Apple Sleep score in Health on my iPhone

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I’m tracking the Apple Sleep score using my watch, it’s an easy but flawed metric which expects you to get 8 hours of sleep a night and go to bed at the same time most nights.

I only need approx 7 hours of sleep a night (which is what is set in my Sleep Goal) and don’t have a consistent bedtime.

HOWEVER, I’ve seen screenshots of people tracking this in the Health app, but it doesn’t appear in mine and I can’t find an article explaining why this might be or how to fix it.

Also let me have a moan that Search in the Health app just doesn’t work. I can search for an item that existing (there are several beginning with “Heart” and it can’t find them.

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In the Summary in the Health app you can pin different measurements. Edit the pinned items in the upper right and add Sleep Score. It’s not as reflective of my sleep quality as is Sleep++.

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This is the problem. Sleep Score doesn’t exist on my iPhone.

and if I go into the Sleep section, it tracks the vitals stuff and average time in bed, but no sleep score.

So I get each day’s sleep score on a complication on my watch, but no graph in Health.

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Do you have a sleep schedule set up? That may be required for Sleep Score.

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it’s all setup right as it calculates the sleep score on my watch every day. I can’t however see it in Apple Health on the phone.

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Do you get other sleep data on your phone? This article doesn’t address exactly what you are describing but it may be worth a try to do some of the suggestions.

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Thank you, I’ve looked at that article while trying to work out what’s wrong.

Yeah, both the Apple Sleep “app” (Watch and phone) and Sleep++ get data. Health data sync’s from my Watch to iPhone (e.g. Vitals information)

It’s all tracked, but the Sleep Score doesn’t appear in the iPhone Health App either as a daily score or tracked over time.

I’ve seen that when the feature was released, some people had sleep score data backdated until 2020.

For some reason I can’t see anything Sleep Score specific in the Health App on my iPhone

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It doesn’t help you at the moment if you can’t see Sleep in Health on the iPhone, but you absolutely can set your sleep duration goal.

In the Sleep section of Health, just before all the “About sleep” stuff, there is a section regarding your schedule. If you tap into the Full Schedule & Options section, then scroll down, there is a Sleep Goal item you can tap to set. You can set it to any value from 4 to 12 hours in half hour increments.

Getting to your core issue of not seeing it in Health, things changed a bit in iOS 26. Vitals is completely separate to Sleep. Annoyingly, you have to tap the Search button (bottom right) to bring up the complete list of sections. In there, I have Sleep — which only shows the graph and score — and also Vitals — which shows all sorts of things and the only mention of Sleep there is in the Vitals graph.

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Thanks @zkarj

It’s all setup including my sleep schedule, which I’ve used for years to invoke the sleep focus (if I remember correctly, it previously just invoked DND). I’ve also setup different sleep schedules for different days.

I suspect there’s something broken in my Health as the Search functionality is completely broken, no matter what I search for,

it finds nothing.

Bizarrely, if I search for Health “features” e.g. Weight in spotlight on IOS, it will open the Health App at that feature.

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Update:

By turning off syncing of health data on iCloud and (very scarily) deleting all of my health data from my phone, then rebooting and turning Syncing back on. Search now works in the Health App, but still no Sleep Score. :weary:

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Since you took that scary step without disaster another scary thing to consider might be “removing” the health app and “re-downloading” it.

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And now after switching off sync and re-enabling it, it also removed all of the permissions I’d granted over the years to shortcuts and apps, so every time I go to an app I either have to delete and reinstall it, or if possible cause it to prompt for permissions.

:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:

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And finally, for some reason I don’t understand, at some point over the last few days, my Sleep Score became available in IOS Health. I can’t think of anything I’ve done in the last 7 days which would suddenly have caused this, no updates to software/OS, no settings changes.

I also note that my scores have been calculated all of the way back to 2018 :grinning:

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