The Verge - Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:10 PM
Apple Watch may get built-in sleep tracking by 2020
The functionality would need to work around the device’s limited battery life
Since its launch in 2015, Apple has increasingly positioned the Apple Watch as
a health and fitness device; something that helps users track their workouts
and look after their body. But one popular feature has been missing from
Apple’s built-in software: sleep-tracking.
Not for much longer, says Bloomberg. The publication reports that Apple is
testing sleep tracking functionality and, if it meets standards, plans to add
it to the Apple Watch by 2020.
You can already track your sleep on the Apple Watch using third-party apps, but
the device has always been hamstrung in this regard by its relatively slim
battery life. Apple promises users a full day’s use from the watch before
charging it overnight (and this often looks more like two days’ use, depending
on usage), but that’s not enough for regular sleep tracking. Rival
fitness-focused wearables with sleep tracking like the Fitbit Versa or Withings
Steel Hybrid Smartwatch, for example, last up to weeks before needing a charge.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman notes that in order to make sleep-tracking functional
for the Apple Watch, the company will need to increase its battery life or find
a way to run sleep tracking in a low-power mode overnight. Or, if charging
speeds increase, it could just ask users to top up their batteries in the
morning.
With sleep tracking built into the Apple Watch the company would increase its
range of health tracking features, which now take in everything from
electrocardiograms (added in the Apple Watch Series 4) to automatic workout
detection (added in watchOS 5). Adding sleep tracking to this bundle would be
another reason not to take the Apple Watch off your wrist.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18241136/apple-watch-sleep-tracking-functionality-2020-report
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