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Apple’s guidelines specify that sleep should be defined by in-bed time periods, with sleep stages (light, deep, REM, etc) occurring during an in-bed time range.
Validic’s processing of sleep data assumes that the sleep stages will overlap with an in bed record.
Each 3rd party source in Apple Health will report a separate sleep record to Validic. You will be able to tell the original source of the data by looking at the sourcing information in the Validic sleep record.
Please note that Apple allows for a variety of 3rd party sources to report sleep data into the Health app and some sources may not follow Apple’s guidance on sleep reporting. In fact, the Apple Watch WatchOS 11 update from Apple does not follow their own guidance. Apple’s brief explanation of this situation can be found here. Apple may adjust their processing in a future WatchOS version, however, for now WatchOS 11 does not properly report sleep in-bed or sleep samples in Inform.
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