Apple Watch Sleep Tracking Setup Guide & Tutorial

In this video, I show you how to set up Apple Sleep so you can track your sleep stages in Apple Health.

Equipment required
- Apple Watch 4 or above running WatchOS 9
- Ideally, iPhone 8 or above running iOS16

You can go as low as an iPhone; however, there are some compatibility issues with newer Apple Watch models.

SleepHQ Pro Members with Apple Watches (Version 4 and above) can track Apple Sleep Stage data with their CPAP therapy on SleepHQ.

Create a FREE account and download your detailed therapy report today!

Features Include -
1. High-resolution 'breath-by-breath' analysis - View every apnea and every breath in full detail.
2. Sleep Journal - Track how changes to device settings influence your sleep & therapy results.
3. Custom PDF reports - Detailed therapy reports complete with journal entries.
4. Therapy Trends - Monitor changes to your apnea control over time.
5. Support - Access to the SleepHQ Community Forum
6. Education - From CPAP novice to therapy PRO. Master your device and settings with the SleepHQ Academy course
7. Blood Oxygen, Heart Rate & Movement Data - Connect a SleepHQ O2 Ring to your account to view additional data sources and take your therapy to the next level.
8. Access to exclusive, member-only discounts on the latest and greatest CPAP gear

And much more!

Thanks for all the love & support!
Uncle Nicko

[pharaohspeaks]

This video is pure gold! I only wished that Apple Watch could automatically detect sleep like the Samsung Galaxy watches.

[iriszanni]

I wish they had a percentage showing how good the sleep was

[JobinJacob]

This sleep focus mode takes back this basic feature to stone ages. As someone who switched from Mi Watches for almost 6 years, I didn’t know about the sleep focus thing. I’ve been wearing the apple watch for almost two years now and no sleep data even after wearing the watch every night.

[kitj]

Thank you for this! As someone who had a Fitbit that did everything automatically, this was super helpful.

[sushiquad]

After learning more about the Apple Watch I think I may return it, the sleep tracking is terrible. I have a baby I am never sleeping longer than 4 hours at a time.

Edit:
Found the app Autosleep and now I am keeping my Apple Watch.

[normanwheatley]

great video. Your explanations are so much better and clearer than all the others. I especially like the pacing, tone of voice and humour - this is a masterclass in how to explain by video. thanks heaps!

[gbkworf]

This works really well. HAY SIRI, TURN ON/OFF SLEEP FOCUS. Works every time!

[eltondavisjr]

Thank you! I set up my watch, and it tracks sleep time, but not picking up the sleep stages. Any idea why?

[KarimaKhan]

Fitbit is such a boss when it comes to sleep tracking. None of this setting up nonsense.

Thank you for this helpful video! But I miss my Fitbit, Apple Watch can’t compare.

[sephiroth]

Coming from a Samsung and Garmon devices this is absolutely terrible. Sleep should be automatically detected by the watch and non of this "set timer" or "sleep focus" stuff. This is embarrassing from Apple as there are far better apps in the market like Auto Sleep. This is all meant to be automated and not setting sleep schedules etc. This is specially bad for people that work night shifts at times.

[ccnsteachersongsstories]

What if this doesn’t work? Sometimes tracks sleep but no details on REM, etc. have sleep schedule set.

[robertstephens]

You sir are one of the best I’ve seen. Keep it up

[marandakeck]

My apple watch only shows sleep but not the other stages.
Do I need to track it additional days or is there something else I need to do in the settings? Thanks for your help

[lightonpress]

Fail at step 1. “Sleep“ does not appear in my settings anywhere. Please advise.

[greetingsearthlingspluto]

I have not been able to get it work on my iphone 15 plus. I tried everything I could find. Some people were also having the same issue. I use my Samsung watch now at night, never disappoints.

[MaiaDreams]

Also I can’t use the sleephq page if I don’t have one of those machines?

[StarDust_]

I don’t get the data for REM sleep ect. It’s just one green blob. No specificity. Is there a feature to enable this?

[sheilarae]

Thank you for this…so helpful. You’re a master at explaining and demonstrating—perfect pace, i.e. no speed talking and whizzing through stuff).

[SHiBUYA.]

Would I still receive phone calls when in sleep mode?

[flyersluvereva]

Will it still track my sleep if I put sounds on YouTube ? Because my watch seems to think I’m watching a video when I’m actually just using rain sounds