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Nap feature is recording chilling on the couch as naps

Amund Andre Hole
over 1 year ago

When laying on the couch I get it recorded as naps, I think the nap feature should be non-automatic and required an enable/disable. At least a possibility for people to decide if they want it auto tracked or not, cause as it is now, it’s recording too many naps that are not naps.

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  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to SETM

    Exactly. Other apps, I am thinking of Oura right now but I know others as well do this so much better as smaller companies. In Oura the nap shows up at the top of the Home Screen in the app,  asks you to confirm if you had the nap before entering the data, if you didn't you can delete it. it is the first thing you see, you don't have to go looking for it. Being able to delete it from the watch would be fantastic but at this point I think that would be asking far too much given the disaster that sleep/naps are currently. It is such a shame too, I have been a consistent user of garmin wearables for years and always loved the product. Sleep scores and data etc on any wearable are suspect, but the idea that I am napping when I am up moving around or working at my desk leaves much to be desired from Garmin. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to SETM

    I’d be happy with that. I don’t wear my Epix 51mm at night because it’s too big and keeps me awake so it’s counter productive. I don’t really care about having my sleep monitored so an auto detect off switch works for me. I do still want 24/7 HR & HRV Data so I’m hoping Garmin will add some sort of Whoop style band or arm band to its armoury in the future solely for that purpose, or update the firmware in the HRM Pro to do it.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

    Could you specify what improvements have been made because I am not seeing any improvement at at all, still getting multiptle false naps a day with no way to delete them, and I especially enjoy the messages the app gives me scolding me for having too many naps. I have a low RHR and a desk job, I do not take naps. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 7995309
    7995309 said:
    I have a low RHR and a desk job, I do not take naps. 

    Interesting problem for Garmin to resolve. I have a low RHR 45 bpm or thereabouts, a very sedentary job and spend a reasonable amount of time lounging in a Lazyboy and reading before bed yet, somehow I never have unwanted naps recorded. Talking to a friend yesterday and he says he, like you, gets them all the time.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

    This is an absolute joke of a reply, akin to Apples ”you’re holding the phone wrong”. At an absolute minimim update the Connect software asap and let us delete these falsely detected naps.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to SETM
    SETM said:
    Of course you need some way to edit sleep/naps from GC App

     I am very happy to see that the engineers have listened to the feedback given.

    Just saw today in latest GC App for iOS that you could add, edit and remove a nap. That is great in case the algorithm did some false detections or missed to register a nap. Just make sure that it will be synched back to watch as it nowadays does for sleep. Have not tested this yet though 

    For me, personally, the sleep and nap algorithm works much better these day's (quite well actually) compared to how it was in the beginning. But I have a regular sleep pattern and have set up the sleep schedule properly since that works for me.

    To take it to the next level it would be great if possible to have the sleep and nap detection as a setting automatic or manual. I have mentioned this before but it does not hurt to emphasize this again.

    When automatic it should work as today and when manual you have to start and stop your sleep and naps manually; I.e., no automatic detection in manual mode.

    When manually stop your sleep then it would be a great time to show the morning report

    By having an option to select if automatic/manual sleep or nap detection you will make this work also for those that don’t have the same sleep schedule week after week like shift workers. Also this would probably be very welcome by those for which the algorithm does not work. I really hope your engineers also can do this improvement in future software updates along with the continuous improvement of the sleep and nap algorithm. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 4362922
    4362922 said:
    At an absolute minimim update the Connect software asap and let us delete these falsely detected naps

    You can actually do this now on the latest Garmin Connect App; at least I have it for the iOS version. You can add, edit or delete a nap from App. 


  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to SETM

    You can delete the nap but the data from the nap still impacts the other metrics like sleep coach, body battery, recovery. The nap is gone from sight but the data is still there. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 7995309

    Ok, have not tried if synched back to watch yet. Maybe this is just the first step. I remember how it was for sleep. First you could change the sleep in App but that change never wrote anything back to watch. Nowadays it does. Maybe it is the same for naps. The team working on the App has add the possibility to modify the naps but next is for the teams working on the different watch models have to implement this also so that it could be synched back and update the metrics in watch as well.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to SETM

    it should also be noted that you can only delete/edit the nap the day it happens, after that you are stuck with it.