There’s Something Off About Apple’s New Sleep Score

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Apple’s new sleep scoreNow available on the Apple Watch and in the Apple Health application, note how much you slept on a scale of 0 to 100. As it notes you retroactively, I can look back over my last months (or even years) of sleep scores to see how the new figures compare to the scores that I fired from Oura and other laptops. I tried this, and one thing stood out: Apple is far too easy for me.

I’m kidding, in a way. Yes, Apple’s scores are always higher than those I receive from other laptops, but it is not as if I could definitely say that Apple is wrong or that Oura is right. I think of a sleep score as a note on a test: a bad test will probably get a bad note, and a good test will probably get a good note, but it is not as if each teacher in the world would be suitable that your point of view Moby DickThe symbolism of the symbolic deserves exactly 92%. You may have the impression of getting out of it with something if your test in the middle comes back with an A +, but as long as the teacher is consistent with his rating scheme, you cannot say that your note was fake.

This is why the precision of sleep scores does not matter, in my opinion. The World Sleep Society is more or less in agreement, adage Do not read too much in individual scores, but rather monitors trends, as if your sleep seems to improve or worse over time.

How Apple sleep scores are measured in Oura, Garmin and Whoop

With all this in mind, I thought it would be interesting to compare my last month from the Apple sleep scores to those I get from Oura Ring, as well as some data points of my Garmin and Whoop devices.

Apple calculates your sleep score according to the duration of your sleep, the coherence of the bedroom and the interruptions. Competing devices each have their own algorithm. Apple can calculate its score according to the data of any device, not just an Apple Watch, so in some cases, the scores Oura and Apple really use the same underlying data.

Here are the results:

Apple is the red line at the top – generally classifying me higher than its competitors.
Credit: Beth Skwarecki

Apple says that during the last month, my most common sleep score is “excellent”, won over 17 nights. I also had a “high” sleep score over 10 nights, with just a night of “OK” sleep, one of “low” sleep, and no “very low” nights.

My main point to remember is that Apple’s scores are almost always higher than those I receive other devices. That said, they tend to go up when the others go up and down when the others go down, which means that all these scores are probably useful when they are examined from a large -scale point of view.

Subjectively, I don’t think my sleep has been so good lately. I was standing later more often than I wanted and that I tired most often. I would judge it most of the time, sometimes poor and sometimes good. But it’s just, like my opinion, guy.

It is true that there is probably nothing wrong with me, and I do not think that my sleep is radically poor – so maybe Apple’s pink perspectives are just a better way to think about my sleep. It’s good to be a straight student – a student.