In this mode, Pillow tracks your sleep automatically without the need to press any buttons or perform any other action when you go to sleep. The only requirement is that you wear your Apple Watch during sleep. As long as “Automatic“ mode is on Pillow will detect and analyse sleep automatically.

IMPORTANT
In order to perform automatic sleep tracking and detection, Pillow requires access to the following Apple Health categories: "Steps", “Active Energy”, “Heart Rate”

IMPORTANT
Alarms and audio recordings are not possible while Pillow is in Automatic mode due to current technical limitations on iOS/WatchOS. To use those features you have to switch to one of your preset modes and start the session manually.

Automatic sleep tracking is enabled by default.

You can enable “Automatic” sleep tracking mode anytime from Pillow settings by following these steps:

Note: You only have to turn on automatic mode once. As long as Automatic mode is on Pillow will detect and analyse your sleep automatically every day without any further interaction.

Note: If you want to use Pillow in “Automatic” mode only, you don’t have to install Pillow on your Apple Watch.

You can view all your detected sessions either from your iPhone or your Apple Watch:

From your iPhone:
1. Open Pillow on your iPhone. Pillow will open directly in the **Sleep diary** view for the current day.

From your Apple Watch:
1. Open Pillow on your Apple Watch. Pillow will open directly in the “Sleep diary“ view for the current day.

In the “Sleep Diary” view you can see two sleep rings: One for the Time Asleep and one for the total Sleep quality for that day (calculated as weight average of the sleep quality for any detected sleep sessions). When Pillow detects any sleep for that day, it will display one or more “Sleep summaries”, each representing one detected sleep session.

You can tap on a “Sleep summary“ to open the detailed “Sleep Analysis” for that session. Scroll up and down to view a breakdown of the various sleep stages. Swipe right/left to view your other recorded sleep sessions.

Note: In Automatic mode Pillow will try to detect sleep automatically in the background or when you launch the app. You can also force Pillow to check for an available sleep session by swiping down.

You can view any detected sleep sessions from previous days by tapping on the calendar icon on the top right corner of the Sleep Diary view on your iPhone.

If one or more sleep sessions have been detected for that day, a little purple dot will appear under that date. If Pillow hasn’t detected any sleep for that date, then Pillow will try to detect any sleep sessions for that specific day.

You can customise the way Automatic sleep tracking works in Pillow by running the Setup Wizard:

To run the Setup Wizard:

The Setup Wizard currently offers the following customisation options:

Use this option to exclude any time during the day from automatic sleep detection. Tap on the start and end times to adjust the time of day that you wish to exclude. If you select to exclude more than 16 hours during the day, Pillow will highlight the current value with red to give you a warning.

If you don’t want to exclude any time, simply turn on “24hrs detection”.

You can choose to let Pillow send you a notification whenever it detects any sleep sessions. The notification will come as typical iOS notifications and will contain a short summary of your sleep session and a graphic representation for your Sleep Summary.

You have the option to enable/disable that notification or choose the time you wish to receive that notification.

IMPORTANT
This feature requires that you have given Pillow permission to send you notifications.

4.3 "Sleep session setup"

Inform Pillow at which time you usually go to bed so that it can determine on which date a detected sleep session should be attributed to.

When you enable “Time to Sleep detection” Pillow will try to detect how long it took you to fall asleep. Depending on your lifestyle and activities before sleep , this feature might result in the detection of unwanted awake time.

In this case we recommend that you turn off that feature.

If Pillow detects more than one sleep sessions and those sleep sessions are less than 6 hours apart, you can choose to merge them into one following these steps: