Menopause changes how your body responds to temperature moment to moment. Most beds can’t keep up with this shift. Until now.
Starting October 29, Menopause Mode begins rolling out globally to every Eight Sleep member with an Autopilot membership. It delivers automatic temperature adjustments tuned on more than 57,000 nights of menopausal sleep for baseline cooler sleep, rapid cooling for the moments heat breaks through, and insights that compare your sleep to similar members.
The goal isn’t just to tell you how you slept. It’s to help you sleep better through the night, every night, with adjustments that keep up with your changing needs.
The problem: menopause shrinks your comfort zone
Hormonal changes during menopause make it harder for your body to regulate temperature. As a result, the temperature zone you find comfortable narrows, so you can tip from too hot to too cold more easily. A bed that felt comfortable for years can suddenly feel too hot, leaving you awake and sweating at 3 a.m.
Those disrupted nights add up. In Eight Sleep research, postmenopausal women averaged more than 1.5 hours less sleep per week than premenopausal women (source).
Why temperature matters so much during menopause
Adjusting your sleep environment is one of the few things you can control at night. In a study of peri- and postmenopausal women, 85% of members reported fewer hot flashes during a week using Pod temperature control versus off (source).
But there’s no single “right” temperature. Our research found that across more than 1,800 women, preferred bed temperatures varied by about 5°F across hormonal life stages (source). Menopausal women preferred Pod temperatures 2–5°F cooler than premenopausal women, and women using hormone therapy chose bedtime settings about 1.5°F warmer than women who weren’t.
Your temperature needs can change drastically throughout your life, and differ from those of other women at the same stage. Your bed needs to learn you.
What Menopause Mode does, automatically, every night
Menopause Mode adapts the existing Eight Sleep Autopilot model, trained on more than 57,000 nights of sleep from 450+ peri- and postmenopausal women. Standard Autopilot was built for everyone. This one is built for a narrower comfort zone. It makes smaller, steadier adjustments through the night to help keep you comfortable and reduce nighttime wake-ups.
When you enable Menopause Mode, it starts from what women in menopause prefer, then learns you. As your preferences, room conditions, and the seasons change, your Pod adjusts with them, so you don’t have to think about it, ever.
Cooling when you need it
When a hot flash hits, Rapid Cooling delivers an extra boost of cooling to help you get comfortable and back to sleep. Eight in ten women reported relief within 10 minutes of activating it.
Start it by clicking the side of your Pod Cover on Pod 5 and newer, or tapping Rapid Cooling on your Eight Sleep app home screen. Choose how cold it gets and how long it runs. When the session ends, your Pod automatically returns to your usual temperature.
Insights built for women like you
Menopause often comes with a lot of trial and error: hormone therapy, supplements, diet, exercise. It can be hard to tell which changes are actually helping you sleep. Menopause Mode helps take some of the guesswork out.
During setup, you share whether you’re perimenopausal or postmenopausal, and whether you use hormonal birth control or hormone therapy. Your stage and hormone use shape your hormonal environment and can affect your sleep. That context powers comparisons with members like you, so you can see how your wake-ups, sleep time, and biometrics stack up against women at a similar stage.
You’ll also see what typically falls within range for those women. If a metric lands well outside that range, Menopause Mode flags it so you can keep an eye on it and see whether changes to your habits or routines start to move your metrics.
Tags help you explore those patterns over time. Log symptoms, habits, and possible triggers in the app to see how they relate to your sleep. Do you notice more hot flashes or wake-ups after eating spicy foods? How does your sleep look different on days with symptoms like bloating, headaches, or anxiety? The more you log, the more context you have.
For many women, hormone therapy is an important part of the menopause experience. If you’ve started or changed therapy in the past year, add the start date, dose, and delivery method. Menopause Mode shows how total sleep, deep sleep, and wake-ups compare before and after each change. These are correlations, not conclusions, but they give you real data as you figure out what’s working for you.
It all comes back to giving you useful information during a stage when everything can feel like it’s changing at once, so you feel supported and can make more informed decisions.
Your questions, answered
Do I need to be postmenopausal to use this feature? No. Menopause Mode supports women from perimenopause through postmenopause, with or without hormone therapy. You’ll share your menopause stage during setup, and from there your insights and app experience will be personalized to where you are.
Will my partner see my insights? No. Your insights are visible only to you.
What do I need to start? This feature requires an Eight Sleep Pod and an active Autopilot membership. It begins rolling out globally on iOS and Android on October 29, 2026 and requires your app to be updated to the latest version. To turn on the mode, toggle the “Standard” tile in the top right corner of your home screen. This opens the Modes dropdown, where you can select Menopause to begin setup.
Can I turn it off at any time? Yes. Turn it off anytime by clicking the Menopause button on the top right corner of your home screen.
Eight Sleep is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Comparisons and ranges are general references, not clinical assessments. Talk to your doctor about any health concerns.
