“The French sleep less and bad”: good news, Apple wants to improve your nights with the Apple Watch
Developing new features in secret is not easy for Apple. Several elements identified in the source code of beta indeed reveal new products to come. This is the case of iOS 26, which mentions the existence of a sleep score under development For the Apple Watch. The opportunity to respond perfectly to a topical subject: the French sleep less and less.
A greatly degraded sleep among the French
“The French sleep less and bad”concluded franceinfo Reading the interministerial roadmap on sleep. It must be said that we learn that the sleep of the French has decreased by an hour and a half in fifty years.
The other data is just as worrying: the average duration is 7 hours per night, 1 in 5 people sleep less than 6 hours, 30 % of children and 70 % of adolescents do not sleep enough. “Use of screens, sedentary lifestyle, irregular times, degradation of mental health, consumption of alcohol and drugs, noise, heat…” are the main known causes of lack of sleep in France.
Results: French people increase their risk of suffering from cardiovascular, obesity, diabetes and cancer diseases. On the mental health side, the list lengthens with the accentuation of mood disorders, anxiety and depressive symptoms.
This is how the government shares a roadmap with 25 recommendations divided into five main axes:
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- Inform and promote sleep as a determinant of global health
- Promote good sleep hygiene in children and young people
- Act for an environment more favorable to sleep
- Improve the location of sleep disorders
- Strengthen knowledge of sleep
On the side of the American tech giant Apple, sleep seems again taken seriously, through future feature dedicated to the Apple Watch.
iOS 26 unveils a new function to sleep better thanks to the call watch
After the Sleep apnea detectionAvailable on the Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 and Ultra 2, the project of the moment for the apple firm would be to introduce a sleep score on its connected watches.
A site contributor MacrumorsSteve Moser, has indeed shared an index on this subject, from the last beta ofiOS 26. The code of Health more precisely includes the image of an Apple Watch, with in its center a figure “84” Surrounded by three bars of different colors – strongly recalling the colors used to represent the sleep phases and that of awakening in the application.
“The watch graphic is surrounded by sleep icons that Apple uses in different places in iOS, including a moon and stars, a” zzz “, an icon, an icon representing the stages of sleep, an awakening and, in a place, a thermometer”adds the media.
If we add to that the fact that the image is called “Watch focus score”it seems more than likely that Apple indeed concocts a sleep score on the Apple Watch. Apple Watch users could thus quickly assess the quality of their night recovery – a key data to anticipate their general shape throughout the day.
As a reminder, sleep scores are common on several models of connected watches, including on Galaxy Watch of Samsung, the Garmin, the Google Pixel Watchetc.
It remains to be seen whether Apple will release this novelty from the iOS 26 code to make it really accessible, or if it will stay there for some time. One thing is certain, everything will be clearer at the announcement of the Apple Watch Series 11, Ultra 3 and Se 3 At the start of the 2025 school year. This would indeed be the perfect time to reveal this function, since it could act as a new marketing argument for these new models.
