If you are an Apple Watch user, chances are you are already using Apple Watch for sleep tracking. It is very good at it. In addition, when you wake up with Apple Watch, you can track your blood oxygen level, bedtime, etc. Now you can also perform respiratory tracking while sleeping.
With watchOS 8, all compatible Apple Watches will also be able to track your sleep respiratory rate. Your sleep respiratory rate is essentially the number of breaths per minute while you sleep. When your body needs more oxygen, such as during exercise, this number is usually higher, and when you are resting, especially when you are sleeping, this number is lower.
How to Use Sleeping Respiratory Rate Tracking on Apple Watch?
- Make sure you have sleep tracking enabled on your Apple Watch. If you don’t, you can check out our article on how to enable sleep detection on Apple Watch.
- You will also need to update your iPhone to iOS 15 and update Apple Watch to watchOS 8 to get the feature. By the way, if you are not a developer, you can still update your iPhone to iOS 15 without a developer account as well.
- Now, you just need to ensure that you are wearing your Apple Watch to sleep, and it will start tracking your sleep respiratory rate.
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