Sleep Alarm

Set how long you want to sleep. Sleep Alarm then waits until it detects that you have actually fallen asleep, and only starts counting from that moment. Go to bed at 23:00, take 40 minutes to drop off, and an 8-hour alarm wakes you at 07:40 — not 07:00. In the last 30 minutes before your target it watches for a light-sleep moment and wakes you then, so you are less likely to be pulled out of deep sleep. HOW TO USE 1. Open the app when you get into bed. 2. UP / DOWN to set how long you want to sleep. START to begin. 3. Leave the app open and go to sleep. Back out of it in the morning. Press MENU at any time to preview the alarm, so you know what it sounds like before you trust a night to it. HOW IT WAKES YOU Vibration, escalating over the first 90 seconds. On fēnix it also uses the beeper and holds the LED flashlight on at low brightness. It keeps going until you dismiss it. IMPORTANT — PLEASE READ - The app must stay open on screen all night. Connect IQ does not let a background app use the vibration motor, so there is no way around this. - Vibration must be enabled in your watch's system settings, and Do Not Disturb must be off. The app warns you when you start it if either is wrong. Unlike Garmin's built-in alarms, a Connect IQ app cannot override these. - Sleep detection uses wrist movement and heart rate. It is an estimate, not a sleep lab, and it tends to think you fell asleep slightly earlier than you did. Compare its result against Garmin Connect for a few nights and use the "Onset correction" setting to adjust it. - Running any app all night affects the watch's own overnight metrics, and it uses battery. - This is not a medical device and must not be relied on for anything safety-critical.

Fixed a bug where the app could decide you had fallen asleep while you were still awake. Starting it while sitting up, calm and still, was enough to trigger it — being motionless near your resting heart rate looks a lot like sleep. It now also waits for your heart rate to drop below the level measured in the first few minutes after you start it, so being still is no longer enough on its own. Fixed: on watches with two buttons, such as the vivoactive 6, the menu could not be opened at all. Tap or swipe the left edge of the screen to open it. A small arrow on the left now shows where. New: Night history. In the menu, see the last 7 nights — when the app decided you fell asleep, and when it woke you. Useful for checking it against the sleep times in Garmin Connect. New: Settings on the watch. Adjust everything without reaching for your phone: sleep goal, wake window, onset correction, how far your heart rate must drop, stillness sensitivity and the baseline window. There is a reset-to-defaults option, and the version number is at the bottom. Also: if it still cannot tell when you fell asleep after two hours, it now relaxes its rules rather than falling back to the backup alarm.