Sleep tracking abysmal

For the past week, my sleep has been deeply impacted by various circumstances. I go to bed around 10 and wake up at 1 with no further sleep and plenty of movement.

However, f5+ shows me sleeping the night. The week's average reporting shows me awake for 16 minutes. It's so wrong I can't even manually adjust it.

This is comically, uselessly inaccurate. It shouldn't even be a feature.

Is there something I'm missing? Done all the setup.
  • You are not alone. My 5+ isn't much better. During your DND times, I find if you are still and not moving (reading in bed, watching TV etc) according to Garmin you are asleep. End of. It's comical for a $700+ watch.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    Hmm mine seems pretty accurate. I've set the usual sleep times and if sleeping within this period it seems ok. When I'm awake/lightly sleeping it's show as light sleep...includes if picking up a book and reading...so this is sort an issue. Similar to if sleeping during the daytime...this will not show up as sleep.

    SO there are room for improvement, but combination of deep\light\rem\movement at least to me gives me an accurate overview of how I've been sleeping.

    If it could recognize sleep patterns (my own after a time) and activate a "were you sleeping between xy-zc hours?" would be great...but I'll survive :)
  • Hmm mine seems pretty accurate. I've set the usual sleep times and if sleeping within this period it seems ok.


    But this is because you are sleeping, so you perceive your data as is in line with your sleep. If I were sleeping each night, I would view my data as plausible, because the data viz is plausible.

    If you were plainly awake, moving plenty, and then viewed your sleep data, you would find it as inaccurate as I have.
  • You are not alone. My 5+ isn't much better. During your DND times, I find if you are still and not moving (reading in bed, watching TV etc) according to Garmin you are asleep. End of. It's comical for a $700+ watch.


    Edited my post. I also have 5x+.

    Yes, disappointed. This is an expensive consumer-class device and I expect more. I would also expect more from a cheap device that sold a sleep tracking feature. If you sell a feature, get it right or be clear about what it can't do.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    If you were plainly awake, moving plenty, and then viewed your sleep data, you would find it as inaccurate as I have.



    I've got nights where I'm both awake and moving in between shorter periods of sleep, those shows up as awake and matched with movements so I'll still claim mine at least gets it right.

    If reading (laying still and just barely moving) it'll usually show it as a period of light sleep. If awake a whole night when skipping sleep, it'll not show me as asleep at all.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago
    The sleep tracking needs a lot of work for sure. When I work night shifts it does a horrible time tracking. Basically if I am outside the sleep window the watch is given then it tracks weird. I slept 16 hours the other day with prolong periods of awake totaling 8 hours of being awake.

    the Fitbit device did a much better job tracking this m
  • Sleep tracking is horrible. Unless you have a very strict sleep schedule, it provides very little useful info. Fitbit does a awesome job of sleep tracking. I don't think Garmin puts much into sleep tracking. It's more of a checkbox for them, not an actual working feature.
  • I'm a new user of an Instinct.  It tracked my sleep fairly well the first to nights I used it, but last night it doesn't show anything in the app but I did go to bed a little earlier, by about twenty minutes, than the "sleep time".  However if I got to the previous day and look at the graphs, there, it shows last night fairly accurately given the tiny scale used in the graph.  My FitBit Ionic was excellent at sleep tracking.  C'mon Garmin, get thy ship together here!

  • Perhaps post in the Instinct forum?

  • Thought I was.  That's where I started looking.  Next time I'll check the header for the page.