Apple To Add Sleep Tracking Feature To The Apple Watch

Apple Watch has become quite a useful device on the wrist for many of its wearers. It is equipped with top of the line sensors to track every sort of vital signs from steps to heart rate and a tracker capable of accurately determining your location. But Apple has another upgrade in mind to future Watches: The ability to track and monitor sleeping pattern.

Sleep Tracking

According to a Monday report from 9to5Mac, Apple is on its way to adding a new feature into its popular line of smartwatches that will allow the devices to monitor their wearers' sleep. The feature was internally code-named "Burrito" and will take advantage of all of the sensors and inputs available on the watch to measure the quality of the wearer’s sleep. From tracking heart rate and movements during sleep, down to the volume of the ambient noises. All of this information will be made available to the users via either the Health app, or a completely new Sleep app designed for the Watch.

There’s another nifty thing that it’s able to do. If it detected that you have already woken up before your alarm, sources inside Apple said that the Watch goes to “Silent Alarm” mode. Instead of blaring sounds on your iPhone or your Watch, the Watch will begin to vibrate, which is a far more effective and less obnoxious way of waking you up.

For people with two or more Apple Watches in their possession, you will have the option to choose one of the watches as a sleep tracker and leave the others for charging through the night. Of course, with the new feature, there will also be a new widget or an entirely new watch face made to display all of the sleep information.

All Will Be Revealed On September 10th

We don’t have information yet on whether Apple intends to make this feature an exclusive on the Apple Watch Series 5 or it’s going to roll out as an update to all existing Watches. But September 10th is close enough that we don’t need to speculate all that much, either.

Although sleep tracking is, indeed, a new thing for the Apple Watch. The company itself has had some experiences with sleep tracking through the acquisition of Beddit. It is a $150 monitoring device that you fit between your sheet and the mattress that can do pretty much the same thing that Apple is advertising right now: Telling you the quality of your sleep.

There are several exciting things to come in the upcoming September 10th Special Event, which may also include two exotic variants of the Watch: Titanium and Ceramic. The event will be hosted, as always, at the Steve Jobs Theatre in Apple Park, Cupertino, California. We don’t know whether these new Watches are just a design refresh, or they’re going to feature new and more powerful hardware. But, as we said, the date is close enough we couldn’t even bother to make speculations, anymore.

Stay tuned.