- Apple could add a sleep score in a future Apple Watch update
- It can measure your sleep stages, temperature and more
- We don’t know when – or if – this feature is added to Watchos
The best Apple Watches can trace many things, including several different aspects of your night time. But one thing they can’t do right now is to give you a score that indicates the quality of your sleep. However, according to a leaked graphic, it is something that will soon come to Apple’s laptops.
This information was discovered by author Steve Moser, who excavated a graphic named “Watch Focus Score” from deep inside the code for Apple’s health app (via macaroors). The combination of the image’s name and its content may mean that Apple is working on a new Sleep score feature for Watchos.
The photo shows an Apple Watch with number 84 in the middle of its display. This number is surrounded by three columns that curves to form a circle. Interestingly, the rods are colored red, light blue and purple, and these tones correspond to the sleep stages shown in the health app (which, red indicates time awake, light blue means strap sleep and purple means deep sleep. The app also uses dark blue to core sleep, which can be what the graphics show).
The number and colored columns may suggest a unified score that takes into account the different sleep stages and how much of each you got at night. It would provide an additional level of data that you are not currently finding in Watchos.
More than just sleep stages?
But there are indications that other factors could be considered for this score. In Apple’s graphics, Apple Watch is flanked on both sides of different icons, including a moon at stars, a “zzz”, a bed and an alarm clock. Right now, Apple is using the bed icon for sleep focus, while the alarm clock may mean when your alarm went out or when you got out of bed.
Moser also discovered a thermometer icon, which could be a hint that Apple will take more than just sleep stages when calculating a sleep result. It may incorporate the GRANTTHERE OFFER ADICATOR as an indicator of your health, and there may be other unnamed measurements that are also included as part of the overall score.
If this Sleep Score feature becomes a reality, Apple will be far from the first Smartwatch maker to include it in their products: Both Fitbit and Garmin have included sleep results in their devices for years.
But Apple fans don’t mind that if they actually get this functionality in a future update – you never know, it can come to Watchos 26 later in the year.
