- Apple could add a sleep score in a future Apple Watch update
- It could measure your sleep steps, your temperature and more
- We don’t know when – or if – this function will be added to Watchos
The best Apple watches can follow a lot, including several different aspects of your night sleep. But one thing that they cannot do for the moment is to provide you with a score that indicates the quality of your sleep. However, according to a graphic disclosed, it is something that could soon happen to the Apple laptop.
This information was discovered by the writer Steve Moser, who dredged a graph called “Watch Focus Score” of the depth of the Apple Health Application Code (via Macrumors). The combination of the name of the image and its content could imply that Apple is working on a new education feature for Watchos.
The image represents an Apple watch with number 84 in the center of its display. This number is surrounded by three bars which curves to form a circle. Interestingly, the bars are red colored, light blue and purple, and these tones correspond to the sleep stages shown in the health application (there, red indicates the waking time, light blue means paradoxical sleep and purple means a deep sleep. The application also uses dark blue for central sleep, which could be what the graphism shows).
The number and the colorful bars could refer to an overall score which takes into account the different sleep stages and how many of each you have obtained at night. This would provide an additional level of data that you do not currently find in Watchos.
More than simple sleep stages?
But there are indications that other factors could be taken into account for this score. In Apple’s graphic, Apple Watch is flanked on both sides by various icons, including a moon in the stars, a “Zzz”, a bed and an alarm clock. Currently, Apple uses the bed icon for the sleep development mode, while alarm clock can mean when your alarm has died out or when you have come out of bed.
Moser also spotted a thermometer icon, which could be an index that Apple will take more than the sleep stages when calculating a sleep score. It can incorporate the temperature of the wrist as an indicator of your health, for example, and there may be other measures still unknown which are also included within the framework of the overall score.
If this sleeping room characteristic becomes a reality, Apple will be far from the first manufacturer of Smartwatch to include it in their products: Fitbit and Garmin have included sleep scores in their devices for years.
But Apple fans will not care that if they get this feature in a future update – you never know, it could happen to Watchos 26 later this year.
