Crazy not having Sleep Widget on Garmin Instinct, Please add this simple, essential feature next update!

How many times a day do you need to look at your sleep data that it needs to be on the watch as a widget?  And why do you feel it's an essential feature that needs to be on the watch?   Throughout the day, I may want to check my HR, weather, altitude, barometric pressure, etc.  I can't think of any case where I need my watch to check how much sleep I had the night before.  I can do that once, at any point in the day, using my phone.  Perhaps a Suunto is a better fit for you and you should switch?  Maybe Garmin will add it, maybe they won't, but in my opinion, a sleep widget would be the least essential of any of the widgets available on the Instinct. 

Sorry, I'm with "Who Knows" on this one (although you are entitled to your opinion).  I seriously doubt that "Sleep info is one of the main reasons many people buy these watches" - especially as it is available - you just need to look at it on your phone (perhaps once a day??!!).  Adding in that the accuracy of the information available is often questionable (determining sleep data and cycles from a device on your wrist not particularly accurate in most circumstances), I do not see it as "Especially essential to have it built in on the Instinct...".  I can't even say if my Fenix 5X has a sleep widget - wouldn't bother with it if it does.  My guess is you will need to continue to recommend Suunto to your friends and family. 

Also, note that this is a user forum but Garmin does have an email address  or submission site to suggest features - can't remember what it is at the moment but take a look and submit your request there.

Hi WhoKnows, I can see why someone who hasn't yet discovered the huge role that sleep monitoring can play in your health and performance might not see it as important. 

No problem, I see you're in the 'navigation/training' category of user and you're entitled to your opinion too! In answer to your questions:

When do I want to check my sleep widget? Every morning, and often during the night when I wake up to see how I am tracking - and when I want to show the feature to other people who might want to buy a smart watch for health enhancing reasons.

How does that compare to how often I check other widgets? 10 times as much as I use the altimeter widget, 5x as much as I use the barometer widget, 5 times as much as I use the stress widget (why have a stress widget and miss out sleep!?), 10x as much as I use the sunrise and sunset time widgets. Less than I use the heart rate, calories and My Day widgets.

According to Garmin's website, ""The importance of sleep can't be understated... If you're logging a lot of miles on a daily basis, it is essential to get an adequate amount of sleep to have your body recover." So Garmin obviously think it's important enough to say so in their marketing material.

Hi RazMichael, thanks for your thoughts.

I appreciate that you're in a category that doesn't value that particular feature highly, no problem.

"Right on your Wrist" (Garmin's marketing tagline) would seem to indicate that you should be able to see at least the basic information for each feature on the watch. I agree with them. "Right on your phone" doesn't have quite the same ring to me, but with this feature it is the reality with Garmin's current offering.

Having to use your phone because you can't view the feature on your watch? How convenient would you find it if one of the features that's important to you wasn't available on your wrist?  I didn't buy a Garmin watch so I could use my phone to check how I was tracking on the basics.  Garmin's Connect app doesn't sync with your watch or allow you to view your watch data unless you are connected to the internet at the time. Some of us aren't always connected, and some of us don't keep our mobile phone switched on next to our head while we sleep either. "Right on your wrist" is exactly what we need and exactly what we thought we were buying.

How important is it?  As per WhoKnows' reply, Garmin's website (marketing this feature) says "The importance of sleep can't be understated... If you're logging a lot of miles on a daily basis, it is essential to get an adequate amount of sleep to have your body recover." So Garmin obviously think it's important enough to say so in their marketing material.

At the end of the day, if Garmin advertise it as a feature, and claim that it's importance can't be understated, and the mobile phone app requires mobile phone coverage at all times to get current info, then yes they should certainly have a widget on the watch so the info is "right on your wrist" as the marketing material says.

PS RazMichael thanks for the suggestion re feature requests. I have found what appears to be the right place here: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

When do I want to check my sleep widget? Every morning, and often during the night when I wake up to see how I am tracking

This one made me really laugh. Without joking. So, in the night, I wake up, and check out my watch whether I sleep well or not? I think that if I am waking up in the night with such concerns, I do not need any monitoring - I already know I do not sleep well, anyway . 

Sleep for the Instinct is displayed in the Connect App 

Yup, use your phone not on your watch.  "Right on your wrist" - er, no.

I have been able to increase my deep sleep component by 400% since I started

OK, you are telling you sleep better when you wake up x-times a night just to check out your watch whether you sleep well or not. And you then sleep better when it tells you, you should better sleep than watching the watch

Personally I fall to the bed when I am tired, and wake up only if I have to, or feel I slept enough. I do not need a watch telling me whether I slept well ot not. But everyone is different, so why not - if you need to check out each hour whether you sleep or not, just do it, and choose the right tool for it. If your Suunto watch works better for you, just keep it. Instinct is primarily a tool for adventurers, so there is no problem if you do not like it, and do not recommend it to your friends. I'll continue doing it anyway