Sleep Health APP Download

Don’t blindly chase the top of the download list. Don’t believe in IQ taxes that claim to “cure insomnia.” It is enough to give priority to the one with compliant permissions and functions that just match your needs. It is at most an auxiliary tool and cannot replace medical intervention.

In the past two years, I stayed up for three months working on a project. I went from day to night until four in the morning and checked my phone with my eyes open. I downloaded nearly 20 sleep apps in order to adjust my schedule, and I went through more pitfalls than the nights I stayed up. The most outrageous thing is that for a product ranked among the top 3 in the app store, a 30-second non-skippable advertisement for sleep-aid essential oils played as soon as I clicked on it. The little drowsiness I had been brewing in my bed was directly frightened by the pop-up sound effect, and I uninstalled it on the spot. Of course, some friends think that an APP with an e-commerce portal is more convenient. If you want to buy steam eye masks and sleep-aid aromatherapy, you can get it in one stop. This is no problem, as long as you don’t forget to go to bed while browsing product recommendations. It is a tool in the first place, so you can use it as you like.

If you just need white noise to lull you to sleep, there is really no need to download such a large and comprehensive APP. It has everything from sleep monitoring, check-in communities, and health science knowledge to it. Just opening it requires swiping three screens to find the play button. I have a small white noise app now. The developer seems to be a person who likes to travel around old cities to collect the scenery. It is not all about the sound of waves and bonfires in the bad streets, but also the whistles of pigeons in the alleys of old Beijing, and the sound of raindrops hitting the tiles in the Jiangnan plum rainy season. There was even the sound of people pushing carts selling beancurd in the alley. My best friend was so anxious after giving birth that she couldn't sleep all night long. I pushed this to her, and she fell asleep in half an hour while listening to the sounds of the sales. She said it felt like she was back when she was a child and lived at her grandma's house.

Speaking of this, some people may ask, then I want to monitor sleep data to see if I snore or have apnea at night. Is the APP accurate? Objectively speaking, ordinary civilian apps now rely on mobile phone microphones and accelerometers to collect data, and their accuracy is definitely not as accurate as polysomnography (PSG) in hospitals - the gold standard test that requires a dozen electrodes on the head and body and sleeping all night, but it is completely sufficient for daily screening. My dad snored loudly before, so I downloaded a monitoring APP for him. It was found that he had more than 20 apneas in one night, each lasting more than 10 seconds. I rushed him to the hospital for a check-up. It was indeed moderate sleep apnea syndrome. He has been wearing a ventilator for more than half a year, and his blood pressure has stabilized a lot. But it must be made clear. Many sleep doctors have mentioned that you should not be too superstitious about conclusions such as "insufficient deep sleep duration" and "sleep quality score of 30 points" given by the APP. Originally, you were lying well, but when you wake up and see that the APP has given you a failing grade, the more you think about it, the more anxious you become, and you will not be able to sleep the next night. It is completely worth the loss. I have made this mistake before. In order to get the "8 hours of perfect sleep" required by the APP, I deliberately lay down two hours in advance. As a result, I counted sheep with my eyes wide open until two o'clock, and ended up sleeping less than usual.

Be careful when downloading, and don’t click on small advertisements that pop up on web pages. For Apple, go to the App Store, and for Android, go to the official app market. When installing, check the permission application. Why does a sleep APP require your address book and location permissions? I've encountered one before. I logged out without giving the address book permission. I asked the customer service what "it's convenient to invite friends to check in and sleep together." Just remove it directly. It has been reported in the news before that some non-compliant sleep apps will package users’ sleep data and night recordings and sell them to health care product companies. Then they will make sales calls to you and tell you that you need to buy their oral liquid because of poor sleep. The privacy issue really needs to be tightened.

Oh, by the way, if you have been unable to fall asleep after lying down for two or three hours for more than half a month, or you have woken up early and cannot fall asleep again, don’t expect the next app to solve the problem. Go to the hospital to see the sleep department immediately. It will be more useful than trying ten apps. There is a friend around me who has been struggling for more than half a year, relying on sleeping gummies and listening to meditation classes on the app. In the end, it was found that he was suffering from moderate depression with sleep disorders, which delayed his treatment for less than half a year.

In the final analysis, the sleep APP is just a tool that saves you trouble. Don’t treat it as a life-saving straw for sleep. Usually, watch short videos until the middle of the night, which is more effective than other sleep-aid functions. When downloading, check the comments and permissions, and don’t install any weird software on your phone.