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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
The Health app never recorded my sleep properly so I did not rely on it to tell me anything. IN any case I detest the way the info is presented in iOS10... The overview of 9 was much more useful if you wanted to show your doc anything.
I now have an Apple watch (previously used Fitbit, and for some reason, Health NEVER recorded the data from daytime naps) and use an app called Sleep++. It works. Its fugly but it works. On my iPhone before the days of wearables, I had begun to use an app called Sleep Cycle and its excellent if you dont mind having a phone on your bed, plugged in to power, all night. It records ups and downs pretty accurately and passes that info to health without much of a problem. I cant wait til I can afford to buy a new CPAP machine that talks to my iPhone.
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Thanks for the information. I don't use CPAP thankfully. I figured out years ago that if I slept a bit inclined that I slept much better, so now I use what is similar to a hospital bed in that it can incline the head of the bed.
I'm a later Baby Boomer approaching 60, so I find most of the so-called health apps to be nearly useless for my case. For me I just want to monitor sleep, heart rate, and activity levels. I'm not interested in dieting, running marathons, or most of what the younger folks do. I'm more interested in doing what I can to keep waking up on the sunny side of the grass!
Like a lot of folks my age, my health is not what is was when I was 30, and I need to monitor it more closely. So I wish there were better apps geared toward Boomers and their health and not geared mostly for Millennials and their desire to obsessively exercise and lose weight. I want health apps, not exercise apps. And I don't need any stupid trophies awarded to me. Yep, the Garmin Connect app will give you a trophy icon if you meet or beat goals! Like I said, most apps are geared towards the needs of Millennials, not their grandparents.