Sleep Patterns turns your recent nights into a grid with one square per night, so weeks and months of sleep fit on one screen. Pick any of 13 metrics, from sleep quality to blood oxygen, and tap a square to read that night.
Each square is one night, arranged by week like a calendar. Brighter squares are better nights: more sleep, a higher score, fewer awakenings or a lower heart rate, depending on the metric you pick. Tap any square to read the value for that night.
A single night tells you little. A grid of them makes patterns jump out: a run of dim squares after a stressful week, a bright stretch during a holiday, or a weekday that always looks different from the rest.
You can switch the grid between thirteen measures of your night.
The detail screen opens a full year grid that you can page through, so you can look back at earlier periods. It adds Highlights for the period, a By Weekday view that sets weeknights against weekends, and a By Month view that shows how each month compared. This is where seasonal changes, a new routine or a busy month at work tend to show up.
Sleep changes slowly and is easy to misremember. Most people have a fair sense of last night, a rough sense of last week, and very little idea how this month compares with the one before. Yet many of the things that affect sleep work over longer stretches: seasons and daylight, training blocks, travel, work deadlines, a new baby, a change in caffeine or alcohol habits.
Seeing many nights at once lets you separate a bad night from a bad pattern. If your sleeping heart rate has been brighter for a month since you started exercising more, or your bedtime squares have drifted later every week, the grid makes it visible in seconds. That kind of long view helps you judge whether a change you made is actually working.
Sleep Patterns reads your nights from Apple Health. Duration, sessions, bedtime and wake time work with any sleep source. Stage-based metrics like Restorative Sleep and the heart, HRV, blood oxygen and respiratory rate metrics need an Apple Watch or another device that records them while you sleep and saves them to Apple Health.
Each square is one night, and brighter squares are better nights for the metric you have chosen, for example more sleep, fewer awakenings or a lower heart rate.
Yes. The detail screen shows a year grid you can page through, plus views by weekday and by month.
Thirteen: Sleep Quality, Sleep Duration, Restorative Sleep, Awakenings, Sessions, Bedtime, Wake Time, Sleeping Heart Rate, Lowest Heart Rate, Highest Heart Rate, HRV, Blood Oxygen and Respiratory Rate.
An empty square means there was no data for that metric that night, for example if you did not wear your watch to bed.
Deep plus REM sleep per night, with findings from your own best nights.
Your chronotype, schedule consistency and sleep trends from your own nights.
Respiratory rate, sleep HRV, wrist temperature, blood oxygen and disruptions against your usual range.
A month view with a score ring on every day, and a tap to jump the whole app to any past date.
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FitRest reads the data already in Apple Health, so there is nothing to set up beyond granting access.
iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Requires iOS 17 or later.