Sleep Profile

Fitbit’s ‘Sleep Profile‘ system will make its way to the new Pixel Watch starting November 22nd.

Google announced the details in a blog post. Sleep Profiles, for those unfamiliar, assign users an animal that represents their sleep style based on insights and data gathered by Fitbit sleep tracking. Sleep Profiles are, unfortunately, only available to Fitbit Premium subscribers.

To get a Sleep Profile, users will need to wear their Pixel Watch to bed for at least 14 days each month. Fitbit assigns Sleep Profiles each month, and your Sleep Profile can change if your sleeping habits shift. Google notes that Pixel Watch owners who wore their watch to bed for 14 nights in October will get a Sleep Profile on November 22nd when the feature releases.

I spent time with Fitbit’s Sleep Profile features on the company’s Sense smartwatch earlier this year — you can learn more about Sleep Profiles here.

Since launch, Google says Fitbit Sleep Profile released 6.35 million profiles to users. Moreover, the company shared some trends from the first few months of Sleep Profiles:

“People who use Sleep Profile are most successful at hitting the ideal range of “Time Before Sound Sleep” (52%), REM sleep (49.7%) and deep sleep (49.5%). But they are the least successful at hitting the ideal range of “Nights with Long Awakenings” and “Sleep Schedule Variability” (14.6% and 23.2% respectively). The most common areas of improvement are Days with Naps (61.2%), Sleep Schedule Variability (52.7%) and Restorative Sleep (45.6%).”

Fitbit Premium costs $12.99/mo or $104.99/year in Canada.

Source: Google

Fitbit Premium users will soon get a new way to analyze their rest through ‘Sleep Profiles.’

The new Sleep Profiles feature offers up what Fitbit calls a “longitudinal analysis of your sleep patterns.” It leverages 10 metrics and once a month provides analysis and compares users’ trends with what’s typical for sleep at their age and gender.

These metrics include details like sleep schedule variability, sleep duration, how long it takes people to fall asleep, and more.

Image credit: Fitbit

Fitbit says its “research team studied 1,000 different sleep features during its analysis before distilling it down to the key metrics we include in your profile.”

Additionally, to make this information easier to digest, Fitbit gives users a ‘Sleep Animal.’ The company describes these as a “fun way to understand your sleeping style.” There are six animal archetypes that correspond to sleeping behaviours, which you can see below:

Fitbit stresses that none of the Sleep Animals are better than the others and that they can change over time. Instead, people should view the animals as a way to better understand their sleep patterns. Similarly, Fitbit says Sleep Profiles aren’t intended for medical purposes.

To use Sleep Profiles, Fitbit says users need to wear their Fitbit for at least 14 nights of each calendar month. The more users wear their devices while sleeping, the better the analysis will be. Sleep Profiles is rolling out in the Fitbit app to Premium users with supported devices, with the first Sleep Profile expected to show up on July 4. After that, Fitbit Premium subscribers can expect to see their new Sleep Profile information on the first of each month. Supported devices include:

Source: Fitbit