Mac tracker guide

Sleep tracking on Mac

Log sleep samples, inspect stage totals, and use goals, history, and trends to understand sleep patterns on Mac.

The Mac Sleep tracker keeps nightly totals and their individual stage samples together. A day can contain Awake, REM, Core, and Deep records. BeFit Tracker totals the stages that count as time asleep while preserving Awake and each source sample for review.

Review a night before adding to it

1. Open Trackers → Sleep.
2. Select the date in the calendar or History.
3. Read the daily total, then expand the day and inspect its stage rows.
4. If the records came from a mobile device through iCloud, compare them with Apple Health on that device before adding manual time on Mac.

Start with the daily total, then use History to see the samples included in it.

Log a completed sleep sample

1. Choose Log Sleep.
2. Select the stage represented by the source: Awake, REM, Core, or Deep.
3. Enter the duration and choose the date and time associated with that sample.
4. Save and verify the new row under the intended day.
5. Repeat only for another distinct stage sample. Do not enter one total and then enter the stages that make up the same total.

Each save creates one sleep-stage sample. A night can have several samples, and their durations determine the day’s summaries.

Understand the stage chart

• Awake remains visible but does not count toward time asleep.
• REM, Core, and Deep count toward the daily sleep total when present.
• No Data means the source did not provide that stage; BeFit Tracker does not infer a missing category.
• Stage detail separates the samples behind the total so overlapping or unexpected records can be investigated.

The stage chart summarizes the records available for the selected range; it does not reconstruct stages that were never recorded.

Use stage detail when the daily total looks surprising. It exposes the individual durations contributing to the night.

Use the goal and trend

• Goal is the personal sleep target saved in Profile.
• Consistency compares available daily totals with that target and caps each day at full progress.
• Sleep debt summarizes the average amount below the target in the selected records; it is an app calculation, not a clinical assessment.
• Trend plots daily time asleep across Week, Month, 6 Months, or Year.

Your saved goal provides a consistent reference for the history. BeFit Tracker does not prescribe the target.

Correct a sleep record

Expand the affected day and identify the specific stage sample before editing or deleting it.

1. Select the affected day and find the specific sample in History.
2. Choose Edit, correct its stage, duration, date, or time, and save.
3. Choose Delete for a duplicate or unwanted sample, then confirm.
4. Review the daily total, stage chart, consistency, debt, and trend again; one changed sample can affect each summary.

Put sleep beside the rest of your history

Short ranges help with recent routine; longer ranges show whether sleep duration and consistency are changing. Comparing the dates with your own activity, food, fasting, cycle, or mindfulness history can add useful context, but the app does not determine why sleep changed.

Sleep records depend on their source.

Devices and apps can classify sleep differently. Sleep is a Beta tracker and does not diagnose sleep disorders, assess medical sleep quality, or verify a source device’s stages.