More accurate nights with iPhone and Apple Watch: • Your Apple Watch's sleep stages come through more reliably – also when you start and end the night on the watch • New: if Apple Health isn't connected, SleepKit tells you and turns it on with one tap • Time awake before falling asleep and after waking is counted correctly – sleep time and efficiency are more accurate • A cleaner watch app: timer and stop button fit every size, starting and stopping feel calmer • A night the system ended is restored with its real values • New Premium screen and a better layout on iPad • Sturdier recording: the microphone keeps going after calls and other interruptions • You always see whether your iPhone or your watch is measuring • The first sound plays right away, plus many small improvements

SleepKit now speaks fourteen languages — and so do its numbers. Durations, dates and units follow your region instead of an English default. • Sleep phases in the night dial, and as a bar on the Apple Watch • Snoring recordings and the morning journal in your language • Right-to-left layout for Arabic • The watch measures the night on its own, without the phone's microphone

"Track night" on Apple Watch now works. Until now the watch asked your iPhone to record with its microphone. At bedtime the phone is face down on a nightstand with the screen off, and iOS does not let an app in that state begin a new recording. Instead of a night you got "Your iPhone couldn't record", and a second tap sat spinning forever. Now the watch measures the night itself — it is the better instrument anyway. Your iPhone's microphone only joins in when the app happens to be open. Tap out of range and the tap is remembered, with the night starting at the moment you tapped rather than whenever the two devices meet again. Also: a night measured on your wrist is no longer scored for something nobody listened to. With no microphone running, snoring is left out of the score instead of being credited as "didn't snore".

The alarm is now one you choose yourself — and every number explains itself. • Pick your wake sound — 15 gentle sounds from your own library, or simply the mix you fell asleep to. It swells instead of jolting you. • Test it: play the sound straight away, or send a real alarm in 10 seconds to check that Focus and the ring switch let it through. • The alarm now rings through Sleep Focus and a silenced iPhone. If you don't get up, it turns itself up. It needs AlarmKit, so it arrives with iOS 26. • New night dial on Today: your night drawn as an arc on a 24-hour face. Tap a mark — bedtime, waking, alarm — to see how it sits against your goal. • Tap a sleep phase: each one shows your share against the healthy range and what it actually does for you. • Apple Watch: tracking now starts even when your iPhone isn't reachable — and tells you when something is in the way. The button stays in view. • On iPad, label and control sit next to each other again instead of at two opposite edges. • Premium yearly: 7 days free to try. • Sound names are now translated. Thank you to everyone who wrote in — several items on this list came straight from your mail.

Tracking now starts when you say so. • The Track tab opens tonight's plan — how long you have, when your alarm is, which sounds are playing — and a Start button. Nothing records until you tap it. • New evening routine: a few small steps with a single nudge at the right time. Off until you switch it on. • "Tonight" tells you one thing to do differently, taken from your own nights and the measured difference it made. • Bedtime consistency, your streak and a weekly goal counted in nights, not percent. • After a good night, a morning summary that names what went well — with the number behind each one. • Empty screens now show you the way out instead of a grey circle. • Sound tiles are one tap to add, press and hold to preview. No more three buttons per sound. • Cleaner paywall and a one-screen welcome.

SleepKit is now a full sleep tracker. • Track your night with your iPhone — or let your Apple Watch measure it • Sleep score, stages, and how long you took to fall asleep • Snoring detection with recordings you can listen back to • Heart rate, HRV, blood oxygen, breathing rate and wrist temperature from Health • Smart alarm that wakes you in light sleep, with a guaranteed latest time • Apple Watch app, home and lock screen widgets, and a Live Activity for the running night • History and trends over weeks Every night says where its numbers came from — measured on your watch, or estimated by your phone. And you can correct a night we got wrong. Tracking is free. All your sleep sounds and mixes are still here.