Apple Watch includes a built-in sleep tracking feature. Just wear your Apple Watch to bed, and it works automatically. No need to install apps or enter a special mode.
watchOS 26 takes sleep tracking further with Apple’s sleep score feature. Sleep score is a great way to visualize the quality of your sleep from night to night. There’s one setting in particular that has made sleep score especially useful for me.
You can receive sleep score notifications for specific ranges
Sleep score has been a useful Apple Watch feature for me since it arrived in watchOS 26.
Shortly after launch, Apple made sleep score even better by refreshing its approach to grading based on customer feedback.
Apple Watch can notify you of your sleep score each morning with a notification that shows your data.
I liked receiving daily alerts when sleep score was brand new. It helped me form an understanding of how the feature worked and how it was measuring my sleep.
More recently, I’ve found sleep score’s granular notification controls to be a better fit. Sleep score includes five classifications:
Very Low: 0-40
0-40 Low: 41-60
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