Sleep in: end for Apple's Beddit seems near

0
170

In 2017, Apple acquired Beddit, a manufacturer of a real sleep monitor for under your mattress. The Beddit sleep monitor works via an app and apparently Apple saw something in the technology behind it. Little has happened to Beddit since the takeover and now it looks like the end is in sight.

‘Apple quits Beddit’

The Beddit sleep monitor is an elongated sensor that you place under your mattress. Your sleep is analyzed based on your movements. Heart rate, breathing, bedroom temperature and humidity are all tracked and forwarded to the Beddit app. All along, the sleep monitor was sold at Apple, but 9to5Mac discovered that it can no longer be found in the online Apple Store in the US. It seems that this has been the case since about August 2021, iCulture discovered.

In the Netherlands and other European countries, the Beddit sleep monitor is still online, but it is completely sold out. The Beddit sleep monitor is still available in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Japan, among others. It seems unlikely that a new model is on the way, as was the case when version 3.0 was no longer available.

iCulture also found that Beddit's website doesn't seem to have been updated since 2019, given the date in the footer of the site. The app received its last update in May 2021. The update for that was from October 2019. In other words: it is quite quiet around the sleep meter.

If you have the Beddit sleep monitor, you can just keep using it. The app is still available for download.

Since the acquisition, Apple has refreshed the Beddit sleep monitor once. The Beddit 3.5 sleep monitor was the most recent model, with a slightly modified design. Android support was also discontinued. Since the acquisition, the Beddit cloud service has been discontinued. In 2019, a beta program for Beddit started, with which Apple wanted to test new sleep functions.

There are rumors that Apple wants to expand the sleep functions of the Apple Watch, possibly with the Apple Watch Series 8. The possibilities are still quite limited at the moment, but with Beddit's expertise, that could change.