Sleep timing causing inaccurate energy score

[Angiepangielou]

I am very confused about the sleep timing  for the energy score on the watch app. According to this, the ideal time to go to sleep is between 11pm and 2am. I wake up at 5:30am, so if I went to sleep between those times, I would be a walking zombie the next day. It doesn't make any sense at all. It's bringing my scores down and basically making me feel like I'm doing something wrong. Then in the sleep section, it recommends getting 7-9 hours of sleep per night. So these two things are conflicting. Please change this Samsung. No one should be going to sleep between 11pm and 2am on a working week night when they need to wake up early. That is unhealthy. 

 

[Deangelio38]

Ok

[realaud]

According to the explanation of the optimal range, that figure is determined by "most people's" circadian rhythms. The slider shows where your bedtime was in relation to that. It does *not* tell you when you should go to bed. Your energy score is based on your total sleep time, not what time you went to bed. Also, have you set your personal sleep target? Go to the sleep tile, tap on menu, tap on sleep target and enter your normal bed and wakeup times. This will help gauge sleep consistency and whether you are hitting your target.

I don't need an "energy score" to tell me whether I am tired or not. I think it's a useless measure. Nothing in the sleep analysis takes into account any temporary or chronic health issues that may be going on that could affect sleep, and there is no place to make notes to account for it. So, until they do that, I view the whole sleep statistics thing as an imperfect tool, and the energy score is just a useless novelty addition. They could have spent their coding hours making more significant improvements to the app overall; such as adding things people have actually been asking for--specifically, notes, and the ability to edit the bedtime for when the watch thinks you are sleeping when you are not.

[Angiepangielou]

Hi there. 

Yes I have set my sleep time from 9:30pm to 5:30pm and do achieve this every night, but it's just disconcerting to recieve "needs attention" scores for sleep timing in the energy score section for something so inaccurate. I totally agree that is such an unnecessary feature. The perfectionist in me doesn't like being told I'm doing something wrong 😅.

[realaud]

Hide the energy score tile from your home page - you will be happier.

[Thegurubob]

I 100% agree with you. If I'm working in in bed at 1930hr as my work starts at 0500. I'm up at 0330hr for little exercise before work. I can get excellent in every other energy score, except sleep time... needs attention. This need to be adjusted or adapters to your sleep routines, not to put every one in the same box.

 

[Shaniwulffe]

I have the opposite problem - I work night shifts, and I'm at work during those hours! Extremely frustrating

[nataliaschults]

In case you receive any helpful reply, I would like to know about that too, because even I sleep very well, around 95 to 98 sleep score, my energy score is still around 80 and it's down because I sleep at 22PM, I tried to sleep later, but that makes me deezy during the morning, what is the opposite what the "energy" score should mean.

[userfiTYzLUfdn]

I can't believe they haven't fixed this bug yet.

I am at work at 2AM.  I will get a 99 sleep score, have a perfect nights sleep and my energy score will drop to 50's and I'll get a lecture about sleep timing and told to go to bed at 11PM - 2AM.

That would definitely not be a healthy thing for anyone...and it's been making all my data and scores absolutely useless.

My daughter is trying her best to use Samsung Health to get better sleep and for months we're just waiting for this to be fixed.

[realaud]

Why are you even taking the energy score seriously? As to your daughter using the sleep statistics to improve her sleep, that can be done just fine without the added distraction of the energy score.  All anyone needs to know about energy level is: do you feel rested? and are you lethargic.  You don't need a score to tell you that.  Hide the tile and don't give it another thought.