How To Set Up Fossil Gen 3 Smartwatch

Fossil offers its own built-in sleep tracking characteristic for its wearOS smartwatches. Using Fossil's Wellness app allows you to apply your Fossil smartwatch to easily track and report your sleep patterns automatically.

Plus, you tin likewise share your Sleep data from the Wellness app with Google Fit and can view your current information and history in the Google Fit phone app.

Here is how you can use the sleep tracking feature on your Gen 5 and Gen 6 smartwatches. In that location are a few different options that you can use for slumber tracking on Fossil Gen 5 and half dozen.

Setting up Slumber Tracking Using Wellness App on Fossil Gen 5 and Gen 6

Since Google Fit does not natively track sleep, you demand to apply a sleep-tracking app and connect it to Google Fit to get your sleep metrics. If yous own a Fossil sentinel, it makes sense to use Fossil'due south congenital-in Wellness app to track your sleep, rather than a third-party app.

Can't discover the Wellness app on your Fossil smartwatch?

If you don't see the Wellness app, update your watch. you are likely using older and outdated firmware.

To check for updates, on your watch go to Settings > Arrangement > Virtually > Organisation Updates. System settings on Fossil Wear OS watch

We recommend connecting your picket to WiFi for the fastest system updates.

How to plough on Sleep tracking using Fossil's Health app

You can enable the sleep tracking feature directly on your Fossil smartwatch with a few easy steps.

On your sentinel open the Wellness App.
Scroll down to Settings.
Tap Account.
Select Tracking Preferences.
Toggle Sleep Tracking on.

Once it's on, you'll see your slumber metrics inside the Wellness app. If you want to see these details on your phone, connect the Wellness app to Google Fit.

Connect Fossil's Wellness app with Google Fit

To go your sleep data sharing with Google Fit, do the post-obit:

Sign in to your Google account in the Google Fit phone app AND in the Google Fit watch app.
Log into your Fit account in the Health app:
1. Open the Wellness app.
2. Ringlet down and choose Settings (gear icon.)
3. Tap Sign in.
  1. If y'all don't come across sign-in, you are already connected to Google Fit. Confirm the listed account (electronic mail) is correct.
4. Tap the checkmark to sign in to Connect to Google Fit.
5. Choose a listed Google business relationship or scroll down and select Add Account.
  1. Recollect to cull the same Google business relationship that you use with Google Fit.

Check your sleep stats on your Fossil sentry

Printing the heart side button to open up up the carte and scroll down and tap on Wellness.
Next, tap on Sleep and review all the details of your slumber activity.

The other way to access your Sleep reports on your Gen 5 and Gen half-dozen smartwatch is to add information technology as a tile (as well called widgets) so when you swipe right to left on the screen yous become quick access to your Sleep metrics. Fossil Gen 5 and 6 Sleep Tile from Wellness app

In the slumber tile, you can practise the post-obit:

Scroll up on this screen to see your weekly sleep details.
Further scroll-up deportment show yous your weekly and monthly sleep totals.
The concluding option on the scroll-upwards action opens up to a screen where yous can set your Sleep goal in terms of hours and minutes.

And once continued, y'all can also utilise the Google Fit app on your phone to set upward the sleep monitoring characteristic.

When you choose to share your Wellness app data with Google Fit, Fossil stores your data in Google Fit, and many of your watch'southward health metrics, including Sleep and activeness data. Y'all'll even encounter fully mapped routes of your GPS-enabled exercises in Google Fit!

Use Google Fit for sleep monitoring

From your phone open up the Google Fit app.

Tap on theJournal tab at the lesser.
Locate and tap Sleep.
Review your sleep elapsing, schedule, sleep stages and quality, and eye charge per unit while sleeping.

You tin as well tap on the Home tab at the bottom of the screen and chooseSlumber Elapsing. Sleep Duration information in Home tab Google Fit app

If you use a third-political party app to rail your sleep action and sync it with Fit, it merely compares your bedtime schedule with the data to show you how yous are doing.

Use a 3rd-political party app to monitor sleep

wearOS and Google Fit users who want to track sleep patterns without using the Wellness app should check out the pop appsSleep every bit Android app or Sleep Bicycle.

These apps provide many features but for your basic written report and understanding your sleep via sleep stages and duration etc, the free Google Fit app shows plenty of data.

Troubleshooting Fossil's slumber monitoring and Wellness app

Commencement, make sure:

You have Bluetooth turned on for both your phone and Fossil sentry.
Open the Wear OS app on your phone, and check that information technology indicates your scout is Connected via Bluetooth.
You lot are signed in to Google Fit on your telephone and watch and that you connected the Wellness app to Google Fit.

Can't connect the Wellness app to Google Fit?

If you tin't get the Health app to connect to Google Fit, commencement restart your sentry.

If it still doesn't work, check that you lot signed in with the aforementioned Google account on both apps (the sentinel's Wellness spp and Google Fit on your watch and phone.)

Next, sign out of Google Fit on your spotter and sign in once again.

Open up Google Fit on your watch.
Scroll downwardly and tap Settings.
Swipe downward and tap Fit account.
Choose Sign out.
One time logged out, sign in again. Later on signing in, open the Health app and follow the steps to connect it again to Google Fit.

The Health app isn't tracking my sleep data at all!

Verify that you turned on Sleep Tracking in the Wellness App settings on your lookout man.

On your lookout man open the Wellness App.
Roll downward to Settings.
Tap Account.
Select Tracking Preferences.
Toggle Slumber Tracking on. Or if it's already on, toggle it off, restart, and toggle information technology back on.

Is your Fossil'southward sleep data no longer syncing with Google Fit?

If your picket'south sleep data is all of a sudden non showing upward in the Google Fit app, outset confirm that it is still recording in your Fossil's Wellness app.

If y'all run into your sleep metrics in the Wellness app but not Google Fit, try signing in and out of your Google account in the Wellness app settings to refresh its connexion.

Open the Wellness app on your Fossil sentry.
Scroll down and tap Settings.
Choose Business relationship.
Scroll downwardly and tap Sign Out.
Once signed out, tap Sign In and follow the steps to reconnect your account. Make sure you have terms and conditions if asked.

Once y'all refresh the connexion between Fossil's Wellness app and Google Fit, your sleep history and activity should testify up in Google Fit. Nevertheless, information technology may take a few minutes to a few hours for all your data to appear.

If yous don't come across all your sleep data, open Google Fit'south journal tab and scroll down to a few days before it stopped syncing with the Wellness app.

Tap the sync button at the top of the Journal tab on Fit to force a sync and testify all your sleep data for any missing days.

How to disconnect Fossil's Wellness app from Google Fit

If y'all decide you desire to use a unlike app to track your sleep, don't forget to disconnect Health from Google Fit.

When you disconnect the Wellness app from Google Fit, it does not delete any information that the app previously stored in Google Fit.

Sleep on Fossil smartwatch FAQs

Do you lot have to wear your watch to record slumber using the Health app?

Yes, to accurately rail your sleep yous need to wear your Fossil sentry when you lot go to bed and maintain wearing it for as long as you want sleep recorded.

My watch is waking me upwards with notifications and brightening its screen, is there a sleep mode for the picket?

Turn on Practise Non Disturb Fashion on your sentinel or Theater Mode so your watch doesn't disturb your slumber by interrupting or lightning up!