Hi - could I please get some assistance on the following issue?
As far as I’ve used WHOOP (around the 6m mark at the moment), it has always had issues accurately recognising my sleep and after a period of not wearing the WHOOP at all as my skin was having a slight reaction to the band, when I started wearing it again, the WHOOP didn’t make any attempt at recognising my sleep which has led me to input my sleep in manually every day rather than editing the WHOOP recognised phase.
I’ve only done this for about a week so far so WHOOP hasn’t yet started trying to recognise my sleep but I also suffer from disrupted sleep and I wanted to track down whether that was due to late eating and drinking fluids via the journaling function.
As an example I fell asleep at the following times during the night:
0005 to 0317
0320 to 0537
0555 to 0800
My question is as follows -
Currently I enter the first sleep of the night - no matter the duration - as sleep and all others as nap - is that correct?
How many instances of manually entered sleep must be entered before WHOOP will automatically start trying to recognise my sleep?
Currently eating late at night is a question that can be selected in the journal option, but drinking (as in non alcoholic fluids like water, tea etc) is not a question that can be selected - can this be added please?
It also doesn’t seem possible to add a “did you manage to get to bed at the desired time” option which would be helpful - could this be added also please?
On this last point, I had alluded to this in a previous post -
Thanks for reaching out. Since you’ve been manually logging your sleep each day, your WHOOP likely hasn’t yet had the opportunity to learn your usual sleep patterns automatically. WHOOP relies on consistent heart-rate and movement data while you sleep to recognize those patterns on its own.
If you don’t see automatic sleep detection after about a week, please reboot your device (Device Settings > Advanced > Reboot Device) and continue wearing it nightly. If your device continues not to autodetect sleep, it will be best to have our dedicated team help further by emailing support@whoop.com.
In regard to separate sleep instances, if there’s a prolonged wake period (typically 50 minutes or longer), the system will automatically classify the next sleep period as a new sleep event (sometimes appearing as a nap). This behavior is normal—it helps maintain accurate sleep/wake boundaries. Based on your awake times provided above, it makes sense to combine them into a single sleep.
Thanks for your feedback! That’s a thoughtful idea about expanding the Journal options to include drinking (for water, tea, and other non-alcoholic fluids) and tracking whether you went to bed at your desired time. Both behaviors clearly tie into recovery and sleep consistency, so they’d add meaningful context to daily trends. We appreciate the feedback and will pass it along to our product team!
When my WHOOP was recognising my sleep automatically I noticed it would do so around 10:00 GMT and I am entering my sleep times when I wake up around 08:00 GMT, so it may be well that I am not giving it a chance to auto recognise my sleep, but is there any way of knowing when WHOOP has tried and given up recognising my sleep every day? In the notification area I do get a message from WHOOP saying no sleep was detected in the past 24 hours and did I want to enter one - but I don’t always get this - is this the notification that WHOOP has tried but given up trying to recognise my sleep?
Depending on your response, I will monitor my WHOOP appropriately and send an email to support if required - many thanks.
I will log my sleep as requested but I am particularly interested in hopefully trying to iron out/remove my disrupted sleep pattern - so if there is any way for WHOOP to also auto recognise this as part of the longer “sleep” then I’d appreciate it if this could be also made as a suggestion to the product team please.
Hi @SeekAdventure22 . That’s a great question! WHOOP’s sleep detection runs after your data has fully synced, and it identifies a long, consistent drop in heart rate and movement. If you log your sleep manually right after waking, that can override the algorithm before it finishes processing.
The “No sleep detected in the past 24 hours” notification you sometimes see is WHOOP’s way of letting you know it has completed its check and didn’t automatically detect a qualifying sleep period.
If you manually adjust or merge those “nap” segments into a single entry, WHOOP will use that full duration for your Recovery and Sleep Performance calculations, and those edits will also help WHOOP Coach learn your routine and provide more accuracy over time.