Are you tracking sleep every night?

[YojanaFitbit]

I'd like to hear your experience in regards to sleep tracking. I try to wear my Versa every night, following my sleep schedule. I don't use sensitive sleep settings on my watch since sometimes I move a lot at night and I don't like to see extra restless or awake time in the morning.

Some other night I remove my watch from my wrist before going to bed just to give a rest to my arms. I'd like to hear about your experience on how you're tracking your sleep. Do you track it every single night or do you prefer to track sleep on specific days of the week?

I've been improving my sleep habits since I'm aware of different things that can help me to have a better sleep score. 😊

[Nick.H]

I wear this fitbit all day everyday and night until I need to charge it. I love looking at the app every morning to see if I got better sleep than the night before.

[John______]

I have a new Charge 5 and even with sensitive sleep tracking I still have to manually enter sleep times every single night. It does not detect sleep or waking at all. Dozens of Reddit posters report the same issue. This is serious problem for people who are trying to get help from this device for sleep.

[mpharr2]

My Sense 1 did not push sleep data or steps to my iPhone today. Is there an Apple of Fitbit software upgrade?

[mpharr2]

I wish there was a way to add/group/compare conditions that might effect sleep.

Not sleeping in your normally slept in bedroom

Alcohol consumed

Exercised more than normal

[leightedwards]

When this happens, I find it helps to reboot the device.

Sent from my iPhone

[mpharr2]

How do I reboot my sense? No data is pushed to my iPhone in the last 2 days

[Guy_]

Hi @mpharr2 - push and hold the button for 10 seconds, till it vibrates and the logo appears to restart it.

[mpharr2]

Thank you - Back up

[lmacmil]

I've had my Inspire 3 for 10 days and have tracked my sleep every night so far.  I plan to continue until I get a sleep score and then will probably stop.  The data is fun to look at but I'm not sure how I would use it.  My habits are pretty consistent in that I go to bed every night around 11 and get up generally a little after 7.  The data says I am typically awake 3 times (which includes before I fall asleep) and am "restless" around 15 times.  I have had 2 nights when I was only restless 7 or 8 times but I didn't feel any different the next day than I did on the days when I was restless twice as much.

[eezeepee]

Awake only 3 times? Or 3% of the time? Also, restlessness is scored in percentage so do you mean 7 or 8%? Personally, I've been doing my sleep tracking since December 2021 and find the information very helpful to objectively gauge my sleep for the day or week. Plus I like comparing to my own averages and the benchmarks. And if I had only a fair rating one night, I try to make up with a good one the following. Here's what my awake and restlessness looked like for last night.

[mpharr2]

I wish sleep tracking allowed the addition of variables that can effect sleep

Sleeping in normal bed - Sleeping in another bed/ - Alcohol before bed - Zquil before bed - More exercise than normal ect That way user could group variables.

[lmacmil]

"Awake only 3 times? Or 3% of the time? Also, restlessness is scored in percentage so do you mean 7 or 8%?"

For last night it says "2 times awake, 7 times restless, 21 min awake/restless"  My worst night since I've been tracking was 5 times awake, 22 times restless, 47 min awake/restless.

[eezeepee]

@lmacmil 47 minutes of awake/restlessness isn't too bad. I wonder how that is compared to men in your age range. I just realized, are you getting the number of times awake with the sleep stage graph?

[lmacmil]

No all I get is the bar graph showing awake and restless. I don't know how to get the sleep state graph. I haven't worn it for 14 days yet. 

[Catman81]

It sounds like you are getting a basic report, what I usually see for
short duration sleep when it lacks sufficient data. Longer duration sleep
displays a graph showing Awake, Rem, Light, and Deep.

[lmacmil]

I'm sleeping for 8 hours every night.  I wouldn't expect that to be "short duration."  Oh well...

[SunsetRunner]

Just got sense 2 . It has a sleep schedule that seems to need to be changed every night .  Logged me as asleep for 18hrs whilst awake but no SLEEP data logged on first day . Used the app sleep now option last night and got some data . Just changed it to sensitive . This SHOULD be SMART enough to know when you are in bed asleep and stat it with out telling it . Very sad with fit bit again . More expensive land fill !

[Guy_]

Hi @SunsetRunner  - the watch sleep schedule is to put the watch to sleep so that it doesn't wake you in the night with notifications or bright screen when moving in your sleep.

Try restarting the watch which generally does a good job automatically recording the correct sleep patterns.

May be a restart can help. How do I restart my Fitbit device?

[lmacmil]

I didn't get a sleep score until I had worn it 12 nights. I was using the
app to start sleep tracking but now I don't bother and it's giving me a
score each night.

[leightedwards]

I’ll have to restart it. I have had to manually enter my sleep logs for the last two nights.