WatchOS 3 included a breathe app that gives occasional reminders to "take a minute to breathe".
What prompts these reminders? Does it monitor your heart rate to know when you're stressed, or does it remind you at preset times?
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Sign up to join this communityBy default, breathe reminders are set to display every 5 hours. According to Apple, you can adjust or disable the reminders by doing the following.
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and tap the My Watch tab.
- Tap Breathe > Breathe Reminders.
- Choose how often you get reminders.
It seems like the reminders to breathe are connected to actual respiration measurements. Every time I get the alert I become aware that I had been holding my breathe. .. Or maybe just I hold my breathe a lot and only become cognizant, when my alert goes off.