A Japanese video game walkthrough listing sleeping pills as one of their recommended methods to get high scores in Pokémon Sleep has gone viral on Japanese Twitter recently. The mention of sleeping aid has since been deleted from the site.
A Japanese video game walkthrough listing sleeping pills as one of their recommended methods to get high scores in Pokémon Sleep has gone viral on Japanese Twitter recently. The mention of sleeping aid has since been deleted from the site.
I’m really not a fan of this game because of having to leave your phone on all night long with it plugged in. For multiple reasons, but the fire hazard is definitely one of them. Why couldn’t it sync up with other passive sleep trackers, like smart watches?
I’d be interested in using it if the data could just be pulled from Apple Health. I don’t sleep with my phone and I’m not buying a $55 toy that does what my watch already accomplishes.
Exactly, I have a Galaxy watch myself and it does a fine job of tracking my sleep despite how old it is. They made Pokemon Go able to sync walking data with the system health app so they game could reward you even without it open. I don’t know why they missed that for Pokemon Sleep, especially with all the delays
Wait, you don’t leave your phone on charge over night anyway?
The screen is on, assumed.
Oh, this app doesn’t work with the screen off?
Nope, averyminya is right. It needs to be on to track your sleep for some reason. I assume it’s an OS limitation for privacy reasons.
I don’t think it’s that. I have a sleep tracker called Sleep Cycle and its able to track everything on the background and with the phone screen off
Sounds like the app is just poorly optimized, because sleep tracking with the screen off has been doable on Android for years now, and I assume it’s the same for iOS sleep trackers, as well.
not really, no. this seems like an early dev/bad documentation issue more than an inherent limitation. I ran into this when I was trying to build my own GPS tracker for running: the OS will force your app out of memory if you run it as a normal app, you have to register the app as a service in order for the OS to leave it running in memory when you’re not actively using it. Even then, some OSes will also make you specifically give the app permission to remain running when the phone is locked or another app is on-screen. tldr - what they want to do is doable in a safe way, they just haven’t done it.
Very on-brand for The Pokemon Company to do something the wrong way. I just knew that Android at least doesn’t let you access the camera without the app open and the screen on, so I had assumed it would be the same thing with the microphone access it wants for tracking sleep.