Option to track short naps to see analysis

[JoeyHext]

I think there should be a power nap option so if i want to sleep for ten or twenty minutes or so, my Fitbit will detect when I fall asleep and set a silent alarm to go off automatically at the end of the nap

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[KevWip]

@lyssfitz yes that's exactly the idea!

[coconutjennyb]

I would also like to second this idea. I have a charge 3, love it by the way. According  to studies a nap where you wake up from deep sleep makes you groggy, no one wants that. You either want a short nap before deep sleep or one whole cycle where you wake up from light sleep. You already made the timer function for goals in exercises make one for taking a nap, the info is there for the sleep cycles. So you can get the best from a nap. 😊

[amoney805]

I'm also wanting a nap feature. My preference would be to manually activate it, and apply an alarm in 5 minute increments. This would allow you to activate it, have your sleep monitored, then wake up in 5, 10, 15.....etc minutes later. Perfect for lunch break power naps.

[Beandog]

If you want to take a nap for a specific amount of time, say 1hour, you tell Fitbit app. Since Fitbit knows when you fall asleep it would start the 1hour alarm automatically. 

Great for afternoon power naps! 

[LuciaFitbit]

Hi @Beandog, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback with us. This feature suggestion already exists so I’ve moved your post here. At the moment it is not planned to implement it. Nonetheless you can still add your vote.

[Warrenjeezy1]

The sleep features on the Fitbit are surprisingly accurate and useful for calculating when you fall asleep and wake up. But what if the app could know once you’ve fallen asleep from a nap and wake you up exactly 10-20 minutes after that time? 

According to Huffington post, “between 10 and 20 minutes of sleep is best. Longer naps can cause sleep inertia, or a period of grogginess and reduced performance” 

Too much nap time is bad. Having this mode calculating a targeted nap time for you and waking you up when desired would be great. 

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Beandog, thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option on your Fitbit. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. This is not currently planned at this moment. You can keep adding your votes to this suggestion so we can keep tracking this request overtime. Learn more about how Fitbit decides what suggestions get released in our FAQs. I hope to see you around.

[shiggins1324]

As a parent fitting in a well timed power nap can be crucial. Allowing me to have energy for other activities later on. As the FitBit is an effective sleep tracker, it would be useful to have a feature which would wake you after a 20min power nap. The app could wake you (via phone and/or watch) on completion of 20 actual minutes sleep (as tracked by FitBit) or on a overall time available timer (so that you don't spend too much time in bed trying to get to sleep).

[DavideFitbit]

Hi @shiggins1324, thanks for taking the time to share your feedback about having a power nap option with the possibility to set up an alarm, this feature suggestion already exists so I’ve moved your post here as it is not currently planned. This helps maintain the Community and the Feature Suggestion board more organized.

Thank again for sharing your ideas with us. 

[fitchge3pan]

Taking a short nap during the day has been recommended as providing with several health benefits.  Since Fitbit can track sleep patterns, it could be able to help people take a short nap during the day.

The user can specify at any time when he wants to take a nap and for how long, normally 15-30 minutes and start resting.  When Fitbit detects that the required sleep mode has been reached it starts counting the minutes and then wake up the person when the stated minutes of sleep have been achieved.

[JohnnyRow]

How is this different from the timer?  Or do you have an earlier tracker without timer?

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @fitchge3pan. Thanks for taking the time to explain why you would like to add a nap feature to your Fitbit device. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While this isn't currently planned at this moment, we have left voting open so we can keep tracking this request overtime. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

[Tomfro]

As the Fitbit can track tue different sleep stages and pretty accurately determine when you first fall asleep, a function to set alarms for power naps would be really useful.

Would love to, for example, be able to set an alarm of 30 minutes that starts from the minute I fall asleep 🙂 

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Tomfro, thanks for taking the time to share why you would like to see this option on Fitbit Versa. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

I hope to see you around.

[Ashley8123]

I know I'm not the only adult that needs a nap from time to time. While it's great the Fitbit tracks it, I don't think it should be tacked on to my normal sleep score. A separate mode or tracking would be great.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Ashley8123, thanks for explaining why you would like to have the option to track naps with your Fitbit device. This feature suggestion already exists, so I’ve moved your post here. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

I hope to see you around.

[Guy_]

If possible, in the phone app add automatic sleep nap detection during the day, with quality of sleep, light, deep, rem, for periods of 15 minutes or more.

Also add daily sleep graph of periods of suspected sleep, like the heart rate graph, awake and not awake, with durations to detect dozing.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Guy_, thanks for explaining why you would like to have the option to track short naps to see analysis. This feature suggestion already exists, so I've moved it into a similar request. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

I hope to see you around.

[Guy_]

Add all day sleep graph showing periods of potential sleep. [Nokia Health Mate does it]

Clicking on any sleep period bring up details of sleep quality regardless of duration.

[YojanaFitbit]

Hi @Guy_, thanks for explaining why you would like to have the option to track short naps to see analysis. This feature suggestion already exists, so I've moved it into a similar request. While we don’t currently have plans to release this feature, we always appreciate the passion and creativity that comes out of this Community. Since we know this idea is important to many of you, we have left voting open to continue tracking interest and will post another update if anything changes. To learn more about how Fitbit decides which suggestions get developed, visit our FAQs.

I hope to see you around.

[cougarblue]

The current tracking of only 3-hour sleep segments is useless to someone like me who has nights of shorter segments. The time from falling asleep at night to getting up long term in the morning was previously tracked. I now have totals of zero or an hour or so instead of the whole night. I would like to be able to track the night and any naps.

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @cougarblue. Thank you for sharing your Feature Suggestion with the Fitbit Community. As you may know, your Fitbit device can record basic sleep data when your body is completely at rest and you haven’t moved for about an hour. Also, it can estimate your sleep stages if you've slept for more than 3 hours. However, you won't see sleep stages for shorter naps.

We aren't sure what you mean by changing the sleep tracking. Would you like to get sleep data for naps? If not, please reply with more detail or specifics on what you were referring to what problem this is trying to solve so we can understand this idea better. We look forward to your reply.

[Annie18mar]

I also sleep in shot spurts.   I would also like some way to track this and naps.

[bisq]

Need to be able to designate naps and shorter sleep periods for bi-phasic sleepers. 

[LizzyFitbit]

Hi @cougarblue, @Annie18mar and @bisq, thanks for explaining why you'd like your Fitbit device to track shorter sleep periods with us. This idea was already requested in the Feature Suggestions board, so I’ve moved your post here. This will help us to make sure the suggestions don't get confused, or split a popular vote. Click on the thumbs-up to show your support.