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user3229261
user3229261

Reputation: 169

How to prevent the Apple Watch from going to sleep?

We are working on an Apple Watch project, but the watch goes to sleep if uninterrupted with.

Is there any way to prevent it from going to sleep?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 9055

Answers (3)

Seyed Parsa Neshaei
Seyed Parsa Neshaei

Reputation: 3520

No-Sleep API

Currently, there is no API to disable Apple Watch from going to sleep.

You may wait until watchOS 3.

Changing Sleep Time By User

Any user can go to this path:

Settings -> General -> Wake Screen

And set the time to a long time.

Unfortunately, only the user can change this and there is no way to do it programmatically.

NOTE: If you want the screen to resume your activity after waking up, you should ask user to do so here:

Settings -> General -> Wake Screen -> Resume Last Activity

Note that according to Owen, keeping the watch awake would kill the battery quickly.

Conclusion

1- No API is set.

2- User can change sleep time.

3- User can select to resume last activity when the Apple Watch wakes up.

Upvotes: 4

Owen Hartnett
Owen Hartnett

Reputation: 5935

Because of the power requirements, keeping the watch awake would kill the battery quickly. However, you may be concerned that when the watch does go to sleep, it doesn't re-wake to your app. This can be remedied at the user level, on your iOS device using the Watch App, using General->Wake Screen-> and checking "Resume Last Activity"

Upvotes: 1

Simply Me
Simply Me

Reputation: 1587

As of my knowledge and other searches on this topic, at the moment is no api available to enable or even disable sleep mode for Apple Watch programmatically.

Upvotes: 6

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