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Sleep app - worse than useless

Former Member
Former Member over 5 years ago

Do you know the Garmin sleep app is a JOKE? I was awake and out of bed moving around for 2 hours in the middle of last night and the app shows me as in deep sleep. Joy I can’t even manually adjust it into 2 separate sleep sessions. Worse than useless. 

When is Garmin going to improve their sleep app. It certainly is possible - Fitbit is so much better in this regard. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    What Garmin device do you have? Maybe we can help.

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    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    I also have some doubt about the quality of the measurements. Not only sleep but also e.g. stiaris up and down. How can I only have 5 up and no down. Then, what about comparability between nrs of steps measured by my invivo de luxe and a previous fersion (less luxurous). The more expensive the version, the less steps I seem to make... HUH?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Former Member & Former Member  there are many threads regarding sleep data related to specific devices. Some have been fixed. Can you let us know which Garmin watch you have?

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    0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to seilogramp

    Fenix 5S

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Totally agree. I have a Forerunner 245 music and sleep tracking is really inaccurate. . 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member
    Fenix 5S

    Moved thread to fēnix 5 series forum

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    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Agree, it's beyond useless.

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I have the Fenix 5 and for me the sleep app is quite accurate and it catches the vast majority of wake phases during the night. Of course it doesn't mean its accurate by the minute every day but certainly not off by 2 hours. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to FeelX86

    Sleeptracking is just added by Garmin for marketing purposes. Their marketing is based on the fact Garmin has a longer "feature" list than the competition. Whether they work or not doesn't seem to matter to them.

    My experiences with it:

    It produces numbers for light sleep, deep sleep and rem. Sleepexperts say it is not quite possible to measure this with a watch and, more important it is useless information. What are you going to do with this information? Try to sleep deeper?

    My forerunner 935 is not very accurate in detecting start and end sleep. When I watch a movie late at night it counts as sleep time.

    It is also not very accurate in detecting when I'm at wake in the middle of the night. If I go out of bed, it might detect it. But when I lay awake in bed it doesn't detect it.

    And sleepexperts say these last 2 are important information and you can do something about it.

    All in all. It's just a gimmck feature, and I learn to ignore it (just like the other gimmicks garmin adds to their devices)