All the ways to use a Fitbit for sleep tracking

Fitbit Smartwatch: Sleep Tracking Guide

Fitbit smartwatches are often used to track cycling, running, and gym workouts, but they can also track your situation when you are under low activity, such as sleep.

All Fitbit currently sells devices that track your sleep, just wear it at night. If you are a Fitbit Premium subscription ($10 per month or $80 per year), you will get personalized insights and suggestions to help you improve your sleep and get a more detailed sleep analysis (sleep score).

If you have one of two high-end Fitbit smartwatches—the Fitbit Sense or Fitbit Versa 3—and the Fitbit Premium—you also have access to the snore detection feature, which listens to snore and other noises at night. This helps perfect your overall sleep score and measures the depth of your sleep.

We'll cover all of these features here, but the screens you see at home may vary depending on your device and whether you are a Premium subscription user.

Preparation before bed

You don't need to prepare much to let your Fitbit track your sleep. Assuming you have set up your device and connected it to your phone, you just have to wear it at night when you go to bed – the wearable automatically detects when you fall asleep and when you wake up.

If you are a Premium subscription user using Versa 3 or Fitbit Sense, you may need to check a setting in advance, the aforementioned snore detection. On the home screen of the Fitbit app, click the Sleep entry in the list (it marks the sleep time you had the previous night), and then click the gear icon in the upper right corner. If you want to use this feature, make sure is enabled for snoring detection.

[Related: How to Stop Snoring]

Remember that listening to noise can consume more power, so Fitbit recommends that your smartwatch has at least 40% left before going to bed. On the same screen under the gear icon, you can set your sleep goals and have the Fitbit app alert you when it's time to sleep (based on the bedtime and wake-up time you set).

Check after waking up

When you wake up in the morning and feel refreshed (we hope so), your Fitbit will record that you have woken up and stop tracking your sleep. On the app's home screen, you can scroll down to see how long you've been sleeping overnight, and the breakdown of the different stages - REM, light sleep and deep sleep. Click here to see more details.

You will then get a complete chart showing what stages of sleep you are in, helping you discover special uneasy moments. You can also view your 30-day average, as well as common ranges for people who match your gender and age. If your smartwatch can measure blood oxygen saturation, you will also see how it fluctuates at night.

Fitbit summarizes multiple indicators—heart rate, activity, sleep phases—into a whole night sleep score. It basically scores your sleep quality after taking all the measurements into account. Your sleep score will be broken down into different sections, including recovery – a measure of how much energy your body should recover the next day.

In-depth understanding of Fitbit's sleep tracking capabilities

Sign up for a Fitbit Premium subscription and you will get more insights and suggestions about your sleep. For example, if you don't sleep at the same time every night, you may see a pop-up alert that you recommend you try to develop a routine.

With a Premium subscription, your sleep score should also be more accurate, as it contains more factors – one of them is your snoring level (Fitbit provides a complete list of everything that Premium offers). These additional factors, including sleep time, have a more detailed breakdown in the app, and more information to help you interpret them.

If you have enabled snore and noise detection, click on the Snore Report link for any day to see what your Fitbit smartwatch microphone detects while you sleep. You will get an overview of your night and when you make noise, as well as some background information about the meaning of your results. The overall snoring and noise levels will be summarized at the top.

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