Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro sleep tracking data on watch

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Smartwatches quite a few uses beyond checking notifications and interacting with apps on your phone. Many of them feature helpful sleep tracking features that can give you a glimpse at your sleeping habits. Of course, in order to do that, you have to go to sleep wearing a smartwatch or another type of wearable, although there are a few examples of off-body tracking.

With that in mind, we want to know if you like to sleep with your smartwatch or another type of wearable.

It's possible to see how long you were asleep and your various sleep stages with the detailed sleep tracking on many of the bestAndroid watches. Light sleep, REM sleep, and deep sleep are included. The REM stage is associated with dreaming and deep sleep is associated with relaxing your muscles and stabilizing your breathing. Light sleep is the easiest stage to wake up to, and some devices can wake you based on your alarm so that you don't feel sleepy.

Smart Wake activates a gentle buzz on your wrist during your lightest sleep stage so you can really take flight when it’s time to rise. Goodbye, groggy. Hello, energy. #sleep #sleepbetter #smartwake pic.twitter.com/LPQ16r9p2HJanuary 26, 2021

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Wearables can tell you how long it takes to fall asleep, and the Oura Ring can keep an eye on your blood oxygen levels. The sounds you make while you sleep can be recorded. The GALAXY WATCH 5 can do that, which can sound a bit weird, but it can help you address an annoying sleep habit or show an underlying sleep condition.

If you want to know how well you sleep, you can use a sleep score, which is a combination of sleep efficiency, latency, and how much you move during sleep. This data can be used to figure out ways to sleep better. Users are matched with sleep animals based on their sleep habits.

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