Sleep function extremely inaccurate 245 Music

Movement is a factor for determining sleep. If you are lying in bed reading and don't move the watch much you will be considered to be sleeping.

The watch can't know what you are doing. It just uses its sensors trying to make a guess what you are doing. 

Hi thanks for taking the time to reply but my Fitbit which this watch replaced just recently recorded my sleep with incredible accuracy and knew exactly when I was awake or asleep so assumed the Garmin would be as sophisticated. If there’s a way of improving it’s sensitivity then I’d be happy as the watch’s other functions are excellent and provide a much better health assessment in most other areas. I’m a poor sleeper and I was hoping the watch would provide me with some additional insight. 

For people having sleep problems the bed should only be used for sleeping and not for reading (maybe for a short session like 20 minutes) and absolutely not any phone, computer or TV usage. Don't even have the phone, computer or TV in the bed room.

Okay I think I’ve had enough advice off you. My question was about the sleep function I wasn’t seeking advice on sleeping and I’d rather you kept to the brief. You clearly don’t know the answer so let’s leave it there. Many thanks for your help. 

There is no setting to make the watch ignore you lying still in bed. 

There is no easy fix to sleeping problems. You have to make some changes in your life and not everyone is ready for it. Just like with health in general. Exercise regularly, don't eat too much, rest enough. Everyone knows what to do, but most people continue to search for the quick fix. 

Ignore the random thoughts of the other user, people on a forum shouldn't give life advice while a person is just asking for informations about the watch functioning(or not functioning).

Reality is the 245 is really bad at detecting sleep, i had it for 3 years and had it read even 12 hours of sleeping because i was on the couch staying still reading and then gone to bed, result being the watch reading i was sleeping from the moment i was reading till the moment i've gone to bed.

I switched to the fenix 6 which has the new sleeping algorithm, it's better, really better, but still not perfect, it goes wrong from time to time by 10 minutes before or after bed, but still a huge leap forward.

I can't talk about sleeping phases accuracy.

In the meantime seems like the "improved" the sleep detection with the new update, try it and see if it's better, i have no idea if it means they updated it to the same algorithm as fenix 6/7 etc...

Marvin said:

Ignore the random thoughts of the other user, people on a forum shouldn't give life advice while a person is just asking for informations about the watch functioning(or not functioning).

My advice comes from the Christian Benedics: https://www.benedictlab.org/christian-benedict

From his team studies, publications and metastudies.

The poster expressed a desire to get help with poor sleeping by logging sleep with a watch, but logging is not the solution. There are far easier things to do and some obvious things here like stop using the phone in bed.