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Positioning the iPhone

The ideal location is to place your iPhone on a nightstand or bedside table, on a stable, flat surface near your bed.

Try to have your iPhone within arm's reach (about 30 cm / 1 foot from your head), to let it pick up your snoring sounds clearly. If you sleep on one side of the bed, try to place the iPhone on that same side.

Use a charger

It is highly recommended to have a charger attached. Refer to the Support page for more information on battery use.

Be consistent

Importantly, be consistent with the placement. For reliable data and to track trends in your snoring, try to place your iPhone in the same position each night.

How private are my recordings?

We do not collect, store, or access your personal data or your snore recordings. We do not even send the data to your own iCloud. It all stays on your own device. 100% privacy assured.

Check the Apple privacy label

With all apps on the App Store, please pay attention to the Data Privacy Label assigned from Apple. You can find this on the App Store AutoSnore page. 

See below an image from the AutoSnore privacy label from Apple assigned: "Data Not Collected"

Check if your other "free" apps can say the same.

Starting the recording

Press the "Start" button in AutoSnore when you are about to go to sleep. This will activate the microphone, as shown by a little orange dot 🟠 at the top of the iPhone. 

Put the iPhone on a charger and let the screen turn off automatically.

While sleeping

AutoSnore does all the work in the background while you sleep. We recommend using "Live Activities" when prompted to allow access, to make easy to know the session has started and to stop in the morning.

Stop the recording

You press the "Stop" button in AutoSnore when you wake. This will turn off the microphone and compile all your data.

You can now listen to any sound bites and review the insights from the night.

What about my partner snoring too?

AutoSnore will pick up all sounds in the room. If you have another snorer in the room, there are a couple key things to do:

1. Phone placement on the side of the bed is important, as it will be targeting the person it is closer to.

2. Ensure the volume threshold is set to an appropriate level. The default threshold % will block out the majority of the other persons snores, but you can alter the threshold by going into the Options tab and 'Configure my AutoSnore'.

We will look into options for partner snoring in future updates.

Can I use family sharing?

Yes! AutoSnore has family sharing enabled, so be sure to share the app with your family members for free. You and your partner may like to both record at night and compare in the morning to see who snores more.... or less.

What about naps?

Naps are not supported in the current version, as the trends for comparing works best night to night, using your main sleep session. But we will listen to customer requests to see if this is a need for nap tracking in future versions.

Can I Listen to Music or Podcasts?

Yes, support has been added so you can listen to music or podcasts before or after pressing "Start" on AutoSnore.

Please note that the iPhone does a lot of switching of system permissions when items like AirPods or other sound apps are connected or disconnected, so AutoSnore is programmed to handle all these backend changes as best it can.

However, we do recommend the best way is to connect the AirPods first before starting AutoSnore. This reduces some of the complexities that the iPhone is trying to handle with multiple apps requiring microphone permissions.

Will AutoSnore Record My Playing Audio? 

For those who listen to audio from their iPhone speaker at bedtime, there is a setting you can use to tell AutoSnore not to record during the audio. If this setting is not on, AutoSnore will capture all sounds in the room it can hear. This setting only applies if listening to audio from the iPhone speakers. If using AirPods or headphones, you can ignore this setting.

Go into the Options tab and 'Configure my AutoSnore'. Under the section Audio Playback, a switch setting allows you to "pause" snore recording while audio is playing. AutoSnore will start recording automatically when the "play" stops, you don't have to do anything and can drift off to sleep.

IMPORTANT: remember that AutoSnore can only start once the audio stops, if it runs all night, no data will be recorded. Some other third-party apps like sleep trackers and alarms run a silent audio file all night long (you will not even realise it is doing this), so if using these apps, DO NOT turn the pause setting on.

Snores Detected

You can listen to individual sound bites for the recent sleep once you "stop" the session. 

You can also listen to historical sounds bites for up to 28 days, depending on the amount of days you have set in configuration.

To access the sound bites for the most recent sleep, tap the "Snores Detected" icon on the Home page. This will take you to the Snore Clouds screen.

Snore Clouds

All your individual sound bites will appear as white dots on the graph, forming cloud-like images, hence the name, "Snore Clouds". The larger and more dense the cloud, the more snores recorded.

The straight red line on the Snore Clouds graph is set to 50% volume. This indicates any loud snores above the line, or quieter snores below the line.

Scroll down the page and watch your snore clouds drop like rain into sound bites for you to review.

Sound Bites

Each sound bite is a 10 second recording. Tap on any sound bite to listen to the recording.

The little "green arrow icon" on each sound bite lets you perform one of the following actions:

1. Mark any sound bite as a favourite to your greatest hits, this means the sound bite will stay on your device after 28 days.

2. Share this sound bite with others. All your data is only ever held on device, but this allows the owner to manually send a sound bite to other trusted contacts if required, such as your doctor.

Filters

Filters are found at the bottom of the Snore Clouds screen. Use your finger to tap, hold and drag up.

AutoSnore classifies all the sounds it records, such as snoring being the primary. But it will most likely also detect lots of different sounds, such as speaking, breathing or sneezing. Rather than hide these completely, we make these available through the use of filters.

Filters allows you to control the grouping with some quick link tabs, such as "Snoring Top 10" or "All Sounds". Explore the options and notice how the graph and sound bites change with the options.

Unique to AutoSnore, "Snurks" is an innovative measure that provides a single score to rate your overall snoring during sleep. Think of it as a snore score, but with a background algorithm looking at all those snores overnight.

Put simply, the higher your Snurk score, the more intense and frequent you snored.

While the Snurk Rating is individual to you, we find quieter snoring in the range of 10 - 40 snurks, while very loud snoring may be 100+.

Tags are used as a reflection for any items that you feel impacted your most recent sleep and snoring, such as eating late before bed last night.

Tags give context to the data. Tags can be entered from anytime once you wake up and added to during the day. Better yet, you can setup your own custom tags if required.

Tags can be added from the Home page or from the history graphs screen.

Factors & Remedies

Snoring can be caused by a number of factors, such as your anatomy, alcohol consumption, a cold or your weight.

There are also many remedies to reduce your snoring, such as lifestyle changes, sleeping position or using different devices such as anti-snoring pillows.

AutoSnore allows you to capture these factors and remedies, tracking their impact over a 28 day period. Should you require a custom tag, enter a new one at the bottom.

Tag Impacts

Using the history graphs, you will notice filters for factors and remedies that have been used. 

Tap on any tag and a new orange line _____ will appear on the graph, showing the impact of that tag compared to your overall average. For example, the image below shows my remedy tag for "Head-Raised" is 34.3% better for my snurk score!

Historical data up to 28 days old can be found in the Insights tab on the home page. This allows you to see trends and access sound bites for previous nights.

Use your finger to tap a historical date on the graph, or hold and drag across the graph. This lets you access the sound bites for that specific date.

Use the Filters tab to control the Insights graph, such as Peak Snore trends.

Note that using "tags" can make a big difference to insights (see Using Tags section above), as it provides additional context to the snoring and sleep sounds.

For those customers with our AutoSleep app to track their sleep using an Apple Watch, you can now view your key snore metrics in AutoSleep too!

This will appear automatically in AutoSleep, there is nothing you need to do.

AutoSleep will show your snore intensity and snore cloud data. This can be found on the Today tab and Clock tab. Refer to the Snore Intensity page here for all the details.

To ensure privacy, no recorded sound bites are transferred to AutoSleep. It is metrics only.

A great bonus you get with the data sync to AutoSleep, is that the snore metrics can be stored in AutoSleep for longer than 4 weeks, which is the maximum time period in AutoSnore. The snore data once in AutoSleep will be stored the same with all other AutoSleep data types, securely encrypted and backed up in HealthKit.

Found in the Options tab on the home page, "Configure my AutoSnore" allows some important configuration settings.

History

This lets the user decide on the amount of days to store their sound bites. The greater the days, the more storage required. 

7 days is the minimum and 28 days is the default and maximum allowed. Any recorded sounds past these days will be automatically deleted, unless the individual sound bite has been made a favourite.

Reducing the days will also delete files at the time of changing, for example, if you update from 28 days to 10 days, it will only keep the recent 10 days.

Note: Each night of snoring recording will use about 50MB storage, equivalent to 10 photos. So if you have around 20,000MB of storage available, this is about 400 nights of snoring, which will easily handle the 28 days maximum limit on most iPhones.

Threshold

The threshold % is great for applying a filter to quieter snores, to help you see what is most important.

So if set to 20% threshold, AutoSnore will ignore any snores lower than 20% volume in all the graphs and reporting. The recording still happens, but AutoSnore excludes these recordings to make it easier to view your data.

Feel free to experiment with the threshold, as everyone is different. From our internal testing, we find around the 30% threshold seems to be the sweet spot.

Snoring

Snores have a side variety of sounds. If you find you are getting too many non-snores or too few actual snores, a new setting in configuration allows you to set to Strict or Wide detection.

Strict Detection: set to strict detection to only classify classic snoring sounds and ignore more unusual snoring sounds. Strict detection also increases the base confidence level for the sound model.

Wide Detection: set to wide detection to allow a wider variety of possible snoring sounds.

Audio Playback

This is for users who like to listen to music or podcasts on their iPhone speakers when they go to bed (it does not apply to AirPods). This setting tells AutoSnore that you would like to ignore any sounds while the audio is playing and start recording snores only once the audio has been turned off. Select "Detection Paused" for this.

IMPORTANT: AutoSnore can only start recording once the audio stops, if you fall asleep and the audio runs all night, no data will be recorded. AutoSnore will start recording automatically only when the "play" stops.

ALSO IMPORTANT: some other third-party apps like sleep trackers (eg. sleep cycle app) and alarm apps (eg. alarmy app) run a silent audio file all night long to keep their app active, you most likely will not even realise it is doing this. However, this will impact the AutoSnore microphone and result in no snore data. If using these apps, select "Detection On"

The default setting is "Detection On".

Battery

This option is a handy notification you can enable that the iPhone should be on a charger when you press "Start" to begin recording. This option lets you turn this notification on or off.

This is a popular request to help start and stop AutoSnore using Siri.

Added URIs to start and stop snore tracking. 

To start autosnore://start

To stop autosnore://stop

Shortcuts Setup Steps: 

You can create a shortcut in the Apple Shortcuts app as follows:

1. Press +

2. Type "Open URLs" in the search actions

3. Tap the "URL" text and type the url as autosnore://start

4. Press the title of the shortcut at the top called "Open URLs" to open some options

5. Rename to something that Siri will understand. Remember Siri can be fussy. We find "Track My Snoring" works well. 

6. Change the icon if you wish using the same step above

Follow the same steps to setup the stop shortcut (autosnore://stop). A good name to stop AutoSnore tracking is "Stop Tracking My Snoring".

Note that running a shortcut that wants to use the microphone when the iPhone is locked will mean that you need to unlock iPhone. This is enforced from Apple for security purposes using the microphone, no 3rd party apps can override this.

Automation Setup Steps:

You can create an automation that will automatically start AutoSnore when you turn on sleep focus mode on your iPhone (another popular request). 

To setup:

1. Press Automation tab in the Shortcuts app. 

2. Press +

3. Select Sleep

4. Select Bedtime Begins

5. Turn on Run Immediately.

6. Press Next

7. Select "Track My Snoring" shortcut. 

Note: This works extremely well if you enable sleep focus mode using iPhone. If you enable sleep focus mode using Apple Watch, you will have to unlock iPhone. As mentioned above, this is enforced from Apple for security and privacy purposes.

There is currently no automation for when sleep focus mode is turned off. 

These two URIs can be combined with all sort of things either in an automation or in a shortcut. They can also be used in other apps that use app URIs.

Advanced Automations:

Advanced Users: for those who love automations more than most, you can also add AutoSleep lights off in the sleep focus automation. It will only appear in shortcuts once you have used it on iPhone by adding the Siri voice command. Here is the AutoSleep Shortcuts page if needed.

Frequently Asked Questions

The best place to look is the comprehensive support page, with answers to 99% of the common questions we receive. Refer to our support page here.

Contact

If you have no luck with the frequently asked questions, please refer to the contact us page here.