{"id":287999,"date":"2025-11-17T02:59:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287999\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T02:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T02:59:11","slug":"watchos-26-2-beta-how-sleep-scores-are-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/287999\/","title":{"rendered":"WatchOS 26.2 beta: How sleep scores are changing"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s about to get a little bit more difficult to ace your sleep score on the Apple Watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

According to 9 to 5 Mac<\/a>, watchOS 26.2 is updating its sleep score to be more accurate. Currently, your sleep score is based off of three categories: duration (worth 50 points), bedtime (worth 30 points), and interruptions (worth 20 points). Then, you’re given one of five scores: very low (0-29), low (30-49), OK (50-69), high (70-89), or excellent (90-100). That “excellent” score will soon be no more.<\/p>\n

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Apple is changing the new sleep scores by eliminating the score “excellent” and replacing that with “very high.” It is also easier to get a very low score and more difficult to get that very high score. According to 9 to 5 Mac, very low will now be 0-40 points, low will be 41-60 points, OK will be 61-80 points, high will be 81-95 points, and very high will be 96 to 100 points.<\/p>\n

In general, I’ve found that the Apple Watch overestimates my quality of sleep, so I see this change as a good thing. For example, last night I slept for seven hours and 16 minutes and went to bed around 10:30, which earned me a 47\/50 for duration, a 30\/30 on bedtime, and a 16\/20 on interruptions (I have a chatty cat). In total, that was a 93 \u2014 an “Excellent.” In comparison, my WHOOP MG 4.0 gave me an 87 percent sleep performance score, based on sleep duration vs. need, consistency, efficiency, and stress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It’s about to get a little bit more difficult to ace your sleep score on the Apple Watch.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":{"0":"post-287999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}