If you're familiar with activating sleep lock mode in Control Center on the
<https://amzn.to/3hZsVlO> Apple Watch, you might find yourself searching for
that useful bed icon after updating to watchOS 8. The toggle puts your Apple
Watch in a mode that stops alerts, dims the screen, and only shows a digital
clock.
The Apple Watch also uses this mode in part to inform sleep tracking data,
although you can use it to simply limit your watch from becoming a nuisance
if you wear it through the night. Sleep mode can be scheduled if you have a
bedtime routine setup in the Health or Clock app on the iPhone, but I prefer
to toggle it myself usually.
You can manually toggle sleep lock mode on in watchOS 7 by swiping up to
open Control Center and tapping the bed icon. iOS 15 introduces a new set of
features called Focus that lets you create custom Do Not Disturb modes for
different contexts like working out, sleeping, or driving.
In watchOS 8, Apple has removed the dedicated bed icon for activating sleep
lock mode on the Apple Watch. It's still activated in Control Center, but
sleep lock mode is now found under the Do Not Disturb icon, which becomes a
Focus mode selector.
Sleep mode is still represented by a bed icon, but it's a tap and scroll
away from the top-level Control Center toggles in watchOS 8. It's a small
change that makes sense once you're familiar with where the bed icon went,
but it can be confusing when you're only half awake and searching for it for
the first time after updating.
watchOS 8 is currently in development and will be released publicly later
this year. Beta versions of the Apple Watch update are currently available
for early adopters. Learn more about watchOS 8
<https://9to5mac.com/guides/watchos-8/> here.
By <https://9to5mac.com/author/apollozac/> Taylor Hall at:
https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/12/watchos-8-turn-on-sleep-mode/
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