Overview
BreatheIQ™ is a new service by Sleep Number Health that goes beyond tracking your snore. It's an effortless technology that helps you connect the dots between your snoring and your health and wellness.
This digital health app works by listening to and analyzing small patterns in your breathing while you sleep. With the app, you can:
- Learn how loud you snore and understand how much of the night you snore.
- Learn more about the different snoring types.
- Measure your level of breathing irregularities.
- Discover snore and breathing insights from the comfort of your own bed.
- Connect with a third-party virtual care clinic to identify the right next steps for you.
The BreatheIQ™ app is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose, cure, treat or prevent any disease.
BreatheIQ™ vs BreatheIQ+™
BreatheIQ™ is the free version of the app.
Free Features:
- Snoring Measurement
- Snoring Analysis
BreatheIQ+™ is the paid version of the app.
Free and Premium (paid) Features:
- Snoring Measurement
- Snoring Analysis
- Full Snoring Sounds
- Breathing Irregularities
- Breathing Patterns
- Snoring Types
- RespiratoryIQ™
- Connection to Care
How to get BreatheIQ™
BreatheIQ™ is a free app that you can access on Apple store or Google Play store.
- If you have a Sleep Number® account, you will use that same email and password to log in to your BreatheIQ™ app.
- If you don't have a Sleep Number® account, you will create a free BreatheIQ™ account once you download the BreatheIQ™ app.
For more information, please read Downloading the BreatheIQ™ App article.
How BreatheIQ™ works
Using just your smart phone, BreatheIQ™ learns from each breath to give you information about your snoring and level of breathing irregularities after just one night.
Once you start a measurement each night, your BreatheIQ™ app uses your smartphone's internal microphone to provide you with your nightly measurement results. No external microphones, special hardware or devices to wear.
BreatheIQ™ recording may occasionally capture non-snoring events like talking, breathing, children, pets, fans and other ambient sounds.
Accessing your results
- Once your measurement is stopped, it may take up to 30 minutes to receive the results.
- If your sleep partner also took a measurement, they will need to finish their measurement before your results will be analyzed.
- Go to the Results tab to see your measurement analysis and access your sleep sounds.
For more information, please read Understanding my results article.
Tips for a successful measurement
- Place smartphone about 20 inches from you at head height.
- Close windows and minimize noise in your bedroom.
- Connect your phone to a charger during measurement.
- Close any audio-playing applications during your measurement.
Sleeping alone vs sleeping with a partner or a pet
If you have a sleep partner, encourage them to take their own free snore measurement with you. By taking a joint measurement, BreatheIQ™ can distinguish where the snoring originates, without you and your partner having to sleep in separate bedrooms.
If you sleep with a snoring pet, consider moving the pet to a different room while taking a measurement for the most accurate results.
Factors that may end your measurement
The following events may cause your BreatheIQ™ app to stop recording during a measurement.
- An alarm that goes off during the measurement. You can still receive results if the measurement exceeded 2 hours.
- A phone call, even if your phone was silenced or in "do not disturb" or "sleep" mode.
- Your phone battery died because your phone was not plugged in during the night.
- Your phone was in battery-save mode and force-closed the BreatheIQ™ app.
Measurements automatically terminate after 8 hours.