Middle of the Night Stand Reminders on Apple Watch

rogerc888 wrote:

FYI I had disabled the sleep focus before I went to bed, because that was putting my phone and laptop into sleep focus and (I think) making the watch display go turn off in the evening. I don’t want sleep focus, it’s actually important I get woken up by alerts in the night. But I do want the display to be dim when I’m asleep. Must be missing something, this functionality seems BONKERS. Will go to a Genius Bar and report back.

Sleep Focus is intended to be share across the phone and watch but you can turn it sharing so that it doesn't turn it on on the laptop. I do find that I'm curious about why this matters. Do you leave your laptop open and in the same room you're sleeping in?

You can also change the Sleep Focus settings so that the alerts for things you need to be alerted for still come through.

Hey I experiences this as well— for multiple night and sometimes more than once time in the night. I have a 2023 SE watch, it’s updated to the most version and I do have a sleep schedule.

This morning while opening the fridg the app asked me why “hand washing had stopped”…

This started about two weeks ago ( so in July 2024). Did you find anything to make it stop/better?

Following advice posted elsewhere in this thread, I’m manually turning sleep mode on in my watch’s settings since the time that I go to sleep varies from day to day. It would be nice for the watch to know that I’m sleeping and to not alert me on its own but manually turning the setting on when going to sleep is a minor inconvenience.

Hi. My girlfriend has the same problem but I don’t. So we compared different settings. The one we found that was different was to go into settings. Then to Focus. In Focus go to Do Not Disturb. Now go to Set a Schedule. Set a schedule for the hours you want to sleep and not be disturbed. Down below the Set a Schedule is Focus Filters. Make sure no apps are in the section and it is empty. I hope this helps. Fingers crossed it works for you.

You should let Apple know directly about your wishes for future updates by using the Feedback link, as this is the only way to reach them.

Feedback - Apple Watch - Apple

Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Hold your horses… I just stumbled on this. Go to your control center… tap don’t hold the right bottom button. Set it there.

What is your new phone?

I had 12 hour stand goal too and just out of nowhere I started to receive notification. Did you contact apple directly?

Restarting the watch helped in my case.

On the Apple Watch app, from your iPhone go to actives and then notifications and turn off Stand reminders.

Thank you for the feedback. Now I am totally bamboozled why mine doesn’t do it at night but others do. 🤷‍♂️

Did someone find a way to solve it? Super annoying!

I posted in this chat that you can turn off Stand Up reminders from the watch app on the iPhone.