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Garmin devices should be able to track naps

Many brands have built nap tracking functionality into their wearables. For some reason Garmin devices only have the ability to track on sleep session per day. This is unsatisfactory - particularly now that sleep stats play such a important function in the newly added Training Readiness score. For those that like to supplement a overnight sleep session with a long afternoon nap, the Training Readiness is consistently underestimating their actual ability to train. Please Garmin add the ability to track naps - even if it is just a simple timer (without sleep phases).

Maslakovic
  • in reply to 7487400

    The Naps glance allows you to quickly start/stop a nap session.

  • It would be a great feature if Garmin devices could track naps! While Garmin devices can track sleep, including deep and light sleep stages, they typically don't recognize naps as separate sleep events. However, if you nap long enough, Garmin might capture it as part of your nightly sleep data.

    To track naps more accurately, some people use the "start" and "stop" sleep tracking feature manually, or use Garmin's "Body Battery" feature to monitor energy levels throughout the day. It’s possible that Garmin could add a dedicated nap tracking feature in future updates. If you'd like, I can help look into current Garmin features to see how well they might track your naps with the existing functionalit

  • I read that distinguishing "light sleep" from "wake" is one of the most difficult tasks in sleep tracking. Apparently, your heart beat pattern and writst movment (the data you have available for sleep phase identification) is not very different when you sit still and don't move as apposed to when you are light asleep. All sleep tracking apps and devices struggle with this problem (see https://mhealth.jmir.org/2023/1/e50983 , Figure 3, for a scientific assessment of this classification task). This is also the reason why you have to type in approximate bed time and wake-up time in most sleep trackers, because the sleep trackers would otherwise not be able to detect start and end of your sleep periods. I guess this is why Garmin does not launch a "nap" tracking app. It could/would most likely produce only random results ...

  • Thanks! Can we expect an update here on the next steps like prio allocation etc.?

  • in reply to PeterN

    Typically it means that the ticket has been read and transferred to our internal tracking system so it can be triaged and prioritized. At some point all old tickets got set back to the default state of "in review". Currently we are in the process of setting them back to acknowledged so that only new tickets that have never been looked at are "in review".