Watch7 update

[userpMgFwKaOxb]

Yesterday, I received the latest update for the Watch7 which included increased stability and the Nov 1 security update. 

Apparently, it also did something to the watch sensors that seemed to detect sleep while I was sitting and demonstratively awake in a chair for 2.5 hours yesterday afternoon, and again did the same thing last evening from ~10:30 PM until 12:30 AM early this morning. In the 6 previous months this watch had NEVER exhibited this kind of behavior. 

If this is what comes in day 1 of this new update, this is going to be a real fun ride until the next update rolls out! It makes sleep scores a bit of a joke and certainly much less reliable. 

Can Samsung Health be tweeked to correct for this type of sleep misread? Otherwise, sleep tracking is somewhat useless. 

[Robin621k]

Try wiping the cache partion of the watch first. If that doesn't work, a reset should fix it.

[JustJade]

Wiping the cache, factory reset, and all the other nonsense suggested won't fix the issue. Maybe the next update will, but at this point, your watch will continue to misbehave.

[userpMgFwKaOxb]

And that's what I was thinking. I've been down this road since 2019 with the Active. This is a sensor sensitivity (or lack thereof) issue.

Thanks for the reples.

[realaud]

You may have been awake, but may have been in such a relaxed state that your vitals registered as sleep. It is a fact that the the watches sometimes register this relaxed state as a light sleep stage, especially if you happen to be reclining.

[userpMgFwKaOxb]

Not in this case. I tend to do the same things in the afternoon and the evening every day. Years ago, with my Watch 3, I was driving my car, and the watch thought I was riding a bicycle, but that was one isolated time. Yesterday was a very normal day, and this behavior has never happened before. Even though I'm seated, I'm animated, even into the wee hours of the night - and I dont recline in a chair. This was just plain bizarre, and it happened twice in the same day.

AND NEWS FLASH: while I was typing out the above reply to Realaud and a bit longer, the watch just told me that I was sleeping from 4:15 PM to 5:50 PM - looks like this is now a "feature rather than flaw" - much to my chagrin.