I was very interested in the sleep cycle app but now I'm reading this in the reviews: ' The application is FAKE. If you place the phone on for instance a table over night instead it still shows statistics depicting a persons sleep. SO unless my apartment is haunted by ghosts I do not think the table moves around by itself. I like most of us was intrigued my the technology, data and potential for feeling better in the morning.
Oct 8, 2018 - In the old days, one could run the Console application and search through the system log to identify when certain events occurred.
The problem is, this app is SNAKE OIL.it's a lie. When placed on a table far away from you it will create a nice movement graph as if you have gone through sleep cycles all night.
It will also awaken you at a random time. And this is based on WHAT?
I loved this app for a while until I discovered its a huge joke. I left my phone far away from me on the floor as well as on a dresser two nights in a row and magically I have a sleep cycle graph! Don't waste your money. Is this true? In theory it would be possible to differentiate some stages of sleep from others. For instance, in some stages of sleep motor signals are blocked and therefore the muscle do not move ('sleep paralysis'). Movements and noise during sleep would be relatively easy to pick up with the iPhone's sensors, and would probably allow a fairly crude measure of sleep state.
On the other hand if one had a noisy abode or one that shakes (e.g., near train tracks) the app would not be able to tell the difference between signals made by you and signals from other sources. Sleep Cycle needs one, sometimes two, nights to calibrate to your accelerometer. Usually the calibration is not needed but on some (very few) devices the accelerometer is too sensitive and can detect movement when there was none during the first one or two nights. If you place your iPhone/iPod in bed, according to the instructions, then this is not a problem. When calibrated, Sleep Cycle is extremely sensitive to movement.
It can detect the slightest vibrations. For example, you walking past the iPhone/iPad or a car/truck passing by on the street outside. When you place your iPhone/iPad on a flat surface then Sleep Cycle detects very little movement. It then assumes that the users movements are very difficult to detect and goes into a mode where every movement is treated very seriously (and creates a big spike in the graph).
If you still feel Sleep Cycle creates inaccurate graphs, you can contact the developer. They analyze your data and check if you have discovered an issue with the Sleep Cycle movement-detecting code.
My Test I bought this App a few days ago and was happy with it till I read this thread. So I spent all day today testing it. When I put it on a table it showed a sleep/wake pattern, BUT, when I put it on my mattress and left it for 4 hours it showed deep sleep (no movement) for the entire four hours. I believe that when you lay it on a table it picks up every external vibration and interprets it as waking. The mattress seems to absorb external vibrations and therefore the mattress result is more accurate, which is probably why the instructions say specifically to lay it on your mattress I'm going to continue using it! I was very interested in the sleep cycle app but now I'm reading this in the reviews: ' The application is FAKE. If you place the phone on for instance a table over night instead it still shows statistics depicting a persons sleep.
SO unless my apartment is haunted by ghosts I do not think the table moves around by itself. I like most of us was intrigued my the technology, data and potential for feeling better in the morning. The problem is, this app is SNAKE OIL.it's a lie. When placed on a table far away from you it will create a nice movement graph as if you have gone through sleep cycles all night. It will also awaken you at a random time. And this is based on WHAT? I loved this app for a while until I discovered its a huge joke.
I left my phone far away from me on the floor as well as on a dresser two nights in a row and magically I have a sleep cycle graph! Don't waste your money.
Is this true? Post Merged, Mar 24, 2016 -Clearly you never read the details of the app. I have been using it for about 4 years and it is extremely accurate.
The app can work either by movement placed in bed or by sounds placed on a night table. It is even sensitive enough to decipher between you or a partner sharing the same bed. I find the in bed movement to be more accurate. As far as waking you up at a random time there is a half hour grace period before your set wake up time that will be used to wake you up during a light stage of sleep.
This is proven to give you greater awareness in the morning and will feel less sleepy or groggy than being woken up from a deep REM sleep. Please research before posting something stupid! This app is entirely inaccurate. It consistently tracks me as sleeping when I am awake.
For instance I was awake for three hours at one point, and I even turned on the light and read for an hour. According to the app I was asleep the whole time, half of that time in a deep sleep. I suppose the microphone cannot detect pages turning This inaccuracy persisted every night I tried it (for a week), both on the microphone and the accelerometer setting.
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I often get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, and sleep cycle ALWAYS tracks that activity as just gently moving from a deep sleep to a mid sleep. I often lie wide awake and motionless in bed but am not asleep, but sleep cycle always tracks me as in a deep sleep which couldnt be further from reality. Without actually tracking brain waves or heart rates, tracking sleep with a microphone is a useless exercise. Just an observation based on the above: according to my understanding the main use case of the app is to detect when would be a good time to wake you up when you are sleeping. For this use case, it doesn't matter whether or not it can detect that you are awake when you are actually awake.
As an analogy, if you have an app that's supposed to record your route when driving, it might record a false route if you leave it on a table indoors – that doesn't mean the app is fake if it still records the route correctly when you are actually driving Of course, it is hard to test the real case of actually sleeping. I think a better test might be have some other device (ideally a wake-up light if you are using the microphone) to wake you up during the same time window when Sleep Cycle is supposed to wake you. If it detects that you woke up, I suppose Sleep Cycle's alarm should also go off. (Although even this is not testing the actual case of transition from deep sleep to lighter sleep) Note that I am not saying that the app works correctly – I have no idea whether it does. I'm just saying that testing it while awake does not prove it doesn't work while sleeping.
Apple’s Health app supports sleep tracking data on the iPhone, but populating the category with useful data can be a challenge. You can capture some data using the Bedtime feature in the Clock app, but dedicated sleep trackers can be more reliable and offer more robust data and Apple hasn’t offered its own Apple Watch sleep tracking yet despite almost a year ago. Is a third-party app that lets you turn your Apple Watch into a dedicated sleep tracker, and today’s 3.0 release makes that much easier with automatic sleep tracking and new goal features. Previous versions of the sleep tracking app required manually starting and stopping sessions to capture sleep data, but version 3.0 simply requires wearing an Apple Watch to bed — no additional steps required. This works because Sleep can analyze data automatically captured by the Apple Watch like calories burned, steps taken, and heart rate to determine sleep hours and quality without any input from the user. Sleep developer David Smith that the data captured using this method is comparable to data captured using the previous manual method.
The old method is still supported through the now optional Sleep Apple Watch app, but Sleep on the iPhone can read data captured by the Apple Watch to populate both Sleep and Apple’s Health app with sleep tracking data. Sleep for iPhone also includes new monitoring features including a morning sleep summary alert that details sleep hours and quality in a single notification, an optional sleep goal, and a new bedtime reminder to help you meet your sleep goal. Is a free app for iPhone and Apple Watch. Read more about the latest update from David Smith’s.