Apple Seemingly Working on Sleep Score Feature for Apple Watch

Apple may be developing a sleep score feature for the Apple Watch, based on code found in iOS 26 by MacRumors contributor Steve Moser.

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An image buried in the Health app code features an Apple Watch with an "84" on it. Around the sides of the number, there are three bars that are the same colors as some of the sleep stages that can be tracked with the Apple Watch. The orange could represent time awake, the lighter blue may correspond with REM sleep, and the darker blue could be Core or Deep sleep.

The watch graphic is surrounded by sleep-related icons that Apple uses in different places in iOS, including a moon and stars, a "zzz," a bed, an icon representing sleep stages, an alarm clock, and in one spot, a thermometer.

Apple named the image "Watch Focus Score," suggesting that it is indeed some kind of sleep-related score that the watch will provide. With the focus name, it could perhaps provide a prediction on how well you'll be able to function during the day based on the amount of sleep that you got the night before.

Many health tracking devices offer a sleep score, but it's something that Apple has not provided with the Apple Watch yet. The Apple Watch has sleep tracking and separates sleep into REM, Core, and Deep, plus Apple provides time in bed and time awake metrics.

Based on the temperature icon, the future sleep score could take into account multiple health metrics, similar to the Vitals option that Apple introduced in watchOS 11.

We haven't discovered further signs of a sleep score feature, so there is a possibility that this graphic relates to something else. It's also possible that this is an option that Apple plans to introduce with the watchOS 26 update, and we're just seeing the first hints of it.

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GrassShark Avatar
23 weeks ago
Hopefully they don't stop at sleep score. Apple Health gives you so much data but very little in terms of how to interpret it and act moving forward.
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)
russell_314 Avatar
23 weeks ago
Finally a physical activity that I can excel at! ?
Score: 22 Votes (Like | Disagree)
GrassShark Avatar
23 weeks ago

out of curiosity, do a lot of people sleep with their watches on?
I've always just used an analogue watch myself so mine comes off when i get home in the evening and sits on my bedside table.

If people wear it while sleeping, when do they charge it?
I wear mine most nights. It charges when I’m in the shower or between getting into bed and going to sleep.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
vertsix Avatar
23 weeks ago
Amazing! Now they'll be 1% closer to even be remotely comparable to the fitness and health features that Garmin provides!
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HuskerNKS Avatar
23 weeks ago

Genuinely curious, what does the Garmin offer that the Apple Watch doesn't? I know Garmins are more targeted to fitness stuff, but the feature list wasn't that different when I last checked them out.
To me it's not that they have more data, they make it more accessible and trend it to give you metrics to baseline yourself against in easy to view/track sections. Endurance Score, VO2 Max Trending, Hill Score, Sleep Score and Coaching, Race Training, Race Prediction, Recovery Needs, Training Readiness, Body Battery (based on Stress, Sleep, etc) Etc.

The endurance score for example tracks the type and intensity of exercise, measures your HRV, looks at VO2 max, and then give you a focus and category (maintaining, productive, unproductive, etc) to coaching you on what to adjust.

They are focused more on Fitness and Apple more on general smart watch IMHO.

The battery life draws me back to Garmin. 7-14 days lets me wear it and not worry.

I do have an Apple Watch Ultra 2, but don't wear it.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
fatTribble Avatar
23 weeks ago

out of curiosity, do a lot of people sleep with their watches on?
I've always just used an analogue watch myself so mine comes off when i get home in the evening and sits on my bedside table.

If people wear it while sleeping, when do they charge it?
My Watch charges while I charge with morning coffee
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)