Earlier today we saw iOS 26 code suggesting that an Apple Watch sleep score feature is in development, with a percentage score indicating your readiness to tackle the day ahead. The feature also provides a more condensed graphical representation of your sleep stages than is currently available.
What is shown and described looks like a very close match for two features provided by the Oura smart ring, so here’s a look at how those work …
The Oura Ring readiness and sleep scores
Each morning, when you open the companion app for the smart ring, it loads in sleep data captured during the night. It provides two percentage scores, the first is what Oura describes as Readiness:
Apple’s “focus score” label seems to be describing the same idea. In the Oura app, you can tap on the score to see how it is calculated:
Oura also provides a separate sleep score, with an overview of your sleep duration:
You can tap on this to see a detailed breakdown of your sleep stages:
Apple likely won’t make as much detail available, but the overall idea looks to be the same.
Is this useful data?
We don’t know how Apple plans to calculate your focus score, and how closely it might replicate the factors used by the Oura app, so we’ll need to wait and see.
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