Fitbit has launched a new feature that suggests when you should go to bed each night, based on your logged sleep and how you feel throughout the day.
Fitbit’s Personalized Sleep Schedule Lab monitors how you feel throughout the day to work out when you should really be going to sleep in order to feel your best. “Every morning after you log sleep, you’ll receive a short 2-minute survey with multiple-choice and free-form questions about what might impact your upcoming night’s sleep,” says Google.
This questionnaire will be available until 10am, and will be followed throughout the day by a trio of “one question” surveys. And this is capped off with a pre-sleep survey, one more like the questionnaire you answer in the morning. It will include any known factors that might impact your upcoming sleep. It will take around two minutes, and is available up until 11pm. And if you don’t do so, you won’t get a suggested sleep schedule — in most cases Fitbit may be recommending you head to bed by that time anyway. It’s not hard to see why Personalized Sleep Schedule is an experimental labs feature — it requires quite a lot of input on behalf to the user, where Garmin’srelies on stats it can collate passively. However, it could influence features added to Fitbits more widely in the future. To take part, you’ll need to be in the U.S., and at least 18 years old. It’s also only open to Android users, which makes sense given Google owns Fitbit. You don’t need a particular Fitbit wearable, though, and the website FAQ suggests you can even try it out with manual logging of sleep hours. The Fitbit Labs section where you sign up for access is found in the Fitbit phone app, under the You tab.Fitbit’s Personalized Sleep Schedule Lab follows on from another two Labs trials that finished up on February 28, Insight Explorer and Sleep Insight & Tips. The latter is closer to the Personalized Sleep Schedule Lab, and asked you to complete a sleep journal, offering a weekly recap of your sleep habits in return. Insights Explorer used the tech at the root of chatbots to let you ask about your history of Fitbit data, such as “when was my most restful night of sleep last month?” What do these three Labs initiative have in common? Generative AI. And that means they also come with a warning. “This feature uses generative AI, which may occasionally generate inaccurate or misleading information,” reads Google’s FAQ section on Personalized Sleep Schedule Lab. Fitbit announced its Sleep Labs plans in November 2024, suggesting we can expect this latest stage to run for up to three months.
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