Running Coach<\/a> can also become annoying, but it offers more prescriptive guidance for crafting a running workout and building toward a goal like a 5K or a marathon if that\u2019s what you\u2019re looking for. The Workout Buddy is more of a blank slate for your own goals. <\/p>\nThe Ultra 3 also accurately tracked my sleep. I tested it while again wearing the Watch 8 Classic on my other wrist. The Ultra 3 measures time asleep and time in each sleep stage. It also charts heart rate and respiration over the course of the night. Each of these metrics, including the sleep stage chart, lined up well with Samsung\u2019s.<\/p>\n
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\n I slept well while testing the Ultra 3 (Credit: Andrew Gebhart)\n<\/p>\n
New to watchOS 26, the Ultra 3 also offers a holistic Sleep Score to encapsulate the rest of your sleep data on a scale from 0 to 100, with five levels of classification: Very Low (0 to 29), Low (30 to 49), OK (50 to 69), High (70 to 89), and Excellent (90 to 100). <\/p>\n
You can tap the info icon under your Sleep Score to see a breakdown of how it was calculated. You can earn up to 50 points for duration, up to 30 for keeping a consistent bedtime, and up to 20 for minimizing interruptions, with the total equalling your score out of 100. <\/p>\n
Both Google and Samsung provide similar sleep scores in their respective smartwatches, and they take more criteria into account. Samsung\u2019s, for instance, factors in data like deep sleep and sleep latency. Apple\u2019s is the simplest and the most straightforward, as it’s the only one that shows exactly how the different criteria add up to the overall score.<\/p>\n
Like Workout Buddy, Apple’s Sleep Score isn\u2019t meant to be prescriptive, just informative. Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 8 models have a Sleep Coach, which does offer prescriptive advice if you want that help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Apple Watch Ultra 3 does an excellent job of tracking activity, exercise, and sleep, matching the capabilities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[356,111,139,69,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-30231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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