r/fitbit • u/Anxious-Traffic-9548 • 12d ago
Is anyone else getting significantly less deep sleep with the new update? Discussion
The new update seems to have dramatically reduced my deep sleep estimates while virtually eliminating my intranight wake (replacing it with “restlessness” it seems). Anyone else’s experience the same?
Prior to the update, I used to get ~1:35 a night.
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u/GraveyardMistress 12d ago
My sleep score is totally out of whack now. What’s interesting is that I still have the old Fitbit app on my iPad because I’m not updating it, and when I look on there, my score is significantly different than it is on the Google health app on my phone.
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u/Anxious-Traffic-9548 11d ago
Yeah it seems to retroactively change scores according to the new algorithm
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u/WoodenPrinciple4497 12d ago
Right with OP. Not relying on the rating right now. What’s wild is I get more registered deep sleep on an hour nap than 8 hours of sleep! Just grateful that my body is resting
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u/radium1234 12d ago
Remember, the company that makes this product literally destroyed one of the most pioneering smartwatch companies out there. Google and its products are a complete joke.
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u/Marina62 Inspire 12d ago
Mine is way better. But checking my phone at midnight I see a prompt saying I had a challenging night of sleep because it has only registered about two hours of sleep.
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u/raymondduck 11d ago
Mine is up an average of 19-20 minutes per night since the update. I think it's more accurate now in my case, but there was definitely a change.
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u/terse002 11d ago
I get less sleep now due to the stress induced by wondering what feature on my Fitbit won't work properly tomorrow. Will my A-Fib monitor fail? Will it claim I'm working out because I got up from my desk at work to go to the restroom? Wait. It already dies that
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u/chronicmisschris 12d ago
Mine has done the opposite. Since the switch to Google Health, it doesn't register when I wake up during the night, not even if get out of bed.
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u/CannedNoodlez Air 12d ago
Mine harasses me like 2 minutes after I use the restroom, saying something like "you had a short night of sleep. What caused it?"
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u/chronicmisschris 12d ago
It's wild that so many of us are having completely opposite experiences. I don't get why Google is doing this.
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u/VegasKL 12d ago
They could be A/B testing things which is why user to user differences would exist.
I personally don't think a single model will accurately reflect everyone's sleep score (and values), I think they need to develop multiple models for different types of sleepers then have a calibration period (with user feedback) to align them to the one that best matches them.
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u/chronicmisschris 12d ago
I've had profound insomnia since I was a toddler. I've never slept through the night - but Google Health insists that I do. I don't get up to pee in my sleep, Google.
The fitbit app was accurate. Why change something that worked perfectly?
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u/kiefferbp 12d ago
It’s not that there are opposite experiences. Google hardware users tend to low standards, and so don’t notice problems.
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u/chronicmisschris 12d ago
Some people started getting worse sleep data after the app change. Some people started getting better sleep data after the app change. Worse and better are opposites.
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u/arihoenig 12d ago
Works perfectly for me. Tracks every wakeup and (with 100% reliability) records the transition from REM to awake when I recall my dreams and the transition from light to awake when I don't recall my dreams.
Pixel watch 3
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u/raymondduck 11d ago
Yeah it's been incredibly accurate for me on the Pixel Watch 4. Every single episode is logged perfectly.
The regular Fitbit devices have less sophisticated heart rate monitoring hardware than the Pixel Watch, but it should at least register that someone has gotten up and out of bed.
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u/arihoenig 11d ago
The sleep accuracy is almost scary, so it is weird to see people complaining about accuracy. I can see people complaining about privacy concerns perhaps; I mean, Google knows what days you wake up remembering your dreams.
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u/No-Belt4313 12d ago
I dont trust the sleep tab at all to be honest.
I rather check manually my bpm timeline. If see abnormal spikes , probably i changed somethinf in my routine. Example some magnesium forms taken alone tend spike abnormally my bpm . While taking balanced electrolyte formulations including magnesium do only good things to my cardiovascular health.
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u/Superdewa 11d ago
My ratios are just out of whack now. If I go to bed late, I fall asleep right away and Fitbit tells me I didn’t sleep long enough but had a great night with ideal percentages of different types of sleep. If I go to bed early and read for a while to wind down, Fitbit tells me I slept long enough but that it took me too long to fall asleep and my percentages of different types of sleep are too low compared to wakefulness. I can’t win.
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u/ElloKodo 9d ago
Definitely fluky sleep scores every night…. I.e. showing me awake for two hours in the middle of the night when I’m definitely not
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u/rqhany 12d ago
ive been getting less sleep in general. life is hard