A Premium night’s rest with Google Pixel Watch

Nov 15, 2022

4 min read

Maximize your Fitbit Premium membership on Google Pixel Watch, now including Sleep Profile.

Karla Gleichauf

Senior Research Scientist for Fitbit at Google

Julia Thomsen

Product Manager, Sleep for Fitbit at Google

A black woman sleeping while wearing Google Pixel Watch

While everyone has different sleep needs and routines, there are clear patterns that we all fall into. After a decade of analyzing over 22 billion hours of sleep data and 1.87 million sleep logs, we wanted to share what we’ve found to not only help you learn more about your sleep, but give you the information and tools to make it better. That’s why we're bringing Fitbit Premium’s Sleep Profile to the Google Pixel Watch, giving you more ways to understand your sleep information, get more insight into your sleep style over time – including how your routines and actions impact sleep – and find ways to improve to (hopefully) get a better night’s rest.

Now, Premium members can access their Sleep Profile in the Fitbit app with Google Pixel Watch in addition to Fitbit devices. ¹ The monthly analysis takes into account 10 different aspects of sleep — including sleep duration, bedtime consistency and disrupted sleep — to provide a complete picture of your sleep patterns and habits. All these insights determine your sleep animal, which represents what type of sleeper you were that month. For example, a giraffe, the most common type of sleeper (22.8% of users), is someone who doesn’t get a lot of sleep but sleeps solidly when they do. You’ll also get a detailed analysis of how your sleep patterns compare to someone of a similar age and gender, so you can see where you may want to improve.

If you wore your Google Pixel Watch to sleep for at least 14 nights in October, you will receive your first Sleep Profile and animal on November 22. If you start wearing your watch to bed today, you’ll get your results for the month of November on December 1.

Fitbit Premium in-app screen picturing a sleeping giraffe with explanations of the sleeper type. — Giraffe: Your sleep tends to be shorter, and you are more likely to sleep later and wake up earlier. You have a relatively good proportion of deep and REM sleep despite a shorter overall duration. Most Giraffes skew younger in age.

Fitbit Premium in-app screen picturing a sleeping parrot with explanations of the sleeper type. — Parrot: You tend to keep a consistent bedtime and don’t sleep too early or late. You typically reach sound sleep quickly and usually get a good amount of sleep each night. You likely sleep deeply once you drift off but can be light on REM due to waking up briefly throughout the night. The Parrot has the highest proportion of men, and is one of the most active users with an average of 9,733 steps per day.

Fitbit Premium in-app screen picturing a sleeping tortoise with explanations of the sleeper type. — Tortoise: You tend to fall asleep at different times each night, but often earlier than most. Paired with slightly later average wake times, you tend to spend more time in bed overall but may find it takes longer to reach a sound sleep, impacting your lower than average deep and REM sleep. The Tortoise has the highest proportion of women, but is the least common sleeper type (12.2% of users).

Since it launched earlier this year, we’ve released 6.35 million profiles to our users, showing us some interesting trends (July-November 2022). People who use Sleep Profile are most successful at hitting the ideal range of "Time Before Sound Sleep" (52%), REM sleep (49.7%) and deep sleep (49.5%). But they are the least successful at hitting the ideal range of "Nights with Long Awakenings" and "Sleep Schedule Variability" (14.6% and 23.2% respectively). The most common areas of improvement are Days with Naps (61.2%), Sleep Schedule Variability (52.7%) and Restorative Sleep (45.6%).

Man in black workout clothes stretching on the ground wearing Google Pixel Watch (left) and a phone screen showing Daily Readiness Score (right) — Fitbit Premium offers personalized insights and advanced longitudinal analytics to help you be more active, sleep better, stress less, and more, including Daily Readiness Score to help you know when your body is ready for a workout or needs a recovery day.

Sleep Profile is part of Fitbit Premium, which helps you better understand your body to take charge of your overall wellness. Every day, tens of thousands of people complete Premium sessions, from mindfulness exercises to cardio boxing, and taking advantage of personalized analytics and insights. Here are some tools you can try in Premium today:

Optimize your day with Daily Readiness Score: This feature uses a variety of metrics to give you a daily score (1-100), helping you understand if your body is ready for a workout or if you should prioritize recovery instead.
Break a sweat: Stay motivated and keep your fitness routine fun and fresh with access to more than 1,000 workouts from Fitbit trainers and your favorite brands like Aaptiv, barre3, Cyclebar, LES MILLS, obé and Row House.
Keep a pulse on your stress: Receive a breakdown of your Stress Management Score with info on metrics like heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep patterns and activity impact.
Take a mindful minute: Try hundreds of different mindfulness sessions from brands you love including Aura, Breethe, Calm and Ten Percent Happier to help reduce stress, relax and improve your sleep.

You can also check out Sleep Profile and other Fitbit Premium features on all our latest products, including Sense 2, Versa 4 and Inspire 3 — available at Fitbit.com, the Google Store and select global retailers.

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A Premium night’s rest with Google Pixel Watch

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