I don’t use any third party apps on my watch except AutoSleep to catch sleep outside of my sleep hours, and even then I don’t actually use the app on my watch, it just runs in the background.

The default weather and fitness apps are what I use.

The fact that they got all the tech news outlets touting this as a “feature” is a hilarious display of apples marketing push. It’s not even a feature. It’s a sidenote.

I’d buy it for $400 if interested

I like both the Apple Watch and Fitbit. The things I like about the Fitbit are

1. the battery life (about a week with the Charge 6, or 10 days with the Inspire 3),

2. the sleep tracking (fully automatic sleep tracking without having to sleep within scheduled sleep hours or a sleep mode enabled like with Apple and Garmin),

3. and the simplicity of having all my data and Fitbit info in one app (with Apple, I have 4 apps for it: Apple health, fitness app, the Watch app, and a third party app AutoSleep.

If you are okay with foregoing the idea of sleep tracking with the watch, you can charge overnight. The SE is probably the best value smartwatch by Apple or any other company. If you do want Fitbit in a less than $350 ish device, I’d say fitbits do an amazing job with that (better than Apple and Garmin) while doing some other things well too, though they aren’t really smart watches (more like fitness trackers).

You’re trying really hard to be like edgy or funny or whatever. Googling the question does absolutely nothing to provide an answer to it.

Who asked??

How do you know your heart is doing that? Just something you feel within you when it happens?

How do you know your heart is doing that? Just something you feel within you when it happens?

If your other wrist is free of tattoos, the heart rate sensor will work better on your other wrist. Optical HR sensors can struggle or stop working through tattoos.

Can confirm it works on my series 7. Also, it works for any workout type, just needs to be enabled. See my other comments in this thread to see how to enable it for any workout type, including strength training.

Apple Watch on its own will only detect sleep if you sleep with the Sleep Focus enabled. You can schedule Sleep Focus to auto turn on at your scheduled sleep hours.

There is an app called Auto Sleep which is a cheap one time purchase app. A lot of people love it for its ability to auto detect sleep. Personally, I find the UI within the app to be atrocious and very difficult to read. Also, the sleep stages “deep sleep, light sleep” etc., will NOT be visible within the health app unless you had Sleep focus enabled. If you sleep with Sleep focus disabled, the auto sleep will pull your time slept into the Health app.

Sleep stages will be visible within the auto sleep app itself, however like I said, the UI IMO is terrible.

Here’s a screenshot of my sleep data in the Apple Health app. You can see the parts where auto sleep pulled data into Health (and I had sleep focus disabled) because those datapoints do not have sleep stage information.

https://preview.redd.it/5llw6rgwob1c1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4cd0a7e682504225b9a663a506db075809d7f78

Nobody here actually answered your question. Does your health app show Time in Bed or Time Asleep? Those are 2 different things calculated 2 different ways. Time in bed uses your phone to guesstimate your time spent in bed. It is a stupid feature and it’s ideal to turn it off. Turning it off doesn’t actually stop showing time in bed, but it does make it equal to time asleep. Time asleep is a metric that only your watch can calculate

It takes Apple Watch like 4 apps and at least 1 paid apps or subscription to do what Fitbit does in 1 app with 1 optional subscription. Apple Watch info is split between the Health app, Fitness app, Apple Watch App, and any third party apps you use (which Apple Watch is reliant on to cover uses that Apple doesn’t natively cover like auto sleep tracking).

Also, Fitbit has the best sleep tracking out of all fitness trackers in the market. Apple Watch requires either a paid app for mediocre sleep tracking (via the Auto Sleep app) or you must sleep within your scheduled sleep hours with Sleep focus enabled for sleep tracking to work.

Also, requires daily charging on the Apple Watch while Fitbit lasts 7+ days depending on your model.

You can turn off time in bed. Doing that won’t ACTUALLY stop displaying “time in bed”, but it will make the time in bed just about equal to the time asleep (sometimes it adds a few minutes idk why, time in bed is such a stupid metric they need to remove completely).

Time in bed is “turned off” in Health app > sleep > scroll down to the “full schedule and options” button > turn off time in bed.