Okay I know this is an old thread, but news flash, the Fitbit especially the new Sense is very near accurate for wake time. Just because people don't feel like they wake up they do, so if the Fitbit did not fall off your arm, wrist or wherever you have it and the Fitbit says you were awake 2 hours you WERE.
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I just did a sleep study at medical facility that specializes in sleep! Sure as heck for the study I slept more than normal for me at 8 hours asleep, they tracked me at 2.75 hours awake!
For my 2nd sleep study they let me wear my Galaxy 4 watch, my Whoop band and my Fitbit and guess what they all showed different sleep amounts, but so much closer than you would think, a matter of 7 minutes between the 3 and that made some sense as one was on my wrist, one on my other wrist and one on my leg. BUT, one thing remained the same on all three devices and on the sleep study equipment, the wake time all correlated to the sleep study equipment by 3%!!! I slept 8 hours 6 minutes and the sleep studly showed me awake over 2.5 hours, the Fitbit showed me awake 2.3 hours, less awake time than the sleep study!
The Galaxy watch 4, the Fitbit and the Whoop band all showed me awake to within 8 minutes of one another. I have worn all three devices for weeks since the sleep study and even though they vary in total sleep some days by a few minutes what remains constant is they ALL showed near the same awake time and it like 2 hours out of 7 hours sleep. This info correlates to the 2 sleep studies I had at the Dr. So the Fitbit awake time is not wrong in general, it may be of by off a few minutes, but on the while we are wrong. And as the Dr pointed out as long as the tracker we use are consistent the actual numbers do not need be exact just like steps or tracking calories , we need look ate trends. Since the thee devices l use are within 10% of 100 thousand dollar equipment they are good enough for us to track our health. Heck if the track say you are up 2 hours and it off 12 minutes it still good enough as long as you keep using that same tracker, fact is we are awake more than we hope to be for best health.
People in this thread keep saying tossing and turning is not awake time, well you can argue with the sleep study professional then. Even if I thought I was asleep according to them if I am not in REM, deep sleep or light sleep it's awake time. What some here do not realize is we wake up for such a short period of time, it can be as much as 1 minute that our brains don't realize we wake up and that is where some say that should not count as being awake. Of course it is because our bodies are not awake and not being rejuvenated and the entire point of the sleep studies so we should count it as awake and do thins to make up wake up time less over time. to gain better health. Devices determine how many times a night we wake up and then the DR or we ourselves find ways through exercise diet or meds to train to wake up maybe 10 times instead of 5o times. Some apps use sleep scores now to make it simpler to track this effort. Even the best human sleepers wake up 10 times a night, this is simple fact.If we don't want this awake time counted as awake time then we don't want to know how our body is actually performing. I am not arguing with three different top of the line trackers that correlate to 2 sleep studies done at a medical facility. I wake up over 40 times a night, my wife about 10, the Dr concur it is just how it is.
The Whoop Strap shows the main sleep number as hours asleep, then I click that and it show awake time I need add to that number. I prefer that because to me awake time is NOT sleep time. But the Fit bit and Galaxy watch does what most want here want, they shows the exact opposite, they show total sleep time and then you click that and have to subtract the awake time. I do not like that becasue awake time is not sleep time, but after reading everything here it seems like people don't want to believe they are awake so fit bit shows a number that includes wake time as sleep time in the app tile. People look at that main number and are happy and never bother to click further to see that 8 hours is including 2 hour awake time that no matter what some people think we are actually awake and it is not REAL body rest time. It seems only Whoop Strap has this same philosophy which is Awake time is not sleep time so why show it in the main number.
IS there any way to change this so when I see sleep info the Fitbit app it show me the number minus awake time as the main number like the whoop does? It stinks I have to go in app further and subtract awake time to see how much I truly sleep. It is the Sleep time minus the awake time on these devices that correlates to the sleep studies so for me that is the accurate number!
