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Fenix 6 sleep data in Apple Health (iOS 14)

I note that Garmin Connect no longer writes the correct sleep data as recorded from my Fenix 6 to the iOS 14 Health app. Everything was working fine with iOS 13.

Garmin connect only writes “Deep” and “Light” sleep time as sleep to the Health app but reports “REM” sleep as awake time resulting in significantly lower and inaccurate sleep times in the Health app. (Everything still appears correct in Connect Mobile).

is anyone else experiencing this?

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ColinvZ over 3 years ago in reply to philipshambrook +1

No, I haven’t (I am not sure how and first need to confirm whether this is isolated to Garmin). I am not seeing any issues or complaints of this nature when searching other manufacturers’ forums but do…
philipshambrook over 3 years ago in reply to ColinvZ +1

ColinvZ said:
Apple Health app only has “asleep” and “awake” states so it appears to be a Garmin issue that fails to report REM sleep as “asleep”.

Possibly, but I’d suggest again that it’s Apple’s inability…
ColinvZ over 3 years ago in reply to philipshambrook +1

Are you experiencing the same issue? Apple HealthKit uses a data specification that all apps need to adhere to. If the issue is on Apple’s side other data providers would have similar issues.

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0 philipshambrook over 3 years ago

Maybe the issue is with Apple being unable to read the new data. Have you contacted Apple?

0 ColinvZ over 3 years ago in reply to philipshambrook

No, I haven’t (I am not sure how and first need to confirm whether this is isolated to Garmin). I am not seeing any issues or complaints of this nature when searching other manufacturers’ forums but do not have other devices to test myself.

At this stage the issue appears to be unique to Garmin in which case, I assume, Apple will not be willing to assist. The Apple Health app only has “asleep” and “awake” states so it appears to be a Garmin issue that fails to report REM sleep as “asleep”.

0 philipshambrook over 3 years ago in reply to ColinvZ

ColinvZ said:
Apple Health app only has “asleep” and “awake” states so it appears to be a Garmin issue that fails to report REM sleep as “asleep”.

Possibly, but I’d suggest again that it’s Apple’s inability to interpret the data Garmin send.

0 ColinvZ over 3 years ago in reply to philipshambrook

Are you experiencing the same issue? Apple HealthKit uses a data specification that all apps need to adhere to. If the issue is on Apple’s side other data providers would have similar issues.

0 Qobalt over 3 years ago

Same issue here. And frankly asking Apple to support whatever Garmin’s writing to *their* endpoints isn’t likely to work. Apple is the authority over the HealthKit spec.

Of course it’s possible that Garmin is following Apple’s published spec and Apple isn’t, but it seems less likely.

0 TimTurnip over 3 years ago

I am experiencing EXACTLY this problem.

0 TimTurnip over 3 years ago

I am experiencing EXACTLY this problem.

0 Hussy over 3 years ago

Yes! Noticed the same thing which is annoying. I would assume it’s because Apple is unable to report on the different stages of sleep, hence REM is excluded in total hours slept. Hopefully we don’t need to wait until they introduce all the stages to Apple Watches....

0 2178855 over 3 years ago in reply to Hussy

Same Issue, Hello Garmin could you help your customers ?

0 claude512 over 3 years ago

Same issue here

did you file a bug report?

Garmin_ODQA maybe something you could investigate?