Is Apple copying Samsung’s Sleep Score for Apple Watch?

In May 2023, Samsung released Wear OS 4-based One UI 5 Watch for Galaxy Watch models, which brought many new features. One of them was Sleep Score. As the name suggests, it gives you a score for your sleep depending on many factors, including total sleep time, sleep stages, and movements and awakenings, helping you improve your sleep. Well, Apple may be copying this feature for Apple Watch models.

MacRumors has found an image in iOS 26 code named ‘Watch Focus Score.’ It shows an Apple Watch displaying ’84’ surrounded by segmented circle in orange, purple, and green colors, the same colors that respresent Deep, Core, REM, and Awake sleep stages in Apple Watch. The wearable is surrounded by various icons relating to sleep in iOS, including Sleep Mode and Alarm, as well as “zzz” and a moon and stars.

The name of the image and the contents in it suggest that Apple is working on equipping Apple Watch models with some sort of sleep score feature, which could provide you a score for your sleep, depending on its quality, similar to that you see on Samsung’s Galaxy Watches.

At the moment, there’s no information about when Apple will rollout the feature. The publication predicts that we may see it with watchOS26. Else, the Cupertino-based tech giant could introduce it with the launch of the Apple Watch Ultra 3 or Apple Watch Series 10.

Either way, this is one more proof that Apple also copies Samsung, contrary to the belief that only Samsung follows Apple's footsteps.