's
what I did so I just set the alarm for
7:30 the next morning like turned it off
immediately
again minor things that I'm sure we've
worked out as part of the beta process
to make a little bit smoother once
that's on you then you have to turn on
sleep tracking this is the part that
actually does the fleet tracking so the
first part is talking about like your
life goals and then this is the part
that does the sleep tracking so you
toggle that and then you click Next
again and then now it tells you about
sleep mode on the watch so what that
does is it turns off the Watchers
display while you're sleeping you can go
and just tap it to turn it back on and
see the time but it basically turns it
off to save battery and just has a
screen off which is kind of nice once
that's done it's gonna explain whine
down to you now
idea behind one down there's more than
just the watch in fact it's almost not
to watch at all it's purely the phone
and what it does it takes your sleep
time let's just say 11:45 p.m. and then
it specifies a time before that in my
case I set it for the default 30 minutes
that's gonna go ahead and pretty much
put this lock screen on your phone and
kind of tempt you to not use your phone
and again I'll explain what that looks
like in just a second
now once that's done then to go and ask
you if you want charged reminders so
it's basically to remind you whether or
not you've got enough juice to make it
through the night and then finally after
all of that is set up it's setting to
give you a recap of all of those
settings that you've just set it's a lot
of stuff but you're done now and again I
think this is an area where Apple can
absolutely improve this this is way more
stuff than anyone should ever have to do
to simply track sleep but I'm optimistic
okay three months to figure it out by
September you know when this all becomes
released in public okay in a quick note
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now it really helps out this video and
the channel quite a bit now as I
mentioned earlier it looks like some of
these things from the phone itself so if
I got my phone right here and I go into
the watch app I'll see watch there we go
and then down into the sleep app at the
bottom there I can go and turn on some
of these settings so for example turn on
automatically show time track sleepeth
watch and charging reminders I don't see
the sleep schedule here but that could
be part of the bedtime routine is maybe
there's two interface in the two
differently there's kind of a little bit
all over the place but again things that
could be tidied up down the road now
once that's all set it's time to start
this whole winding down process in my
case I ultimately changed my bed time
from midnight to 11:45 p.m. and so at
11:14 p.m. I got this page here and that
page basically tells me that it's a
bedtime reminder so in 1 minutes giving
me that go one minute heads up that's
gonna turn on Do Not Disturb and start
the entire wine down process and sure
enough a minute later it's 11:15 p.m.
which is 30 minutes again that window
that I specified for the wine dine
period it adds this new like lockscreen
atop a lock screen and you can see that
here it says a good evening
do not disturb mode is now enabled I
don't have any alarm set for the next
morning and there's a dismiss button so
not an unlock button a dismiss button if
I tap the dismiss button I then get my
normal lock screen which again has even
more information that still do not
disturb mode
and you're supposed to be whining now
now you're supposed to not screw with
stuff and prepare for sleep and again
there's plenty of research out there
that shows that if you're using your
phone before you go to bed while you're
in bed but before you fall asleep it
contributes to poor sleep so basically
having this like double lock screen with
both pages one being way more dim the
second one the second one still mean dim
is kind of like saying yo please stop
playing with me roughly so anyways that
happens for the 30 minutes the period at
the wind-down and then at 11:45 the
start of my official like sleep timer if
you will or sleep time then the wine
down screen turns into click on a sleep
overlay screen and that point it shows
sleep well doing the syrup no alarm set
again a super dim down screen screen
shot looks dim it is dim in real life
that's an exact replication that's the
exact screenshot you'll see it's much
much dimmer I can dismiss that just like
before and you'll now see on the side
there a slightly brighter screen which
is my actual lock screen again saying
that do not disturb while sleeping
before it said during the winding down
period now it says while sleeping
meanwhile on the watch itself it now
drops into its own sleep mode so the
screen turns off and if you want to
access it you just press a button it
turns back on again but the screen is
otherwise off kind of like a older Apple
watch if you will not the Apple watch
Series 5 but older one and you can still
see the time there you see that Do Not
Disturb icon at the top but otherwise
the screens off for the night and during
the wine down period the only difference
on the watch itself is that a hazard do
not disturb icon on there being a do not
disturb mode but otherwise there's no
special like screens on the watch during
the wine down period leading to that so
at this point you sleep you finally got
the point where you can go to sleep and
it just does its thing just like every
other wearable out there so fast
forwarding to the morning around 7:20
8:00 a.m. I heard the baby being upset
about lack of food and so I woke up and
went to got the baby food and it makes
that all happy a couple minutes later it
looks my watch and it said good morning
on it so again the new kind of wake up
screen that has there it showed me my
current charge 83% and then it showed me
the weather below that it does not yet
show you sleep time so again I woke up
around 2 727 or so and then 1012 minutes
later now 7:40 no sleep data yet just a
good morning message so then I went and
check the app itself on the phone
my Apple health app too curious to see
if I'd see sleep data there and I didn't
sleep sleep beta there but I did see the
time in bed data but that's actually
coming from the phone itself it's not
coming from the watch and if you look in
the source of that within Apple Health
you'll see that list the iPhone is not
my watch and the reason for that is
that's coming from the bedtime routine
pieces and it's essentially saying when
you set your phone down that's what it
considers in bed and then you pick your
phone back up it considers a you not in
bed anymore in a very rough level and so
those two kind of blockers if you will
were not what I actually slept at this
point it was sort of beyond that because
I laid in bed for a while by 8 o'clock I
was starting to wonder so now like 32
minutes later if I screwed something up
because I looked in the watch and there
was still no data in the sleep widget
there or the sleep app on the watch
itself so I was like yeah it's kind of
weird by then I get data by then I had
data on my Garmin I had data on my whoop
strap via the app like neither was
everywhere except the Apple watch but I
just kept with it I kept on going and at
8:12 a.m. so 45 minutes after I woke up
I finally got sleep data on the Apple
watch and you can see that here if I go
right there back into the sleep tab now
so go to the little bed and I scroll
down and you'll see analysis time I
sleep 6 hours 43 minutes from 1217 a.m.
until 7 27 a.m. you can't tap on it or
anything like that like that's all there
is to do there down below I would have
trending over the last 14 days in my
case I've only slept with it once so
obviously I don't have that yet but you
know Apple showed that on stage there's
a quick picture what that looks like but
otherwise that's all you've got right
there
meanwhile at Apple health you can see
that more detailed sleep data so
cracking that open here we go into
health there we go
show all health data and a scroll on
down and sweets what we see here is the
average time in bed that's coming from
the phone but then we see the average
time of sleep and that's coming from the
watch itself and if I tap on this there
you can see sleep start 1217 a.m. sleep
n7 27 a.m. these are within like two
minutes of my actual sleep times I I
took a screenshot at 12:10 a.m. when I
was done on my phone for the night and I
fell asleep I think between 4 & 5
minutes later and then I woke up again
some between 7 27 and 7
twenty-nine depending on when I first
for the baby cry and when I actually got
out of bed but I'd give it props for
both of those being pretty much in the
same ballpark there now I would see more
days there as columns if I slept longer
with it again just one day right there
and I can go down below and I can see my
heart rate while I slept and if I click
on this here you can't really do
anything else like there's nothing else
to see you click show more sleep data
but this doesn't do anything you just
simply see the same thing week or month
the same stuff there as well if I go
down low to the bottom I can see show
all data and this is where I can see the
actual underlying data and how it
contributed into this and so you see
right there the first two pieces at the
very very bottom are my time in bed from
my phone that's the phone icon there
from 11:17 p.m. 1146 p.m. and I got out
to take a photo that you'd actually
tracked that correctly and then from 11
46 to 7:40 a.m. so it missed like 12
minutes or so at the end where I
definitely had got up in bed already but
that's fine I had taken my phone with me
as well when I got a bed at 7:27
and then up top you see the chunks of
sleep as the Apple watch thought now in
my case I only got out of bed once
during that same time period at roughly
5:20 a.m. to go to bathroom it was fall
back to sleep in a couple minutes so it
thought I woke up many more times
roughly if I think about a half an hour
and total beyond that so that's alright
that's pretty much the norm most sleep
trackers seem to I find under a commit
how much you actually receive like even
if I slept the whole night it seems to
think there are times ours interrupts or
whatnot
beyond that now there isn't a lot of
other data outside of that you can
however to see the HRV so grab two HIV
samples in the middle of night so put
those there you can see and then also
tracks your heart rate of course
throughout the entire night as well just
like it always has so how did this
compare to all the other devices well
here's a giant ugly graph if you will or
chart on the screen that you can ponder
while I talk to this for a second here
so from a time a sleep standpoint the
time that I fell asleep every single
device nail that you know plus or minus
two minutes like spot-on in the time I
woke up every single device nailed that
plus or minus two minutes so like every
device within a two minute span was
would nail that which is great average
heart rate different devices did or
didn't show that so it's kind of hard to
compare but
looking at the heartrate graphs from all
the devices they were all in the range I
would Express per a shin rate again the
Apple watch doesn't actually track that
whuppin Garmin and Withings and others
do track that but it's not an Apple
watch thing the same goes for sleep
score again Garmin has a and whip has
that and weddings has that and plenty of
other devices have sleep score but
there's no sleep score on the Apple
watch either and ultimately what I would
say the Apple watch is really giving you
the basics here it's it's super super
basic so it's like 2014-2015 kind of
basics in terms of sleep it's saying yo
you went to sleep here you woke up here
I'm done that's that's all I'm giving
you I'm giving you a total sleep time
for the night and that's it so that's
kind of what we've seen in general from
Apple for a lot of the sport fitness
aspects there's not too deep it's kind
of the basics that again is mainstream
and applicable to tens of millions of
people but they don't really push the
envelope too much on what you can do in
terms of sleep tracking now ultimately
the engineers see where this goes over
the next few months
certainly Apple hinted numerous times
and during their keynote presentation
that they've got more things in store
for watch OS 7 coming up quote this year
or later this year to be precise and
I've gotta believe some of those things
are around sleep tracking some of those
things will probably be for the next
version of the Apple watch I'm assuming
the Apple watch 36 and that's pretty
much the pattern they usually do they
usually announce things at WWDC like
they did this week and they hold back
things for September for the usually
annual refresh cycle of watches so we'll
just see what happens so with that hope
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