Overview
Your SleepIQ® score is a daily snapshot of your sleep, shown in the Sleep Number app. It helps you understand your sleep patterns, see what may have affected your night and make small changes that support better rest.
Your score is personalized to you. It may include time in bed, movement, bed exits, heart rate, breath rate and your sleep goal. Because it is based on your sleep patterns, two similar-looking nights can have different scores.
- Sleep quality: Restful sleep may help raise your score. In the app, green means restful sleep, yellow means restless sleep, red means bed exits and gray means time to fall asleep.
- Biosignals: Heart rate, heart rate variability and breath rate may affect your score when they are higher or lower than your personal average. Learn more about biosignals.
- Sleep goal: Getting close to your sleep goal may help improve your score. Sleeping much more or less than your goal may lower it.
Good to know: Your SleepIQ score is not a medical diagnosis. Use it as a trend, along with how you feel when you wake up.
How to adjust your sleep goal
In the Sleep Number app, open the Profile tab, go to My Profile, then tap Sleeper. Adjust your sleep goal and save your changes. For more information, review How To Edit Your Sleep Number App Wellness Profile.
What the colors in your sleep session mean
Your sleep session uses colors to show what happened during the night.
- Green: Restful sleep
- Yellow: Restless sleep
- Red: Bed exits
- Gray: Time to fall asleep
Household Compare
Household Compare lets you compare sleep sessions with other Sleeper Profiles on your account. To view it, tap the sleeper’s name in the upper-left corner of the Sleep screen.
- SleepIQ score
- Sleep Number setting
- Fall asleep time
- Woke up time
- Restful sleep
- Restless sleep
- Bed exits
- Heart rate
- Heart rate variability, if available
- Breath rate
Frequently Asked Questions
What's a good score?
SleepIQ scores range from 10 to 100. Scores from 60 to 85 are considered pretty great. Scores over 85 are extraordinary. Scores under 60 may be a sign to review your sleep trends.
Your personal average is the best comparison. After a couple of weeks, the app can show what is typical for you. A lower score may simply mean something changed in your routine, environment or sleep quality.
Why can my score be low if I slept a long time?
Your score looks at more than total sleep time. Restlessness, bed exits, time to fall asleep, biosignal changes and your sleep goal may all affect your score. A long night can still score lower if your sleep was more interrupted than usual.
How is restless sleep determined?
Restless sleep appears in yellow. It may reflect movement or interruptions while you are in bed. Pets, another person or time spent reading, watching TV or working in bed may affect what your bed detects.
How is time to fall asleep calculated?
Time to fall asleep is an estimate of the time between when your sleep session starts and when the app detects you have fallen asleep. If you spend time in bed before trying to sleep, that time may be included.
Can I edit my sleep sessions?
You can edit, remove or restore a sleep session in the Sleep Number app for up to seven days after it was recorded. After seven days, the session can no longer be changed.
Editing lets you remove time in bed, such as reading, watching TV or working before sleep. It does not let you add time in bed.
How long can I view my sleep data?
You can view daily scores for a rolling 90 days. Older data is stored as weekly, monthly and yearly averages. To view sleep history, open the Sleep Number app, select Sleep, tap the calendar icon and use the arrows to review past days, weeks, months or years.
You may see more than one score in a day if you had more than one sleep session. An X means no score was recorded. This can happen if you were away from home, Privacy Mode was on or your bed was offline.
How do I improve my score?
To improve your SleepIQ score, look for patterns over time. Compare higher-score nights with lower-score nights to see what changed in your routine, environment or time in bed.
Consistent routines can help. Try going to bed and waking up around the same time each day. The Sleep Number app can also help you start a bedtime routine. Learn how to set a bedtime reminder in the Circadian Rhythm feature.
- Keep a consistent sleep and wake schedule.
- Wind down before bed.
- Limit time in bed when you are not trying to sleep.
- Review several nights instead of focusing on one score.
- Use how you feel in the morning as part of the bigger picture.
Want to geek out with us and improve your sleep even more? Join the Sleep30 challenge by Sleep Number®.