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No Sleep Wake Time Editing Capability in iOS App

Former Member over 10 years ago

Even though I have been using Activity trakers for years that either prefer or demand that I tell them when I go to sleep and when I wake up in "real" time, I have not been able to train myself to do it. I appreciated Garmin's feature that let me make adjustments to the expected sleep window by editing actual Sleep Start time and Sleep Wake time the morning after.

I would like to be able to do this on my mobile device but that is only halfway possible. Oddly, it provides for me to edit my sleep start time but NOT sleep wake time. I have to believe this is just something that fell through the cracks or I am missing something obvious.

I would also like to point out that this oversight only exists in the iOS app. On my Android tablet I am offered the ability to edit both just like in the Web app.

Do other people have this problem? Does anyone but me care?

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

I was having a similar problem, but I think that was on my PC, Windows 8.1. What bugs me is that only one time can be set. Sometimes I wake in the night and get up for an hour or two. I don't want to count that as "sleep" time, but then it ignores other time. If I have a nap after lunch, I'd like to be able to track that too.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

I finally got to the bottom of this thanks to Garmin phone support this morning. It turned out that in my phone settings (Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size was set one notch to the right of middle. This made the Wake time line fall off the screen. By changing the text size setting to one notch to the left of middle Wake Time magically reappeared on my phone.

Joyful, I have never actually used it but I hear that the Vivo devices include a Nap capability. There is not much about it online but I gather that, in addition to your normal nighttime sleep, if you put it into sleep mode in the middle of the day and take it out of sleep mode again it will add this nap to your normal evening hours of sleep. I may give it a whirl tomorrow just to see what happens though it is pretty rare for me to nap. The same thing may work for your sleepless wee hours.

0 Former Member over 10 years ago

Sometimes I wake in the night and get up for an hour or two. I don't want to count that as "sleep" time, but then it ignores other time. If I have a nap after lunch, I'd like to be able to track that too.

There is no perfect answer to your situation of substantially interrupted sleep. I would personally leave the actual go to sleep time in there along with the actual wake up for the final time. A look at the graph would make it apparent that you had a crappy middle of the night. Alternatively—if you are primarily interested in total actual sleep time, you could mark the beginning of sleep at bedtime and end your sleep when you get up at 2 AM. When you return to bed at 4AM, you could put your band back in sleep mode and take it out when you wake up the second time. In that case, your second sleep of that evening will be recorded as a nap. It will not show up in your sleep graph but the time will be added to your first sleep of the evening. I am not sure what would happen if you did this again for an after lunch siesta but would guess you can take as many naps as you want.