The quick answer
Use SleepTrack Audio while you listen. It records Audible's playback positions on your phone and can compare them with sleep data from Health Connect. In the morning, open your latest Sleep Mark to see the listening window, detected sleep onset, chapter data when available, and a suggested place to resume.
If SleepTrack was not set up for the previous night, check Audible's listening log instead. The log can narrow the search, but it cannot know when you stopped understanding the story, so you will need to rewind and listen for a familiar passage.
Option 1: let SleepTrack find your resume point
SleepTrack Audio works alongside Audible and other supported Android media apps. You keep listening in Audible as usual; SleepTrack does not replace your audiobook library and does not need access to the audio itself.
When Health Connect provides a completed sleep session, SleepTrack places sleep onset and available sleep stages beside the playback timeline. It then recommends a restart point slightly before you drifted off. When Audible supplies reliable chapter metadata, the recommendation includes the chapter as well as the time.
Best fit: Android listeners who regularly fall asleep to spoken audio and use a tested wearable or another source that writes usable sleep data to Health Connect.
Install SleepTrack Audio from Google Play before your next listening session.
Option 2: check Audible's listening log
Audible documents a listening log that records listening activity. The exact menu location can move between app versions, so use Audible's current listening-log instructions rather than an old screenshot.
- Find the start and end of last night's listening session.
- Open the chapter that was playing around that time.
- Rewind farther than you think you need, then move forward in small steps.
What the log cannot know: playback history shows when the book played. It does not necessarily show the moment you stopped understanding the story.
Option 3: use Audible's sleep timer
A timer works well when your fall-asleep time is predictable. Set it shorter than your usual estimate, then extend it if you are still awake. Ending at the current chapter is useful for books with short chapters, but less helpful when one chapter lasts an hour.
The tradeoff is simple: a timer stops at a chosen time, not at your sleep onset. If you fall asleep eight minutes into a thirty-minute timer, you may still miss twenty-two minutes.
Where should you restart?
Begin a little before the detected sleep point. People often stop following a story before a wearable records sleep, and Health Connect data can arrive at different resolution depending on the device. SleepTrack intentionally treats the result as a recommendation, not proof of an exact second.
Set it up for the next night
- Install SleepTrack Audio from Google Play.
- Allow Android notification access so the app can observe supported media playback.
- Connect Health Connect if you want sleep-onset matching. Automatic listening bookmarks also work without a wearable.
- Play Audible normally and check Sleep Marks the following morning.