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Originally Posted by jswinden
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. |
I'm in pretty much the same boat, Jack. Except I'm closer to 70 than 60. But, the things that Apple calls "health" are generally not. I've pretty much abandoned the use of the health app as such. At best, it shows summaries. As far as sleep is concerned, its of little relevance to me to know I slept (for example) 5 hours. I want to know (and so does my doc) what the quality of that sleep was, and the health app does not record that information. Sleep cycle on the iphone does, as do a few other apps as well. On a fitbit, there is good information about quality and quantity and on Apple watch, well, the sleep apps are not that brilliant, but its early days.
I have found some interesting and useful health apps for Watch which are pretty good. Heart Watch and cardiogram (I need to keep an eye on tachycardia) and Sleep++ as I mentioned, and Sleep Watch (which is auto, but not very accurate, though you can edit... again, the time seems to take precedence over quality. I need to email them). Cardiogram seems to take your pulse often... and you can set it to constant recording if you want. Battery eating there.
WatchOS3 has solved many battery issues for me, and now, depending on apps in use, I can get about 24 hours from one charge. And since I put the thing on charge during the time i am vegging out in front of the TV, or just reading, the short battery life has become irrelevant to me.
IOS 10.1 is fine on my 5S now, 10 was awful which is why I downgraded at the time. That said, I mostly use the 6S for day to day things.