{"id":23815,"date":"2025-07-25T23:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23815\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T23:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T23:07:08","slug":"your-apple-watch-may-be-getting-a-sneaky-cool-new-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23815\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Apple Watch May Be Getting a Sneaky Cool New Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the years, Apple has developed a habit of observing what works in other smartwatches and fitness trackers, and then introducing similar features to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gearpatrol.com\/tech\/best-apple-watch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Apple Watch<\/a> later. But, because it\u2019s Apple, they\u2019re able to do it in a stylish way that works much better with your iPhone and other Apple devices. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One recent example of this is sleep tracking. Because the Apple Watch doesn\u2019t have nearly the battery life of its rivals, Apple stayed away from it. But, due to overwhelming demand, it finally conceded and introduced sleep tracking in 2020 as part of watchOS 7. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, the Apple Watch\u2019s sleep tracking has lacked a fundamental feature \u2014 the ability to provide a sleep score, which is a fun and easy way to gauge how well you\u2019ve slept.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the most popular fitness trackers, including Whoop, as well as several third-party sleep tracking apps for the Apple Watch, have been able to provide wearers with a sleep score. And now it looks like a similar feature could be coming to the Sleep app on your Apple Watch for the first time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(It\u2019s worth noting that this wouldn\u2019t be the first time the Apple Watch got a signature Whoop feature. Just last year, with watchOS 11, Apple Watch finally gave you the ability to take days off, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gearpatrol.com\/fitness\/apple-watch-watchos-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">\u201crest days,\u201d<\/a> where you could pause activity rings in case you need a day or week off.)<\/p>\n<p>The Apple Watch gets a sleep score (maybe)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" data-dominant-color=\"8c98a4\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #8c98a4;\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Apple-Watch-Sleep-1-jpg.webp\" alt=\"Apple Watch rumor sleep score\" class=\"not-transparent wp-image-909987\"  \/>Apple introduced sleep tracking on the Apple Watch in 2020, but it has never been able to show you a sleep score, a sleep tracking feature that many other smartwatches and fitness trackers have.Apple<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=31959X896062&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2FSteveMoser%2Fstatus%2F1947846058035347549&amp;sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gearpatrol.com%2Ftech%2Fapple-watch-sleep-score-feature%2F&amp;xcust=%5Bcontent_id%7C909932%5Brefdomain%7Cwww.gearpatrol.com%5Bcontent_product_id%7C%5Bproduct_retailer_id%7C\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MacRumors contributor Steve Moser<\/a> in the developer beta of iOS 26, located in the Health app code, there\u2019s an unused illustration titled \u201cWatch Focus Score\u201d with several sleep-related icons (including \u201czzz,\u201d the moon, a bed and an alarm clock) around it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over the years, Apple has developed a habit of observing what works in other smartwatches and fitness trackers,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[786,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-23815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-gadgets","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}