[ { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Manage your notifications at any time in the Settings section of the Oura App, located in the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen. For specifics, follow the instructions below.\nKeep in mind: if you've enabled low power mode or power saving mode on your device, apps running in the background may not receive updates or send you notifications.\nEnable Notifications in Oura\nEnable Notifications on Your Device\nNotification Specifics\nBattery Level\nInactivity Alerts\nActivity Progress", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Bedtime Notifications\nTroubleshooting Notifications", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Enable Notifications in the Oura App", "chunk": "1. Tap Settings > Notifications\n2. From here, you have the ability to toggle on or off the five notifications sent from your Oura App. These include low battery level reminders, inactivity alerts, activity progress updates, and bedtime notifications\nDescriptions of these notifications are provided below and can also be found inside the app when making changes to your notification preferences. The default settings provide notifications for low battery and inactivity.\nFor notifications to appear:", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Enable Notifications in the Oura App", "chunk": "- Your ring must be on your finger\n- The app must be running in the background\n- Your device's Bluetooth must be enabled\nNote that if you've toggled on specific notifications within your Oura App and they still aren't appearing as banner, lock screen, or notification center alerts on your device, you may need to check that Oura App notifications on your device are enabled as well.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Enable Oura App Notifications on Your Device", "chunk": "To start, go to your phone's Settings.\nFor iOS:\n1. Tap Notifications > Scroll down, then tap on the Oura App > Ensure Allow Notifications is toggled on\n2. Optional: Under Options, you can also select Show Previews and change this setting to Always if you’d like your Oura notifications to show while your phone is locked. This may be useful in the case that you regularly use Face ID to unlock your phone, which may result in accidentally missing a notification\nFor Android:", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Enable Oura App Notifications on Your Device", "chunk": "1. Tap Apps & Notifications > Go to App Info > Tap the Oura App listed in this section\n2. Tap Notifications or App Notifications\n3. Do one of the following:\nTap Show Notifications, then tap \"On\"\nTap Allow Notifications\n4. Tap Show Notifications, then tap \"On\"\n5. Tap Allow Notifications", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Notification Specifics", "chunk": "Here's what to expect from each notification:\nBattery Level\nIf your ring's battery level is low, Oura will provide you with an alert 2-3 hours before your bedtime. If you receive this notification, be sure to charge your ring prior to falling asleep.\nYou'll need at least a 30% battery charge prior to bed to receive sleep data the following morning.\nInactivity Alerts", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Notification Specifics", "chunk": "Inactivity alerts will provide you with a friendly reminder to stretch your legs after 50 minutes of inactivity. When you receive this notification, you have 10 minutes to reset it. To do so, take a brief walk, or stretch for a few minutes.\nActivity Progress\nOura will keep you updated on your daily activity goal progress with timely reminders. Keep in mind that your daily activity goal is determined by your readiness level, age, and sex.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Notification Specifics", "chunk": "In order to keep your Activity Score high, we suggest you aim to reach your daily activity goals at least five times a week, which is where enabling this notification may be helpful.\nBedtime Notifications", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Notification Specifics", "chunk": "Oura will provide a notification one hour prior to your suggested bedtime, so you can start unwinding with your nightly routine. Your bedtime guidance is calculated relative to the nights you’ve slept the longest and most efficiently, and can be updated on a daily basis to reflect your most recent sleep needs.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Notification Specifics", "chunk": "Think of your bedtime guidance as Oura's reminder to hold you accountable to a consistent good night's sleep—if you happen to fall out of routine, bedtime notifications can help to bring you back into alignment.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Troubleshooting Notifications", "chunk": "Note for iOS members: iOS 18 includes a feature that lets you lock or hide apps. If the Oura App is locked or hidden, you won't receive notifications, and your widgets may also be hidden. For instructions on how to unlock or unhide the Oura App, refer to Apple's guide on locking or hiding apps.\nIf you're not receiving notifications from the Oura App:\n1. Toggle all five notification settings off and then back on in the Oura App settings\n2. Toggle your device's Bluetooth on and off\n3. Restart your device", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Managing Your Notifications", "section_title": "Troubleshooting Notifications", "chunk": "4. Make sure your ring is not in Airplane Mode\n5. Ensure that your ring and the Oura App have synced at least once during the day", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025579173-Managing-Your-Notifications" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura includes route, distance, and pace/speed insights for certain Automatic Activity Detection (AAD) entries, manually added activities, or activities imported through third-party app integrations.\nWhat Are Location Services?\nHow to Use Location Services\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "By enabling location services on your Oura App, you'll gain access to a greater diversity of activity data, including route, distance, speed, and pace — depending on the type of activity you engage in. Setting up location tracking with Oura will help to improve the quality of your activity predictions over time. With more insights, you'll also gain deeper awareness into your daily activities and how they influence your sleep, recovery, and overall well being.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "These new metrics will be included in the \"Activity Details\" view of any confirmed activity to which route, distance, speed, or pace apply. You can access these after your activity by tapping on confirmed activities where they appear in either your home or Activity screens.\nMetrics include:\n- Route: View a map with your start, end, and the exact path you've followed\n- Distance: See the exact distance of your activity, in miles or kilometers", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "- Pace or speed (depending on activity type): Observe your average pace over the course of your activity and see your split times\nAutomatic Activity Detection Metrics\nRoute, distance, and speed are available for:\n- Downhill skiing\n- Ice skating\n- Mountain biking\n- Outdoor cycling\n- Rollerblading\n- Snowboarding\n- Surfing\nRoute, distance, and pace are available for:\n- HIIT\n- Hiking\n- Horseback riding\n- Nordic walking\n- Orienteering\n- Outdoor cross-country skiing\n- Rowing\n- Running\n- Walking", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "Distance is available for:\n- Cross-training\n- Outdoor climbing\nNote: You must have your phone on you while you work out in order for any location-based data to appear. Your Oura App must also be open and running in the background on your device before you start your activity. Your location will never be shared outside of Oura, and you're free to revoke access at any time via your device settings.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "To Enable Location Services\n1. Update your Oura App to the latest version\n2. The app will display an information card after your next automatically detected activity\n3. Tap Continue to enable location tracking, or tap \"No thanks\" to opt out\n4. If you tap \"Continue,\" your operating system will ask you to confirm activating location-based features on your Oura App. If you have an Android device, you may need to select \"allow access to location while using the app\" in your location settings", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "To Manually Enable or Disable Oura's Location Services\n1. Select the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen\n2. Tap Settings\n3. Beneath \"General,\" tap Location permissions\n4. Toggle Oura location features\n5. Open your device's Settings\n6. Select Privacy\n7. Ensure that Location Services are toggled on\n8. Scroll down and select Oura\n9. Tap \"Always\" beneath Allow location access\nCollect & View Activity Data", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "Your next confirmed activity will surface in the home and Activity screens. Tap \"Show activity details\" on the reward card to get more information. If you miss your reward card, you can view your activity details from your Activities list in the Activity screen.\nYour new activity details will vary based on type, but can include: route (with a visual map), distance, and average pace/speed.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "Please note that not all of these metrics will be accessible following the detection and confirmation of an activity with Oura. Only certain activities have applicable location data.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- As a best practice, we recommend setting Location Services for Oura to \"Always on.\" In order for the feature to work optimally, your GPS location must be accessible from the very beginning of your activity. If not, you may end up missing your route and visual map. Note that this may result in higher phone battery consumption\n- Your location data will never be shared outside your Oura App, or with a third party without your consent", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Route data and visual maps will also be available for manually added activities and activities imported through third-party app integrations, if your Location Services with Oura are established as \"Always on,\" your phone is with you while you work out, and you open the Oura App on your device before starting an activity\n- If you force quit your Oura App, location tracking will stop until you launch the app again", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Automatic Activity Detection\nManually Add an Activity\nHow to Use Apple Health with Oura\nHow to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura\nHow to Use Strava with Oura", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179-Location-Services-for-Activities" }, { "article_title": "Airplane Mode", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Airplane Mode disables all radio transmission from your Oura Ring, including Bluetooth connection between the ring and app. When Airplane Mode is turned on, your ring will continue to collect and store data.\nHow to use Airplane Mode\nHow to turn off Airplane Mode\nWhen to use Airplane Mode", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445814-Airplane-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Airplane Mode", "section_title": "How to use Airplane Mode", "chunk": "To enable Airplane Mode, tap the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the Oura App home screen. Then, toggle the slider next to \"Ring airplane mode\" on. Confirm that you’d like to turn on airplane mode via the pop-up message.\nWhen Airplane Mode is turned on, an airplane icon will appear in the upper-right corner of the home screen.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445814-Airplane-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Airplane Mode", "section_title": "How to turn off Airplane Mode", "chunk": "To turn off Airplane Mode, place your ring on its charger and wait a few seconds for the ring and app to connect. If you experience connection issues, simply close and re-open the Oura App.\nYour ring data will be synced with the Oura App when Airplane Mode is disabled. Keep in mind that if your ring has been in Airplane Mode for more than a few days, it may take longer for your data to sync with the app.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445814-Airplane-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Airplane Mode", "section_title": "When to use Airplane Mode", "chunk": "You may want to use Airplane Mode if you’re traveling to a different time zone for a short stay and don’t want time zone changes to be accounted for by your ring.\nYou may also activate Airplane Mode if you want to eliminate all EMF exposure from your ring. Keep in mind that Bluetooth is only active in the Oura Ring during a small portion of each day, falling well below 1%.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445814-Airplane-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Airplane Mode", "section_title": "When to use Airplane Mode", "chunk": "Airplane Mode can be activated for a maximum of seven days at a time. If you’d like to use Airplane Mode for an extended period, you'll need to re-enable it once you remove your Oura Ring from its charger.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445814-Airplane-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "This article introduces Rest Mode, provides instructions on how to use it, and highlights a few best practices when you find yourself in need of some rest and relaxation.\nRest Mode is available on the Oura App for iOS and Android.\nWhat is Rest Mode?\nHow to Use Rest Mode\nDisable Rest Mode\nUsing Tags While in Rest Mode\nThings to Keep in Mind", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "What is Rest Mode?", "chunk": "Rest Mode is a unique mode in the Oura App, designed for days when your body and mind need time to rest. This need for rest may be the result of an illness, an injury, or even jet lag. In general, though, Rest Mode can be used anytime you feel exhausted or overworked.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "What is Rest Mode?", "chunk": "By using Rest Mode, you’re proactively taking time to recover. For as long as you decide to keep Rest Mode on, your Activity Progress Goal, Activity Score, and all activity-related contributors will be disabled. Your Readiness and Sleep insights will also be adjusted to help you prioritize rest and recovery.\nScenarios Where You Might Use Rest Mode\n- Recovering from an illness, such as the flu or common cold\n- Recuperating from a physical injury\n- Experiencing excess stress or anxiety", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "What is Rest Mode?", "chunk": "- Experiencing joint/muscle pain or body cramps\n- Recovering from jet lag\nScenarios Rest Mode Isn't the Best For\n- Attempting to detect or cure an illness or health condition\n- Taking naps or watching television\n- Meditating or practicing mindful breathing\nThe guidance offered by Rest Mode helps you focus on rest and recovery during times when your body needs it the most. Rest Mode is not designed to cure or treat illnesses or other health conditions.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "How to Use Rest Mode", "chunk": "There are two separate options you can use to enable Rest Mode.\nOption One\nGo to the menu in the upper-left corner of the Oura App home screen, then tap Rest Mode.\nOption Two\nTap the Rest Mode notification card on the Oura home screen. This card will only appear if your average body temperature is elevated to the extent that your body temperature contributor suggests you pay attention. This suggestion might result if your body shows signs you’re under strain.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "How to Use Rest Mode", "chunk": "You can expect to see the following notification card on the home screen if your average body temperature spikes.\nOnce you’ve enabled Rest Mode and added any relevant tags, you’ll return to the home screen. The Oura App will indicate what in-app changes to expect while in Rest Mode.\nA Rest Mode notification will be visible at the bottom of the Oura App. This notification will remain until you choose to disable Rest Mode.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Disable Rest Mode", "chunk": "When you're ready to disable Rest Mode, you can tap the notification banner at the bottom of the home screen. You can also tap menu , then Rest Mode.\nIf you want to remove any effect Rest Mode had on your Oura metrics, you can Turn off and delete tags.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Using Tags While in Rest Mode", "chunk": "A list of suggested tags will appear when you turn Rest Mode on. You can update tags linked to Rest Mode by tapping the notification banner at the bottom of the home screen, then tapping the edit icon.\nRest Mode has a specific tag that will be automatically shown with other tags in Trends. The Rest Mode tag will appear when you enable Rest Mode and it cannot be removed. Any additional tags that you select for Rest Mode will appear as usual in Trends.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Using Tags While in Rest Mode", "chunk": "During each day on Rest Mode, a notification card will appear asking if selected tags are still applicable. This daily notification allows you to track your symptoms and your progress.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- The automatic Rest Mode prompt relies on meaningful increases in average body temperature because body temperature is the clearest sign of strain amongst Oura metrics. Multiple factors can cause your average body temperature to be elevated such as illness, strain, your sleeping environment, or your menstrual cycle. Please note that Oura takes into account temperature changes that occur as a result of the natural menstrual cycle and, therefore, you will not be mistakenly prompted to turn on Rest Mode due to temperature elevations that result from a menstrual cycle.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Once you turn Rest Mode off, your Oura App and any insights will gradually return to normal. This means that your Activity Goal, Score, and any activity-related contributors will slowly pick back up, taking into account the time you've spent in Rest Mode. This easing period lasts as long as Rest Mode was on, or a maximum of seven days.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Rest Mode", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Although your Activity Goal, Score, and all activity-related contributors will be paused during Rest Mode, you’ll still be able to view your daily movement, inactive time, total burn, steps, and active calories with walking equivalency.\n- Ensure your Oura Ring battery is at least 25% before going to bed. If you fall asleep with insufficient ring battery, you risk missing out on Readiness and Sleep insights while in Rest Mode.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057065433-Rest-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Power Saving Mode", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "If you plan on taking a break from wearing your Oura Ring, we recommend charging your ring above 50% and then putting it in power saving mode. This will help prevent potential battery deterioration.\nTo enable power saving mode:\n1. Ensure that you have a stable internet connection\n2. Place your ring on the charger for a few minutes\n3. Open the Oura App and wait for the latest sync\n4. Back up your data:\nTap on the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen\nSelect Settings > Back up all data", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025424454-Power-Saving-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Power Saving Mode", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "5. Tap on the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen\n6. Select Settings > Back up all data\n7. When the backup is complete, take your ring off the charger and place it on a flat surface\n8. Factory reset your ring\nGo to the My Oura Ring page by tapping on the menu in the upper-left corner or the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the home screen\nOn iOS, under Tools, tap Factory reset\nOn Android, swipe left > under Tools, tap Factory reset", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025424454-Power-Saving-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Power Saving Mode", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "9. Go to the My Oura Ring page by tapping on the menu in the upper-left corner or the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the home screen\n10. On iOS, under Tools, tap Factory reset\n11. On Android, swipe left > under Tools, tap Factory reset\n12. When the factory reset is complete, leave the ring off the charger and keep it on a flat surface without moving it for two minutes. This allows the ring to enter shipping mode or power saving mode if you're storing the ring", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025424454-Power-Saving-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Power Saving Mode", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "13. In your device's Bluetooth settings, remove your Oura Ring from the list of connected devices\nYour Oura App will ask you to reconnect your ring. Do not proceed to reconnect it. After two minutes, your ring will go into power saving mode and can be stored safely.\nTo start using your Oura Ring again, simply place your ring on its charger and follow the in-app instructions reconnect your ring with the Oura App.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025424454-Power-Saving-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Power Saving Mode", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Keep in mind: Storing your Oura Ring for an extended period of time (2+ weeks) without following these steps may affect the longevity of your battery and its performance.\nAs a consumable component of our devices, batteries are not covered under Oura's Limited Warranty.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025424454-Power-Saving-Mode" }, { "article_title": "Oura App Languages", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App is currently available in:\n- Danish\n- English\n- Finnish\n- French\n- German\n- Italian\n- Japanese\n- Norwegian\n- Spanish\n- Swedish\nThe Oura App also supports both metric and imperial units of measurement, which can be adjusted through the app's menu > Settings > Units.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058028053-Oura-App-Languages" }, { "article_title": "Oura App Languages", "section_title": "How to Adjust Language Preferences", "chunk": "Please update to the latest version of the Oura App through the iOS App Store or the Google Play Store. The Oura App will automatically update to any of the above supported languages if that language is set as your device's primary language.\nOn iOS\nTo manually set the Oura App's language on iOS (14.0 or later):\n1. Go to your phone's Settings\n2. Select General > Language & Region\n3. Tap \"Add Language...\"\n4. Select your preferred language\n5. Return to Settings", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058028053-Oura-App-Languages" }, { "article_title": "Oura App Languages", "section_title": "How to Adjust Language Preferences", "chunk": "6. Scroll down to find Oura in the applications list\n7. Select Oura\n8. Select \"Preferred Language\" and choose one of the supported languages\nOn Android\nTo manually set the Oura App's language on Android (14.0 or later):\n1. Open your phone's Settings\n2. Select System > Languages > App languages\n3. Scroll down to find Oura in the applications list\n4. Select one of the supported languages\nThese steps may be slightly different depending on your Android device and OS version.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058028053-Oura-App-Languages" }, { "article_title": "Home Screen Quick Actions", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura members using an iOS device can take advantage of Apple's Home Screen quick actions to easily launch frequently used features of the Oura App. These quick actions are available to members on Oura Ring Gen2 and on all later generation rings with an active membership.\nWhat Are Home Screen Quick Actions?\nHow to Use Home Screen Quick Actions\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13230798831507-Home-Screen-Quick-Actions" }, { "article_title": "Home Screen Quick Actions", "section_title": "What Are Home Screen Quick Actions?", "chunk": "Quick actions are a convenient way to select an app's common functions right from your phone's Home Screen without having to first open the app. The Oura App's quick actions currently include:\n- Open the Explore content\n- Add an activity\n- Start an Unguided session\n- Add a tag", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13230798831507-Home-Screen-Quick-Actions" }, { "article_title": "Home Screen Quick Actions", "section_title": "How to Use Home Screen Quick Actions", "chunk": "1. On the Home Screen of your iOS device, press and hold the Oura App icon\n2. Select an option from the quick action menu\n3. The Oura App will open to the screen of the selected feature (Explore, Add an activity, Add a tag, or Unguided session)", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13230798831507-Home-Screen-Quick-Actions" }, { "article_title": "Home Screen Quick Actions", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Explore Content\nUnguided Sessions\nHow to Use Tags\nManually Add an Activity", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13230798831507-Home-Screen-Quick-Actions" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App is supported on iOS devices running Apple iOS 15 and higher, or Android devices running Android 9 and higher with Google Play services. Your device must support Bluetooth 4.0.\nSet Up Your Oura Account\nPersonalize Your Oura Experience\nMore Information\nFor further information on setting up your Oura Ring, please see Set Up an Oura Ring.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "1. Download the free Oura App from the App Store (iOS) or the Google Play Store (Android)\n2. Open the Oura App and tap Start\n1. If you're new to Oura, enter an email address to use for your Oura account. This email can differ from the one used to purchase your Oura Ring and will serve as your login across all Oura services, including your membership.\nIf you're already an Oura member, enter the email associated with your account", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "If you purchased a prepaid membership with your ring, it will automatically be applied to the first Oura account you create during setup. Once the membership is linked to an account, it cannot be transferred to a different Oura account\n2. If you're already an Oura member, enter the email associated with your account", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "3. If you purchased a prepaid membership with your ring, it will automatically be applied to the first Oura account you create during setup. Once the membership is linked to an account, it cannot be transferred to a different Oura account\n4. To set up a new Oura Ring, follow the in-app instructions or see this article for more information\n5. Once you've completed setting up your Oura Ring, tap Send setup email", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "6. Check your inbox for an account set up email. In the email, select the Set up account button or the verification link to take you to a verification page\n7. On the verification page, enter and confirm a new password\n8. Select the terms and conditions checkbox. If you'd like to receive Oura news, usage tips, and offers, select that checkbox as well\n9. Enter your billing address associated with a payment method you'll use for your Oura Membership", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "Oura Membership provides full access to the Oura App for daily health insights, personalized recommendations, an ever-growing suite of innovative features, and more. See this article to learn more about the benefits of Oura Membership\nThere are some situations in which members won't enter their billing address or payment information (such as someone with a Lifetime Membership)", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "10. Oura Membership provides full access to the Oura App for daily health insights, personalized recommendations, an ever-growing suite of innovative features, and more. See this article to learn more about the benefits of Oura Membership\n11. There are some situations in which members won't enter their billing address or payment information (such as someone with a Lifetime Membership)", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "12. Select monthly or annual pricing and then enter a payment method, such as a credit card or PayPal, for your Oura Membership. Your payment method won't be charged until after your first complimentary month. If you have a prepaid membership, you'll only be charged once your prepaid period ends\n13. Review and confirm that the information you've entered is correct, then tap Submit\n14. Return to the Oura App and log in\nOnce you've returned to the Oura App, your account and membership setup are complete.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Set Up Your Oura Account", "chunk": "Continue on to the next screen in the Oura App to personalize your Oura experience and finish the app setup.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Personalize Your Oura Experience", "chunk": "1. On the next screen, select Begin to sync your data. This process may take a few minutes\nIf the Oura App asks you to set up a new Oura Ring, follow the in-app instructions or see this article for more information\n2. If the Oura App asks you to set up a new Oura Ring, follow the in-app instructions or see this article for more information", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Personalize Your Oura Experience", "chunk": "3. You'll have the option to link your Oura App to third-party integrations, including Apple Health and Health Connect by Android. For more information, see our articles on using app integrations with Oura\n4. Enter your Date of birth, Weight, Height, and Sex assigned at birth. Tap on your desired measurement system under Units, then tap Done", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Personalize Your Oura Experience", "chunk": "If you decide to use a third-party app like Apple Health or Health Connect by Android, this personal information will update automatically from there. You will not be able to update this within the Oura App in the future\n5. If you decide to use a third-party app like Apple Health or Health Connect by Android, this personal information will update automatically from there. You will not be able to update this within the Oura App in the future", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "Personalize Your Oura Experience", "chunk": "6. If you are new to Oura, take a moment to answer some questions so that Oura can personalize your experience\nYour Oura App is now set up.\nFor the best experience with Oura, set up your country of residence under Settings. Due to regulation, some features are country-specific.\nDiscover the different features with How to Use the Oura App.\nHaving trouble connecting your Oura Ring to your device? Try these troubleshooting steps.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "Set Up the Oura App", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "How to Use the Oura App\nNotification Settings\nApp Integrations\nSet Up an Oura Ring", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058634153" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App is a personal health companion that helps improve wellness. It interprets your body's unique signals, measures individualized progress, and guides you to make sustainable shifts that unlock performance today and health span tomorrow.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "The Oura App gives you a streamlined, at-a-glance view into both your short-term and long-term health. It's organized into three sections: Today, Vitals, and My Health.\nToday", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "The Today tab surfaces the most important information about your health and will update throughout that day. Each day will look different and contain a different set of features depending on what is most timely and relevant to you. To see historical data, you can use either the Vitals tab or Trends, which can be found in the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen.\nWithin the Today tab, you will see:\n- Important updates and insights: timely information about your daily health throughout the day", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "- Action items: items requiring or resulting from your actions, such as detected naps, firmware updates, software updates, activities from Automatic Activity Detection, and more.\n- Shortcuts: quick access entry points for your main metrics — readiness, sleep, activity, cycles, heart rate, and stress. Shortcuts allow you to easily dive deeper into your data in the detail views for each feature\n- Recent events: a timeline providing a comprehensive view of your daily activities and decisions", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "- What's new: new features, partnerships, content additions, and more\nVitals\nThe Vitals Tab provides an at-a-glance view of your different health metrics and will go deeper into your scores.\nIn the Vitals tab, you'll see:\n- Cards for each major metric: you can view your readiness, sleep, activity goal, cycles, daytime heart rate, and Daytime Stress. You can expand the cards to see more information, such as contributors, and tap on the arrow to see the detail views and insight messages", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "- Typical ranges: in addition to your Readiness Score, Sleep Score, and activity goal completion, you'll see your typical range for each, which is the range of your scores 80% of the time over the last 90 days. You'll start getting typical ranges within a couple of weeks of using the app. If you haven't been wearing the ring consistently, you'll get a typical range based on whatever data is available for the last 90 days", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "- Historical data: by swiping left and right or tapping on the calendar view at the top of the screen, you can navigate backward and forward in time to see your stats for previous days\nMy Health\nThe My Health Tab gives you a more streamlined view of your long-term metrics, like Cardiovascular Age, Stress Resilience, and Trends that help you take control of the future of your health.\nIn the My Health tab, you’ll see:", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "- Long-term metrics: a high-level overview for Resilience, heart health (Cardiovascular Age and Cardio Capacity) and sleep health (sleep regularity and chronotype). You can tap into each card for detail views\n- Your reports: weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly reports are one of the easiest ways to see patterns in your data over time\n- Your Health profile: You can edit your goals and key profile information in the upper-right corner", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "Note Gen2 users will see a limited view of the app due to differences in Oura Membership features.\nOther Menus and Functionality\nTap on the + icon in the bottom-right corner to start an Unguided session, Add a tag, Add an activity, Record workout HR, or, if you're using Cycle Insights, Log your period.\nGo to the menu in the upper-left corner to:\n- View your profile\n- View Trends\n- Access the Reports hub\n- View Experiments\n- View your Circles\n- Access Explore content\n- Enable Rest Mode", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "- See Heart Health metrics\n- Turn Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) measurement on or off\n- Access Oura Labs\n- Adjust and view your Settings, including managing membership\n- Access Help\n- Find your Refer a Friend link\nTap on the battery icon in the upper-right corner to check your ring's battery level, activate or deactivate Ring airplane mode, and view your ring details and Firmware version.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "Oura App Experience", "chunk": "Tap the share icon at the top of the home screen to create personalized stickers with your Oura data. You can copy and save these stickers to your device or share them through email, text, and social media.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Oura App", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Readiness\nActivity\nSleep\nExplore\nWomen's Health\nReports\nRest Mode\nOura Stickers", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360058599753" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "If your Oura Ring is not connecting to the Oura App on your iOS or Android device, please try the following troubleshooting steps:\nIf initial troubleshooting steps don't restore connection, you can try a Bluetooth reset, a hardware reset, or advanced troubleshooting for Android devices.\nIf your battery isn’t charging correctly, you can follow these steps.\nReconnecting Your Oura Ring to Your Current Device\nConnecting Your Oura Ring to a New Device\nConnecting A New Oura Ring to a New Device", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Connecting A Replacement Oura Ring to a New Device\nHardware Reset\nAdvanced Troubleshooting for Android\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Reconnecting Your Oura Ring to Your Current Device", "chunk": "1. Confirm that your device is on the latest version of its operating system (OS) and that you are using the latest version of the Oura App\n2. Place your ring on its charger\nif the charger's LED turns blue or red, see our Troubleshooting Charging Issues page for further steps\n3. if the charger's LED turns blue or red, see our Troubleshooting Charging Issues page for further steps\n4. Connect your phone to its own charger to ensure all power saving features are disabled\n5. Place your phone next to the ring", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Reconnecting Your Oura Ring to Your Current Device", "chunk": "6. Turn off your device's Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi can interfere with Bluetooth in certain cases) and make sure that there are no other radio-powered devices nearby such as laptops, wearables, wireless headphones, etc.\nIf the above steps do not restore connection:\n1. Try deleting the Oura App and reinstalling it\n2. Restart your phone\nIf you are using an Android device running Android 11 or older, you will need to enable location services for Bluetooth connectivity to work:\n1. Open your device’s \"Settings\"", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Reconnecting Your Oura Ring to Your Current Device", "chunk": "2. Go to \"Apps\"\n3. Select \"Oura\"\n4. Select \"Permissions\"\n5. \"Location\" needs to be enabled\nIf initial troubleshooting steps don't restore connection, you can try a Bluetooth reset, a hardware reset, or advanced troubleshooting for Android devices.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Connecting Your Oura Ring to a New Device", "chunk": "Before connecting your ring to a new device, follow these instructions on how to transfer your Oura data to a new phone.\n1. Confirm that your device is on the latest version of its operating system (OS) and that you are using the latest version of the Oura App\n2. Place your ring on its charger\nif the charger's LED turns blue or red, see our Troubleshooting Charging Issues page for further steps\n3. if the charger's LED turns blue or red, see our Troubleshooting Charging Issues page for further steps", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Connecting Your Oura Ring to a New Device", "chunk": "4. Connect your phone to its own charger to ensure all power saving features are disabled\n5. Place your phone next to the ring\n6. Turn off your device's Wi-Fi (Wi-Fi can interfere with Bluetooth in certain cases) and make sure that there are no other radio-powered devices nearby, such as laptops, wearables, wireless headphones, etc.\nIf the above steps do not restore the connection:\n1. Try deleting the Oura App and reinstalling it\n2. Restart your phone", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Connecting Your Oura Ring to a New Device", "chunk": "If you are using an Android device running Android 11 or older, you will need to enable location services for Bluetooth connectivity to work:\n1. Open your device’s \"Settings\"\n2. Go to \"Apps\"\n3. Select \"Oura\"\n4. Select \"Permissions\"\n5. \"Location\" needs to be enabled\nOn Android devices, you might see a prompt asking for access to your contacts and call history while pairing your Oura Ring. This information isn't needed, so you can toggle it off and tap Pair to continue connecting your ring.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Connecting Your Oura Ring to a New Device", "chunk": "If initial troubleshooting steps don't restore connection, you can try a Bluetooth reset, a hardware reset, or advanced troubleshooting for Android devices.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Connecting a New Oura Ring to a New Device", "chunk": "To set up a new Oura Ring, follow these instructions. To set up the Oura App on a new device, follow these steps.\nIf you set up your Oura Ring and Oura App, but still can’t connect to your device, you can try a Bluetooth reset, a hardware reset, or advanced troubleshooting for Android devices.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Connecting a Replacement Oura Ring to a New Device", "chunk": "Before connecting your ring to a new device, follow these instructions on how to transfer your Oura data to a new phone.\nTo set up a replacement Oura Ring, follow these instructions. To set up the Oura App on a new device, follow these steps.\nIf you set up your Oura Ring and Oura App, but still can’t connect to your device, you can try a Bluetooth reset, a hardware reset, or advanced troubleshooting for Android devices.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Bluetooth Reset", "chunk": "Resetting your device's Bluetooth may help restore connection between your ring and the Oura App:\n1. Keep your ring on its charger with the power connected\n2. Turn off your phone’s Bluetooth\n3. Force close the Oura App (ensure that it is not running in the background)\n4. Re-enable Bluetooth\n5. Go to your phone’s Bluetooth settings and remove your ring from the list of connected devices\n6. Open the Oura App and follow the instructions to re-pair your ring", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Bluetooth Reset", "chunk": "If a Bluetooth reset doesn't restore connection, you can also try a hardware reset or advanced troubleshooting for Android devices.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Hardware Reset", "chunk": "To initiate a hardware reset:\n1. Keep your ring on its charger\n2. Tap the charger firmly and rapidly a few times on a table, keeping the ring in place with the help of your finger (shown in the graphic below)\n3. Wait approximately one minute, then re-open the Oura App to check if the connection is established\nIt may take several attempts for the hardware reset to activate, so please try these steps a few times.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Advanced Troubleshooting for Android", "chunk": "Differences between Android versions and device manufacturers can have an impact on Bluetooth connectivity, so there are several additional settings to check on your phone:\nBluetooth Scanning\n1. Go to your phone's Settings\n2. Select Security & location\n3. Under \"Privacy,\" tap Location\n4. Select Advanced\n5. Select Scanning\n6. Enable Bluetooth scanning\nBattery Saver\n1. Go to your phone's Settings\n2. Select Battery\n3. Select Battery saver\n4. Turn off battery saver\nApp Data Usage\n1. Go to your phone's Settings", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Advanced Troubleshooting for Android", "chunk": "2. Select Network & Internet\n3. Select Data usage\n4. Select App data usage\n5. Select the Oura App\n6. Tap the Background data switch to toggle it off or on\nApp Permissions\n1. Go to your phone's Settings\n2. Select Apps & notifications\n3. Select App Permissions\n4. Tap Bluetooth to see which apps have permissions to use it\n5. Tap the switch to turn the permission on for Oura, if not already enabled", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Advanced Troubleshooting for Android", "chunk": "Alternatively, in some Android versions, you may be able to see all the permissions an app requires by locating it from an application list. Locate Oura on the list and ensure that all of the permissions are enabled for it.\nPermissions for Nearby Devices\nIf you are using Android 12 or higher, you'll need to enable permissions for nearby devices before Bluetooth will connect:\n1. On your phone, open Settings > Apps > Oura App\nIf \"Oura App\" is not displayed, tap See all apps, then choose the Oura App", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "Advanced Troubleshooting for Android", "chunk": "2. If \"Oura App\" is not displayed, tap See all apps, then choose the Oura App\n3. Tap Permissions > Nearby devices > Allow", "chunk_id": 18, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Connection Issues", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Set Up an Oura Ring\nHow to Use Your Oura Charger\nTroubleshooting Charging Issues\nFactory Reset\nSoftware Updates", "chunk_id": 19, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025592013" }, { "article_title": "Software Updates for iOS", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "To get the most from your Oura experience, be sure to keep up-to-date with the latest versions of the Oura App software and ring firmware. You can download the latest version of the Apple iOS app in the App Store.\nThe Oura App is supported on iOS devices running Apple iOS 15 and higher, or Android devices running Android 9 and higher with Google Play services. Your device must support Bluetooth 4.0.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/sections/9686707598355" }, { "article_title": "Software Updates for iOS", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Software updates for Android can be found here, and firmware updates here. 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Simpler navigation, Score Shortcuts, and Timeline make it easier to focus on key health data. Vitals show all of your health metrics, so you can dig deeper into what’s typical for you. My Health houses longer-term metrics, like Cardiovascular Age, Stress Resilience, and Trends\n- Get a complete view of your movement with Automatic Activity Detection, which now includes Heart Rate Zones from 30+ activities", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/sections/9686707598355" }, { "article_title": "Software Updates for iOS", "section_title": "Software Versions (iOS)", "chunk": "- Discover how daily movement patterns, activities and Tags contribute to your stress levels with a new update to Daytime Stress\n6.0.0 (October 3, 2024)\n- A new Oura App design includes 3 new tabs: Today, Vitals, and My Health. Simpler navigation, Score Shortcuts, and Timeline make it easier to focus on key health data. 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Hei! - Oura is now available in Danish, Norwegian and Swedish\n5.4.1 (August 28, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.4.0 (August 19, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.3.5 (July 31, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.3.4 (July 25, 2024)", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/sections/9686707598355" }, { "article_title": "Software Updates for Android", "section_title": "Software Versions (Android)", "chunk": "- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.3.3 (July 24, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.3.2 (July 2, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.3.1 (June 4, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.3.0 (May 28, 2024)", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/sections/9686707598355" }, { "article_title": "Software Updates for Android", "section_title": "Software Versions (Android)", "chunk": "- We've integrated our AI support bot with our app to offer improved self-service and easier access to information about our products and services\n5.2.9 (May 22, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.2.8 (May 8, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.2.7 (April 24, 2024)", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/sections/9686707598355" }, { "article_title": "Software Updates for Android", "section_title": "Software Versions (Android)", "chunk": "- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.2.6 (April 10, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs\n5.2.5 (March 27, 2024)\n- We're continuously working to delight you with innovations and improve your experience by fixing bugs", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/sections/9686707598355" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Apple Health integration is available on Oura Ring Gen2 and on all later generation rings with an active membership. Apple Health is only available on iOS.\nFor problems syncing Apple Health workouts with Oura, please see our Known Issues page.\nSetting Up Apple Health\nData Synced with Apple Health\nSleep Graphs in the Oura App vs. Apple Health\nPrioritize Oura for Steps\nApp Integration Troubleshooting\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Apple Health", "chunk": "While setting up your account after first downloading the Oura App, you'll have the option to enable Health. If you choose not to enable Health during the initial setup process, you can use the steps below to integrate the apps at any time.\nIn the Oura App\n1. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the Oura App's home screen\n2. Tap Settings\n3. Under \"Data sharing,\" tap Apple Health\n4. Enable the following parameters\nConnect to Health\nSave Mindful Minutes to Health\n5. Connect to Health", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Apple Health", "chunk": "6. Save Mindful Minutes to Health\n7. Sharing settings can be adjusted by going to your phone's Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Oura\nOn Your iPhone\nOnce your Oura App is connected to Apple Health, you can adjust what data is shared between them at any time:\n1. Open Apple Health\n2. Tap your profile picture in the upper-right corner of the Apple Health app\n3. Under \"Privacy,\" select Apps\n4. Select Oura\n5. Select which categories you'd like to share between Oura and Apple Health", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Apple Health", "chunk": "When you sync your Oura data, Apple Health updates will appear after you've completed an activity or workout. You can choose to import and export the following data:\nExported from Oura to Apple Health\n- Active Energy: activity burn calories, excluding your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)\n- Heart Rate: in one-minute intervals\n- Height\n- Mindful Minutes\n- Respiratory Rate: average nighttime respiratory rate\n- Resting Energy\n- Sleep\nSleep Duration\nStart Time\nEnd Time\nSleep Stages\n- Sleep Duration\n- Start Time", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Apple Health", "chunk": "- End Time\n- Sleep Stages\n- Steps\n- Weight\n- Workouts: manually added, recorded through Activity Heart Rate, or added with Automatic Activity Detection\nWorkout Active Calories\nWorkout Distance\nWorkout Duration (Start time and End time)\nWorkout Type\n- Workout Active Calories\n- Workout Distance\n- Workout Duration (Start time and End time)\n- Workout Type", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Apple Health", "chunk": "Workouts exported from Oura will contribute to both the Move and Exercise rings. The Exercise ring increases by the workout's total duration, and the Move ring increases by the number of active calories burned. Please note: steps in Oura do not move the Stand Ring because of a limitation from Apple.\nImported from Apple Health to Oura\n- Date of Birth\n- Height\n- Sex\n- Weight\n- Workout Routes\n- Workouts\nWorkout Calories\nWorkout Distance\nWorkout Duration (Start time and End time)\nWorkout Type\n- Workout Calories", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Apple Health", "chunk": "- Workout Distance\n- Workout Duration (Start time and End time)\n- Workout Type\nYou can find more information about Oura & Apple Health on our blog.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Sleep Graphs in the Oura App vs. Apple Health", "chunk": "Your sleep stages graph may appear differently in the Oura App compared to Apple Health. We use the most accurate data available for metrics like time asleep and sleep stage durations, and this same data is exported to Apple Health.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Sleep Graphs in the Oura App vs. Apple Health", "chunk": "The Oura App hypnogram displays sleep data using five-minute intervals, optimizing for readability while still accurately reflecting sleep stage trends. Apple may apply slight rounding or display sleep graphs using different time intervals, which can result in variations between the two views.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Prioritize Oura for Steps", "chunk": "You can set Oura as a priority data source for steps recorded in Apple Health. This will mitigate the problem of your steps being double counted if you use more than one fitness device at the same time.\n1. Open the Health app on your iPhone\n2. Select the Browse tab in the bottom right corner\n3. Select Activity\n4. Select Steps\n5. Scroll to the bottom and select Data Sources & Access\n6. Select Edit in the upper right corner\n7. Under Data Sources, press and hold the icon next to Oura", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Prioritize Oura for Steps", "chunk": "8. Drag Oura to the top of the list\nIf the double-counting problem persists, you can opt-out of sharing your steps data from Oura entirely by going to your phone's Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Oura > Allow \"Oura\" to Write > Toggle \"Steps\" off.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "Prioritize Oura for Steps", "chunk": "Keep in mind: Other wearables or apps may show different step estimates than Oura because they use a different method of categorizing steps. Many trackers set a different threshold for what counts as \"activity\" while others categorize all movements as steps.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you are having trouble syncing data between Oura and a third-party app, please try the following troubleshooting steps.\nReset Integration\nPlease make sure your phone is on the latest version of its operating system, and follow these steps:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Data Sharing\" and select the appropriate app integration\n5. Turn all the settings switches off and then turn them back on", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "As a final step, turn your device on and off again before trying to import another activity through the integration.\nReinstall Oura App\nTo backup and reinstall the Oura App:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Select the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Account\"\n5. Select \"Back up all data\"\n6. When the back up is finished, uninstall and reinstall the Oura App\nOther Troubleshooting", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you link your Oura App to a third party app such as Apple Health or Health Connect by Android, your height, weight, age, and sex will be imported from those apps into Oura, and you will not be able to edit them unless you unlink the apps.\nThe Oura App might not import data from integrations if both apps were not opened before midnight, if \"Background App Refresh\" is disabled, or if \"Lower Power Mode\" is enabled. Open both Oura and the integrated app at least once a day to prevent this.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "The Oura App will only sync activities for the current day. If you are having trouble syncing your activity, verify that \"Date Added\" matches the date on which the activity occurred. If the imported activity includes calorie data, you can't manually edit the data in the Oura App. Edit the calorie info through the app used to track your activity.", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "When tracking activity, Oura only records your active calories. These calories include the calories you burn during exercise and not your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR, the number of calories required to keep your body functioning while at rest). Other fitness trackers and health apps will combine active calories and BMR. As a result, their calorie burn estimations may differ slightly from Oura's.\nIf you are still experiencing trouble, please contact us.\nYou can contact our Member Care Team here.", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Apple Health with Oura", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "About Oura and Apple Health\nHow Oura measures activity\nKnown Issues", "chunk_id": 18, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025438734-How-to-Use-Apple-Health-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Keep an eye on your Oura data through the Apple Watch companion app. You can see your Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores, heart rate, average body temperature, ring battery level, and more.\nThe Oura companion app requires these minimum system requirements:\n- iOS 16\n- watchOS 9\n- Apple Watch Series 4\n- Oura App version 4.8.1\nWhat Is the Apple Watch Companion App?\nWhat Are Apple Watch Complications?\nHow to Use the Apple Watch Companion App\nInstalling the Companion App\nInstalling Apple Watch Complications", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Syncing Your Oura Data\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "What Is the Apple Watch Companion App?", "chunk": "The Apple Watch companion app is a mirror of Oura's iPhone app. Whenever your Oura Ring syncs to your phone, the Oura App sends your Oura Ring data to your Apple Watch.\nIn the companion app, you can see the following data:\nReadiness\n- Readiness Score\n- Resting heart rate\n- Heart rate variability\n- Body temperature\n- Respiratory rate\n- Readiness contributors\nSleep\n- Sleep Score\n- Total sleep\n- Time in bed\n- Sleep efficiency\n- Resting heart rate\n- Sleep contributors\nActivity\n- Activity Score", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "What Is the Apple Watch Companion App?", "chunk": "- Activity goal progress\n- Total burn\n- Walking equivalency\n- Steps\n- Activity contributors\nWhat Are Apple Watch Complications?\nA complication is a customizable graphic on your watch face that can display data from third-party apps. In watchmaking terms, a complication is an element on a watch face that does anything other than tell the time, such as a calendar, alarm, or a stopwatch function.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "What Is the Apple Watch Companion App?", "chunk": "On the Apple Watch, you can add circular, rectangular, and corner complications that display your Oura data, including:\n- Scores\n- Activity goal progress\n- Ring battery level\n- Heart rate, movement, sleep, and average body temperature graphs", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "How to Use the Apple Watch Companion App", "chunk": "Installing the Companion App\nEnsure that your Apple Watch is paired and synced to your iPhone, and that both the iPhone and Apple Watch software are up-to-date. View these instructions from Apple for more information on how to pair and sync your Apple Watch and iPhone.\nMake sure the Oura App on your iPhone is at least version 4.8.1, then use one of the methods below to install Oura's companion app on your Apple Watch.\nMethod 1: Watch App on iPhone\n1. Open the Watch app on your iPhone", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "How to Use the Apple Watch Companion App", "chunk": "2. From the My Watch tab, scroll down to find Oura under Available Apps\n3. Tap Install next to Oura and wait for it to complete\nMethod 2: Watch App on iPhone\n1. Open the Watch app on iOS\n2. From the Discover tab, select Explore Watch Apps\n3. Search for Oura\n4. Select GET and wait for the download to complete\nMethod 3: Apple Watch directly (without iPhone)\n1. Select the app tray and open >App Store\n2. Search for Oura in the App Store\n3. Select GET", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "How to Use the Apple Watch Companion App", "chunk": "Note: After installation, the iOS Oura App will need to be launched at least once before Oura data will appear in the Apple Watch companion app.\nInstalling Apple Watch Complications\nMore instructions on customizing your Apple Watch display can be found here. Complications can only be added to watch faces that support them. If you do not see an option to add complications on yours, you may need to select and install a different watch face.\n1. Tap and hold the Apple Watch face\n2. Select Edit", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "How to Use the Apple Watch Companion App", "chunk": "3. Tap and hold corner complications or tap circular and rectangular complications to change them\n4. Scroll through the options and tap the desired Oura complication\n5. Save by pressing the digital crown once\nNote: Complications use additional Apple Watch battery life.\nSyncing Your Oura Data", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "How to Use the Apple Watch Companion App", "chunk": "The Apple Watch app is a companion to the iOS Oura App, and does not pair to the ring directly. You must open the Oura App on the iPhone and sync with your ring in order for data to update on the Apple Watch. Oura data does not automatically update on the Apple Watch app in real time.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "How to Use the Apple Watch Companion App", "chunk": "If your Apple Watch app shows dashes instead of scores, measurements, or contributors, this likely means that you have not synced your ring in several days, and there is no available data. Open the Oura App on your iPhone and wait for your ring to update its data.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "How to Use the Apple Watch Companion App", "chunk": "Some user actions such as recording activity heart rate or adding a tag are not available through the Apple Watch companion app. If your Oura App is in Rest Mode, readiness and sleep information will be available, but the Activity Score will be disabled.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura's Apple Watch Complications & Companion App", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "How to Use Oura Widgets\nHow to pair and set up your Apple Watch\nHow to add complications to your Apple Watch", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/12741671118739-How-to-Use-Oura-s-Apple-Watch-Complications-Companion-App" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura Widgets", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura Sleep Graph Widgets\nOura Lock Screen Widgets\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11785597429907-How-to-Use-Oura-Widgets" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura Widgets", "section_title": "Oura Sleep Graph Widgets", "chunk": "There are three available iOS widgets (small, medium, and large) available to display the most recent night of data on your device's home screen. These are available to Oura members using iOS devices and any generation Oura Ring.\nThe widgets display:\n- Small: sleep stages\n- Medium: sleep stages and sleep/wake time\n- Large: sleep stages, sleep/wake time, and ring battery status\nTo install a sleep graph widget:\n1. Touch and hold your device's home screen\n2. Tap the Add (+) button", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11785597429907-How-to-Use-Oura-Widgets" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura Widgets", "section_title": "Oura Sleep Graph Widgets", "chunk": "3. Select a widget and widget size\n4. Tap Done", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11785597429907-How-to-Use-Oura-Widgets" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura Widgets", "section_title": "Oura Lock Screen Widgets", "chunk": "Add widgets to your iPhone's lock screen to see your latest Oura data at a glance. These lock screen widgets are available to Oura members on any generation ring, using devices with iOS 16 or higher.\nThe lock screen widgets display:\n- Sleep, Readiness, and Activity Scores\n- Ring battery level\n- Activity goal progress as active calorie burn or steps\n- Sleep stages, daily movement, heart rate, and average body temperature graphs\nTo install a lock screen widget:\n1. Touch and hold your device's lock screen", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11785597429907-How-to-Use-Oura-Widgets" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura Widgets", "section_title": "Oura Lock Screen Widgets", "chunk": "2. Tap Customize, then select the lock screen\n3. Tap the box above or below the time to bring up a menu of available widgets\n4. Tap or drag the widgets that you wish to add\n5. Tap Done\nThe lock screen widget displays the Oura data available as of your last ring sync. To update the widget, open the Oura App on your phone and wait until your ring uploads its data.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11785597429907-How-to-Use-Oura-Widgets" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura Widgets", "section_title": "Oura Lock Screen Widgets", "chunk": "Note for iOS members: iOS 18 includes a feature that lets you lock or hide apps. If the Oura App is locked or hidden, you won't receive notifications, and your widgets may also be hidden. For instructions on how to unlock or unhide the Oura App, refer to Apple's guide on locking or hiding apps.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11785597429907-How-to-Use-Oura-Widgets" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Oura Widgets", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Sleep Graphs\nEdit Bedtime and Wake-up Time", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11785597429907-How-to-Use-Oura-Widgets" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura offers the ability to sync your data with a number of third-party apps. The Health Connect by Android integration is available on Oura Ring Gen2 and on all later generation rings with an active membership. Health Connect by Android is only available on Android.\nWhat is Health Connect by Android?\nSetting Up Health Connect\nData Synced with Health Connect\nApp Integration Troubleshooting\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "What is Health Connect by Android?", "chunk": "Health Connect by Android is a platform designed to simplify connectivity between apps. It functions similarly to Google Fit, but Health Connect stores data on your mobile device instead of the cloud, and offers new data types not available through Google Fit.\nGoogle Fit integration with Oura is no longer available.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Health Connect", "chunk": "1. Go to the menu in the upper left-hand corner of the Oura App's home screen\n2. Tap Settings\n3. Under \"Data Sharing,\" tap Health Connect\nIf you don't already have Health Connect downloaded on your device, follow the prompt to download and install it\n4. If you don't already have Health Connect downloaded on your device, follow the prompt to download and install it\n5. Use the toggles to select which data to share between your Oura App and Health Connect", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Health Connect", "chunk": "Adjust the data sharing permissions at any time by going to Settings > Data Sharing > Health Connect > Open Health Connect.\nYou can choose to import and export the following data:\nExported from Oura to Health Connect\n- Active Calories\n- Heart Rate: in one-minute intervals\n- Heart Rate Variability\n- Height\n- Sleep Measurements:\nBedtime\nNighttime Resting Heart Rate\nSleep Duration\nWake Time\n- Bedtime\n- Nighttime Resting Heart Rate\n- Sleep Duration\n- Wake Time\n- Sleep Stages\n- Total Calories Burned", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Health Connect", "chunk": "- Total Daily Steps\n- Total Distance\n- Weight\n- Workouts: manually added, recorded through Activity Heart Rate, or added with Automatic Activity Detection\nWorkout Active Calories\nWorkout Distance\nWorkout Duration (Start time and End time)\nWorkout Type\n- Workout Active Calories\n- Workout Distance\n- Workout Duration (Start time and End time)\n- Workout Type\nImported from Health Connect to Oura\n- Active Calories Burned\n- Distance\n- Exercise\nWorkout Calories\nWorkout Distance", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Health Connect", "chunk": "Workout Duration (Start time and End time)\nWorkout Route\nWorkout Type\n- Workout Calories\n- Workout Distance\n- Workout Duration (Start time and End time)\n- Workout Route\n- Workout Type\n- Heart Rate\n- Heart Rate Variability\n- Power\n- Steps\n- Total Calories Burned", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you are having trouble syncing data between Oura and a third-party app, please try the following troubleshooting steps.\nReset Integration\nPlease make sure your phone is on the latest version of its operating system, and follow these steps:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Data Sharing\" and select the appropriate app integration\n5. Turn all the settings switches off and then turn them back on", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "As a final step, turn your device on and off again before trying to import another activity through the integration.\nReinstall Oura App\nTo backup and reinstall the Oura App:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Select the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Account\"\n5. Select \"Back up all data\"\n6. When the back up is finished, uninstall and reinstall the Oura App\nOther Troubleshooting", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you link your Oura App to a third party app such as Apple Health or Health Connect by Android, your height, weight, age, and sex will be imported from those apps into Oura, and you will not be able to edit them unless you unlink the apps.\nThe Oura App might not import data from integrations if both apps were not opened before midnight, if \"Background App Refresh\" is disabled, or if \"Lower Power Mode\" is enabled. Open both Oura and the integrated app at least once a day to prevent this.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "The Oura App will only sync activities for the current day. If you are having trouble syncing your activity, verify that \"Date Added\" matches the date on which the activity occurred. If the imported activity includes calorie data, you can't manually edit the data in the Oura App. Edit the calorie info through the app used to track your activity.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "When tracking activity, Oura only records your active calories. These calories include the calories you burn during exercise and not your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR, the number of calories required to keep your body functioning while at rest). Other fitness trackers and health apps will combine active calories and BMR. As a result, their calorie burn estimations may differ slightly from Oura's.\nIf you are still experiencing trouble, please contact us.\nYou can contact our Member Care Team here.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "How Oura Measures Activity\nKnown Issues", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10786105824531-How-to-Use-Health-Connect-by-Android-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Connect your Oura account with Strava to make every workout and activity count.\nBy integrating Oura with Strava, you'll get credit for Strava activities in the Oura App and can easily share your Oura activities with friends in the Strava app.\nSetting Up Strava\nData Synced with Strava\nApp Integration Troubleshooting\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Strava", "chunk": "In the Oura App\n1. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen\n2. Tap Settings\n3. Under \"Data sharing,\" tap \"App integrations\"\n4. Tap \"Strava\" and then \"Continue\"\n5. Follow the prompt to log in to Strava\n6. Tap \"Authorize\"", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Strava", "chunk": "Exported from Oura to Strava\n- Workouts recorded through the Activity Heart Rate feature\n- Readiness Score and Activity Score\nNote: On Android, GPS maps will not initially export from Oura to Strava, but will be available soon.\nYou can also post your Readiness, Sleep, and Activity Scores to your Strava Activities feed by using Oura Stickers:\n1. Tap the share icon in the upper-right corner of the Oura App\n2. Choose a background and graph or metric for your Oura Sticker", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Strava", "chunk": "3. Select Share to Strava in the upper right corner of the Oura Sticker screen\nImported from Strava to Oura\n- Workouts", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Strava", "chunk": "Workouts imported from Strava data will be displayed within the Timeline on the Today tab, with high-level details about the activity including timing, duration, and pace. The workouts will contribute to your Activity Score and progress toward your daily activity goal. However, if a single workout is recorded on multiple platforms (or example, with Activity Heart Rate and Strava simultaneously), it will only appear once in the Oura App with the most reliable recorded data.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Strava", "chunk": "Activities recorded in Oura through Automatic Activity Detection, and manually added activities, are not currently exported to Strava. Import and export settings can be adjusted at any time in the Oura App.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you are having trouble syncing data between Oura and a third-party app, please try the following troubleshooting steps.\nReset Integration\nPlease make sure your phone is on the latest version of its operating system, and follow these steps:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Data Sharing\" and select the appropriate app integration\n5. Turn all the settings switches off and then turn them back on", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "As a final step, turn your device on and off again before trying to import another activity through the integration.\nReinstall Oura App\nTo backup and reinstall the Oura App:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Select the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Account\"\n5. Select \"Back up all data\"\n6. When the back up is finished, uninstall and reinstall the Oura App\nOther Troubleshooting", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you link your Oura App to a third party app such as Apple Health or Health Connect by Android, your height, weight, age, and sex will be imported from those apps into Oura, and you will not be able to edit them unless you unlink the apps.\nThe Oura App might not import data from integrations if both apps were not opened before midnight, if \"Background App Refresh\" is disabled, or if \"Lower Power Mode\" is enabled. Open both Oura and the integrated app at least once a day to prevent this.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "The Oura App will only sync activities for the current day. If you are having trouble syncing your activity, verify that \"Date Added\" matches the date on which the activity occurred. If the imported activity includes calorie data, you can't manually edit the data in the Oura App. Edit the calorie info through the app used to track your activity.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "chunk": "When tracking activity, Oura only records your active calories. These calories include the calories you burn during exercise and not your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR, the number of calories required to keep your body functioning while at rest). Other fitness trackers and health apps will combine active calories and BMR. As a result, their calorie burn estimations may differ slightly from Oura's.\nIf you are still experiencing trouble, please contact us.\nYou can contact our Member Care Team here.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Strava with Oura", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "About Oura and Strava\nHow Oura Measures Activity\nOura Stickers\nKnown issues", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10766662499219-How-to-Use-Strava-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "You can use your Oura Ring with Natural Cycles (NC°), the first FDA-cleared birth control app. Oura Ring members can sync their temperature trend data collected overnight into the Natural Cycles app each morning, which will then be analyzed using Natural Cycle's algorithm to calculate daily fertility status.\nSetting Up Natural Cycles\nData Synced with Natural Cycles\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-How-to-Use-Natural-Cycles-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Natural Cycles", "chunk": "The integration is available to active members and Gen2 users. You must have a Natural Cycles subscription to use this integration, and Oura members get access to an exclusive Natural Cycles discount here.\nThere are no changes in the Oura App. The Natural Cycles app is available on iOS or Android.\nOura members need to use their Oura account email address when pairing their Oura Ring to the Natural Cycles app.\n- Open the Natural Cycles app", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-How-to-Use-Natural-Cycles-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Natural Cycles", "chunk": "- Tap the top menu > Settings > My device, and follow the in-app instructions to connect your Oura Account\n- Wear your Oura Ring to bed\n- In the morning, your temperature trend data from Oura will be synced with the Natural Cycles app once you open the Oura App\nFor additional questions, please check out the resources on the Natural Cycles website or contact Natural Cycles Support through their help center.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-How-to-Use-Natural-Cycles-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Natural Cycles", "chunk": "Temperature trend data collected overnight from the Oura Ring will be synced to the NC° app every day to help calculate your fertility status within the Natural Cycles app. The temperature sensors in the Oura Ring generate 1,440 data points each day, and are validated to measure temperature changes as precisely as 0.13°C (0.23°F).", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-How-to-Use-Natural-Cycles-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Natural Cycles", "chunk": "If you're a current Oura member but a new Natural Cycles user, only the temperatures recorded after the earliest period you entered in the NC° app will be used by the Natural Cycles algorithm. Note that this only applies if you indicated during setup that you haven't recently used hormonal birth control or been pregnant.\nThe NC° app doesn't receive any period data from your Oura App, so you always have to log your period directly in the NC° app. Natural Cycles also syncs with Apple Health.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-How-to-Use-Natural-Cycles-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Natural Cycles", "chunk": "See How Oura Protects Your Data in this article, and for more information about the Natural Cycles integration, see the FAQs here.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-How-to-Use-Natural-Cycles-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "About Oura and Natural Cycles\nNatural Cycles FAQs\nData Privacy\nReproductive Health\nBody Temperature", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827-How-to-Use-Natural-Cycles-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Intermittent fasting is an eating plan where you eat during specific times of day and then fast for the rest of the day. Fasting before bed — for instance, by simply eating dinner earlier and avoiding late-night snacks — can also lead to improved sleep. Connect your Oura Ring to the Zero intermittent fasting app to view your fasting data and Oura biometrics in correlated graphs, which can provide insight into how intermittent fasting impacts your overall health.\nSetting Up the Zero Fasting App", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Data Synced with the Zero Fasting App\nTroubleshooting\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up the Zero Fasting App", "chunk": "In the Zero App\n1. Select the Settings icon in the top right corner of the Me tab\n2. Select Connected Apps\n3. Tap the toggle next to Oura\n4. Tap Continue on the confirmation pop-up dialogues\n5. Sign in with your Oura email address and password\n6. Check the box next to Sleep, Readiness, and Activity Data\n7. Tap Accept", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up the Zero Fasting App", "chunk": "To disconnect Oura from Zero, select the toggle next to Oura in the Connected Apps menus. This will stop any data sharing between the two apps. You can find more information about connecting to Zero on their website.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with the Zero Fasting App", "chunk": "The Zero app automatically integrates your Oura Sleep, Readiness, and Activity Scores into its data graphs. The lowest nighttime resting heart rate (RHR) from the previous night is used as your resting heart rate in the Zero app.\nIf your app reflects out-of-date readings, you can manually resync the last 60 days of data.\n1. Select the Settings icon in the top right corner of the Me tab\n2. Select Connected Apps\n3. Tap Resync Data\n4. Select Oura from the pop-up menu", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you are having trouble syncing data between Oura and a third-party app, please try the following troubleshooting steps.\nReset Integration\nPlease make sure your phone is on the latest version of its operating system, and follow these steps:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Data Sharing\" and select the appropriate app integration\n5. Turn all the settings switches off and then turn them back on", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Troubleshooting", "chunk": "As a final step, turn your device on and off again before trying to import another activity through the integration.\nReinstall Oura App\nTo backup and reinstall the Oura App:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Select the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Account\"\n5. Select \"Back up all data\"\n6. When the back up is finished, uninstall and reinstall the Oura App\nOther Troubleshooting", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you link your Oura App to a third party app such as Apple Health or Health Connect by Android, your height, weight, age, and sex will be imported from those apps into Oura, and you will not be able to edit them unless you unlink the apps.\nThe Oura App might not import data from integrations if both apps were not opened before midnight, if \"Background App Refresh\" is disabled, or if \"Lower Power Mode\" is enabled. Open both Oura and the integrated app at least once a day to prevent this.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Troubleshooting", "chunk": "The Oura App will only sync activities for the current day. If you are having trouble syncing your activity, verify that \"Date Added\" matches the date on which the activity occurred. If the imported activity includes calorie data, you can't manually edit the data in the Oura App. Edit the calorie info through the app used to track your activity.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "Troubleshooting", "chunk": "When tracking activity, Oura only records your active calories. These calories include the calories you burn during exercise and not your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR, the number of calories required to keep your body functioning while at rest). Other fitness trackers and health apps will combine active calories and BMR. As a result, their calorie burn estimations may differ slightly from Oura's.\nIf you are still experiencing trouble, please contact us.\nYou can contact our Member Care Team here.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use the Zero Fasting App with Oura", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Connecting Zero to Oura\nHow Can Fasting Improve Your Sleep?", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/13548001567891-How-to-Use-the-Zero-Fasting-App-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Continuous Glucose Monitors with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura offers integrations between the Oura App and several continuous glucose monitor (CGM) companies. To use one of these integrations, you must have an active Oura Membership and a subscription to the CGM service.\nWhat Are Continuous Glucose Monitors?\nVeri Acquisition\nCGM Integrations with Oura\nDexcom and Oura Strategic Partnership\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/18311831012243-How-to-Use-Continuous-Glucose-Monitors-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Continuous Glucose Monitors with Oura", "section_title": "What Are Continuous Glucose Monitors?", "chunk": "A continuous glucose monitor is a wearable device worn on the back of the upper arm to track interstitial glucose levels. Glucose levels indicate how your body responds to certain foods, and monitoring them can provide insights into your sleep and recovery patterns.\nHigh or low glucose levels can cause sleep disturbances. Likewise, low-quality sleep may also impair glucose metabolism. To learn more about how sleep quality and glucose levels affect each other, check out our blog post.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/18311831012243-How-to-Use-Continuous-Glucose-Monitors-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Continuous Glucose Monitors with Oura", "section_title": "Veri Acquisition", "chunk": "Oura has acquired Veri, a metabolic health company. Oura's strategy is to be a personal health companion, and to do that, we will continue to add new dimensions, as we've done with Heart Health and Women's Health, to the Oura experience. Metabolic health is the natural next dimension of that experience and Veri is a key part of unlocking that dimension.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/18311831012243-How-to-Use-Continuous-Glucose-Monitors-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Continuous Glucose Monitors with Oura", "section_title": "CGM Integrations with Oura", "chunk": "Currently, three CGM companies include the ability use Oura Ring data within their apps:\nJanuary\nJanuary’s app uses data from a continuous glucose monitor and any compatible activity tracker (including the Oura Ring) to provide glucose predictions and real-time behavior insights. For more information on how it works, see the January website.\nSupersapiens (Europe only)", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/18311831012243-How-to-Use-Continuous-Glucose-Monitors-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Continuous Glucose Monitors with Oura", "section_title": "CGM Integrations with Oura", "chunk": "The Supersapiens app can use sleep data from an Oura Ring to chart the impact of glucose on sleep, and vice versa. Activity metrics can also be imported from Oura into Supersapiens. For more information on this integration, see the Supersapiens help article.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/18311831012243-How-to-Use-Continuous-Glucose-Monitors-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Continuous Glucose Monitors with Oura", "section_title": "Dexcom and Oura Strategic Partnership", "chunk": "Through a strategic partnership, Dexcom and Oura plan to launch integrations enabling data to flow between Dexcom and Oura products, including Dexcom glucose biosensors, Dexcom apps, Oura Ring, and the Oura App. Read more about the partnership here.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/18311831012243-How-to-Use-Continuous-Glucose-Monitors-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Continuous Glucose Monitors with Oura", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Oura Now Integrates with Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs)\nJanuary\nSupersapiens", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/18311831012243-How-to-Use-Continuous-Glucose-Monitors-with-Oura" }, { "article_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura currently supports integrations with Apple Health, Health Connect by Android, Natural Cycles, Zero, Strava, and more.\nYou can see featured fitness, nutrition, and women's health partners in the Oura App. Go to the menu in the upper left corner of the home screen and tap on Integrations. Some of these integrations require an active membership.\nIf you are having trouble syncing data between Oura and a third-party app, please try the following troubleshooting steps.\nReset Integration", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10705471244947-App-Integration-Troubleshooting" }, { "article_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Please make sure your phone is on the latest version of its operating system, and follow these steps:\n1. Open the Oura App\n2. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Data Sharing\" and select the appropriate app integration\n5. Turn all the settings switches off and then turn them back on\nAs a final step, turn your device on and off again before trying to import another activity through the integration.\nReinstall Oura App\nTo backup and reinstall the Oura App:", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10705471244947-App-Integration-Troubleshooting" }, { "article_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "1. Open the Oura App\n2. Select the menu in the upper-left corner\n3. Tap Settings\n4. Scroll down to \"Account\"\n5. Select \"Back up all data\"\n6. When the back up is finished, uninstall and reinstall the Oura App\nOther Troubleshooting\nIf you link your Oura App to a third party app such as Apple Health or Health Connect by Android, your height, weight, age, and sex will be imported from those apps into Oura, and you will not be able to edit them unless you unlink the apps.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10705471244947-App-Integration-Troubleshooting" }, { "article_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App might not import data from integrations if both apps were not opened before midnight, if \"Background App Refresh\" is disabled, or if \"Lower Power Mode\" is enabled. Open both Oura and the integrated app at least once a day to prevent this.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10705471244947-App-Integration-Troubleshooting" }, { "article_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App will only sync activities for the current day. If you are having trouble syncing your activity, verify that \"Date Added\" matches the date on which the activity occurred. If the imported activity includes calorie data, you can't manually edit the data in the Oura App. Edit the calorie info through the app used to track your activity.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10705471244947-App-Integration-Troubleshooting" }, { "article_title": "App Integration Troubleshooting", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "When tracking activity, Oura only records your active calories. These calories include the calories you burn during exercise and not your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR, the number of calories required to keep your body functioning while at rest). Other fitness trackers and health apps will combine active calories and BMR. As a result, their calorie burn estimations may differ slightly from Oura's.\nIf you are still experiencing trouble, please contact us.\nYou can contact our Member Care Team here.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10705471244947-App-Integration-Troubleshooting" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura API makes it easy to access data generated by the Oura Ring. To use the Oura API, you need an Oura account and either a Personal Access Token or an API application.\nWhat Is the Oura API?\nHow to Use the Oura API\nHow to Generate Personal Access Tokens\nHow to Use Personal Access Tokens\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "What Is the Oura API?", "chunk": "The Oura API can be used to fetch your Oura data or build an integration that allows anyone to share their Oura data with a third-party service.\nThe Oura API V1 was released in 2016 and the Oura API V2 released in January 2022. Support for V1 was discontinued in early 2023.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Use the Oura API", "chunk": "Full documentation for Oura API V2 can be found here.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Use the Oura API", "chunk": "Gen3 Oura Ring users without active Oura Membership will no longer be able to access their data through the Oura API. Furthermore, partner applications that are integrated with the Oura API will no longer have access to the data of Oura Ring Generation 3 users who do not have active Oura Membership. However, all Oura users will still be able to easily download their data files through Oura on the Web. At a minimum, these data files will comply with GDPR request requirements.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Use the Oura API", "chunk": "Oura users must have updated to a recent version of the Oura mobile app to support new data types that are available through the Oura API V2.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Use the Oura API", "chunk": "Existing access tokens from the Oura API V1 will remain valid for use with the Oura API V2 for personal information, daily activity, daily readiness, daily sleep, and bedtime data. Existing access tokens from the Oura API V1 will not have access to any new data types available through the Oura API V2, including daytime heart rate measurement, workout heart rate, workouts, tags, sessions, and other data types that will be released in the future. For access to new data types provided by the Oura API V2, you can either create new personal access tokens or ask users to consent to new data scopes via the OAuth authorization flow.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Use the Oura API", "chunk": "Oura Ring Generation 2 users will not experience any changes to the availability of their data through the Oura API.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Generate Personal Access Tokens", "chunk": "Oura also offers personal access tokens for easier integration with the Oura Cloud API. These personal access tokens make integration easier for developers who want to programmatically fetch their Oura data from Oura's Cloud API. We do not currently provide group access tokens.\nTo get started with these personal access tokens, follow the steps below:\n1. Navigate to the Personal Access Tokens page\n2. In the upper-right corner of the page click the \"Create A New Personal Access Token\"", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Generate Personal Access Tokens", "chunk": "3. Enter a unique note for the new Personal Access Token you are about to generate\n4. Click \"Create Personal Access Token\" to submit the form and create your new personal access token\nYou should now have a new access token listed on the Personal Access Tokens page.\nBe sure to copy this new token as you will not be able to view the token once you’ve navigated from this page. Click \"Copy\" to copy the token value to your clipboard.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Use Personal Access Tokens", "chunk": "Once you've acquired your personal access token, it can be used to access the Oura API. There are two ways of providing the Personal Access Token:\n1. HTTP header: Include the personal access token in the authorization header like this:\nGET /v1/userinfo HTTP/1.1\nHost: api.ouraring.com\nAuthorization: Bearer PHCW3OVMXQZX5FJUR6ZK4FAA2MK2CWWA\n2. URL parameter: Add access_token parameter to the API call:\nhttps://api.ouraring.com/v1/userinfo?access_token=PHCW3OVMXQZX5FJUR6ZK4FAA2MK2CWWA", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "How to Use Personal Access Tokens", "chunk": "You can revoke your personal access tokens at any time.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "The Oura API", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Oura API V2 Documentation\nOura API V1 Documentation\nOura on the Web\nExport and Share Your Oura Data\nApp Integrations", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4415266939155-The-Oura-API" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Symptom Radar feature detects early signs of strain on your body, and alerts you so that you can take proactive steps toward rest and recovery.\nSymptom Radar is available for:\n- Oura Ring Generation 3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership (not available on Gen2 or older)\n- iOS and Android\n- Members with at least seven nights of sleep data within the past 14 days\nWhat Is Symptom Radar?\nHow to Use Symptom Radar\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "What Is Symptom Radar?", "chunk": "Symptom Radar looks for changes in your Oura data that may indicate something is putting a strain on your body. The Oura App monitors several biometrics including average body temperature, respiratory rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, and inactive time—significant deviations in one or more of these metrics may be a sign for you to focus on rest and recovery in the upcoming days.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "What Is Symptom Radar?", "chunk": "Symptom Radar also uses demographic information such as your age, sex assigned at birth, height, and weight to better tailor its recommendations to you. To ensure your information is correct, tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen and select My profile.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "What Is Symptom Radar?", "chunk": "The Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.\nSymptom Radar may not work optimally with pre-existing medical conditions. Pregnancy also impacts biometric baselines and may reduce the accuracy of Symptom Radar.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "How to Use Symptom Radar", "chunk": "Symptom Radar is turned on by default and visible to Oura members with active membership. Among other inputs, the feature uses your sleep data (at least seven nights within the past 14 days) to check for signs of strain on your body. If there is a clear sign of strain, it will be spotlighted on the Today screen the following morning. In that case, you can tap on the Symptom Radar card to see more detail.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "How to Use Symptom Radar", "chunk": "You can also access Symptom Radar at any time by selecting the menu in the upper-left of the Today screen and then selecting Symptom Radar.\nThe Oura App displays signs of strain in a three-level estimate:\n- No signs: There are no obvious signs in your biometrics of something straining your body\n- Minor signs: There are small signs in your biometrics of something straining your body\n- Major signs: There are stronger signs in your biometrics of something straining your body", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "How to Use Symptom Radar", "chunk": "If there are minor or major signs of strain, the Oura App will recommend focusing on rest and recovery and will display the biometrics that are showing the most change. If needed, you can enable Rest Mode, which pauses your Activity Score, goal, and all activity contributors. Symptom Radar will continue to monitor your metrics even with Rest Mode activated.\nNote that your Readiness Score may not immediately decrease when Symptom Radar indicates a strain on your body.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "How to Use Symptom Radar", "chunk": "Symptom Radar can be toggled on or off at any time from the detail screen.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Symptom Radar", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Symptom Radar: Helping You Detect Early Signs of Sickness\nRest Mode\nOura & Medical Conditions", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/35593651188115-Symptom-Radar" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "This article covers how Oura measures your Readiness Score, what's considered a \"good\" score, quick tips on how to improve your readiness, and the various factors that may result in lower Readiness Scores.\nWhat Is the Readiness Score?\nHow Oura Measures Readiness\nWhat Is a Good Readiness Score?\nWhat Is the Crown Icon?\nHow to Improve Your Readiness Score\nFactors That May Decrease Your Readiness Score", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "What Is the Readiness Score?", "chunk": "Your Readiness Score reflects how balanced your recovery and activity are. It looks at your sleep quality, body signals, and activity levels to show how prepared you are to take on the day.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Readiness", "chunk": "The Readiness Score looks at both short-term and long-term metrics, or your Readiness Contributors. Overnight metrics include the lowest resting heart rate and its timing, average body temperature, sleep quality, and physical movement from the previous day. Long-term metrics include HRV, sleep, and activity balance.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Readiness", "chunk": "Readiness Contributors with \"balance\" in their name, such as Activity Balance, HRV Balance, and Sleep Balance, use 14-day weighted averages. They compare your recent 14-day average (with the past 2–5 days having slightly more weight) to your long-term average over the past two months.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Readiness", "chunk": "For example, your Activity Balance compares how much physical load you've taken on over the past 14 days to what your body is used to over the past two months. If you had an intense workout yesterday, it will have a bigger impact on your Activity Balance than a workout from a week ago.\nReadiness Score also takes into account natural biometric fluctuations during the menstrual cycle.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "What Is a Good Readiness Score?", "chunk": "Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores — and their contributors — are rated on a scale of 0-100.\n- 85-100: Optimal\n- 70-84: Good\n- 60-69: Fair\n- 0-59: Pay Attention\nAn 85 or higher may be a sign that you are ready to take on new challenges. Scores below 70 indicate that you may benefit from prioritizing rest and recovery in the indicated areas.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "What Is a Good Readiness Score?", "chunk": "Some variation in your Readiness Score is a good thing. It shows you're challenging your body in healthy ways. A manageable amount of stress can help build metabolic and cardiovascular strength. The key is to push yourself, recover, and repeat this cycle to support long-term well-being.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "What Is the Crown Icon?", "chunk": "On days when your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Score is 85 or higher, you'll see a crown icon next to your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Scores.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Readiness Score", "chunk": "If you’re looking to improve your Readiness Score and support recovery, here are a few tips for today to improve your Readiness tomorrow:\n- Try to limit intense physical activity, but don't stay completely inactive either. Opt for light movement that gets your body moving without adding strain, such as a 20-minute walk, light yoga, or stretching\n- Take it easy, but try not to sit for long periods. Aim to avoid sitting for more than five hours if possible, and incorporate movement throughout your day", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "Factors That May Decrease Your Readiness Score", "chunk": "1. High or low body temperatures\n- High average body temperatures may be a sign of stress on the body, such as illness\n- Low average body temperatures may be a sign of changes in your system, such as those that take place during the female menstrual cycle. Lower body temperatures have been shown to occur during the follicular phase (the 14-day period leading up to ovulation)\n2. High or low resting heart rates (RHR)", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "Factors That May Decrease Your Readiness Score", "chunk": "- A higher-than-usual RHR suggests that your body is over-challenged and not recovering properly\n- A lower-than-usual RHR may indicate low arousal of your nervous system, meaning your body isn't being challenged enough to maintain physical fitness. This could lead to feelings of lethargy\n3. High or low Heart rate variability (HRV)\n- Significantly higher-than-normal HRV might indicate low nervous system arousal\n- Lower-than-normal HRV can be a sign of excessive stress or strain on your body.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "Factors That May Decrease Your Readiness Score", "chunk": "4. Consistently insufficient sleep\n- According to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine guidelines, the average adult (18+ years) needs 7-9 hours of sleep per night for optimal health\n5. Higher or lower Activity Balance\n- Higher Activity Balance may indicate that you are overexerting and pushing yourself too hard\n- Lower Activity Balance may indicate that you are not challenging your body enough\n6. Late heart rate stabilization", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Score", "section_title": "Factors That May Decrease Your Readiness Score", "chunk": "- Heart rate stabilization happens when your RHR stays within 3 beats per minute (BPM) of your lowest RHR for the night.\n- Heart rate stabilization typically occurs before your RHR reaches its lowest point. Ideally, this happens earlier in the night, giving your body more time to recover\nRead more about the Readiness Score on The Pulse Blog.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025589793-Readiness-Score" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Your Readiness Score uses data from nine contributors to indicate how ready you are for the upcoming day.\nReadiness contributors are based on your personal averages. It can take up to two weeks for the Oura App to learn your average values for each contributor listed below. Once average ranges are established, your daily readings are evaluated against them.\nKeep in mind that \"long-term\" refers to personal data collected over the past two months.\nResting Heart Rate\nHRV Balance\nBody Temperature", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Recovery Index\nSleep\nSleep Balance\nSleep Regularity\nPrevious Day Activity\nActivity Balance\nReadiness Score and Contributor Ratings\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "The Resting heart rate (RHR) contributor evaluates the lowest heart rate from the previous night against the long-term average heart rate to determine fluctuations that may indicate physiological stress or strain, illness, or other health factors.\nAverage resting heart rates between 40-100 beats per minute (BPM) are considered normal. Your RHR contributor score may decline if you have an RHR that's 3-5 BPM higher or 10-15 BPM lower than your usual average.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "If you notice higher than usual or exceptionally low nighttime heart rates, this could be a sign of stress or illness. Late night meals, caffeine, alcohol, or exercise before bedtime can also contribute to a high resting heart rate.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "HRV Balance", "chunk": "Heart Rate Variability (HRV) balance compares your average HRV from the past 14 days against your three-month average, with data from the past few days being weighted more.\nHRV balance is a measure of your stress and recovery, and can highlight the negative effects of prolonged stressors (such as overtraining or illness) and the positive effects of recovery-based activities and rest.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "HRV Balance", "chunk": "HRV balance insights will sometimes appear on your home screen to inform you of ideal days to engage in challenging, light, or limited activity. Following these suggestions can help you boost or take advantage of your current HRV balance score.\nThis contributor is not the same as the HRV rating (pay attention, fair, good, or optimal) shown in Trends, which reflects your average HRV over the past seven days as compared to your long-term average.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Body Temperature", "chunk": "This contributor compares the change in your previous night's body temperature to your average, long-term nighttime body temperature.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Body Temperature", "chunk": "For long-term averages, temperatures between 95.9 - 99.3°F (35.5 - 37.4°C) are considered normal. Daily fluctuations in average body temperature are typical, but when they extend beyond your personal average, you’ll see a decrease in your Readiness Score. Significant changes in average body temperature may indicate illness or other physiological strain, the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, or a change in pregnancy status. These changes will affect the Readiness Score if they extend beyond personal baseline temperatures.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Body Temperature", "chunk": "To learn more, check out our article on Body Temperature.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Recovery Index", "chunk": "Recovery Index measures the time spent sleeping after the heart rate lowers to its lowest point during the night. Optimal Recovery Index requires a minimum of six hours of sleep after this point.\nHaving six hours of sleep, or more, after your heart rate reaches its lowest point will lead to a boost in your Readiness Score, so it is beneficial for your RHR to reach its lowest point within the first half of the night.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Recovery Index", "chunk": "If you notice your heart rate consistently reaching its lowest point in the second half of the night, try avoiding late night meals, caffeine, alcohol, or exercise before bedtime.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Sleep", "chunk": "The Sleep contributor compares your total sleep from the past 24 hours (confirmed naps included) against your baseline. This is a measure of your short-term sleep, whereas the Sleep balance contributor is a measure of your long-term sleep. You can find tips on how to increase your Sleep Score in this article.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Sleep Balance", "chunk": "The Sleep Balance contributor assesses the amount of sleep and possible sleep debt over the past two weeks compared to your baseline and general recommendations for people of your age.\nYou'll see a decrease in your Sleep Balance score if you’re sleeping less than you normally do or less than the recommended average for someone your age.The American Academy of Sleep Medicine recommends that the average adult sleep between 7-9 hours per night.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Sleep Regularity", "chunk": "The Sleep regularity contributor measures how consistent your bedtime and wake-up times have been during the previous two weeks. Sleep regularity is not impacted by any naps.\nIf your score drops to \"Fair\" or \"Pay attention,\" try to find a wake-up time you can stick with on most days and adjust your bedtime accordingly. If that's not possible, try to make sure that you get enough sleep for your needs on most days.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Previous Day Activity", "chunk": "Previous Day Activity measures all of your activities and sedentary (inactive) time from the day before, and compares them with your long-term averages and recommended daily amounts of physical movement.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Previous Day Activity", "chunk": "Your Readiness Score will decrease if you were inactive during the previous day. Having 5-8 hours or less of inactivity each day will have a positive effect on your Activity and Readiness Scores. This contributor will also decrease if heavy activity places too much strain on your body. This will be an indicator to use the next day as recovery time.", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Activity Balance", "chunk": "Activity Balance compares your average activity levels over the past 14 days (with the past few days holding more weight) to your long-term activity levels over the past two months.\nLower Activity Balance scores indicate either a training overload or underload. The goal should be to balance your low, medium, and high-intensity activities.", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "Readiness Score and Contributor Ratings", "chunk": "Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores — and their contributors — are rated on a scale of 0-100.\n- 85-100: Optimal\n- 70-84: Good\n- 60-69: Fair\n- 0-59: Pay Attention\nAn 85 or higher may be a sign that you are ready to take on new challenges. Scores below 70 indicate that you may benefit from prioritizing rest and recovery in the indicated areas.\nLearn more about your Readiness Score and contributors on our blog.", "chunk_id": 18, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Readiness Contributors", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Your Oura Readiness Score\nWhat is Readiness?\nWhat is HRV Balance?\nYour Oura Sleep Score\nHow to Use Trends", "chunk_id": 19, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057791533-Readiness-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Daytime Stress enables you to track your individual physiological stress during waking hours so that you can understand, manage, and recover from it more effectively. This feature is not available for Gen2 or older.\nWhat Is Daytime Stress?\nHow Daytime Stress Works\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "What Is Daytime Stress?", "chunk": "Stress is your body's natural response to both internal and external challenges and is neither inherently good nor bad. Everyone feels stress, but the causes are highly personal — work, jetlag, social interactions, and stimulants like coffee can all be stressors on the body.\nDaytime Stress measures your heart rate, HRV, motion, and average body temperature throughout the day to provide ongoing insights into your physiological stress. Your stress will be categorized into one of four zones:", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "What Is Daytime Stress?", "chunk": "- Stressed: The highest level. Common and normal, but a sign to seek Restorative Time\n- Engaged: Some elevated signs of stress, but potentially good for productivity\n- Relaxed: Your body has moved from a state of stress into one of mild recovery\n- Restored: Your body is recharging in a pure state of calm", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "How Daytime Stress Works", "chunk": "Daytime Stress measures your physiological stress responses, which include both physical and mental responses and adaptation to different internal and external factors. Internal factors, for example, can include a lack of sleep or illness. External factors can include things like work-related stress, alcohol, or social activities.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "How Daytime Stress Works", "chunk": "Your Daytime Stress information can be found on a home card each day, where you'll see a real-time stress graph. The stress graph is color-coded to help you easily visualize your latest detected state, and it updates every 15 minutes during periods when you're awake, wearing your ring, and relatively inactive. You must have five days of data in order to see Daytime Stress results.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "How Daytime Stress Works", "chunk": "Your HRV reflects the activities of your autonomous nervous system, which regulates how your body adapts to stressors. Daytime Stress inspects your HRV, among other measurements, relative to your personalized baseline. Your baseline is adjusted with new data every day as long as the data is available.\nFor more information about HRV and stress, see HRV and Stress: What HRV Can Tell You About Your Mental Health.\nContextual Stress", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "How Daytime Stress Works", "chunk": "You can tap the home card to be taken to a detail view with additional information. This detail view includes two toggles: one for \"Daily movement\" and one for \"Tags and activities.\" Toggling these will create an overlay on the daily stress graph that can help provide additional context about the relationship between activity and stress.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "How Daytime Stress Works", "chunk": "The daily movement graph is identical to the movement graph on the Activity screen. Daytime Stress analysis is not available during physical activity as physiological stress and recovery states can only be measured during no or low movement periods.\nTags and activities are marked on the graph's timeline. Tap on a tag to highlight it on the graph. You can also add a tag directly from the Daytime Stress screen.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "How Daytime Stress Works", "chunk": "Below the insight message are totals for your day's Stressed and Restored times. Tapping on either will take you to that metric's graph in Trends.\nGaps in Stress Graph\nDaytime Stress is only calculated during waking hours. You will see stress data on the Oura App's home screen after you wake up and enough data has been collected, along with various insights displayed throughout the day. In the evening you will see a daily summary, and you can also scroll back to see insights from the previous days.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "How Daytime Stress Works", "chunk": "If you see gaps in your Daytime Stress graph, these may be possible reasons:\n- Your stress isn't measured during movement, including workouts. When periods of movement are over, you'll see their impact on your stress graph\n- Your stress isn't measured during sleep\n- You weren't wearing your ring for a period of time\n- Your ring wasn't able to measure your heart rate due to a poor or loose fit\n- You had cold hands, which can cause signal problems", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Daytime Stress results may not be valid for users with heart diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, or pacemakers\n- You must wear your ring during the day and night to establish your baselines for Daytime Stress results\n- If you are a new member, or a returning member who has not worn their ring for a prolonged amount of time, it may take 5-7 days of regular day and night use to establish your baselines and daytime stress data to show", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Daytime Stress cannot differentiate different stress sources, as the body physiologically reacts the same way to different stressors, whether it's physical or mental. You can also do a self-reflection each day using Reflections or add and view tags in your trends view to track your daily actions and behavior", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Daytime Stress", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Track, Understand, and Manage Your Stress With Oura\nReframing Stress: The Difference Between \"Bad\" and \"Good\" Stress\nHeart Rate Variability\nHeart Rate Graph\nTroubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs\nReflections\nDaily Movement Graph\nUsing Tags\nUsing Trends", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21205822135315-Daytime-Stress" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Stress Resilience is an estimate of your ability to withstand physiological stress and recover from it over time. While Daytime Stress helps measure your physiological stress throughout the day, Resilience helps you understand how effectively you're balancing your stress load with recovery throughout the day and night. The feature is not available to Gen2 and older.\nWhat Is Resilience?\nHow Resilience Works\nHow to Use Resilience\nThings to Keep In Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "What Is Resilience?", "chunk": "Oura determines your resilience to stress by looking at how well you're balancing stress and recovery in recent weeks using your Daytime Stress levels, daily restorative time, and how well you recover during sleep.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "What Is Resilience?", "chunk": "Your Resilience level is not specific to a certain day but instead reflects your ongoing balance of physiological stress and recovery throughout the day and night based on a 14-day average. This equilibrium is crucial in ensuring that stress does not have a long-term negative impact on your well-being.\nRecovery is a key factor in determining resilience, and a robust recovery system can help someone manage and bounce back from stressful situations more effectively.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "What Is Resilience?", "chunk": "As your Readiness Score is a holistic picture of your health, and Resilience takes into account some of the Readiness Contributors (HRV balance, recovery index, and resting heart rate), Resilience and Readiness are correlated with each other. Therefore, if your Readiness Score is high for a longer period of time, you will likely also see an increase in your Resilience level. However, a single day of bad sleep and a low Readiness Score will not significantly affect your Resilience level.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How Resilience Works", "chunk": "Since Resilience is a long-term metric, you must have at least five days of complete data (daytime data followed by a sleep period) within the past 14 days. For new members, it will take at least 10 days before your Oura Ring establishes your personal stress and recovery baselines to estimate your Resilience.\nYour Resilience level is estimated by taking into account stress and recovery contributors measured over the last 14 days:", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How Resilience Works", "chunk": "- Daytime stress load: uses heart rate, HRV, motion, and average body temperature during the day to determine physiological stress during the day (See also Inside the Ring: Understanding Oura's New Daytime Stress Feature)\n- Daytime recovery (also referred to as Restorative Time)\n- Nighttime recovery: Uses your Sleep Score, resting heart rate, HRV balance, and Recovery Index", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How Resilience Works", "chunk": "Each contributor has its own levels. The Daytime Stress load contributor is classified as low, moderate, or high. The Daytime recovery and Nighttime recovery contributors are categorized the same as Readiness Contributors: Pay attention, Fair, Good, and Optimal.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How to Use Resilience", "chunk": "Resilience is a long-term metric that changes gradually over the days and weeks. Your daily update is available as soon as you wake up.\nYou can see your Resilience level via a card on the home screen or by going to the My Health tab.\nYour Resilience levels fall within five categories:\n- Exceptional: You've achieved an ideal balance of physiological stress and recovery.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How to Use Resilience", "chunk": "- Strong: Your body is in a great place to deal with upcoming challenges thanks to your strong recent balance of physiological stress and recovery.\n- Solid: Your balance of physiological stress and recovery has been good of late, and your body is in a nice spot to deal with upcoming challenges. Just be sure to follow any increases in stress with some extra rest.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How to Use Resilience", "chunk": "- Adequate: You’re hanging in there, but your resilience is not quite where you want it to be long-term. Check in on your balance of physiological stress and recovery to see if there’s a small adjustment that could help.\n- Limited: There’s a clear gap between the recovery your body is getting and the recovery it needs to balance your recent levels of physiological stress.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How to Use Resilience", "chunk": "Within the Resilience detail view, you explore each Resilience Contributor and view two graphs to help visualize your data. Checking your individual Resilience Contributor scores can help guide you on where to focus to improve the amount and quality of your recovery to balance out your stress.\n.\nThe Trend graph shows the direction of your resilience over the past few days. Each dot on the graph represents one day.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "How to Use Resilience", "chunk": "The Map graph shows your balance between stress and recovery over the past 14 days. The dots represent individual days and can long-press on each level to see where the dots fall on the Resilience scale.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- In order to receive Resilience updates, you'll need to wear your ring regularly during the day and night. Make sure the ring sits well on your finger, and try other fingers if the ring is too loose, as this might affect the daytime metrics coverage", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Resilience is a highly individual metric, and changes in Resilience level can also be seasonal. On average, your Resilience level changes about 2-3 times a month, and this is influenced by individual physiology and lifestyle habits. Both the levels and changes are highly personal\n- For new members, Daytime Stress needs to be calculated before Resilience levels are shown, which can take at least 10 days\n- Members should be at least on software versions iOS 5.2.0 and Android 5.2.0", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resilience", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Daytime Stress\nInside the Ring: Understanding Oura's New Daytime Stress Feature\nBuilding Resilience: Improve Your Ability to Recover From Stress\nInside the Ring: Resilience\nRest & Resilience: The Role of Sleep in Stress Management\n4 Ways Oura’s Resilience Feature Helps This Member Recover from Stress\nReadiness Score", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25358829055251-Resilience" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Learn more about the Resting Heart Rate (RHR) measurements taken by the Oura Ring.\nWhat Is Resting Heart Rate?\nHow Oura Measures Resting Heart Rate\nWhen Does Oura Measure Resting Heart Rate?\nInterpret Your Resting Heart Rate", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Resting Heart Rate?", "chunk": "Resting Heart Rate (RHR) is the number of times your heart beats per minute while you're at rest. It provides a snapshot of your sleep quality, recovery, stress response, activity level, and overall health.\nNormal RHR in adults can range anywhere from 40-100 beats per minute (BPM). Oura develops an individualized baseline for your RHR so you can quickly notice when something is off.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Resting Heart Rate?", "chunk": "Variation beyond 3-5 BPM above or below your personal average may be a sign of low recovery or excessive stress on your body, such as illness, poor diet choices, late-night eating, or lack of sleep.\nThe Importance of Resting Heart Rate\nResting heart rate is an indicator of both long and short-term health.\n- In the long term, a low RHR is generally a sign of better cardiovascular health, physical fitness, and recovery", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Resting Heart Rate?", "chunk": "- In the short term, a high RHR can indicate behaviors you can control, such as internal stress, eating patterns, or exercise habits. These can be positive or negative, depending on the context. For example, completing a difficult workout is a positive precursor to an elevated RHR. Meanwhile, undergoing mental distress from work is generally viewed as a negative source of rises in RHR\nA Lower RHR is a Good Sign", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Resting Heart Rate?", "chunk": "With each heartbeat, your body uses the oxygen-rich blood collected from your lungs to support functions throughout your systems. When your resting heart rate lowers over time, each heartbeat becomes more effective. This allows your body to accomplish the same amount of work necessary to keep itself running with less effort.\nAs your heart becomes more efficient, you're able to do more without increasing your heart rate, allowing your body to take on less strain.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Resting Heart Rate?", "chunk": "With less strain, your body moves closer to a parasympathetic (\"rest-and-digest\") state. The more that your parasympathetic nervous system dominates, the more room there is for your sympathetic nervous system (fight-or-flight) to come into action when needed. This might be necessary when you decide to exercise, give a presentation, interview for a new job, try something for the first time, or have to meet a deadline at work.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "Oura monitors your RHR by detecting changes in your blood pulse volume through infrared photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors found inside your ring.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "Each time that your heart beats, blood is pumped out to the arteries located in your hands and fingers. The PPG sensors are able to detect these changes in blood flow and volume using light reflection. Each pulse causes the arteries in your finger to alternate between swelling and contracting. By shining a light on your skin, changes in light reflected back from the wavering volume of red blood cells in your arteries are accounted for. From here, PPG can represent these blood flow changes through a visual waveform that represents the activity of your heart.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "Oura provides you with the following RHR metrics:\n- Average RHR: Your average RHR captured during the night\n- Lowest RHR: Your lowest RHR value captured during the night\nYour RHR values are captured every 10 minutes throughout the night. You can find your RHR in your Readiness and Sleep detail views and in Trends.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "When Does Oura Measure Resting Heart Rate?", "chunk": "The Oura Ring Gen2 doesn't track heart rate during exercise or other activities during the day. The only exception is during unguided sessions, which allow you to meditate or check in with your body. Certain unguided sessions, upon completion, show you a snapshot of your RHR during the day.\nAlso, read more information about our 24-hour heart rate graph.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "Low vs. High, Compared to Your Average\nIf your lowest RHR of the night is roughly 0-10 BPM below your personal long-term average (collected over the past ~ 2 months), this is evidence that your body has recovered well and is in an optimal state to perform that day.\nHowever, an exceptionally low resting heart rate may indicate that you are in a state of low nervous system arousal or lethargy after a very strenuous physical peak performance.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "You'll observe decreased Readiness Scores if you receive an RHR that is 10-15 BPM lower than usual, as well as if you receive an RHR that is 3-5 BPM higher than usual.\nAn elevated RHR is a sign that something is challenging your system to a degree that’s leading to poor recovery. Both of these scenarios are signs to pay attention and give your body the care and time that it needs to recover properly.\nPatterns in Your RHR", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "If your RHR reaches its lowest point during the first half of your night, it can be a sign you've recovered well from the previous day.\nThis ideal pattern is known as \"The Hammock,\" which you'll see demonstrated below. For information about other RHR patterns that can occur at night, see Sleeping Heart Rate: Look for These 4 Patterns.\nThis ties into the concept of heart rate stabilization, which divides sleep into two phases: repair and recharge.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Resting Heart Rate", "chunk": "During repair, your body recovers from the previous day. During recharge, your body prepares for the coming day. Once your heart rate reaches its lowest point during the night (known as stabilization), your body transitions from repair to recharge. The sooner your heart rate can reach its true nighttime low, the more time your body has to refuel and get ready for the day ahead.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Resting Heart Rate", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Your Resting Heart Rate\nHow Accurate Are Oura's Heart Rate & HRV Measurements?\nSleeping Heart Rate: Look for These 4 Patterns", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025588793-Resting-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Learn more about how Oura measures your respiratory rate, how to interpret changes in your respiratory rate, and about the accuracy of our approach.\nHow Oura Measures Respiratory Rate\nInterpret Your Respiratory Rate\nThe Accuracy of Oura's Respiratory Rate", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "The respiratory rate displayed in your Oura App shows how many breaths you took per minute during the previous night, on average. This value can be found in your Readiness tab, as well as in Trends.\nOura estimates respiratory rate at rest via minute-by-minute changes in your nighttime heart rate. This calculation is possible because your heart and lungs are closely connected by a process called respiratory sinus arrhythmia. This relationship reveals the following:", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "- When you breathe in, your heart rate increases.\n- When you breathe out, your heart rate slows down.\nBecause Oura is able to accurately measure the pulse waveform produced by each of your heartbeats using the PPG sensors located inside your ring, it can also correctly measure the distance between consecutive heartbeats in milliseconds. This distance is otherwise known as the interbeat interval (IBI). If you’re familiar with heart rate variability (HRV), IBIs are the building blocks of HRV.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "By mapping out IBI values over the course of a night, an \"up and down\" pattern will gradually form.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "In direct opposition to the respiratory sinus arrhythmia relationship described earlier, when you observe IBI values decreasing, this signals that you're breathing in. When you observe IBI values increasing, this signals that you’re breathing out. Each increase and decrease that occur together in the visual map of IBI values equates to one breath (these visually appear as \"spikes,\" similar to mountain-like peaks). Since each \"spike\" in the map represents one breath, by measuring the number of times this pattern occurs each minute throughout the night, your average respiratory rate can be determined.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "An average respiratory rate for healthy adults is 12–20 breaths per minute. The number is highly individual. Changes in your average respiratory rate tend to be quite small from night to night (within 1–2 breaths per minute). This is because the amount of oxygen you need at rest is likely to remain constant, making respiratory rate a very stable metric. A deviation of more than two breaths per minute from the average may not indicate anything alarming per se. If one's respiratory rate is significantly different from the normal number, especially if it stays that way for several nights, something may be straining their body.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "It’s essential to note that respiratory rate is individual to you, meaning you should only compare changes relative to your own baseline and not with other people’s data. Knowing your average respiratory rate, as well as your typical fluctuations within Oura, can help you stay attuned to when a change is outside your normal values.\nIf your respiration rate is elevated from your baseline, it may be a sign that your body is under strain.\nConsider these as potential causes for a rise in respiratory rate:", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "Fighting Off Illness: Respiratory rate is likely to increase with elevations in resting heart rate and decreases in heart rate variability when you’re falling ill. In the case that you're battling off a respiratory tract infection (e.g., bronchitis), increases in respiratory rate have to do with short-term damage done inside the lungs. Because these types of infections often impact the cells where gas exchange occurs between the air and your lungs, the oxygen and CO2 exchange process will naturally become less efficient under these circumstances. This leads to an elevated respiratory rate to make up for the difference.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "Air Quality or Altitude: Lower air quality will likely require your body to work harder to deliver the same amount of oxygen to your system that’s necessary for survival. This is because each breath is not gathering the same amount of oxygen it normally would in an environment with higher air quality, resulting in more breaths per minute to sustain your system. Similarly, because the oxygen content of air at higher altitudes is lower, your respiratory rate will naturally rise as you go up in elevation since your body is gathering less oxygen per breath.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "Long-Term Breathing Issues: Heavy snoring, coughing, and excess movement can interfere with the steady rise and fall of interbeat intervals that are used to estimate respiratory rate. This can lead to occasional variation in your data, especially if any of the listed circumstances above apply to you on a more frequent basis.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "Vigorous Exercise: Intense exercise concentrated on muscular endurance or anaerobic fitness (e.g., HIIT training), can cause respiration rate to remain elevated for roughly 20-40 minutes following workout completion. You may want to keep this in mind, especially when considering doing a challenging workout later in the day prior to bed.\nAnxiety: Rapid and irregular breathing patterns are associated with increased anxiety.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "Hormonal Changes: Women tend to have more variation in their respiratory rates, as changes in respiratory rate correlate with stages of the menstrual cycle. Respiration is slower at the beginning of the cycle (follicular phase) and speeds up towards the end (luteal phase).", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "Interpret Your Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "Room Temperature While Sleeping: If you’re sleeping in a bedroom that causes you to become hot or cold during the night, you may see changes in your respiratory rate as your body works harder to compensate for these temperature extremes. You’re likely to see slight elevations in your respiratory rate under either condition.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "The Accuracy of Oura's Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "In an analysis conducted on behalf of our Data Science Team that compared Oura's photoplethysmography (PPG)-derived respiratory rate metric to an electrocardiogram (ECG)-derived method, the Oura Ring was shown to be accurate within 1 breath per minute across the entire night.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "The Accuracy of Oura's Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "An electrocardiogram is a test completed in a medical setting that measures the electrical activity of your heart. Because respiration is difficult to measure without invasive tools, ECG-derived respiratory rate is a well-established practice that’s been commonly used and identified as highly reliable in medical-grade research settings", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Respiratory Rate", "section_title": "The Accuracy of Oura's Respiratory Rate", "chunk": "The results of the study held true across a full range of respiratory rates, from high (>20) to low (<14), observed in the pool of 43 healthy, young adults—classifying the Oura Ring as a valid tool for measuring average nighttime respiratory rate, on par with the ECG-derived method.\nYou can read more about the study performed with Duke-NUS Medical School and the National University of Singapore here.", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025443174-Respiratory-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Learn more about the heart rate variability (HRV) measurements taken by the Oura Ring.\nWhat Is Heart Rate Variability?\nHow Oura Measures HRV\nInterpreting Long-Term HRV\nInterpreting Short-Term HRV\nThe Importance of HRV\nWhen Does Oura Measure Heart Rate Variability?\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "What Is Heart Rate Variability?", "chunk": "Heart rate variability (HRV) measures the variation in time (milliseconds) between your heartbeats. HRV provides a snapshot into how your body is balancing between the two branches of your autonomic nervous system: your sympathetic (\"fight-or-flight\") and parasympathetic (\"rest-and-digest\"). HRV indicates how well the body is responding to physiological stress, managing recovery, and maintaining overall health.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "What Is Heart Rate Variability?", "chunk": "Normal HRV can range anywhere from below 20 to over 200 milliseconds, depending on various factors such as age, sex, physical fitness, and genetics. The HRV value provided by Oura falls within this same range. HRV is a highly individual measure and you should compare your own HRV only with your own trends.\nAs a general rule:", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "What Is Heart Rate Variability?", "chunk": "- High HRV (relative to your baseline) is associated with activation of your \"rest-and-digest\" branch, general physical fitness, and good recovery. Higher average nighttime HRV measurements have also been linked to better sleep quality and vice-versa.\n- Low HRV (relative to your baseline) is associated with activation of your \"fight-or-flight\" branch, stress (both good and bad), illness, and overtraining.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "How Oura Measures HRV", "chunk": "", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "How Oura Measures HRV", "chunk": "Oura calculates your nighttime HRV using the root mean square of the successive differences (rMSSD), a well-known HRV parameter that provides a reliable and accurate view of your autonomic nervous system’s activity. The average HRV you see is the mean of all five-minute samples taken while you sleep. Oura accounts for changes in your HRV every five minutes throughout the night, instead of just once at a single point during the night. This continuous tracking offers greater accuracy and gives you a more detailed view of how your body is responding to stress from the previous day—and how well it's preparing for the day ahead.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "How Oura Measures HRV", "chunk": "Oura provides you with the following heart rate variability metrics:\n- Average HRV: Your average HRV captured over the entire night\n- Max HRV: Your highest HRV value captured over the entire night\nYou can find HRV under readiness, sleep, or Trends. Tracking your HRV in the Trends view can help you see how well you've recovered over the past week and whether you should pay closer attention to any internal or external stressors.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "Interpreting Long-Term HRV", "chunk": "HRV can't reduce stress or improve your cardiovascular fitness on its own, but it can offer insight into how your behavior, environment, and emotions are impacting your body. Measuring your HRV can be a great starting point for a healthier lifestyle—whether it's helping you manage stress better, adding more physical activity into your routine, or understanding how your diet affects your body's stress response.\nCheck out \"What is HRV Balance\" on The Pulse Blog for more information.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "Interpreting Short-Term HRV", "chunk": "1. Interpret Your HRV\n- Higher HRV values tend to occur during REM sleep.\n- Lower HRV values tend to occur during deep sleep.\n2. Interpret Your HRV Values (High & Low)\nHRV levels that are high or slightly higher than your normal range tend to be signs of good recovery. A higher HRV may be the result of:\n- A much-needed rest day\n- A cool bedroom at night\n- Participation in more mindful, low-to-moderate-intensity activities like hiking or yoga\n- Engagement in mindfulness meditation", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "Interpreting Short-Term HRV", "chunk": "HRV levels that are lower than your normal range are signs of excessive strain on the body. Lower HRV may be the result of:\n- Dehydration\n- Consumption of alcohol\n- A late night meal or workout\n- Illness\n- Acute and prolonged stress\n- A hot bedroom at night\n- Jet lag and inconsistent sleep patterns\n- Overtraining", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "Interpreting Short-Term HRV", "chunk": "Note: naturally, after a hard workout, your HRV will likely decline. As you recover, your HRV should rebound. If it doesn't return to your baseline or takes an extended period of time to, this can be an indication that you're training too often or too hard.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "Interpreting Short-Term HRV", "chunk": "A significantly higher HRV may indicate readiness for physical challenges or under-stimulation of the autonomic nervous system, whereas a significantly lower HRV might suggest excessive strain or poor recovery, potentially due to factors like stress, illness or other strain, dehydration, or overtraining. There is variation in HRV at different stages of the menstrual cycle.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "The Importance of HRV", "chunk": "HRV reflects how the sympathetic and parasympathetic branches of your autonomic nervous system work together.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "The Importance of HRV", "chunk": "When both of these branches send signals to your heart, your heart rate naturally increases and decreases, resulting in variations between beats. Heart rate and HRV tend to be inversely connected. When your heart rate is slower, there's more time for variation between beats, leading to a higher HRV. On the other hand, a faster heart rate leaves less room for variation, usually resulting in a lower HRV.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "The Importance of HRV", "chunk": "Having variation between your heartbeats is a sign that your autonomic nervous system is balanced and capable of responding to different stimuli in a healthy way.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "When Does Oura Measure Heart Rate Variability?", "chunk": "Oura measures HRV during sleep to avoid the daytime \"noise\" that can affect your data and make it harder to interpret. Heart rate and HRV are sensitive metrics that can easily change from simple activities like drinking water, getting up to use the bathroom, or watching an exciting TV show.\nFor Gen2 users: Certain unguided sessions will provide heart rate, HRV, and skin temperature snapshots upon completion. These sessions can be used at any time of the day.", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "When Does Oura Measure Heart Rate Variability?", "chunk": "For Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 members: Explore contains meditation sessions and stories, some of which will also measure your heart rate, HRV, and skin temperature.", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Variability", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "What is Heart Rate Variability?\nHow To Increase Your HRV (Heart Rate Variability)\nHow Accurate Are Oura's Heart Rate & HRV Measurements?", "chunk_id": 18, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441974-Heart-Rate-Variability" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Body temperature variations can reveal much about recovery and overall health. Use the Oura App to monitor fluctuations and trends in your average body temperature, and learn what these readings mean for your body's status and readiness.\nWhat Is Body Temperature?\nHow to Use Body Temperature Trends\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "What Is Body Temperature?", "chunk": "", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "What Is Body Temperature?", "chunk": "Within the Oura App, body temperature is the measure of changes in your average nighttime temperature, as compared to your normal baseline temperature. Oura calculates your normal temperature during the first couple of weeks that you wear your Oura Ring, and adjusts your baseline as needed. If your average body temperature goes outside your normal range (above or below 0.0) the Body temperature Readiness contributor will show \"Pay attention.\" Significant deviation from your baseline temperature can be an indication of a change in your system, such as coming down with an illness or experiencing a change in your menstrual cycle.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "What Is Body Temperature?", "chunk": "During the day, your average body temperature is impacted by eating, drinking, exercising, and other external factors. This is why Oura measures your average body temperature during sleep while your body is in its most stable state and when the temperature data is subject to a minimal amount of environmental \"noise.\"", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "What Is Body Temperature?", "chunk": "These measurement methods enable Oura to provide you with the most accurate readings. In a study conducted by Oura's Science team, results revealed that Oura's temperature sensor matches research-grade performance under lab conditions, remains precise in real-world conditions, and reflects changes in your physiology, not your environment.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "What Is Body Temperature?", "chunk": "It’s important to note that Oura measures average body temperature from the skin, which is not the same as basal, or core body temperature. Read more about why Oura measures temperature from your finger on our blog.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "How to Use Body Temperature Trends", "chunk": "You can access your average body temperature trends by selecting \"Readiness\" from the Oura App's home screen or Vitals tab, then select \"Body temperature\" above your Readiness Score.\nYou can also find body temperature in Trends:\n1. Select the menu in the upper-left of the app's home screen\n2. Select Trends\n3. Select Readiness\n4. Select Body temperature\nBody Temperature Graph", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "How to Use Body Temperature Trends", "chunk": "Oura displays changes in your skin temperature as fluctuations (+/-) from your personal baseline. The closer the reading is to 0.0, the closer your current skin temperature is to your long-term average.\nThe Daily view of the Body temperature graph displays the same value you see in your Readiness detail view—this value is the average of your skin temperature readings taken throughout the previous night.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "How to Use Body Temperature Trends", "chunk": "Each date in the Trend view displays a weighted average of how your body temperature varies from your baseline based on a three-day window. Days closer to the current date will have more of an impact on your readings.\nTemperature can be used to identify strain and recovery during physical activity, emerging illness, and phases of the menstrual cycle. For members who track their menstrual cycle, average body temperature is an integral part of Oura's Cycle Insights feature.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "How to Use Body Temperature Trends", "chunk": "The average body temperature metric is slightly different from other metrics found in the Oura App because it only contributes to your scores when average body temperature is abnormal. This means body temperature can only lower your Readiness Score, not boost it.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "How to Use Body Temperature Trends", "chunk": "If you notice changes in temperature that are lower than your average, this is likely due to changes in your internal regulatory system, which can be due to low peripheral blood flow, being exposed to cool environmental temperatures, or being in the follicular phase of one's menstrual cycle.\nYou can learn more on our blog about Understanding the Normal Fluctuations in Body Temperature and Evaluating Body Temperature Trends with Oura.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Body Temperature", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Understanding the Normal Fluctuations in Body Temperature\nEvaluating Body Temperature Trends with Oura\nWhy Oura Measures Temperature from Your Finger\nHow Accurate Is Oura's Temperature Data?\nCycle Insights\nUsing Trends\nReadiness Contributors", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025587493-Body-Temperature" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Your Sleep Score reflects the quality and quantity of your sleep by analyzing key factors like sleep stages, restfulness, and timing. Learn what affects your score and how you can work toward better sleep.\nHow Oura Measures Your Sleep Score\nWhat Is a Good Sleep Score?\nWhat Is the Crown Icon?\nHow to Improve Your Sleep Score\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "Oura analyzes your sleep by measuring the dynamics of your resting heart rate, average body temperature, movement, and time spent in specific sleep stages, including light, deep, and rapid eye movement (REM). Oura’s proprietary algorithms combine these metrics to provide a complete picture of your unique sleep patterns.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "Your Sleep Score gives you a holistic perspective of how well you're sleeping on a daily basis (overall sleep quality). It's calculated using multiple contributors, including your total sleep time, sleep efficiency (the percentage of time you spend asleep during the night), latency (the time it takes you to fall asleep), and more. You can view a detailed view of your Sleep Score by tapping on the sleep shortcut at the top of the Today tab, or going to the Vitals tab.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "What Is a Good Sleep Score?", "chunk": "Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores — and their contributors — are rated on a scale of 0-100.\n- 85-100: Optimal\n- 70-84: Good\n- 60-69: Fair\n- 0-59: Pay Attention\nAn 85 or higher may be a sign that you are ready to take on new challenges. Scores below 70 indicate that you may benefit from prioritizing rest and recovery in the indicated areas.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "What Is the Crown Icon?", "chunk": "On days when your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Score is 85 or higher, you'll see a crown icon next to your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Scores.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "Your body knows what it needs and will give you signs to help you find balance. Your Sleep Score is a reminder of those needs. If your score falls below 70, it might be a good time to focus on gradually working toward the 85 range.\nBelow are some tips to help improve your Sleep Score. You can also add a tag for several of the options listed and observe how your sleep data may change via trends.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "1. Set aside enough time for sleep. To get the recommended 7-9 hours of total sleep per night, try to give yourself an 8-10 hour window between bedtime and wake-up. This buffer will account for the time it takes you to fall asleep, awake time, and any brief disturbances during the night—all of which don't count toward your total sleep time. Total sleep time is the most signficant contributor in achieving optimal rest and boosting your Sleep Score.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "2. Cut off screen time and artificial light at least an hour before bed. Dimming or turning off the primary lights in your home or bedroom can help, too. If you need to use a device near bedtime, dim the screen or consider blue light glasses to reduce stimulation. In the morning, try to get some natural light as soon as possible. Both reducing bright light at night and getting light in the morning help support your circadian rhythm, which regulates your sleep and wake patterns.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "3. Keep a consistent sleep schedule. Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day, even on weekends. Regularity helps anchor your sleep, which can naturally improve both its quantity and quality. Your circadian rhythm functions best with a consistent routine, making it easier for your body to rest and recharge.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "4. Limit strenuous exercise, heavy meals, and alcohol consumption ~3 hours before bed. Consuming foods high in sugar and low in fiber in the evening can lead to more wake-ups during the night and less deep sleep. This is because sugar raises your metabolic rate and average body temperature, making it harder for your body to relax and stay in a restful state.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "5. Limit caffeine past 2pm. Even some decaffeinated beverages, like decaf coffee or decaf green tea, still contain small traces of caffeine. You may want to consider limiting your consumption of these in the later evening hours as well.\n6. Create a relaxing nightime routine. Try activities like a warm shower, reading, light yoga, or mindfulness to help you unwind before bed. This can signal to your body and mind that it’s time to \"power down,\" making it easier to fall asleep when you hit the pillow.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "7. Set aside time to clear your mind. Spend a few minutes in the two hours before bedtime to write down your thoughts, concerns, or to-do lists for the next day.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "8. Cool down your sleep environment. The optimal sleep temperature is around 67°F/18°C. Your body needs to slightly drop its core temperature by around 2-3°F/1°C to initiate sleep and keep you at rest throughout the night. A warm bath or shower in the hour or two before bed can help by drawing heat to the surface of your skin, allowing your body to cool down faster.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Sleep Score", "chunk": "9. Try to use your bed only for sleep and rest. Avoid activities like watching TV, working, or eating in bed. Doing these in your sleep space can create associations that make it harder to fall asleep and stay asleep.\nLearn more about how Oura measures sleep in this video:", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Score", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Your Oura Sleep Score\nWhat Are the 4 Stages of Sleep?\nHow Does the Oura Ring Track My Sleep?", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445574-Sleep-Score" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Every night, your brain and body experience different phases of sleep, each essential for supporting your mental and physical health. With the Oura App, you can track the quantity and quality of your sleep, note your high points, and identify areas for improvement.\nWhat Are Sleep Stages?\nHow Sleep Stages Are Measured\nOura's Sleep Staging Algorithm\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "What Are Sleep Stages?", "chunk": "In the Sleep detail view, you'll find color-coded sleep stage data at the top of the screen. Your sleep stage hypnogram is also available under the Details section.\nThe Oura Ring measures four separate stages of sleep:\n- Awake: the time you spent in bed before and after falling asleep. This also includes brief awakenings that occur during sleep\n- REM: rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep involves increased brain activity and is often associated with vivid dreaming", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "What Are Sleep Stages?", "chunk": "- Light: light sleep guides you into deeper stages, and acts as the beginning of or transition between each sleep cycle\n- Deep: also known as slow-wave sleep, deep sleep is when your body repairs and restores itself\nEvery individual's sleep requirements are different, though the recommended amount is 7-9 hours for most adults. This is enough time for your body to go through four to five 90-minute sleep cycles. In general, you spend most of the night in light sleep.\nHere are some general tips:", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "What Are Sleep Stages?", "chunk": "- Try to optimize for less awake time and more restorative deep or REM sleep. If you're getting more REM sleep than usual, this may be a sign you’re recovering from prolonged sleep deprivation. Check out our blog for tips on getting more REM sleep.\n- If you're getting more deep sleep than normal, it could be due to a recent hard workout or changes to improve your sleep quality. See this blog article for more ways to increase deep sleep.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "What Are Sleep Stages?", "chunk": "- Remember, light sleep isn't \"wasted sleep.\" Half of your total sleep time is usually made up of light sleep, which is a natural and healthy part of the sleep cycle. Learn more about light sleep and its benefits on the Pulse Blog.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "How Sleep Stages Are Measured", "chunk": "Oura uses data from many of your biosignals — including movement, skin temperature, resting heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), and respiratory rate — to determine which sleep stage your body is in. Here are some of the indicators that Oura looks for at each stage:\nLight sleep:\n- Respiratory rate slows\n- Heart rate decreases\n- Average body temperature drops\nDeep sleep:\n- Low movement\n- Heart rate and respiration stabilize\n- Skin temperature is at its highest\nREM sleep:\n- Respiratory rate increases", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "How Sleep Stages Are Measured", "chunk": "- Heart rate increases\nLearn more about how Oura measures sleep in this video:", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "Oura's Sleep Staging Algorithm", "chunk": "Oura's sleep staging algorithm achieved 79% agreement with polysomnography (PSG) sleep lab tests.\nFind more information about these validation studies and the accuracy of our sleep algorithms on our blog: Oura’s New Sleep Staging Algorithm: More Accurate Than Ever Before.\nYou can export your sleep stage data from the Oura App to Apple Health through our Apple Health integration.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Stages", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "What Are the 4 Stages of Sleep?\nNighttime Movement Feature Displays Your Tossing & Turning\nREM Sleep: What Is It and How to Get More\nLight Sleep: What Is It and What Are the Benefits?\nDeep Sleep: What Is It and How to Get More\nHow Does the Oura Ring Track My Sleep?\nWhat Is a Polysomnography (PSG) Sleep Study?\nOura’s New Sleep Staging Algorithm", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/11752397946003-Sleep-Stages" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Your Sleep Score consists of seven key contributors that offer a holistic view of your overall sleep quality.\nFor Sleep Insights, your personal data is compared to general recommendations from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM), except for your ideal bedtime, which is personalized for you.\nTotal Sleep\nEfficiency\nRestfulness\nREM Sleep\nDeep Sleep\nLatency\nTiming\nBedtime Guidance\nSleep Score and Contributor Ratings\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Total Sleep", "chunk": "Total sleep reflects the amount of time spent in light, REM, and deep sleep. All your sleep is taken into account, including naps.\nMost adults need 7–9 hours of sleep to perform well and stay healthy, but the amount needed varies from person to person. As a general rule, the younger you are, the more sleep you need.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Sleep Efficiency", "chunk": "Sleep efficiency reflects the percentage of time spent asleep compared to the time spent awake while in bed. It takes into account all sleep, including naps.\nFor most adults, sleep efficiency of 85% is a sign of peaceful and uninterrupted sleep. Your Sleep Score may lowered if it takes more than 20 minutes to fall asleep or if you experience one long or several shorter wake-ups during your sleep.\nIt's common for sleep efficiency to decrease slightly with age.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Restfulness", "chunk": "Restfulness tracks your wake-ups, excessive movement, and how often you get out of bed during sleep. It takes into account all your sleep, including naps.\nEveryone moves and wakes up during sleep, but too much tossing and turning can impact your sleep quality. You can see your movement during sleep under your sleep stage graph.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Restfulness", "chunk": "Restless sleep is less restorative than uninterrupted sleep, and it can lead to daytime sleepiness. Common causes of disruptions include stress, noise, bed partners, pets, or certain foods.\nTo improve your chances of getting restful sleep:\n- Optimize your sleep environment by ensuring your mattress is comfortable, and your bedroom is quiet, dark, and cool (65°F/18°C)\n- Avoid spicy or heavy meals and alcohol close to bedtime, and caffeine in the afternoon and evening", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Restfulness", "chunk": "- Try to finish intense exercise at least 1–2 hours before bedtime\n- Help your mind and body wind down by avoiding bright and blue lights 1-2 hours before going to sleep", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "REM Sleep", "chunk": "REM (rapid eye movement) sleep is associated with dreaming, memory consolidation, and creativity. It plays an important role in re-energizing both your mind and body, and includes all your sleep, including naps.\nThis stage of sleep can make up anywhere from 5%–50% of your total sleep time. For most healthy adults, around 1.5 hours is considered optimal, though this may decrease slightly with age.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "REM Sleep", "chunk": "REM sleep is regulated by your circadian rhythm (your body clock) and typically increases during the latter half of your sleep. Getting a full night's rest, maintaining a consistent sleep schedule, and avoiding caffeine, alcohol, and other stimulants in the evening can help you get more REM sleep.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Deep Sleep", "chunk": "Deep sleep is the most restorative and rejuvenating sleep stage. It includes all your sleep, including naps.\nDeep sleep can make up anywhere from 0%–35% of your total sleep. On average, adults spend 15%–20% (1–1.5 hours) of their total sleep time in deep sleep, though this percentage usually decreases with age.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Deep Sleep", "chunk": "During deep sleep, your blood pressure drops, heart and breathing rates become steady, arm and leg muscles relax, and it's harder for you to wake up. This stage is essential for muscle growth and repair, refreshing your immune system, and helping the brain clear out toxins.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Deep Sleep", "chunk": "You typically get more deep sleep earlier in the night. To increase your deep sleep, keep a consistent sleep schedule and avoid heavy meals, stimulants, and bright screens 1–2 hours before bed. Long naps and caffeine in the late afternoon or evening can reduce deep sleep, while regular exercise can help increase it.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Sleep Latency", "chunk": "Definition & Measurement\nSleep latency measures how long it takes you to fall asleep at night. It’s only tracked for your longest sleep period.\nIdeally, it should take you 15 to 20 minutes to fall asleep. Falling asleep in less than five minutes may be a sign of overtiredness.\nIf you have trouble falling asleep, try something relaxing in low light until you feel sleepy again. For some, it helps to get out of bed, but avoid activities that might energize you.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Timing", "chunk": "Sleep timing plays an important role in your overall sleep quality and daytime performance. Ideally, your sleep should align with your 24-hour natural rhythm, also known as your circadian rhythm.\nThe Timing contributor takes into account all your sleep, including naps. Optimally, the midpoint of your sleep should fall between midnight and 3am, though this can vary depending on whether you're a morning or evening type. If you feel tired during the day, the best time to nap is usually in the early afternoon.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Timing", "chunk": "Most of your body’s essential processes—like average body temperature, sleep, hormones, hunger, and digestion—are regulated by a 24-hour cycle. Sleeping at night and staying active during the day helps keep your internal rhythms in balance. This can help you perform better throughout the day.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "Sleep Score and Contributor Ratings", "chunk": "Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores — and their contributors — are rated on a scale of 0-100.\n- 85-100: Optimal\n- 70-84: Good\n- 60-69: Fair\n- 0-59: Pay Attention\nAn 85 or higher may be a sign that you are ready to take on new challenges. Scores below 70 indicate that you may benefit from prioritizing rest and recovery in the indicated areas.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Contributors", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Sleep Score\nNap Detection\nBody Clock and Chronotype", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360057792293-Sleep-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App contains several sleep graphs, including a Body Clock, to help you visualize your sleep patterns and behaviors. You can use these to establish healthier sleeping habits, or to gain an understanding of when your mind and body are at their peak and low points of the day.\nBody Clock and chronotype are available for:\n- Gen2\n- Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership\n- iOS\n- Android\nWhat Is the Body Clock?\nWhat Is the Chronotype?\nHow to Use the Body Clock\nHow to Use the Chronotype", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Things to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "What Is the Body Clock?", "chunk": "The Body Clock graph displays a 24-hour clock face with color-coded sections to compare your optimal sleep window to your current sleep patterns. Your optimal sleep window is based on your chronotype — the biological baseline or circadian rhythm that determines when you are at your most active and alert.\nHow is Body Clock different from Bedtime Guidance?", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "What Is the Body Clock?", "chunk": "Bedtime guidance is based on your past wake-up times: The Oura App takes your recent wake-up times and, based on your best Sleep Scores, sets a recommended bedtime intended to help you get an optimal amount of sleep before your projected next wake-up time.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "What Is the Body Clock?", "chunk": "The easiest way to think of these two features is that your Body Clock and chronotype are aspirational guidelines for your ideal sleep times based on your circadian rhythm. Bedtime guidance is a suggested bedtime to get the most amount of sleep available based on your recent sleep patterns.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "What Is the Chronotype?", "chunk": "\"Chronotype\" is another way of saying if you're a morning person, a night person, or somewhere in between. Oura divides chronotypes into six types:\n- Early morning type\n- Morning type\n- Late morning type\n- Early evening type\n- Evening type\n- Late evening type\nHow the chronotype is calculated", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "What Is the Chronotype?", "chunk": "Oura takes your data from the past 90 days and looks for at least 30 periods of long sleep (more than three hours). The app uses activity, average body temperature, and sleep patterns from this time period to estimate your chronotype. It can take anywhere from 40–90 days before you may see your chronotype in the app.\nNaps are not included in your chronotype calculation.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "How to Use the Body Clock", "chunk": "Your Body Clock card will tell you how closely your sleep rhythm's midpoint from the night before was aligned to the midpoint of an optimal sleep window, as determined by your chronotype. If necessary, the Body Clock will provide guidance on how much to adjust your sleep timing in order to align with your circadian rhythm.\nTap the Body Clock card to open a more detailed version:", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "How to Use the Body Clock", "chunk": "The outer ring of the clockface indicates your sleep schedule from the night before. The inner ring is your optimal sleep schedule based on your chronotype. You can use the Body Clock to see at a glance how closely the two schedules are aligned.\nTap the info ⓘ icon in the upper-right corner of the app for more information on circadian rhythms. Tap the chronotype description at the bottom of the Body Clock screen for more information on your specific chronotype.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "How to Use the Chronotype", "chunk": "You can find your chronotype by tapping on the Body Clock card in the Today tab of your Oura App. The chronotype is displayed at the bottom of the Body Clock screen. You can also find your chronotype in the My Health tab. Tap into it to learn more information about your specific chronotype, as well as educational information about how you can capitalize on your sleep patterns.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "How to Use the Chronotype", "chunk": "Morning types benefit from waking up early and undertaking physical or mental tasks during the first half of the day. Evening types prefer to sleep in, and feel more alert and creative during the late hours of the day.\nRead more at the Pulse Blog: What Is Your Chronotype & Why Does It Matter?", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "The following conditions must be met for Body Clock and chronotype data to appear:\n- The Oura App requires data from at least 30 long sleep periods (at least three hours) within the past 90 days, and at least 30 days of physical activity and temperature data in order to calculate your chronotype\n- The ring should be worn properly (a tight enough fit, with sensors on the palm side of your finger) to ensure complete data gathering", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Travel to a time zone more than one hour in difference will interfere with data collection\n- Ensure that your ring and the Oura App have synced at least once a week\n- The ring must be worn consistently during the day and night because daytime readings also contribute to chronotype calculation\nFrequently removing your ring for extended periods of time can interfere with data collection\n- Frequently removing your ring for extended periods of time can interfere with data collection", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Body Clock and Chronotype", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Bedtime Guidance\nEdit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time\nBody Temperature\nCircadian Rhythms and Your Bedtime\nWhat is Your Chronotype?", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/14594974129555-Body-Clock-and-Chronotype" }, { "article_title": "Bedtime Guidance", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura analyzes your sleep data to identify patterns and uses that information to recommend an optimal bedtime for you. Bedtime Guidance is available for:\n- Gen2\n- Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership\n- iOS\n- Android\nWhat is Bedtime Guidance?\nHow to Use Bedtime Guidance\nTroubleshooting\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445154-Bedtime-Guidance" }, { "article_title": "Bedtime Guidance", "section_title": "What is Bedtime Guidance?", "chunk": "Oura's Bedtime Guidance analyzes your highest Sleep Scores and lowest resting heart rates to determine which sleep patterns work best for you. Using your typical wake-up times and the recommended amount of sleep, the Oura App will notify you when your optimal bedtime is approaching.\nRemember, Bedtime Guidance is just a recommendation, and missing the suggested window won’t directly impact your Sleep or Readiness Scores.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445154-Bedtime-Guidance" }, { "article_title": "Bedtime Guidance", "section_title": "What is Bedtime Guidance?", "chunk": "Bedtime Guidance is also different from the Body Clock, which offers sleep schedule recommendations based on your chronotype. While the Body Clock provides ideal sleep times based on your circadian rhythm, Bedtime Guidance suggests when to go to sleep to maximize rest based on your recent sleep patterns.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445154-Bedtime-Guidance" }, { "article_title": "Bedtime Guidance", "section_title": "How to Use Bedtime Guidance", "chunk": "The Bedtime Guidance card will display at the top of your Today tab an hour before the recommended bedtime window. For the rest of the day, it can be found in a collapsed form farther down on the tab.\nTap on Bedtime Guidance to see more details, including your upcoming optimal bedtime window, your previous night's bedtime, and a graph of sleep times from the past several weeks.\nNote that bedtime recommendations are automatically determined and can't be manually edited.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445154-Bedtime-Guidance" }, { "article_title": "Bedtime Guidance", "section_title": "How to Use Bedtime Guidance", "chunk": "For more insights, you can view your bedtime trends by day, week, month, or year in the app's Trends:\n1. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the Today tab\n2. Select Trends\n3. Select Sleep > Bedtime\nWe also recommend turning on Bedtime notifications to be alerted when your ideal sleep window approaches:\n1. Tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the Today tab\n2. Select Settings\n3. Select Notifications\n4. Toggle Bedtime notifications on", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445154-Bedtime-Guidance" }, { "article_title": "Bedtime Guidance", "section_title": "Troubleshooting", "chunk": "The Bedtime Guidance card appears only on the current day of the Oura App.\nBedtime Guidance requires two weeks of consistent data before it can show recommendations and insights. An irregular sleep schedule or consistently low Sleep Scores can also affect Oura's ability to provide Bedtime Guidance.\nIf you do not see a Bedtime Guidance card, continue wearing your ring and try to follow a more regular sleep schedule over the next week or two.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445154-Bedtime-Guidance" }, { "article_title": "Bedtime Guidance", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Find Your Ideal Bedtime With Oura\nOura’s Compassionate Approach to Sleep\nBody Clock and Chronotype", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445154-Bedtime-Guidance" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App contains several graphs to help you track and interpret your sleep patterns, including:\n1. Sleep stage hypnogram: a breakdown of the stages of sleep you entered (awake, REM, light, and deep)\n2. Nighttime movement graph: how much, and when, you moved during your sleep\n3. Body Clock: a 24-hour clock face with color-coded sections to compare your optimal sleep window to your current sleep patterns", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "4. Sleep timing graph: a vertical bar chart that shows your time in bed, time asleep, and any awake time interruptions during the night\nYou can also use an iOS widget to put the hypnogram on your Apple device's home screen.\nHow to Use the Hypnogram\nHow to Use the Nighttime Movement Graph\nHow to Use the Body Clock\nHow to Use the Sleep Timing Graph\nHow to Use the Hypnogram Widget\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Hypnogram", "chunk": "A hypnogram is a graph of sleep cycles throughout the night. Your hypnogram can be found below the sleep contributors under Details in the Sleep detail view.\nThe number above the hypnogram is your \"Time asleep.\" This is not the same as your total time in bed, which may include periods of awake time. For adults, it is recommended to get at least seven hours of sleep each night.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Hypnogram", "chunk": "Sleep cycles typically consist of ~90 minute groupings, each containing some amount of light, deep, and REM sleep. Sleep varies from person to person, so a sleep cycle may not always have all three stages, and may not always last 90 minutes.\nThe average amount of time spent in each sleep stage is:\n- Awake: 2-5%\n- Light: 45-55%\n- Deep: 13-23%\n- REM: 20-25%\nIf you export your sleep stage data from the Oura App to Apple Health, your sleep stages graph may appear differently.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Hypnogram", "chunk": "The Oura App hypnogram displays sleep data using five-minute intervals, optimizing for readability while still accurately reflecting sleep stage trends. Apple may apply slight rounding or display sleep graphs using different time intervals, which can result in variations between the two views.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Nighttime Movement Graph", "chunk": "The nighttime movement graph is located directly beneath your hypnogram.\nVertical lines on the graph each represent five-minute increments and correlate with movement in your sleep—the more movement, the taller the line. Short lines can indicate tossing and turning or general restlessness. Tall lines may correlate to times when you were awake. Compare your nighttime movement graph to the hypnogram to see which sleep stage was associated with the amount of motion.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Nighttime Movement Graph", "chunk": "Very low movement typically correlates to long periods of deep or REM sleep, a good sign of high-quality rest. Learn more about nighttime movement on our blog.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Body Clock", "chunk": "Your Body Clock card will tell you how closely your sleep rhythm's midpoint from the night before was aligned to the midpoint of an optimal sleep window, as determined by your chronotype. If necessary, the Body Clock will provide guidance on how much to adjust your sleep timing in order to align with your circadian rhythm.\nTap the Body Clock card to open a more detailed version:", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Body Clock", "chunk": "The outer ring of the clockface indicates your sleep schedule from the night before. The inner ring is your optimal sleep schedule based on your chronotype. You can use the Body Clock to see at a glance how closely the two schedules are aligned.\nTap the info ⓘ icon in the upper-right corner of the app for more information on circadian rhythms. Tap the chronotype description at the bottom of the Body Clock screen for more information on your specific chronotype.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Sleep Timing Graph", "chunk": "Sleep regularity is a Readiness Score contributor that measures how consistent your bedtime and wake-up times have been. In the My Health tab or the Trends section of your Oura App, you can find data visualizations of your sleep regularity patterns by day, week, month, or year.\nBelow the sleep regularity trend chart is a graph of your sleep timing, which shows your time in bed, time asleep, and any awake time interruptions during the night.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Sleep Timing Graph", "chunk": "The sleep timing chart represents the consistency of your sleep as vertical bars. The time you went to bed is at the top of the graph, with wake time at the bottom. Time in bed is visualized with a faint, dark blue bar. Time asleep is visualized with a solid, bright blue bar. Any interruptions to your sleep during the night appear as gaps in the bar.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Sleep Timing Graph", "chunk": "Scroll left and right to see more data. The y-axis of the chart is fixed to your median sleep time plus two hours. Any data outside that time, such as a very early bed time or very late wake up time, cuts off at the upper or lower edges of the graph.\nWeekly, monthly, and yearly views of your sleep regularity trends display averages of your sleep timing for those time periods.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Hypnogram Widget", "chunk": "There are three available iOS widgets (small, medium, and large) available to display the most recent night of data on your device's home screen. These are available to Oura members using iOS devices and any generation Oura Ring.\nThe widgets display:\n- Small: sleep stages\n- Medium: sleep stages and sleep/wake time\n- Large: sleep stages, sleep/wake time, and ring battery status\nTo install a sleep graph widget:\n1. Touch and hold your device's home screen\n2. Tap the Add (+) button", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "How to Use the Hypnogram Widget", "chunk": "3. Select a widget and widget size\n4. Tap Done", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "The Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.\nEvery body is different. Instead of trying to hit specific numbers, keep an eye on changes in your data compared to your baselines and overall trends.\nMake use of tags and trends to see what factors may be impacting your sleep.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Sleep Graphs", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "REM Sleep: What Is It and How to Get More\nDeep Sleep: What Is It and How to Get More\nLight Sleep: What Is It and What Are the Benefits?\nNighttime Movement Feature\nHow to Get Better Sleep\nBlood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)\nSleep Contributors\nSleep Score\nAdd widgets to your Home Screen\nEdit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time\nBedtime Guidance\nBody Clock and Chronotype", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403155260307-Sleep-Graphs" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Nap Detection detection feature is available for:\n- Gen2\n- Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership\n- iOS\n- Android\nWhat is Nap Detection?\nHow Nap Detection Works\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "What is Nap Detection?", "chunk": "With Nap Detection, Oura users get credit for all accumulated sleep throughout the day and night. For those who regularly nap, or sleep more during the day due to shift-work, polyphasic sleep patterns, new parenthood, etc., Nap Detection will improve sleep tracking accuracy, and account for these sleep periods in Sleep and Readiness Scores.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "What is Nap Detection?", "chunk": "If your nap is recorded after 6pm, your Sleep and Readiness Scores won't be updated until the following morning. However, you'll still be able to see all sleep analysis data from your nap (i.e. sleep stages, RHR, HRV, etc). Once your scores update, they'll also be reflected in on the Sleep and Readiness screens, as well as in your trends graphs.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "How Nap Detection Works", "chunk": "", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "How Nap Detection Works", "chunk": "For Oura to detect sleep as a nap, it must be between 15 minutes and three hours in length, and your body must fall into at least one sleep stage (e.g. light, deep, or REM) during that time. It is possible that your time in bed may extend beyond 15 minutes, but changes in your heart rate, movement, and average body temperature do not yet indicate that you've physically entered sleep. Extra movement or an elevated heart rate may also delay detection of a nap. In these cases, a presumed nap may be instead labeled as a rest and shown on the 24-hour heart rate graph as restorative time (green).", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "How Nap Detection Works", "chunk": "Any sleep picked up by Oura that's longer than three hours will be viewed as your longest sleep period, and added automatically.\nPlease note: In many cases, the Oura App won't detect a nap if it occurs within four hours of the end of the main sleep cycle. To increase the likelihood of additional sleep being included in your main sleep cycle, we recommend syncing your Oura Ring or placing it on the charger only after your second wake-up time (if your nap is within four hours of your first wake-up time).", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "How Nap Detection Works", "chunk": "If a nap at least 15 minutes long is detected, it will be added to the timeline on the Oura App's Today screen and to the Sleep screen. By tapping on the nap, you'll see full sleep analysis of your nap, including your hypnogram, amount of time spent in each stage, as well as your movement, resting heart rate, and heart rate variability graphs. If the nap is inaccurately recorded, you can delete it through this screen to remove its impact on your Sleep and Readiness Scores.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "How Nap Detection Works", "chunk": "Your nap details will be shown in the app's home, Sleep, and Readiness screens.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- The only Sleep and Readiness contributors not impacted by naps are Latency (included in your Sleep Score), Recovery Index, Activity, and Activity Balance (included in your Readiness Score)\n- Your Sleep Score may be impacted (positively or negatively) depending on the quality of rest and timing of your nap\n- Your Readiness Score may also be lowered if your average body temperature significantly elevates while you nap, as this can be a sign of emerging illness", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Nap Detection data is currently not available via Oura on the Web\n- Naps cannot be manually adjusted", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Nap Detection", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Sleep Stages\nSleep Contributors\nReadiness Contributors\nHow Does the Oura Ring Track My Sleep?\nOura's Nap Detection Supports Diverse Sleeping Patterns", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500009653181-Nap-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura Ring can detect overall blood oxygen saturation levels, and variation in those levels, while you sleep. These measurements show how efficiently your body circulates and absorbs oxygen, making it a useful index of your overall health, as well as indicating possible disturbances in your breathing during the night.\nBlood Oxygen Sensing is available for:\n- Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership\n- iOS\n- Android\nThis feature is not available on Gen2 or older.\nHow Does Blood Oxygen Sensing Work?", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "How to Use the Blood Oxygen Sensing Features\nBlood Oxygen Sensing Troubleshooting\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "How Does Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Work?", "chunk": "The Oura Ring measures peripheral oxygen saturation (SpO2) levels in your blood by sending light from the ring's red and infrared LEDS into your finger while you sleep, and then measuring how much light is reflected. Richly oxygenated blood reflects more red light than infrared light, while poorly oxygenated blood reflects more infrared light than red light.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "How Does Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Work?", "chunk": "Your blood oxygen measurements are located on the Oura App's Sleep screen. The Average Blood Oxygen reading is the percentage of your blood that contains oxygen. The Breathing Regularity graph displays variations in how much oxygen is present in your blood. This is different from respiratory rate, which measures how many breaths per minute (BPM) you take. Average Blood Oxygen and Breathing Regularity are measured during sleep periods longer than three hours, but the Oura App only displays the results for the longest sleep period of the day.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "How Does Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Work?", "chunk": "Please note that you may see the red LEDs light up whenever your Oura Ring detects that you may be asleep (based on your heart rate, movement, and respiratory rate), including during the day.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "How to Use the Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Features", "chunk": "Average Blood Oxygen and Breathing Regularity are turned on by default. To toggle them on or off:\n1. Go to the menu in the upper left corner of the Oura App's home screen\n2. Select Blood Oxygen Sensing\n3. Select the toggle next to Blood Oxygen Sensing\nNote: Your ring must be connected to the app over Bluetooth in order to switch the feature on and off.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "How to Use the Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Features", "chunk": "After your next sleep period of more than three hours, check the Sleep screen. There you will find the Average Blood Oxygen percentage and Breathing Regularity display.\nSuspected variations in your blood oxygen levels are shown in a color-coded timeline, indicating sampling intervals of 15 minutes.\n- Optimal: no significant variations to display\n- Good: few variations detected (dark blue line)\n- Fair: occasional variations detected (light blue line)\n- Pay attention: frequent variations detected (white line)", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "How to Use the Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Features", "chunk": "If your blood oxygen levels are measured as \"Optimal\" throughout the night, the Oura App will not display a Breathing Regularity timeline. Tap on the information ⓘ icon in the app to learn more about Breathing Regularity, how to improve it, and how to interpret the displayed information.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Troubleshooting", "chunk": "You might see Average Blood Oxygen values that are lower than expected for a variety of reasons, including:\n- Sleeping in a position that constrains the amount of blood flow to your hand or arm\n- Having the ring in the wrong orientation\n- Having a too loose or tightly fitting ring\n- Excessive movement during sleep\nIf you are not seeing any blood oxygenation data after a sleep period of three hours or more, try the following:\n- Ensure that you have the latest app software and ring firmware installed", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Troubleshooting", "chunk": "- Charge your ring to at least 30% before going to bed\n- Ensure that your ring fits snugly, and that the LED sensors are on the underside (palm-side) of your finger\n- Make sure that your ring is not in Airplane Mode\n- Turn on your device's Bluetooth to enable your ring to sync data with the Oura App", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "High variation in overnight blood oxygen measurements can be a sign that something is challenging your health, such as illness, altitude, or breathing issues.\nThe Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "The Blood Oxygen Sensing features use the red and infrared LEDs throughout the night, which impacts your ring's overall battery life. We recommend turning on low battery notifications as a reminder.\nBlood Oxygen Sensing features do not directly impact any your daily scores. However, if something is impacting the variations in Breathing Regularity and Average Blood Oxygen, it may show up in the Sleep and Readiness scores already.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2)", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Manage Notifications\nAn Introduction to Respiratory Rate\nBlood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) on Oura\n10 Ways to Increase Your Blood Oxygen (SpO2) Levels\nHow We Developed the Blood Oxygen Sensing (SpO2) Feature", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/7328398760851-Blood-Oxygen-Sensing-SpO2" }, { "article_title": "Edit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "You can manually adjust your bedtime or wake-up times if you feel they're inaccurate.\nPlease note that this article doesn't cover your Bedtime Guidance (ideal bedtime). Your bedtime guidance is dependent on your historical sleep data and cannot be edited.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445994-Edit-Bedtime-and-Wake-Up-Time" }, { "article_title": "Edit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time", "section_title": "Edit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time", "chunk": "To edit your bedtime or wake-up times, follow the steps below.\n1. Go to the Sleep detail view and tap the adjust icon\n1. Drag the sliders to adjust your bedtime or wake-up time. When finished, tap Done", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445994-Edit-Bedtime-and-Wake-Up-Time" }, { "article_title": "Edit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- You can only shorten sleep periods, not extend them. Typically, our bodies are smarter than our minds when it comes to determining sleep efficiency, which is why this adjustment is not permitted\n- Adjusting your sleep timing will affect your Sleep and Readiness insights for that day\n- Editing bedtime, or shortening your awake time, can affect your recorded average body temperature, as it tends to be higher while awake\n- Sleep data older than three days can no longer be edited", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445994-Edit-Bedtime-and-Wake-Up-Time" }, { "article_title": "Edit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Oura only shows detailed sleep staging for sleep periods of three hours or more. Similarly, manually edited sleep periods must be at least three hours long. This is because Oura needs at least two complete sleep cycles, which tend to be 1.5 hours each, to provide you with accurate and meaningful insights", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025445994-Edit-Bedtime-and-Wake-Up-Time" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Learn how your Activity Score is calculated and get tips on how to improve it.\nHow Oura Measures Your Activity Score\nWhat Is a Good Activity Score?\nWhat Is the Crown Icon?\nWhat is Walking Equivalency?\nHow to Improve Your Activity Score\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Your Activity Score", "chunk": "Your Activity Score is measured using your daily activity (how much you move throughout the day), step count, training frequency, and training volume, among other metrics. The Oura Ring captures these metrics using a 3D accelerometer, which registers all daily movement, including both step-based activities like walking and running, as well as non-step-based activities like light housework.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "What Is a Good Activity Score?", "chunk": "Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores — and their contributors — are rated on a scale of 0-100.\n- 85-100: Optimal\n- 70-84: Good\n- 60-69: Fair\n- 0-59: Pay Attention\nAn 85 or higher may be a sign that you are ready to take on new challenges. Scores below 70 indicate that you may benefit from prioritizing rest and recovery in the indicated areas.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "What Is the Crown Icon?", "chunk": "On days when your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Score is 85 or higher, you'll see a crown icon next to your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Scores.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "What is Walking Equivalency?", "chunk": "Walking equivalency shows your daily activity as a walking distance. The Oura Ring calculates daily activity as an aggregate of all movement throughout the day, which may include both step-based movement (for example, running) and non-step-based movement (e.g., light housework).", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "What is Walking Equivalency?", "chunk": "The distance shown is not the actual mileage you’ve traveled, but the equivalent walking distance of all your daily activities. Walking equivalency answers the question, \"How much would I have had to walk to burn the amount of calories that I did?” Higher-intensity activities like jogging increase your daily walking equivalency more than low-intensity activities such as casual walking, even if the actual distance traveled is the same.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Activity Score", "chunk": "Oura promotes an active but balanced lifestyle. The focus is on staying physically active throughout the week. Aim for 2-3 sessions per week where your heart and breathing rates get into elevated zones that challenge your system, and try to avoid complete inactivity on a daily basis.\nHere are a few tips to consider when looking to achieve a higher Activity Score:", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Activity Score", "chunk": "- Keep your total inactive time below 8 hours per day. This will positively affect your Activity Score. In contrast, being inactive for more than 10 hours daily will negatively impact your score\n- Move for just a few minutes each hour (for example, standing up from your desk to stretch your legs). This can improve your score. You can enable inactivity alerts in your settings if you'd like to receive a friendly reminder to get your blood flowing after 50 consecutive minutes of inactivity", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Activity Score", "chunk": "- Strive to meet your activity goal five or more times per week. Keep in mind that your activity goals are based on your readiness level", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Activity Score", "chunk": "- Get your step count up. There is no step count goal as a feature of your Oura experience; rather, the focus is on comparing steps to your own baseline. Of course, some days will be more inactive than others, but if you can increase your average step count by bumping up your daily movement with 1,000 additional steps for example, you'll see boosts in your score and gains in your overall health", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Activity Score", "chunk": "- Try to get in 2,000-3,000 calories of medium-to-high-intensity activity per week. For an average adult, this equates to two hours of jogging or 4.5 hours of brisk walking per week. If your volume falls to 750-1,500 calories per week, this will negatively impact your Activity Score", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "How to Improve Your Activity Score", "chunk": "The goal is to alternate between pushing yourself and allowing time to recover, which will help you build fitness in the long run. If you've gone five days without active rest, the \"Recovery Time\" contributor will detract from your overall Activity Score. Read more about Activity Contributors.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Score", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity\nHow to Use Apple Health with Oura\nHow to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura\nHow to Use Strava with Oura\nYour Oura Activity Score\nActivity Contributors", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577993-Activity-Score" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Your Activity Score consists of six contributors that provide a comprehensive view of your activity throughout the day.\nStay Active\nMove Every Hour\nMeet Daily Goals\nTraining Frequency\nTraining Volume\nRecovery Time\nActivity Score and Contributor Ratings\nThings to Keep in Mind", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Stay Active", "chunk": "Oura measures the time you've spent sitting, standing, or otherwise inactive during the past 24 hours, excluding rest and sleep. A high Stay Active contributor score means you've succeeded in moving consistently throughout the day. Keeping your inactive time to 5–8 hours or less of inactivity time positively impacts your Activity Score. You'll be asked to pay attention if your inactive time exceeds 12 hours per day.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Move Every Hour", "chunk": "This contributor shows how well you've managed to avoid long periods of sitting, standing, or otherwise being passive during the past 24 hours. Staying active and moving for 2–3 minutes regularly helps increase blood flow, support your body in functioning at an optimal level, and help you remain energized throughout the day. If you've enabled notifications, Oura will remind you to move after 50 minutes of inactivity.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Meet Daily Goals", "chunk": "Meet daily goals shows how often you’ve reached your daily activity goal over the past seven days. Activity goals determined based on your Readiness Score, age, height, weight, and sex assigned at birth.\nReaching your daily goal 6–7 times a week is optimal. Missing your target on three or more days starts to lower your Activity Score.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Training Frequency", "chunk": "This contributor shows how often you’ve engaged in medium and high-intensity activities over the past seven days. Exercising 3–4 times a week helps you stay in balance and increase your Activity Score.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Training Frequency", "chunk": "Regular exercise is important for maintaining and developing your cardiovascular fitness. Oura recommends getting at least 100 Metabolic Equivalent (MET) minutes of medium to high-intensity level activities a day (100-150kcal, depending on your body weight). This is equivalent to 20 minutes of jogging or 30 minutes of brisk walking.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Training Frequency", "chunk": "MET is a common measure used to express the energy expenditure and intensity of physical activities. If the MET value of a specific activity is 4, it means that you're burning four times as many calories as you would burn while resting.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Training Volume", "chunk": "Training volume measures how much medium and high-intensity activity you've gotten over the past seven days. Like training frequency, your Training volume is important for maintaining and improving your fitness level.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Training Volume", "chunk": "For the Training volume contributor to be at 100%, you need to get 2,000 MET minutes of medium to high-intensity level activities per week (2,000-3,000 kcal, depending on your body weight). If your activity level falls below 750 MET minutes a week (750–1,500 kcal), your Activity Score may start to decline.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Recovery Time", "chunk": "Recovery time tracks the number of rest days you've had during the week and when your last easy day occured.\nRegular exercise is important for fitness, but rest days are just as crucial. Your muscles repair and grow during these recovery periods. To support recovery, aim for 1–2 easy days each week, and try to avoid long gaps between them.\nRecovery time scores:\n- Optimal: You've had enough easy days during the past week", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Recovery Time", "chunk": "- Good: You've had easy days during the past week, but try to have another one within the next couple of days\n- Fair: You've had an easy day during the past week, but try to take another one today\n- Pay attention: You haven't had an easy day recently. Try to have one as soon as possible\nThe recommended activity levels for an easy day depend on factors such as age and sex assigned at birth. As an example, an easy day can include:\n- A maximum of 15 minutes of high-intensity activity", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Recovery Time", "chunk": "- No more than 85 minutes of medium and high-intensity activity\n- Less activity in equivalent kilometers/miles than your average", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Activity Score and Contributor Ratings", "chunk": "Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores — and their contributors — are rated on a scale of 0-100.\n- 85-100: Optimal\n- 70-84: Good\n- 60-69: Fair\n- 0-59: Pay Attention\nAn 85 or higher may be a sign that you are ready to take on new challenges. Scores below 70 indicate that you may benefit from prioritizing rest and recovery in the indicated areas.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Activity Contributors", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "Your activity insights are based on general recommendations for regular exercise and daily movement.\nIf you believe your activity data isn't being tracked accurately, you can improve accuracy by manually adding activities or importing your activities from third-party apps.\nRead more about the Activity Score on The Pulse Blog.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055901214-Activity-Contributors" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Manually add activities within your Oura App to ensure you receive credit for all of your daily movement. The app supports a variety of activity types and lets you add, edit, delete, or customize activities.\nWhat Is Manually Add an Activity?\nHow to Manually Add an Activity\nEdit or Delete Activity\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "What Is Manually Add an Activity?", "chunk": "Most activity recognized by your Oura Ring is automatically recorded within the app, and counts toward your Activity Score. Activity is one of the key components of calculating your Readiness Score through the \"Previous day activity\" and \"Activity balance\" contributors. Capturing all types of movements helps improve the Oura activity detection algorithm and provides better insight messages.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "What Is Manually Add an Activity?", "chunk": "However, the app does not automatically detect some unsupported activities, activities under ten minutes in duration, or activities you undertake while not wearing an Oura Ring (unless imported from a third-party app). Manually adding an activity provides a way to fill in these gaps.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "How to Manually Add an Activity", "chunk": "To manually add an activity:\n1. Tap the \"+\" button in the bottom-right corner of the Oura App\n2. Select \"Add an activity\"\n1. Choose an activity type\n2. Your three most recent activities will be displayed at the top. (If this is your first time manually adding an activity, these choices default to \"Running,\" \"Walking,\" and \"Cycling\")\n- Select \"More activities\" for a searchable list of 50+ options\n- Select \"More activities\" for a searchable list of 50+ options", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "How to Manually Add an Activity", "chunk": "- If you don't see the desired option, select \"Other\" (at the bottom of the list) and enter an activity name for it\n- If you don't see the desired option, select \"Other\" (at the bottom of the list) and enter an activity name for it\n1. Add \"Start time,\" \"Duration,\" and \"Intensity\" details\n1. Select \"Done\" in the upper-right corner to save your activity\nConfirmed activities appear on the home screen of the Oura App, and under \"Activities\" on the Activity screen", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "How to Manually Add an Activity", "chunk": "2. Confirmed activities appear on the home screen of the Oura App, and under \"Activities\" on the Activity screen", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "Edit or Delete Activity", "chunk": "To edit or delete an activity in the Oura App:\n1. Tap on the activity in the Timeline on the app's home screen or from the list of activities in the Activity screen\n2. Scroll down and select Edit activity at the bottom of the screen\n3. Edit the type of activity, and its time started, duration, or intensity, as needed\n4. Select Done to save changes\nActivities can also be deleted from the Edit activity screen. Deleting an activity will remove its impact on any of your scores and contributors.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "Edit or Delete Activity", "chunk": "Activities can be added, edited, or deleted only on the current day. If the activity was imported from a third-party app, it cannot be edited or deleted in the Oura App. An imported activity can be removed or edited only through the app it was recorded in (for example: Garmin or Apple Health).", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit or Manually Add an Activity", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Automatic Activity Detection (AAD)\nActivity Heart Rate\nActivity Score\nActivity Contributors\nReadiness Score\nOura Insight Messages\nHow Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025577813-Edit-or-Manually-Add-an-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura believes in supporting members of all abilities, genders, and body types in achieving their activity goals, and empowers you with full control over your health goals, including the ability to choose and edit your activity goals within the Oura App.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Additionally, opting out of showing calories in the app is a frequently requested feature. Activity trackers that count calories are problematic for members who are recovering from eating disorders, or who want credit for activities such as breastfeeding, for example. The Oura App includes the ability for members to choose a daily step target instead of a daily calorie burn target, and to opt out of displayed calories entirely, so that activity features better fit your lifestyle.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Editing activity goals is available on Oura Ring Gen2 and on all later generation rings with an active membership.\nHow to Edit Activity Goal\nHow Activity Goal Works\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "How to Edit Activity Goal", "chunk": "1. Tap the Activity card in the home screen and then select \"Edit activity goal\" in the detail view\n1. Use the slider to choose a baseline activity goal. You can choose between two goal types: active calorie burn or steps. If you'd prefer not to see calories in the app, toggle on \"Calorie opt out.\" This will hide all calorie-related information, and only steps will be shown in activity-related messaging throughout the app.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "How Activity Goal Works", "chunk": "The value on the slider is your baseline goal calculated from the age, height, weight, and sex assigned at birth in your profile settings. Moving the slider will change the starting value from which Oura calculates your daily goals.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "How Activity Goal Works", "chunk": "Oura then automatically adjusts and displays your daily activity goal based on your Readiness Score. On days when your Readiness Score is above 85, the daily activity goal will be automatically adjusted to higher than the selected baseline goal. Daily activity goals are reduced to below the selected baseline goal on days when Readiness is below 70. Baseline and daily activity goals are equal to each other on days when Readiness is 70-84.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "How Activity Goal Works", "chunk": "You can learn more about how Oura measures steps and activity here, and more about your Activity Score on the Pulse blog.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- When toggled off, calories will not display anywhere in the app, including on imported activities, the post-workout screen, and the Meet Daily Goals contributor. All other activity features are not impacted\n- Calorie numbers are only hidden starting from the day the toggle is selected. Data from past days will not change\n- Adjusting the slider only directly changes your baseline goal, not your daily activity goal", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Your daily activity goal is automatically calculated using your baseline goal, Readiness Score, and other contributors", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Edit Activity Goal", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity\nA Guide to Your Activity Contributors\nAn Introduction to Your Activity Score\nActive Calorie Burn vs. Total Burn\nLearn about Activity Score on our blog\nHow to Edit Your Profile", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/8945980160659-Edit-Activity-Goal" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Your Oura Ring offers the ability to detect your exercise, workouts, and other movement using Automatic Activity Detection (AAD).\nWhat is Automatic Activity Detection?\nHow to Use AAD\nMost Popular Activities Detectable by AAD\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "What is Automatic Activity Detection?", "chunk": "AAD automatically reports all detected physical activity captured by your Oura Ring—suggesting the time, duration, type, and intensity of activities you take part in.\nWith AAD, you have the option to edit or confirm each of the detected activities, ensuring the time, duration, type, and intensity are correct, or you can choose to dismiss activities altogether.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "What is Automatic Activity Detection?", "chunk": "A unique characteristic of AAD is that the more this feature gets to know you and your movement tendencies, the more personalized your insights become. The more activities you confirm over time, the more actionable guidance you'll receive from Oura. Because movement captured by AAD comes from your real-time physical experience, this feature offers a more accurate calculation of calories burned during an activity. As you continue to use AAD and confirm activities, your detected workouts and their details become more precise as your personal movement tendencies add up over time.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "What is Automatic Activity Detection?", "chunk": "No action on your part is required to start or stop tracking. Currently, over 40 unique activity types are detectable with AAD—a wider range than what's currently offered by other wearables.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "There is no action required on your part to start or stop tracking activities with Automatic Activity Detection. By identifying unique patterns in your movement over short periods of time, Oura can identify particular activity types, such as cycling, soccer, tennis, or use of an elliptical machine.\nNote that activities shorter than 10 minutes will not be picked up by AAD. Due to the way Oura captures your daily movement and calculates exertion, AAD is accurate to within one minute.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "Any detected activities will appear in a card at the top of the Oura App's home screen — including the type, time, duration, calorie burn, and heart rate (if available).\nYou have the option to edit or confirm each of the detected activities, ensuring the time, duration, type, and intensity are correct, or you can choose to dismiss them altogether.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "If confirmed (including after an edit is complete), the activity will be added to your full list of activities on the app's home screen. This same full list of activities is also located on your Activity screen.\nTap on a confirmed activity to view more details, including route and distance (if applicable), heart rate, and heart rate zones.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "If you want to record route and distance details, make sure that location services are turned on before you begin your activity, and take your phone with you. Otherwise, you can leave your phone at home and the ring will still record your Activity Heart Rate.\nTo conserve Oura Ring battery life, you can turn off heart rate tracking with AAD:\n1. Select the menu in the upper left of the Oura App's home screen\n2. Select Settings\n3. Select Activity\n4. Select the toggle next to Activity heart rate", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "When the toggle is off, AAD information will still be shown in the app, but will not include heart rate information.\n5. When the toggle is off, AAD information will still be shown in the app, but will not include heart rate information.\nFor more information on Activity Heart Rate, see this help center article.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "If you already track your activities using another device, Oura can identify when the same activity has been detected and will present it only once to prevent double counting. Manually added activities take precedence, followed by activity imported via third-party devices, and then activity added through AAD.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "If you completed an activity and AAD couldn't detect it, you can add it manually using the + menu in the lower right of the app's home screen. All manual activity entries count towards your daily activity goal.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "AAD will continue to detect activities even while your Oura Ring is in Airplane Mode. However, your detected activities will not be visible in the Oura App until Airplane Mode is turned off and your data has been synced. If more than two calendar days have passed since you turned on Airplane Mode, only detected activities from the current and previous day will be shown.\nEdit or Delete Activity\nTo edit or delete an activity in the Oura App:", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "1. Tap on the activity in the Timeline on the app's home screen or from the list of activities in the Activity screen\n2. Scroll down and select Edit activity at the bottom of the screen\n3. Edit the type of activity, and its time started, duration, or intensity, as needed\n4. Select Done to save changes\nActivities can also be deleted from the Edit activity screen. Deleting an activity will remove its impact on any of your scores and contributors.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "How to Use AAD", "chunk": "Activities can be added, edited, or deleted only on the current day. If the activity was imported from a third-party app, it cannot be edited or deleted in the Oura App. An imported activity can be removed or edited only through the app it was recorded in (for example: Garmin or Apple Health).", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "Most Popular Activities Detectable by AAD", "chunk": "Here is a list of the most popular activities that can be automatically detected by the Oura Ring. Please note, this is not a comprehensive list of all activities Oura can pick up. If you're unsure if a certain activity you partake in is detectable by Oura, you can test it by wearing your ring while completing your activity and then checking the Oura App home screen for an AAD card.\nBadminton HIIT Strength Training\nBarre Hiking Stretching\nBasketball Horseback Riding Surfing\nBoxing Housework Swimming", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "Most Popular Activities Detectable by AAD", "chunk": "Core Exercise Kettlebell Table Tennis\nCross Country Skiing Martial Arts Tennis\nCross Training Motorsport Trampoline\nCycling Pickleball Volleyball\nDance Pilates Walking\nDownhill Skiing Rowing Water Fitness\nElliptical Running Yardwork\nFitness Class Snowboarding Yoga\nFlexibility Soccer\nGolf Stair Exercise\nKeep in mind: this list is separate from our list of 50+ activities you can add manually in the Oura App.", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Automatic Activity Detection", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Oura's Automatic Activity Detection: More Accurate Than Ever\nActivity Heart Rate\nLocation Services for Activities\nManually Add an Activity\nHow to Use Apple Health with Oura\nHow to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura\nHow to Use Strava with Oura\nAirplane Mode", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360063022993-Automatic-Activity-Detection" }, { "article_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Here's some guidance to help you better understand the daily movement graph.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403213898131-Daily-Movement-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "section_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "chunk": "The daily movement graph (found in your Activity detail view) provides a snapshot of your activity levels throughout the day. It breaks your movement into different intensity levels—low, medium, high, and inactive—so you can easily see when you were most active and when you had periods of rest.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403213898131-Daily-Movement-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "section_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "chunk": "- Low activity includes casual walking and light housework. During low activity, your energy expenditure (calorie burn) is about 2–4 times higher than your resting level. While the health benefits of low-intensity activities aren't as well-defined as those of higher intensities, getting low activity helps speed up your activities and reduce inactive time.\n- Medium activity includes dynamic activities with an intensity level equivalent to brisk walking.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403213898131-Daily-Movement-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "section_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "chunk": "- High activity includes vigorous activities with an intensity level higher or equivalent to jogging.\n- Getting regular medium and high-intensity-level exercises has many fitness and health benefits, including better sleep quality, improved cardiovascular fitness, improved glucose metabolism, better mental health, and reduced risk of several diseases.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403213898131-Daily-Movement-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "section_title": "Tips to Consider", "chunk": "1. Move throughout the day: Try to avoid long periods of inactivity. Even small bursts of low-intensity movement can make a difference. Inactive time adds up throughout the day, and spending more than 10 hours inactive can lower your Activity Score\n2. Balance your activity levels: If you're able to, try to get a mix of low, medium, and high-intensity movement to support overall health", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403213898131-Daily-Movement-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "section_title": "Tips to Consider", "chunk": "3. Listen to your body: On recovery days or days when your Readiness Score is low, it's okay to take it easy. Adjust your activity to match your energy levels and recovery needs", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403213898131-Daily-Movement-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Daily Movement Graph", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "All Movement Counts: Using Oura to Track Low, Medium, and High-Intensity Activities\nEasy Ways to Get More Movement In", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4403213898131-Daily-Movement-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Activity Heart Rate is not available on Gen2 or older.\nWhat Is Activity Heart Rate?\nHow to Use Activity Heart Rate\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Activity Heart Rate?", "chunk": "The Activity Heart Rate features record heart rate readings while you exercise and — in combination with daytime heart rate measurements, Live Heart Rate, Daytime Stress, and nighttime Resting Heart Rate (RHR) — presents you with a complete, 24-hour heart rate graph.\nUpon completion of your activity, the Oura App will display detailed graphs of your activity heart rate and heart rate zones. On the daily heart rate graph, activity heart rate is displayed as an orange line.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Activity Heart Rate?", "chunk": "If you take your phone with you with location services enabled, the app will display a map and route of your completed activity (see Location Services for Activities for more information).\nWhat Are Heart Rate Zones?\nHeart rate zones are a measure of activity intensity. Oura uses six heart rate zones, and the ranges assigned to each zone are calculated using an age-based estimate of your max heart rate.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Activity Heart Rate?", "chunk": "Time spent in all six heart rate zones can have positive impacts on metabolic processes. Rigorous exercise is important, but even low-intensity activities and everyday movement can improve energy, weight management, and insulin sensitivity over time.\nActivities in higher heart rate zones have metabolic and cardiovascular benefits. You can learn more about heart rate zones on our blog.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "If you want to record route and distance details, make sure that location services are turned on before you begin your activity, and take your phone with you. Otherwise, you can leave your phone at home and the ring will still record your Activity Heart Rate.\nAutomatic Activity Detection + Heart Rate", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "Activity Heart Rate works with Oura's Automatic Activity Detection (AAD) feature to record your heart rate during many activities, without any further action required on your part. An activity must last at least 10 minutes to be automatically detected, and your ring must have at least five percent battery.\nTo conserve Oura Ring battery life, you can turn off heart rate tracking with AAD:\n1. Select the menu in the upper left of the Oura App's home screen\n2. Select Settings\n3. Select Activity", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "4. Select the toggle next to Activity heart rate\nWhen the toggle is off, AAD information will still be shown in the app, but will not include heart rate information.\n5. When the toggle is off, AAD information will still be shown in the app, but will not include heart rate information.\nAfter you have confirmed a detected activity on the app's home screen, you can tap on the activity to view more details.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "AAD captures most types of movement, but if you find that your particular activity is consistently not showing up in the Oura App, you can instead manually record your heart rate during an activity (see steps below), or you can manually add an activity after you've completed it. This will ensure that you receive credit for all of your daily movement.\nManually Record HR\n1. Tap the + menu in the bottom right of the Oura App's home screen\n2. Select Record workout HR\n1. Select activity type", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "2. Hit record to begin. You can pause and resume your activity recording at any time\n3. When you're finished, tap \"Pause\" and then \"End activity\" to stop recording heart rate\nRemember to stop your activity in the app when you’re done, otherwise the ring battery charge may be affected. You will receive a reminder notification if your activity has been running for more than three hours", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "4. Remember to stop your activity in the app when you’re done, otherwise the ring battery charge may be affected. You will receive a reminder notification if your activity has been running for more than three hours\n5. View activity details, including your heart rate zones and heart rate graph\n6. You can edit your activity the same way you would edit a manually added activity", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "7. Your Activity Heart Rate readings will be color-coded orange in the daytime heart rate graph. Tap on \"Activity\" beneath the graph for more information\nEdit or Delete Activity\nTo edit or delete an activity in the Oura App:\n1. Tap on the activity in the Timeline on the app's home screen or from the list of activities in the Activity screen\n2. Scroll down and select Edit activity at the bottom of the screen\n3. Edit the type of activity, and its time started, duration, or intensity, as needed", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "4. Select Done to save changes\nActivities can also be deleted from the Edit activity screen. Deleting an activity will remove its impact on any of your scores and contributors.\nActivities can be added, edited, or deleted only on the current day. If the activity was imported from a third-party app, it cannot be edited or deleted in the Oura App. An imported activity can be removed or edited only through the app it was recorded in (for example: Garmin or Apple Health).", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Activity Heart Rate is not the same as passive daytime heart rate measurement. Activity Heart Rate uses a higher sampling rate to accurately record your pulse during exercise. Daytime heart rate measurement takes a reading of your pulse at lower intervals throughout the day", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- The calorie value associated with an Activity Heart Rate-recorded session is calculated from the selected activity type, duration, and intensity (same as a manually added activity). Your measured heart rate will not affect the activity's calorie count", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Activity Heart Rate", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Workout Heart Rate Feature\nTroubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs\nHeart Rate Graph\nLocation Services for Activities\nManually Add an Activity\nAutomatic Activity Detection (AAD)\nWhy Do Heart Rate Zones During Exercise Matter?\nOura's Automatic Activity Detection: More Accurate Than Ever", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/6321008135699-Activity-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Learn how Oura tracks your steps and daily activity to give you a complete picture of your movement.\nHow Oura Measures Steps\nHow Oura Measures Activity\nHow Oura Calculates with METs\nWhat Is Active Calorie Burn?\nWhat Is Total Burn?\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Steps", "chunk": "The Oura Ring registers all your daily movements and their intensities, from light housework to heavy workouts. From the gathered data, Oura's activity algorithms are fine-tuned to recognize steps from the rest of your daily movement. Oura is able to identify step patterns within a very small window of time (30 seconds) and with a high level of precision from your finger.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Steps", "chunk": "Since total activity includes both step-based and non-step-based movements, it can vary based on several factors. Increasing or decreasing your step count, engaging in different activities each day, or wearing an Oura Ring on your dominant vs. non-dominant hand can all impact your daily activity.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Steps", "chunk": "Other wearables or apps may show different step estimates because they use different methods of categorizing steps. Many trackers set a different threshold for what counts as \"activity\" while others categorize all movements as steps.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Activity", "chunk": "The Oura Ring uses a 3D accelerometer to track activity, measuring movement in all directions. While it captures most daily activities well, accelerometers can have difficulty with activities that involve limited hand movement in one direction (for example, using an elliptical or lifting weights), no hand movement (for example, cycling), or intense movement isolated to your hands (for example, drumming).", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Activity", "chunk": "For more accurate activity tracking, make sure the ring's sensor bumps are on the palm side of your finger. For non-step-based activities that are more difficult to measure (for example, yoga), manually adding your activities on the Oura App can improve the accuracy of your Activity Score.\nOn iOS, you can import your activities from Apple Health, and on Android, you can import activities from Health Connect by Android.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Calculates with METs", "chunk": "Oura calculates your daily energy expenditure using METs or Metabolic Equivalents. MET is a common measure used to express the energy expenditure and intensity of different physical activities. If an activity has a MET value of 4, it means you're burning four times as many calories as you would burn while resting.\nThe time you spend doing activities with specific MET values can be expressed as MET minutes. For example:\n- 30 min x brisk walking (MET value = 3) = 90 MET minutes", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Calculates with METs", "chunk": "- 30 min x jogging (MET value = 7) = 210 MET minutes", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Calculates with METs", "chunk": "One MET corresponds with Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), or the total number of calories burned while your body is completely at rest. This is part of what your body needs to sustain itself while you're awake. To provide accurate insights, Oura uses 1.5 METs as the lowest threshold for activities that contribute to your daily active calorie burn. This ensures you're only tracking calories burned through physical activity, not the calories your body uses while at rest.\nSedentary vs. Physical Activities", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "How Oura Calculates with METs", "chunk": "Sedentary activities, like sitting or watching TV, range from 1 to 1.5 METs. Active calories, on the other hand, such as activities like household chores, walking the dog, or dancing, have METs above 1.5.\nBy using 1.5 METs as the threshold for active calories, Oura prevents you from logging large amounts of calories from low-intensity activities. This helps increase the accuracy of your Activity Score and other activity metrics without overstating calories burned during rest or light activities.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "What Is Active Calorie Burn?", "chunk": "Active calorie burn is an estimate of the calories you burn over the course of the day through exercise or other activity. It captures the calories you've burned while walking, training, or partaking in other physical activities.\nTracking your active calorie burn can help you balance your activity output and calorie intake. Active calorie burn can be found on the Oura App's home and Activity screens and appears as the numerator in your Activity Goal Progress.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "What Is Active Calorie Burn?", "chunk": "If you're looking to boost your activity levels in general, or achieve higher fitness goals, monitoring active calorie burn by paying attention to your Activity Goal Progress can help. When this numerator is higher, it means you've engaged in more intentional movement and activity. Paying attention to days when your active calorie burn is higher can also help you recognize the need for additional recovery time and refueling through proper nutrition and hydration.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "What Is Total Burn?", "chunk": "", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "What Is Total Burn?", "chunk": "Total burn, on the other hand, is the total number of calories you burn over the course of a full 24 hours, resting or otherwise. Every day, Oura begins calculating your total burn at 4 AM as your metabolism starts to gear up for all daytime functions and activities. This initial calculation is done using your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate), which is the number of calories your body needs to sustain itself and all your vital functions (i.e. breathing, digesting, circulating blood, etc.). Additional calories are added to your total burn count as you continue to move throughout the day and complete any form of exercise.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "What Is Total Burn?", "chunk": "Total burn can be found on your Activity screen, above your step count.\nKeep in mind that if you don't wear your ring while engaging in physical activity, your active calorie burn may be slightly off. This is why we recommend manually adding activities or importing your activities from third-party apps to ensure that your active calorie burn is reflective of all your effort.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "How Oura Measures Steps & Activity", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Edit Activity Goal\nManually Add an Activity\nApp Integrations", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025576833-How-Oura-Measures-Steps-Activity" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura includes route, distance, and pace/speed insights for certain Automatic Activity Detection (AAD) entries, manually added activities, or activities imported through third-party app integrations.\nWhat Are Location Services?\nHow to Use Location Services\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "By enabling location services on your Oura App, you'll gain access to a greater diversity of activity data, including route, distance, speed, and pace — depending on the type of activity you engage in. Setting up location tracking with Oura will help to improve the quality of your activity predictions over time. With more insights, you'll also gain deeper awareness into your daily activities and how they influence your sleep, recovery, and overall well being.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "These new metrics will be included in the \"Activity Details\" view of any confirmed activity to which route, distance, speed, or pace apply. You can access these after your activity by tapping on confirmed activities where they appear in either your home or Activity screens.\nMetrics include:\n- Route: View a map with your start, end, and the exact path you've followed\n- Distance: See the exact distance of your activity, in miles or kilometers", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "- Pace or speed (depending on activity type): Observe your average pace over the course of your activity and see your split times\nAutomatic Activity Detection Metrics\nRoute, distance, and speed are available for:\n- Downhill skiing\n- Ice skating\n- Mountain biking\n- Outdoor cycling\n- Rollerblading\n- Snowboarding\n- Surfing\nRoute, distance, and pace are available for:\n- HIIT\n- Hiking\n- Horseback riding\n- Nordic walking\n- Orienteering\n- Outdoor cross-country skiing\n- Rowing\n- Running\n- Walking", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "What Are Location Services?", "chunk": "Distance is available for:\n- Cross-training\n- Outdoor climbing\nNote: You must have your phone on you while you work out in order for any location-based data to appear. Your Oura App must also be open and running in the background on your device before you start your activity. Your location will never be shared outside of Oura, and you're free to revoke access at any time via your device settings.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "To Enable Location Services\n1. Update your Oura App to the latest version\n2. The app will display an information card after your next automatically detected activity\n3. Tap Continue to enable location tracking, or tap \"No thanks\" to opt out\n4. If you tap \"Continue,\" your operating system will ask you to confirm activating location-based features on your Oura App. If you have an Android device, you may need to select \"allow access to location while using the app\" in your location settings", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "To Manually Enable or Disable Oura's Location Services\n1. Select the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen\n2. Tap Settings\n3. Beneath \"General,\" tap Location permissions\n4. Toggle Oura location features\n5. Open your device's Settings\n6. Select Privacy\n7. Ensure that Location Services are toggled on\n8. Scroll down and select Oura\n9. Tap \"Always\" beneath Allow location access\nCollect & View Activity Data", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "Your next confirmed activity will surface in the home and Activity screens. Tap \"Show activity details\" on the reward card to get more information. If you miss your reward card, you can view your activity details from your Activities list in the Activity screen.\nYour new activity details will vary based on type, but can include: route (with a visual map), distance, and average pace/speed.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "How to Use Location Services", "chunk": "Please note that not all of these metrics will be accessible following the detection and confirmation of an activity with Oura. Only certain activities have applicable location data.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- As a best practice, we recommend setting Location Services for Oura to \"Always on.\" In order for the feature to work optimally, your GPS location must be accessible from the very beginning of your activity. If not, you may end up missing your route and visual map. Note that this may result in higher phone battery consumption\n- Your location data will never be shared outside your Oura App, or with a third party without your consent", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Route data and visual maps will also be available for manually added activities and activities imported through third-party app integrations, if your Location Services with Oura are established as \"Always on,\" your phone is with you while you work out, and you open the Oura App on your device before starting an activity\n- If you force quit your Oura App, location tracking will stop until you launch the app again", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Location Services for Activities", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Automatic Activity Detection\nManually Add an Activity\nHow to Use Apple Health with Oura\nHow to Use Health Connect by Android with Oura\nHow to Use Strava with Oura", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408888572179" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Use Oura's Discovery Hub to view correlations between Tags and changes in your biometric data.\nDiscovery Hub is available for all Oura users with active membership.\nWhat Are Discoveries?\nHow to Use Discovery Hub\nWhat Are Community Discoveries?\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "What Are Discoveries?", "chunk": "Discoveries are insights that show you the impact of tagged activities and habits on your biometrics, based on trends in your past data. For example, if your REM sleep tends to increase after you tag \"Sauna,\" the Oura App may generate a discovery message to inform you of that trend the next time you use the Sauna tag.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "How to Use Discovery Hub", "chunk": "The Oura App needs data from at least 14 of the past 30 days to establish a baseline reading before generating a new discovery. Be sure to wear your ring each night and tag frequently and consistently to generate correlated data for more discoveries.\nWhen a discovery is available, a notification card will appear on the Oura App home screen.\nTap the notification to open the Trends screen—available discoveries are shown in the Discovery Hub located beneath the trend graph.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "How to Use Discovery Hub", "chunk": "Certain habits and activities require just a few days of consistent tagging to produce a discovery, but others may take longer.\nPersonal discoveries are applicable only to certain metrics and are shown on the following trend screens:\n- Readiness: Heart rate variability (HRV), Respiratory rate, Resting heart rate (RHR)\n- Sleep: Deep sleep, REM sleep, Sleep efficiency, Total sleep", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "What Are Community Discoveries?", "chunk": "Community discoveries show the average impact of certain tags across all of Oura's member population. For example, when you tap on the Trends view for REM sleep, you may see that having a wind down routine or sauna improves REM sleep on average for Oura members, while alcohol decreases it.\nThese discoveries are based on statistical significance: enough members have to show the same correlation in order for it to be considered a \"Community Discovery.\"", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "What Are Community Discoveries?", "chunk": "Tags won't necessarily have the same impact on you as they do on other members. Every personal health journey is unique and many factors contribute to changes in biometric data.\nCommunity discoveries are available on the trend screens for the following metrics:\n- Readiness: Heart rate variability (HRV), Respiratory rate, Resting heart rate (RHR)\n- Sleep: Deep sleep, Latency, REM sleep, Sleep efficiency, Total sleep", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Discoveries are not available for custom tags or repeating tags. See our Using Tags article for more information\n- Although discoveries suggest correlations between your tags and biometrics, other factors can also contribute to changes in your data\n- It's possible for tags to have little or no impact on your health data", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "The Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Discovery Hub", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Introducing Discoveries\nUsing Tags\nUsing Trends\nOura Insight Messages", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30697762898323-Discovery-Hub" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "In this article, you'll find a more information on your Oura insight messages and how to get the most out of them.\nWhat Are Oura Insights?\nHow to Use Oura Insights\nOura Scores and Contributor Ratings\nWhat Is the Crown Icon?\nThings to Keep in Mind", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "What Are Oura Insights?", "chunk": "Oura insight messages are simple guidance tips that are displayed on the Home tab of your Oura App. They are designed to highlight notable patterns in your data, such as a specific trend in your sleep staging or resting heart rate graph, or an unusual reading that may signal that something is deviating from your normal baseline.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Insights", "chunk": "Oura insight messages are located within the Readiness, Sleep, and Activity Goal Progress cards on the Oura App's Home tab.\nIf it's currently in the evening hours near your bedtime, your Readiness and Sleep cards will be reordered so your Bedtime Guidance card appears first.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Insights", "chunk": "In addition to Readiness, Sleep, and Activity Goal Progress, Oura supplies you with insights following confirmation of a detected activity or nap. If you take and confirm a nap before 6 p.m., you'll see highlights of this additional rest in your Readiness and Sleep insights.\nTap on your Readiness, Sleep, Activity Goal Progress, or Bedtime Guidance card to see the entire insight message and its associated graph.\nReadiness and Sleep insight messages are your \"themes of the day.\"", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Insights", "chunk": "Your Readiness insight is meant to surface a crucial recovery, sleep, or activity metric for the day.\nYour Sleep insight is designed to extract a core finding from your overnight contributors and help you reflect on a component of your rest.\nActivity Goal Progress is a quick glimpse into how much you've moved your body in the current day so far.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Insights", "chunk": "By tapping into your Activity Goal Progress card, you'll get the full picture of your movement trends over the course of the day, and when you may have been overly sedentary.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "Oura Scores and Contributor Ratings", "chunk": "Readiness, Activity, and Sleep Scores — and their contributors — are rated on a scale of 0-100.\n- 85-100: Optimal\n- 70-84: Good\n- 60-69: Fair\n- 0-59: Pay Attention\nAn 85 or higher may be a sign that you are ready to take on new challenges. Scores below 70 indicate that you may benefit from prioritizing rest and recovery in the indicated areas.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "What Is the Crown Icon?", "chunk": "On days when your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Score is 85 or higher, you'll see a crown icon next to your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Scores.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Insight Messages", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Looking at your long-term trends is more important than focusing on an individual night\n- While comparing your scores with friends and family is a great way to remain motivated in improving sleep, recovery, and movement, we recommend not becoming too involved in this. When it comes to health, everyone is unique—which is why it's essential to discover your own normal ranges and goals", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402807721747-Oura-Insight-Messages" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura reports allow you to spot trends within your Readiness, Sleep, and Activity Scores. Within the Oura App, you can see weekly, monthly, quarterly, anniversary, and yearly insights reports.\nYou can share your sleep, daily movement, and cycle trends with trusted health professionals using the Shareable Reports function. You can also use the social features of Oura reports to share fun data stories with your friends.\nWhat are Weekly and Monthly Reports?\nWhat are Quarterly and Yearly Reports?", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "What Is the Anniversary Report?\nWhat are Shareable Reports?\nHow to Use Reports\nWhat is the Crown Icon?\nTroubleshooting\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "What are Weekly and Monthly Reports?", "chunk": "Oura weekly and monthly reports are quick recaps of your recent scores and some of their contributors. Each report shows your weekly average Readiness, Sleep, and Activity scores, and trend charts for contributors including resting heart rate, HRV, total sleep time, activity goal completion, and more.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "What are Quarterly and Yearly Reports?", "chunk": "Quarterly reports display your greatest accomplishments for the last quarter. Your yearly report provides highlights for the entire calendar year. Every health journey is unique, so these reports are personalized for each member, but can include total steps, bedtimes and wake-up times, number of crowns, and much more. Quarterly reports are available at the start of each quarter (in January, April, July, and October). Yearly reports are shown in December.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "What are Quarterly and Yearly Reports?", "chunk": "Each quarterly and yearly report screen is sharable! Simply tap the share icon in the upper-right corner to send the image to your friends through social media, messages, email, etc.\nNote: You must have at least 30 nights of data (i.e. have worn your ring) in the previous quarter to receive a quarterly report. Yearly reports are available to Oura members who activated their account by October 1, and who have more than 60 nights of Oura data in the year.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "What Is the Anniversary Report?", "chunk": "Oura Anniversary celebrates your membership and journey with Oura and your unique, personal trends. The report shows which of your contributors had the highest and lowest scores and which improved the most during the previous six months. The Oura Anniversary report first appears six months after your membership start date and then every six months afterward.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "What are Shareable Reports?", "chunk": "Shareable Reports allow members to download certain data and share it with trusted health professionals and providers. Currently, you can download or share:\n- Sleep report: This report includes your latest sleep trends, including sleep stages, total sleep time, wake-up times, and daily movement. The timeframe for the data in the report can be calculated as seven, 30, or 90 days prior to the current date", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "What are Shareable Reports?", "chunk": "- Cycle Insights report (not available on Gen2 or older): This report includes your cycle length, period length, average body temperature variation, cycle phases, and symptom tags for the last six months.\nCurrently, you cannot adjust the timeframes or type of data that is shared. Once you've chosen your preferred report, you can download a printable version and/or share it with trusted health professionals. Read the Oura Privacy Policy for more information.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "How to Use Reports", "chunk": "To access a new or past report, select the menu in the upper-left corner of the Oura App's home screen and choose \"Reports.\" Tap on a report to see detailed insights about each available score and contributor. For quarterly and yearly reports, tap the share icon in the upper-right corner to share a particular data story.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "How to Use Reports", "chunk": "Observing the trends in your scores and contributors is a good way to spot factors in your life that may be positively or negatively affecting your health. For example, noticing a downward trend in your Sleep Score could indicate that late workouts, naps, or meals are impacting your overall sleep. You can also use Tags to keep track of which variables cause fluctuations in your Trends graphs.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "What Is the Crown Icon?", "chunk": "On days when your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Score is 85 or higher, you'll see a crown icon next to your Readiness, Sleep, or Activity Scores.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "Troubleshooting", "chunk": "If you are having trouble sharing your report directly to social media try the following:\n1. Save the photo to your device\n2. Open the desired social media app and create a new post\n3. Select the photo from your library", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Oura Reports", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Year in Review: Your Oura House, Explained\nTrends\nReadiness Score\nActivity Score\nSleep Score\nA Guide to Oura Insights\nTags\nExport & Share Your Oura Data", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360046061373-Oura-Reports" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Use the Trends section of the Oura App to track changes in your sleep, readiness, activity, and stress metrics. Trends can be accessed through the upper-left menu in the home screen of the Oura App.\nTrends are available for:\n- Gen2\n- Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership\n- iOS\n- Android\nWhat Are Trends?\nTrends in the Oura App\nHow to View Trends\nSpotlight Trend\nSleep Regularity in Trends\nBody Temperature Graph\nTrends in Oura on the Web\nUse Tags in Trends\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "What Are Trends?", "chunk": "The Trends section of the Oura App displays information about your scores and contributors in easy-to-visualize charts and graphs. Viewing your Oura Ring data in the long term is a quick way to see if you are moving toward your personal goals, and to track which variables may impact your overall health.\nEach Trend graph, except for body temperature, provides daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly views.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "What Are Trends?", "chunk": "When reviewing a Trend graph, you'll typically see a value in a larger size at the top-left of the screen and a value in a smaller size at the left side of the graph.\nThe value at the top-left of the screen is the most current data for that particular metric. The screenshot above shows the member's heart rate variability is 39 ms for the day.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "What Are Trends?", "chunk": "The value on the left side of the graph represents the average measurement of the displayed metric over a certain period. The screenshot above shows the member's average heart rate variability is 43 ms over the last 90 days.\n- For Day view, the average measurement is taken over 90 days\n- For Week view, Month view, and Year view, the average measurement is taken since the beginning of your data", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "What Are Trends?", "chunk": "If you're in rest mode, your main goal is recovery, so you will see trends for contributors related to getting well.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "How to View Trends\n1. Select the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen\n2. Tap Trends\n3. At the top of the screen you'll find three featured trends, with a full list of Sleep, Readiness, Activity, and Stress metrics, as well as a Spotlight trend\n4. Tap any of these elements to view their trend graphs\nSpotlight Trend\nThe Trends section features a Spotlight trend curated by Oura's science team according to the focus area you selected during the Oura App onboarding process.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "You also may see a Spotlight trend as a Home card if there is a significant change in one of your tracked metrics.\nYou can change your focus area at any time, and your corresponding trends will update immediately:\n1. Select the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen\n2. Select My profile\n3. Select My current goal", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "For focus areas, Be more present and focused and Be productive and energetic require a minimum of seven days of data to start displaying Spotlight trends. The other focus areas require 7-8 weeks of data.\nSleep Regularity in Trends\nSleep regularity is a Readiness Score contributor that measures how consistent your bedtime and wake-up times have been. In the My Health tab or the Trends section of your Oura App, you can find data visualizations of your sleep regularity patterns by day, week, month, or year.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "Below the sleep regularity trend chart is a graph of your sleep timing, which shows your time in bed, time asleep, and any awake time interruptions during the night.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "The sleep timing chart represents the consistency of your sleep as vertical bars. The time you went to bed is at the top of the graph, with wake time at the bottom. Time in bed is visualized with a faint, dark blue bar. Time asleep is visualized with a solid, bright blue bar. Any interruptions to your sleep during the night appear as gaps in the bar.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "Scroll left and right to see more data. The y-axis of the chart is fixed to your median sleep time plus two hours. Any data outside that time, such as a very early bed time or very late wake up time, cuts off at the upper or lower edges of the graph.\nWeekly, monthly, and yearly views of your sleep regularity trends display averages of your sleep timing for those time periods.\nBody Temperature Graph", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "Oura displays changes in your skin temperature as fluctuations (+/-) from your personal baseline. The closer the reading is to 0.0, the closer your current skin temperature is to your long-term average.\nThe Daily view of the Body temperature graph displays the same value you see in your Readiness detail view—this value is the average of your skin temperature readings taken throughout the previous night.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in the Oura App", "chunk": "Each date in the Trend view displays a weighted average of how your body temperature varies from your baseline based on a three-day window. Days closer to the current date will have more of an impact on your readings.\nFor more information on average body temperature readings, check out our article on Body Temperature.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in Oura on the Web", "chunk": "Trends are also available through Oura on the Web. Sign in to Oura on the Web using your Oura account, and then click \"Trends\" on the left side of the screen.\nOura on the Web is a powerful tool for tracking differences and changes in your data because it offers the ability to overlay and compare two different metrics in the same graph.\n1. Select Trends\n2. Choose a date range by either using the dropdowns at the top of the screen or by clicking and dragging on the displayed timeline", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Trends in Oura on the Web", "chunk": "3. Choose a period—Daily, Weekly, or Monthly—from the dropdown menu\n4. Select which Oura metrics you'd like to view and compare, by using the dropdowns located in the upper left and upper right of each graph\nOura on the Web will display a correlation value (r) for the two data points you've selected. Click on the correlation pop-up for more granular data on your trends. You can also read our article to learn more about using Oura on the Web.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "Use Tags in Trends", "chunk": "You can add and view tags directly from the trends screen within the Oura App. This will show correlations between behaviors or daily actions and Sleep, Readiness, or Activity trends. Read our article on how to use tags for more information.", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Trends", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Discovery Hub\nOura on the Web\nUsing Tags\nBody Temperature\nRest Mode", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360055983614-Using-Trends" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Tags in the Oura App help you track how certain factors affect your Sleep, Readiness, and Activity Scores. While tags don't directly change your daily scores, you can observe how your habits, behavior, daily choices, and environment impact your biometrics by tagging and viewing these instances in your Trends charts.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App offers over 100 searchable tags, including alcohol, caffeine, fasting, headache, late meal, meditation, melatonin, nap, sauna, sick, stress, travel, and more. If we do not have the tag you are looking for, you can create your own custom tag.\nHow to Add and View Tags\nHow to Edit or Delete Tags\nCustom Tags\nSmart Tags\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "1. Open the Oura App\n2. You can add a tag under the timeline on the Today tab, or by tapping the + icon in the bottom right corner\n3. Tap Add a tag\n4. Select one or more tags from the list\n5. For each tag, set a start date and time. The start date and time should match the day and time the event that is being tagged begins. You can also add an end time or date, an optional comment, or set the tag as an event that occurs daily.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "Start time: The start time of a tag should reflect the start time and date of the event that is being captured with a tag. For example, if you add the tag, \"magnesium,\" the start time is the time you took magnesium. If your bedroom felt hot last night and you wanted to tag \"hot bedroom,\" you would tag the time you went to bed as that is the time the event of \"hot bedroom\" started", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "End time: This is an optional field. End time should reflect the end time and date of the event being captured with a tag. Continuing with the \"hot bedroom\" example, the end time would be the time that your bedroom stopped feeling hot. Your end time can be more than 24 hours after the start time", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "Occurring Daily: This is an optional toggle that can be used to capture an event occurring every day, at the same time. For example, if you take magnesium every evening at 8 pm, this toggle can be turned on to indicate the event occurs every day at 8 pm", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "6. Start time: The start time of a tag should reflect the start time and date of the event that is being captured with a tag. For example, if you add the tag, \"magnesium,\" the start time is the time you took magnesium. If your bedroom felt hot last night and you wanted to tag \"hot bedroom,\" you would tag the time you went to bed as that is the time the event of \"hot bedroom\" started", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "7. End time: This is an optional field. End time should reflect the end time and date of the event being captured with a tag. Continuing with the \"hot bedroom\" example, the end time would be the time that your bedroom stopped feeling hot. Your end time can be more than 24 hours after the start time", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "8. Occurring Daily: This is an optional toggle that can be used to capture an event occurring every day, at the same time. For example, if you take magnesium every evening at 8 pm, this toggle can be turned on to indicate the event occurs every day at 8 pm\n9. Tap Done to save the tag\nYou can view saved tags in your timeline.\nTags also appear on your Trends graphs.\n1. Select the menu in the upper left corner of the home screen\n2. Select Trends\n3. Tap a metric to view its graph", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Add and View Tags", "chunk": "1. A tag icon appears under days when a tag has been added\n2. Tap a tag to highlight each day that same tag appears on your graph", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Edit or Delete Tags", "chunk": "Any tag can be deleted at any time.\nIf the tag is from the current day:\n- Scroll down the Today tab to view your tags in your timeline\nIf the tag is from a previous day:\n1. Tap View full timeline to see the calendar view\n2. Swipe right on the calendar at the top of the screen and select the date you want to edit your tags\nTap the tag you'd like to edit or delete, then:\n- Edit the start or end date, or\n- Toggle \"Daily at this time\" on or off and tap Save, or\n- Tap Delete tag entry to remove it", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "How to Edit or Delete Tags", "chunk": "For repeating tags, you can edit the details (start date, end date, or comment) to just that day or from that day on. You can choose to delete a repeating tag for a specific date, from a specific date going forward, or all entries.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "Custom Tags", "chunk": "You can also create your own custom tags.\n1. Select the icon in the bottom right corner of the home screen\n2. Tap Add a tag\n3. Tap directly on + Create a tag under All tags, or type any copy in the Search bar and then tap on + Create a tag when the option appears\n4. When the \"Create a custom tag\" pop-up window appears, type your preferred tag (maximum of 32 characters) and tap on Done", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "Custom Tags", "chunk": "With custom tags, you can add the same information as is available to preset tags, such as date, start and end time, comments, and whether it occurs daily. Once a custom tag is added, it will appear in your tag list. A custom tag can also be edited and deleted at any time. To edit a custom tag, tap on the pencil icon next to the tag, adjust the copy as needed, and tap on Save. You can delete a custom tag in the \"Tag details\" menu, but that will delete the tag from your list and all your previous entries.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "Custom Tags", "chunk": "Custom tags will not appear in Oura on the Web.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "Smart Tags", "chunk": "On days when your Sleep Score is higher or lower than usual, Oura will suggest tags during your first morning sync on the home screen. You can choose from the suggested tags, or tap + More to choose from the full list of available tags. Selecting one or more tags and tapping Done will add the tag(s) to that day's summary. Smart tags are available only for active Gen3 members and newer.", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Using Tags", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Discovery Hub\nUsing Trends\nHow to Use Tags to Unlock Greater Insights\nHow to Track Illness with Oura Tags\nHow Oura Can Help Monitor Illness", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360038676993-Using-Tags" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Reflections is a journaling tool to track daily how you feel and what events or activities affect your emotional health.\nWhat is Reflections?\nHow to Use Reflections\nHow is My Data Used?\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "What is Reflections?", "chunk": "With Reflections, you can quickly record your mood and a brief review of your day.\nYou create a journal entry by recording your voice or typing a note. The Oura App uses voice recognition to dictate your recording into text.\nYou can also enable an artificial intelligence (AI) feature to automatically add punctuation and tags to your entry.\nThis feature is currently in beta and is available to a random set of active members, on iOS and in English.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "How to Use Reflections", "chunk": "Getting Started\nIf Reflections is available on your device, you’ll see a Reflections home card toward the end of your day when the Bedtime Guidance home card also appears.\nWhen you use Reflections for the first time, you’ll see an onboarding screen. You can toggle on “AI enhanced entry” to automatically suggest tags and grammatical changes.\nTap Try it now to start using Reflections.\nAssessing Your Mood\nWhen you tap the Reflections card on the Home tab, the Oura App will ask \"How are you feeling tonight?\"", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "How to Use Reflections", "chunk": "You can adjust the slider to record your mood:\n- Very bad\n- Bad\n- Alright\n- Good\n- Very Good\nTap Done to enter the next screen.\nCreating an Entry\nIn the journaling view, you’ll be asked to create an entry.\n- Tap to begin a voice recording. If this is your first recorded entry, you will be asked to grant the Oura App access to your device's speech recognition and microphone\n- Tap to manually type your entry\n- Tap Skip to move to the next screen where you can enter tags", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "How to Use Reflections", "chunk": "AI enhanced entry is automatically toggled on to suggest tags and grammatical changes. You can also manually edit your entry and add tags.\nJournal Trends\nAfter you’ve completed an entry for the day, tapping the Reflections home card opens the Reflections trend view.\nYou can see a trend of your daily reported moods over time, as well as tags you’ve previously entered through Reflections.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "How is My Data Used?", "chunk": "If you opt to make an AI enhanced entry, only the text from your entry is securely shared with our sub-processors.\nYour text will not be used for training models or for any other purpose than providing the AI enhanced entry.\nOura and its sub-processors may store the text of your entry for up to 30 days to monitor and prevent misuse.\nLearn more about how Oura protects personal data.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- You can make one journal entry each day\n- If you have AI enhanced entry enabled, there is a 500-character limit for a journal entry. If you have AI enhanced entry disabled, there is no character limit\n- You can still use Reflections if you decide not to use AI enhanced entry or the voice recording features\n- Tags that you've added in Reflections are only visible in the Reflections trend view as of now", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Reflections", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Track, Understand, and Manage Your Stress With Oura\nDaytime Stress\nBedtime Guidance\nHow to Use Tags\nHow to Use Trends", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/21148215375123-Reflections" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "With Oura Experiments, you can test how different habits impact your sleep and recovery.\nWhat Are Experiments?\nHow to Use Experiments\nJoin Experiment\nView Experiment\nLeave Experiment\nExperiment Reports\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "What Are Experiments?", "chunk": "Oura Experiments are self-driven tests to help you discover how your habits impact the biosignals that Oura measures from your body. Each experiment lasts for a limited time period (for example, 14 days) and focuses on one daily habit. When you complete an experiment, you'll receive an Experiment Report with the results of how your scores or contributors were affected.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "What Are Experiments?", "chunk": "The best time to start an Oura Experiment is when your day-to-day routine (your daily life) is as consistent as possible. If you introduce other new changes during the experiment, like a new diet, sleep, workout change, travel, etc., it will likely impact your results.\nKeep in mind that the goal is self-discovery, not perfection, so there's no need to stress if you miss some of the experiment days.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "What Are Experiments?", "chunk": "The current experiment will test how your sleep efficiency, restfulness, and recovery index contributors are affected by reducing caffeine in the late afternoon.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "How to Use Experiments", "chunk": "Join Experiment\n1. Tap Get Started on the Experiments notification card on the home screen\nThis card will only appear if a new experiment is available on the Oura App\nYou can also join an existing experiment at any time by tapping the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen, then tap Experiments\n2. This card will only appear if a new experiment is available on the Oura App", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "How to Use Experiments", "chunk": "3. You can also join an existing experiment at any time by tapping the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen, then tap Experiments\n4. Fill out the short background questionnaire\n5. Tap Join experiment\n6. Once you've joined the experiment, you can let your friends know by tapping the Share with friends button\nView Experiment\nWhen you join an experiment, you'll receive notification cards on the home screen to tag your participation for the day.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "How to Use Experiments", "chunk": "To track your experiment progress, tap the + button in the lower-right corner of your home screen, then tap View current experiment.\nYou can also tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen, then tap Experiments.\nLeave Experiment\nYou can leave an experiment by viewing your current experiment and then tapping the Leave Experiment button at the bottom. If you leave an experiment, you won't receive an Experiment Report.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "Experiment Reports", "chunk": "When you complete an experiment, an Experiment Report notification card will appear on the home screen. The Experiment Report shows how your participation in the experiment affected relevant metrics, such as Sleep Efficiency, Restfulness, and Recovery Index.\nYou can also find Experiment Reports by tapping the menu and then tapping Reports.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "Experiment Reports", "chunk": "Keep in mind that you'll need to mark your participation in an experiment for a certain number of days to receive an Experiment Report. For the experiment on caffeine reduction, you'll need to mark your participation for at least four days to receive a report.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Experiments", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "How to Conduct a Self-Experiment With Oura\nThe Impact of Caffeine on Sleep\nOura Reports\nExport and Share Your Oura Data", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/19663280975379-Oura-Experiments" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Health and well-being are easier to manage with a support system. With Oura Circles, members can share high-level data (Readiness, Sleep, and Activity Scores) with friends and family who are also Oura members. You can create different circles, customize the data you share in each one, and react to other circle members' data.\nActive members and Gen2 users can share their scores and see and react to other members' scores.\nWhat Are Oura Circles?\nHow to Use Circles\nAccess Circles\nCreate a Circle", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Invite a Member to a Circle\nJoin a Circle\nEdit a Circle\nUse Reactions\nView Past Data\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "What Are Oura Circles?", "chunk": "With Oura Circles, members can create private groups to share high-level data (Readiness, Sleep, and Activity Scores) from the past two weeks. You can be a member in up to 10 circles, and each circle can have a maximum of 20 members. You can change the data you share at any time, share different data in each circle you're in, and react in-app to other circle members' data with a set of custom emojis.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Circles", "chunk": "Access Circles\nYou can access Oura Circles directly from the Today tab or the menu in the upper-left corner of the Oura App's home screen.\nCreate a Circle\nYou can create a new circle by giving it a name, deciding which scores you want to share, and then inviting friends and family who are also Oura members to your newly created circle. Circle names can be a maximum of 20 characters with no emojis.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Circles", "chunk": "Decide if you want to share your Readiness, Sleep, and Activity Scores and whether you want that data to be your daily scores or weekly averages.\nYou can also create or edit circles anytime by clicking on the Settings icon in the upper-right corner of the Circles screen.\nInvite a Member to a Circle", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Circles", "chunk": "To invite friends and family to your circle, you can generate a one-time link and send it to them via email, text message, etc. These links are single-use (you will have to generate a new link for each person you want to invite), and the link is valid for seven days. Once the link has expired, you will have to generate and resend a new link. You can have a maximum of 20 people in each circle.\nJoin a Circle", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Circles", "chunk": "To join a circle, you must receive an invite link from someone in the circle. Before you join the circle, you'll be able to see the name of the circle, the number of people in the circle, and who is already in the circle. You can join up to 10 circles and leave any circle anytime. Only Oura members can join circles.\nIf you are in multiple circles, you'll see them all listed in order based on the most number of reactions.\nEdit a Circle", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Circles", "chunk": "You can edit your circles through the Settings menu on the top right of the circle. You can rename the circle, change your nickname, see who is in the circle, or remove members. You will see a notification in your circles screen if you are removed from a circle.\nUse Reactions", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Circles", "chunk": "You can use pre-set emojis to react to the data in any member of your circle. The reactions will last 24 hours, and you can see who reacted to you at the bottom of the Circle screen. Currently, there is no way to communicate with members in your circle through any other way in the Oura App.\nView Past Data\nThe graph for any member of a circle contains data for a two-week range. Press and hold on a graph, then drag sideways to view a member's scores for the previous days.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- You can only share your three main scores in your circles, but we plan on expanding to other data in the future.\n- If a member doesn't sync their ring, they will not be able to see their scores for the days they don't sync, and other members in the circle will not be able to see their scores.\n- If you're removed from or leave a circle, your open invites automatically expire", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Circles", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Export and Share Your Data\nOura Stickers\nOura on the Web\nIntroducing Oura Circles", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/15958088640147-Oura-Circles" }, { "article_title": "Oura Stickers", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "With Oura Stickers, you can build personalized Oura highlights and share them with your friends and family. Use custom photos as the background of your shares, and arrange any combination of your Sleep, Readiness, and Activity insights as stickers on top.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008536082-Oura-Stickers" }, { "article_title": "Oura Stickers", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Stickers", "chunk": "1. Select the share icon in the upper-right corner of your home screen\nTo share your Oura data from a previous day, scroll left in the calendar at the top of your Sleep, Readiness, or Activity detail views\n2. To share your Oura data from a previous day, scroll left in the calendar at the top of your Sleep, Readiness, or Activity detail views", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008536082-Oura-Stickers" }, { "article_title": "Oura Stickers", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Stickers", "chunk": "3. Your share background will automatically be set to Oura's default, but you can also take a live photo directly from your Oura App, or use an existing image from your library\n4. Select a key graph and contributor stickers for Sleep, Readiness, and Activity (or any combination of the three). You can also add the same sticker multiple times\n1. Stickers can be resized and moved but cannot be rotated at this time\n1. Remove a sticker by dragging it to the top of your screen where a trashcan icon will appear", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008536082-Oura-Stickers" }, { "article_title": "Oura Stickers", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Stickers", "chunk": "2. Select Share in the upper-right corner of the screen to share your data story via your favorite channels (e.g., email, text, social media, etc.), or save it to your photo library\nTo post to social media, save the sticker to your photo library and then upload it into the social media app\n3. To post to social media, save the sticker to your photo library and then upload it into the social media app", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008536082-Oura-Stickers" }, { "article_title": "Oura Stickers", "section_title": "How to Use Oura Stickers", "chunk": "4. If you have your Oura App integrated with Strava, you can post your stickers directly to your Strava Activities feed by selecting Share to Strava", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500008536082-Oura-Stickers" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura Labs allows members to test experimental features and provide feedback to our team. These features are still in development and may be rolled out slowly, changed, or removed from member testing. If a feature you are testing is removed, you will receive a notification and have the opportunity to provide feedback.\nOura Labs is available to active members.\nHow do I start testing features in Oura Labs?", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "You can access Oura Labs from the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen. There may be a few different features available for testing at any given time, and you can start testing any or all of them.\nWithin Oura Labs, you can see which features are available and which you are currently testing, and opt into receiving notifications when new experimental features become available.\nWhat features are currently available to test?\nHeart Check-In", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Heart Check-In asks you to answer a few questions and share your blood pressure data to help heart health research at Oura. In the future, you may receive additional insights, feature updates, and further information regarding your heart health.\nOnce you've enabled Heart Check-in in Oura Labs, you can find it in the My Health tab in the Heart Health section. You can stop testing Heart Check-in and delete your answers in the Oura App anytime.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Heart Check-In is available in English only and rolling out to members on Android, with iOS to follow.\nMeals\nMeals aims to empower you to optimize your eating habits for better sleep and energy levels. By providing insights into the optimal timing of meals, Meals helps you make informed dietary decisions that enhance your overall well-being.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Once enabled, you can log a meal, snack, or beverage through the Meals card on your home screen, the Meals detail view, or the + button. There are three ways to do this:\n- Take a photo of your meal using your camera\n- Upload a photo from your phone's gallery\n- Type in what you ate\nYour meal will be analyzed using an AI-assisted service, and you can edit its name and time. It takes 3-7 days to calibrate your meal regularity, depending on how actively you log meals.\nMeals is available in English only.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura Advisor\nOura Advisor provides personalized advice to help you improve your sleep, strengthen resilience, and optimize activity. Once enabled, you can chat with Oura Advisor in your Oura App at any time through the home screen, the + button, or notifications.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Using health-sensing algorithms and a state-of-the-art large language model, Oura Advisor analyzes your data and biometrics to offer actionable health and well-being tips. You can customize your interaction style (supportive, mentoring, goal-oriented) and choose the frequency of your notifications.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Key information, such as your goals, from your previous interactions with Oura Advisor is saved as memories in your app. In the Oura Advisor settings, you can view or delete your previous memories and conversations or reset the advisor.\nOura Advisor is available in English only.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.\nWhat if I have questions/problems with any of the features in Oura Labs?", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Oura Labs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "You can provide feedback by tapping on the Give Feedback button within each feature you're testing, and your comments will be sent directly to our product team.\nKeep in mind that these features are currently experimental and not final.\nCan I stop testing features in Oura Labs?\nYes, you can start or stop testing all of the Oura Labs features anytime.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/26055991315859-Oura-Labs" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Oura offers multiple options for viewing, exporting, and sharing your data. You can download your Oura data in a CSV or JSON file using Oura on the Web, or use the Shareable Reports function to share a PDF summary of your sleep and daily movement data with trusted health providers, such as physicians, nutritionists, therapists, or trainers.\nShareable Reports\nDownload Your Oura Trends\nExport Your Oura on the Web Data\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "Shareable Reports", "chunk": "The Shareable Reports feature enables members to download sleep and daily movement data and share those with trusted health professionals and providers. Shareable Reports are available on Gen2 and higher.\nTo share your report, go to the menu in the upper-left corner of the Oura App home screen, select Reports, and then Shareable Reports. If you choose Shareable Reports, you’ll be prompted to confirm you want to share this data and can read the Oura Privacy Policy for more information.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "Shareable Reports", "chunk": "Shareable Reports offer the ability to view and share a Sleep report (Gen2 and active members) or a Cycle Insights report (active members only. The Sleep report includes your latest sleep trends for the last seven, 30, or 90 days. The Cycle Insights report includes your cycle and symptom trends for the last six months. Currently, you cannot adjust the timeframes or type of data that is shared.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "Shareable Reports", "chunk": "Once you’ve chosen your preferred report, you can download a printable version and/or share it with trusted health professionals through various methods, including email and messaging.\nIf you would like to change the name displayed on your report, you can do so under your Account Settings on Oura on the Web.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "Download Your Oura Trends", "chunk": "Note: This option is not available on Gen2 or older.\n1. Sign in to Oura on the Web using your Oura account details\n2. Select Trends in the menu on the left side of the page\n3. Choose your desired date range by using the timeline at the top of the page\n4. Select which two Oura metrics to compare by using the dropdowns in the upper-left and upper-right corners of the graph", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "Download Your Oura Trends", "chunk": "1. Select Download Data in the upper-right corner of the page. All metrics to be included in your export will be shown in the pop-up window. You can include additional metrics by using the dropdown menu in this window\n1. Select Download to export your data", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "Export Your Oura on the Web Data", "chunk": "Note: This option is available on Gen2 and higher.\n1. Log in to Oura on the Web with your Oura account details\n2. Select the profile in the upper right corner > My Account\n3. Under Export Data, you'll find options to download Oura metrics in either CSV or JSON format", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Export & Share Your Oura Data", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Introducing Oura’s New Share Report Feature\nOura on the Web\nOura Stickers\nOura on the Web login screen\nHow Oura Protects Your Data\nOura Reports", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025441594" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Cardiovascular Age (CVA) is one of Oura's Heart Health measurements, designed with an eye toward your future health and longevity. The Cardiovascular Age feature is available on both Android and iOS to Oura members with active membership.\nWhat is Cardiovascular Age?\nHow to Use Cardiovascular Age\nHow Oura Measures Cardiovascular Age\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "What is Cardiovascular Age?", "chunk": "Cardiovascular Age is an estimate of the health of your cardiovascular system in relation to your actual age. Your Cardiovascular Age is estimated by measuring your pulse wave velocity (PWV) and evaluating age-related changes in the shape of your heartbeat’s signal, which carry information about your arterial stiffness.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "What is Cardiovascular Age?", "chunk": "Younger arteries are more elastic, expanding and contracting in response to changes in our blood flow. As we age, arteries tend to stiffen and lose some of their elasticity, and with this stiffening, the energy of the heartbeat can become a strain on the internal organs.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "What is Cardiovascular Age?", "chunk": "CVA is affected by a number of factors, including diet, exercise, genetic predisposition, blood pressure, cholesterol levels, and smoking. You can slow the aging of your cardiovascular system through regular exercise and changes to your lifestyle and habits.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "How to Use Cardiovascular Age", "chunk": "Cardiovascular Age can be found in the Heart Health card, which is accessible either on the Home tab or through the sidebar menu.\nCardiovascular Age requires at least 14 nights of data from the past 30 days in order to calibrate the first baseline reading. This preliminary baseline can change as your nighttime data accumulates. Wear your ring consistently at night to ensure that you receive regular, accurate readings.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "How to Use Cardiovascular Age", "chunk": "Once the calibration is complete, the app will display a chart of your CVA as compared to your actual age.\nCardiovascular Age is divided into three levels:\n- Lower than actual age: -5 years and below\n- Aligned with actual age: between -5 and +5 years\n- Higher than actual age: +5 years and higher", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "How to Use Cardiovascular Age", "chunk": "Tap the CVA chart for an expanded view with more detail that includes your pulse wave velocity (PWV) in meters per second, along with recent tags and activities. You can scroll this graph back to view previous weeks' data. CVA is a slow-moving metric and lifestyle changes can take several weeks to show a noticeable effect in the app.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Cardiovascular Age", "chunk": "Each heartbeat produces a wave through your arteries. The speed of this wave is called pulse wave velocity and is measured in meters per second (m/s). Cardiovascular Age utilizes the Oura Ring's photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors to calculate PWV, which indicates the stiffness and thickness of arterial walls, and then gets interpreted as an age estimate. Faster pulse waves are associated with less flexible arteries and a higher CVA.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Cardiovascular Age", "chunk": "PPG technology works by shining a light onto your blood vessels. The intensity of the light reflected back onto a photodetector indicates the amount of blood in your blood vessel via a waveform.\nWhen combined with a person's sex, actual age, and height, Oura can tell what kind of waves correspond to certain levels of arterial stiffness. By measuring your wave shape during sleep, Oura then calculates an estimate of your arterial stiffness (which is expressed as age years).", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "How Oura Measures Cardiovascular Age", "chunk": "Watch this video about how Cardiovascular Age works:", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- If your CVA is higher than your actual age, don't focus on the absolute number. Instead focus on the relative trend of your CVA over time. Regular exercise and changes to diet and other habits can help improve your Cardiovascular Age\n- Although Cardio Capacity and Cardiovascular Age are both part of Oura's Heart Health feature, the two measurements do not have a direct impact on each other. Seeing an increase or decrease in one metric will not necessarily mean seeing an increase or decrease in the other", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Cardiovascular Age results may not be valid for users with certain medical conditions, including heart diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, or pacemakers\n- If you do not see your CVA data after having worn your Oura Ring for at least 14 nights, go to My Profile in the menu of the Oura App and check that the following personal data has been entered:\nSex assigned at birth\nHeight: between 3'6\" - 8'2\" (1.1-2.5m)\nAge: between 15-120\n- Sex assigned at birth\n- Height: between 3'6\" - 8'2\" (1.1-2.5m)", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Age: between 15-120\nThe Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardiovascular Age", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "All About Cardiovascular Age\nHow to Improve Your Cardiovascular Health\nHeart Health for Women: What You Should Know\nOura and Medical Conditions\nCardio Capacity", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28451491040019-Cardiovascular-Age" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Cardio Capacity is one of Oura's Heart Health measurements, designed with an eye toward your future health and longevity. The Cardio Capacity feature is available to active members.\nWhat Is Cardio Capacity?\nWhat Is VO2 Max?\nHow to Use Cardio Capacity\nWalking Test\nManually Added Data\nFuture Me\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "What Is Cardio Capacity?", "chunk": "Cardio Capacity is an age-adjusted estimate of your VO2 max reading, which is the maximum amount of oxygen your body is able to utilize during exercise. Cardio Capacity is a great measure of cardiorespiratory (aerobic) fitness because it signals how well your heart, blood vessels, and muscles work together.\nWhat Is VO2 Max?", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "What Is Cardio Capacity?", "chunk": "VO2 max, or maximal oxygen uptake, measures the maximum amount of oxygen an individual can utilize during intense, exhaustive exercise. VO2 max is generally measured in milliliters of oxygen used in one minute per kilogram of body weight (ml/kg/min). The greater your body's ability to supply oxygen to your muscles during sustained physical activity, the higher your VO2 max reading will be.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "What Is Cardio Capacity?", "chunk": "VO2 max varies significantly among individuals according to many influences, including age, sex, fitness level, and genetics. While it is commonly regarded as an athletic performance indicator, VO2 max correlates well with longevity, and is therefore a useful metric for anyone interested in their health, not just athletes.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "How to Use Cardio Capacity", "chunk": "You can locate Cardio Capacity in the Heart Health screen of the Oura App. The initial reading will show a number based on anthropometric data (age, sex, height, and weight) as entered in My profile under the Oura App menu. This number is an estimate only, based on population averages.\nDepending on your VO2 max number, your Cardio Capacity will fall into one of four levels:\n- Peak: very high within your age group\n- High: high within your age group", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "How to Use Cardio Capacity", "chunk": "- Fair: average or slightly below average within your age group\n- Low: below average within your age group\nFor a more precise measurement of your Cardio Capacity, the Oura App will prompt you to complete a six-minute walking test. You can also manually add a VO2 max value if you have a lab test result or a VO2 max reading from a trusted source, such as another wearable.\nWalking Test\nTap Take the walking test to start.\n- Location services must be turned on for the app to measure your Cardio Capacity", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "How to Use Cardio Capacity", "chunk": "- Make sure your phone is charged above 20% before taking the walking test and carry your phone with you for the entire route\n- Walk at a brisk pace (as quickly as you can without running out of breath)\n- Choose a straight, level route that avoids traffic lights, which may interrupt a steady walking pace\n- Choose a route that avoids tunnels, which may interrupt GPS signal", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "How to Use Cardio Capacity", "chunk": "During the walking test, Oura will use the distance traveled and your heart rate to calculate your Cardio Capacity. Please note that because Oura uses the physical distance traveled to calculate your Cardio Capacity, the walking test cannot be performed on a treadmill.\nAfter completion of a walking test, the app will display a graph of any current and past measured Cardio Capacity. To better track your Cardio Capacity, we recommend that you take a walking test approximately once a month.\nManually Added Data", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "How to Use Cardio Capacity", "chunk": "If you want to update your VO2 max with a value from an external source, select Add your current VO2 max to manually add a data point. Enter a number 1-100 and then select Done.\nAny VO2 max data can be deleted by swiping left on the entry and selecting Delete.\nFuture Me", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "How to Use Cardio Capacity", "chunk": "Cardio Capacity naturally declines as you age. This decline can be mitigated with regular movement and exercise. The Future Me chart provides a visual representation of how your potential future Cardio Capacity compares to expected average decline.\nThe dotted blue line represents how maintaining or increasing activity levels can improve your Cardio Capacity. The solid white line is a prediction of your Cardio Capacity based on your current activity levels and expected population-level decline.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "How to Use Cardio Capacity", "chunk": "Both lines estimate how difficult or easy it would feel to climb several flights of stairs at different ages.", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- The Oura walking test is not as accurate as a lab test, but is an easy and accessible way to understand your Cardio Capacity\n- Performing the walking test at high altitude may have an impact on your Cardio Capacity results\n- You may see gaps in your Cardio Capacity graph if you haven’t performed the walking test regularly. We recommend that you take a walking test approximately once a month", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Although Cardio Capacity and Cardiovascular Age are both part of Oura's Heart Health feature, the two measurements do not have a direct impact on each other. Seeing an increase or decrease in one metric will not necessarily mean seeing an increase or decrease in the other", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "The Oura Ring is not a medical device and is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, monitor, or prevent medical conditions or illnesses. Please do not make any changes to your medication, nutrition, or workouts without first consulting your doctor or another medical professional.", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Cardio Capacity (VO2 Max)", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Cardiovascular Age\nAll About Cardio Capacity\nHeart Health for Women: What You Should Know\nHow Oura Protects Your Data\nLocation Services for Activities", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/28336620578835-Cardio-Capacity-VO2-Max" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Oura App provides the ability to monitor your heart rate 24 hours a day. The daytime heart rate graph is not available for Gen2 or older.\nWhat Is the Heart Rate Graph?\n24-hour Heart Rate Trendline\nLive Heart Rate\nRestorative Time\nStress\nDaytime Heart Rate Measurement\nActivity Heart Rate\nHow to Use the Heart Rate Graph\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "What Is the Heart Rate Graph?", "chunk": "The heart rate graph located on the home screen of the Oura App shows color-coded visualizations of your sleeping, daytime, stress, and activity heart rates, as well as periods of Restorative Time, all in the same chart.\nThe heart rate graph includes the following components:\n24-hour Heart Rate Trendline", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "What Is the Heart Rate Graph?", "chunk": "The 24-hour graph displays sleep resting heart rate in blue, Restorative Time in green, daytime stress in pink, and Activity Heart Rate in orange. The white trendline is the average of your heart rate readings throughout the 24-hour period.\nNighttime heart rate graphs are also available on the Sleep and Readiness screens of the Oura App.\nLive Heart Rate", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "What Is the Heart Rate Graph?", "chunk": "The latest reading of your pulse is displayed as beats per minute (BPM) beneath the heart rate graph, with a time indication of how long ago the last update was measured. Tapping the heart next to this number will update it with your current pulse measurement. Check out the Live Heart Rate article for more information.\nRestorative Time", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "What Is the Heart Rate Graph?", "chunk": "Restorative Time marks moments during the day when your body falls into a restful recovery state. Tracking these moments is a good way to measure your readiness. For more information on getting the most out of this feature, see our Restorative Time article.\nStress\nMoments where your body has felt high levels of physiological stress are marked in pink on the heart rate graph. For more information, see the Daytime Stress article.\nDaytime Heart Rate Measurement", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "What Is the Heart Rate Graph?", "chunk": "Oura takes measurements of your daytime heart rate for one full minute, every five minutes, using the Oura Ring's green LEDs. To preserve battery and maximize accuracy, a daytime heart rate measurement is only taken under optimal conditions, which include low movement and balanced average body temperature.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "What Is the Heart Rate Graph?", "chunk": "Due to prioritizing these conditions, you may not receive an automatically updated heart rate for up to 30 minutes, but it can be manually updated at any time by using Live Heart Rate. Also note that \"low movement\" generally includes everyday actions, up to excessive motion associated with workouts.\nActivity Heart Rate\nThe Activity Heart Rate feature is used to record your exercises. Heart rate measurements taken from physical activity are highlighted in orange on the graph.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "How to Use the Heart Rate Graph", "chunk": "After your first full day of using the Oura Ring, the 24-hour heart rate graph displays as its own card on the Oura App's home screen (you may need to select \" More\" to display everything in the home screen). The graph shows heart rate beats per minute (BPM) for the current day (midnight to midnight). The most recent heart rate value (in BPM) is displayed beneath the graph, along with the Live Heart Rate button.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "How to Use the Heart Rate Graph", "chunk": "Each x-axis division of the graph represents a 30-minute time window, and every individual colored dot within those divisions is a five-minute heart rate range. Longer vertical bars indicate clusters of readings that overlap within the same 30 minutes.\nThe solid white trendline across the graph represents the average of all heart rate measurement. Dotted white lines indicate periods in which reliable data is not available. See the Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs article for more information.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "How to Use the Heart Rate Graph", "chunk": "Tap anywhere on the heart rate graph for more detail. Press and hold or drag your finger on the graph to see a thin, vertical blue line. This line shows your exact heart rate range during that timeframe. Swipe right on the graph to view heart rate data from previous days.\nTap on any of the five core metrics (Restorative Time, Stress, Sleeping, Activity, and Daytime) to see more data. Select \"Learn more\" beneath each one for further information, including how to interpret your heart rate curves.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Daytime Heart Rate and Live Heart Rate are not intended to record workouts. For accurate measurement of your pulse during exercise, see the Activity Heart Rate feature\n- Excess movement or unusually low average body temperature may result in gaps in your heart rate graph data\n- Confirmed naps appear as sleep (in blue) on the 24-hour daytime graph", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Heart Rate Graph", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs\nActivity Heart Rate\nRestorative Time\nLive Heart Rate\nDaytime Heart Rate\nDaytime Stress\nSleeping Heart Rate: Look for These 4 Patterns", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410656562579-Heart-Rate-Graph" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Live Heart Rate lets you track your heart rate in real-time. Live Heart Rate is not available on Gen2 and older.\nWhat Is Live Heart Rate?\nHow Live Heart Rate Works\nHow to Use Live Heart Rate\nThings to Keep in Mind", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "What Is Live Heart Rate?", "chunk": "With Live Heart Rate, you can check your heart rate at any time during the day. Just tap to see your heart rate instantly. You can access Live Heart Rate through the 24-hour heart rate graph.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "How Live Heart Rate Works", "chunk": "Oura uses green LEDs to measure your heart rate in real-time. The process uses photoplethysmography (PPG) technology at a frequency of 50Hz.\nPPG technology works by shining a light onto the surface of your skin. When this reaches your blood vessels, some of the light is reflected back onto a photodetector. The intensity of light reflected back captures the amount of blood in your blood vessel via a waveform.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "How Live Heart Rate Works", "chunk": "Depending on the color of light used, different biometrics can be captured through their unique waveforms. For example, when your blood vessels are expanded, more green light will be absorbed compared to when they're contracted. This phenomenon allows your pulse to be accurately taken.\nTo gather an accurate pulse reading, you must remain relatively still for Live Heart Rate to take its full 10-second measurement. If Oura detects too much motion, your Live Heart Rate won't be available.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "How to Use Live Heart Rate", "chunk": "1. Go to your home screen to view your 24-hour heart rate graph. You'll see your most recent heart rate reading along with how recently it was updated.\n2. Tap the large heart icon. If the conditions are right (balanced skin temperature, low motion, and a strong Bluetooth connection), it'll begin loading. Stay still for 10 full seconds or until your measurement is complete.\n3. Once the reading is complete, your heart rate graph will update with your current heart rate in beats per minute (BPM).", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Several variables can interfere with a Live Heart Rate reading:\nPoor signal quality: check your device’s Bluetooth settings to confirm your ring and app are properly connected\nLow skin temperature: unusually low skin temperature may interfere with readings\nExcessive movement: make sure you hold still for 10 seconds during your measurement\nIncorrect ring orientation: make sure your ring's sensors always remain in contact with your skin, on the palm side of your finger", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Poor signal quality: check your device’s Bluetooth settings to confirm your ring and app are properly connected\n- Low skin temperature: unusually low skin temperature may interfere with readings\n- Excessive movement: make sure you hold still for 10 seconds during your measurement\n- Incorrect ring orientation: make sure your ring's sensors always remain in contact with your skin, on the palm side of your finger", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Live Heart Rate", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Live Heart Rate is not the same as Activity Heart Rate, nor is it intended to be a constant heart rate monitor\n- The green LEDs used to take your Live Heart Rate are designed for accuracy but require a stronger signal quality. Frequent use of Live Heart Rate will consume more battery, so we recommend charging your ring regularly to keep the battery in its optimal range. You can learn more about charging best practices here.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410651298963-Live-Heart-Rate" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Occasionally, you may see gaps in your Nighttime, Daytime, or Activity Heart Rate graphs. See below for troubleshooting tips.\nGaps in Nighttime Heart Rate\nGaps in 24-hour Heart Rate Graph\nGaps in Activity Heart Rate", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in Nighttime Heart Rate", "chunk": "If you spot gaps in your nighttime resting heart rate (RHR) or heart rate variability (HRV) graphs, something may have interfered with your pulse monitoring.\nPossible causes for these gaps are:\n1. Your ring was too loose. Before going to bed, ensure your ring's LED sensors are underneath your finger and your ring fit feels snug. If your ring feels too loose, try wearing it on a different finger", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in Nighttime Heart Rate", "chunk": "2. The LED sensors were dirty. You can wash the sensors and your ring using water and soap. Dry the ring thoroughly with a soft cloth before placing it back on your finger\n3. You were restless during the night. The Oura Ring picks up even the slightest of movements, so tossing and turning may lead to gaps in your overnight data. See how to use Oura's Nighttime Movement feature to keep an eye on restlessness during your nights, as well as find a few tips for restless sleepers", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in Nighttime Heart Rate", "chunk": "4. You slept in a position that caused your hand to go numb (causing partially blocked blood circulation)\n5. Your resting heart rate was exceptionally low (below 33 bpm)\n6. Arrhythmia, or an irregular heartbeat, resulted in incomplete data\nHere’s how gaps might appear in the Oura App:", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in 24-hour Heart Rate Graph", "chunk": "If you notice gaps in the 24-hour heart rate graph, check the following:\n- The ring's sensors may be too far from your skin for a clear signal. Switching fingers may help for a snug fit\n- The sensors may be dirty. A quick rinse could clear it up", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in 24-hour Heart Rate Graph", "chunk": "Please note: If you have a heart condition, low blood pressure, or any other health issue that causes arrhythmia, the Oura App may not be able to show your total resting heart rate (RHR) and heart rate variability (HRV) data, which may cause gaps in your graphs. In some cases, you might not see your heart rate and HRV data at all. For more information, read our article about Oura & Medical Conditions.\nYou can perform a soft reset to help reset the ring's sensors:", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in 24-hour Heart Rate Graph", "chunk": "1. Go to the My Oura Ring page by tapping on the menu in the upper-left corner or the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the home screen\nOn iOS, under Tools, tap Soft Reset\nOn Android, swipe left > under Tools, tap Soft reset\n2. On iOS, under Tools, tap Soft Reset\n3. On Android, swipe left > under Tools, tap Soft reset", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in 24-hour Heart Rate Graph", "chunk": "After checking the sensors and ring fit, and completing the soft reset (if necessary), please wear the ring for 24 hours to see if it correctly collects and syncs your daytime heart rate data. If it doesn't, please contact us for assistance.\nYou can contact our Member Care Team here.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "Activity Heart Rate records heart rate across a selection of exercises, workouts, and other activities. If you see gaps in your Activity Heart Rate graph, check to see if any of the following apply:\n1. Cold skin or cold skin due to cold weather: Cold fingers can cause signal problems. Wearing gloves can help, but it’s important to put the gloves on before going outside\n2. Finger selection: Wearing your ring on your index finger is ideal for good signal quality, and the middle finger is the second best", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Troubleshooting Gaps in Heart Rate Graphs", "section_title": "Gaps in Activity Heart Rate", "chunk": "3. Tightness: A snug fit is most important, regardless of which finger you’re wearing your Oura Ring. You can tell you have a snug fit if the ring resists when you try to rotate it\n4. Ring positioning: In order to get an accurate Activity Heart Rate measure, the sensors should be on the bottom of the finger (on the palm side of your hand)", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025446954" }, { "article_title": "Feature Availability", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Some Oura App features are not currently available in every region. There may be several reasons a feature is not yet available in your country, including international or local laws, or market restrictions in obtaining clearance as a Medical Device.\nReview the list below to see feature availability in your country. Please note that the feature availability is subject to change.\nFertile Window\n- Åland Islands\n- Australia\n- Austria\n- Belgium\n- Canada\n- Denmark\n- Faroe Islands\n- Finland\n- France\n- Germany", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/32273995423251-Feature-Availability" }, { "article_title": "Feature Availability", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "- Greenland\n- Guernsey\n- Ireland\n- Italy\n- Japan\n- Jersey\n- Latvia\n- Luxembourg\n- Malta\n- Monaco\n- New Zealand\n- Norway\n- Poland\n- Spain\n- Sweden\n- Switzerland\n- United Kingdom\n- United States", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/32273995423251-Feature-Availability" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "About This User Manual\nThis user manual is applicable for Fertile Window version 1.1 or greater.", "chunk": "This user manual is available in the following languages: Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish.\nWarning\nPrecautions\nProduct Description\nIndications For Use\nIntended Purpose (EU Region)\nTarget Population And Intended Users\nContraindications\nSide Effects\nUsing The Fertile Window\nSupport\nIncident Reporting\nAccessing The Instructions For Use\nPerformance specifications\nManufacturer\nVersion and date of this manual\nUnique Device Identifier", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "About This User Manual\nThis user manual is applicable for Fertile Window version 1.1 or greater.", "chunk": "Historical Versions", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Warning", "chunk": "Do not use as contraception. The Fertile Window feature has been designed and developed specifically as an aid in conceiving a pregnancy, and not as a tool to help prevent pregnancy. Using the Fertile Window feature counter to its indications can result in pregnancy. Subtle shifts in your data can change your fertility status, and conception is possible outside of your predicted Fertile Window.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Warning", "chunk": "If you are interested in contraception options, see Oura’s website for information about our partnership with Natural Cycles, which offers FDA-cleared digital contraception powered by the Oura Ring.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Precautions", "chunk": "Only limited data are available for cycles that are shorter than 21 days or longer than 35 days. Data are also limited for cycles that vary by more than 7 days in length. This might result in incomplete or inaccurate predictions for users with shorter or longer cycle lengths, or cycles with higher variation in length over time.\nOnly limited data are available for use in cases of diagnosed or clinical infertility. This might result in incomplete or inaccurate predictions for users with these conditions.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Precautions", "chunk": "The following circumstances may affect your physiology, and could result in an inaccurate fertility status: irregular cycles, breastfeeding, irregular sleep, working night shifts, insomnia, use of temperature-affecting medications, use of alcohol, extensive smoking, recreational drug use, sickness, infections, extreme physical or mental stress, and traveling through different time zones.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Product Description", "chunk": "Fertile Window is for Oura Ring users with menstrual cycles. It helps users estimate the days in their cycle when they’re most likely to conceive, so they can plan ahead. Fertile Window also helps users follow and understand their menstrual cycles by providing future predictions and historical data.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Indications For Use", "chunk": "The Fertile Window is intended to interpret physiological parameters as an aid in ovulation prediction to facilitate conception.\nThe Fertile Window is intended for use as a personal fertility monitoring tool. It has been developed to aid individuals in understanding and tracking their fertility patterns to help them plan to conceive a pregnancy.\nThe Fertile Window is not intended for use as contraception.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Intended Purpose (EU Region)", "chunk": "The Fertile Window is intended to interpret physiological parameters as an aid in ovulation prediction to facilitate conception (not to be used for contraception).", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Target Population And Intended Users", "chunk": "The intended user group is adults with menstrual cycles. The Fertile Window is not intended for the pediatric population (<18 years of age).", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Contraindications", "chunk": "- Do not use Fertile Window as contraception. Fertile Window can only be used as an aid in conceiving a pregnancy and cannot be used to prevent pregnancy.\n- The Fertile Window is not intended:\nfor the pediatric population (<18 years of age)\nfor people who don’t have a natural temperature variance in their menstrual cycle due to conditions like fertility treatments, hormonal contraception, hormone replacement therapy, or any drugs, medication, or hormones that impact natural temperature variation", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Contraindications", "chunk": "- for the pediatric population (<18 years of age)\n- for people who don’t have a natural temperature variance in their menstrual cycle due to conditions like fertility treatments, hormonal contraception, hormone replacement therapy, or any drugs, medication, or hormones that impact natural temperature variation", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Side Effects", "chunk": "Fertile Window has no known direct side effects.", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Using The Fertile Window", "chunk": "Fertile Window is available to Oura members with an Oura Ring Generation 3 or later. For region availability, please visit Feature Availability.\nPlease follow these steps to use the Fertile Window software:\n1. Update your Oura App to the latest available version.\n- This will help keep your app safe from cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities. Oura recommends that you set your smartphone to update the Oura App automatically", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Using The Fertile Window", "chunk": "- For iOS, open \"App Store\" from your phone, search for the Oura App and select to update, if an update is available\n- For Android, open \"Play Store\" from your phone, search for the Oura App and select to update, if an update is available\n2. Enter Cycle Insights\n- Upon launching the Oura App, navigate to the Cycle Insights feature\n- From there, scroll to the \"Predictions\" section\n3. Determining Your Fertile Window:", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Using The Fertile Window", "chunk": "- In the Predictions section, you will notice certain days circled in white, indicating your estimated Fertile Window\n- The Fertile Window spans from 5 days before ovulation, to 1 day after ovulation. It represents the days in which you're most likely to conceive during your current cycle", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Using The Fertile Window", "chunk": "- Your Fertile Window estimate is based on physiological data captured by the software, and information you provide about your cycle. Remember to log each day of your period to keep your predictions accurate and up-to-date. If you don’t have a period during a cycle, wait until the end of your luteal phase when your temperature drops, and log a period with “no flow.” The ovulation and Fertile Window cannot be predicted if periods are not logged accurately", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Using The Fertile Window", "chunk": "- In the Predictions section, you will also see one day highlighted in light blue. This indicates today's date\n4. Your Estimated Ovulation Day\n- Within your estimated fertile window, one day will be marked with a solid, white icon of an egg. This is your estimated ovulation day", "chunk_id": 18, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Seeing All Future Predictions In Your Calendar", "chunk": "- The Predictions section will only show one predicted cycle event at a time—either your estimated Fertile Window or your next expected period\n- If you’d like to see all your upcoming predictions at once, tap the blue \"View calendar\" button\n- Once in your Calendar, you can see your estimated Fertile Window, ovulation day, and upcoming period all in the same place", "chunk_id": 19, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Seeing All Future Predictions In Your Calendar", "chunk": "- The days within your estimated Fertile Window will be marked with white circles. Your estimated ovulation day will be marked with a solid white icon of an egg\n- The days circled in red represent the range of days in which your period is estimated to begin\n- The day highlighted in light blue indicates today’s date", "chunk_id": 20, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Your Fertile Window And The Daily Temperature Graph", "chunk": "Before Ovulation Is Detected:\n- Before ovulation is detected, Oura creates estimates for your ovulation day and Fertile Window. Your Fertile Window spans from 5 days before you ovulate to 1 day after\n- Your Daily Temperature graph shows you how your temperature rises and falls each day compared to your baseline throughout your cycle\n- On days when you’re in your Estimated Fertile Window, your “Chance of conception” will be marked as “High,” accompanied by an icon of a meter with a high reading", "chunk_id": 21, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Your Fertile Window And The Daily Temperature Graph", "chunk": "- When you’re outside your estimated Fertile Window, your “Chance of conception” will be marked as “Low,” next to an icon of a meter with a low reading\n- Please note that your estimates can change. Cycle Insights will update to reflect these changes, but your estimates should not be used as a form of birth control.\nAfter Ovulation Is Detected:\n- Oura observes your physiology for at least two days before confirming ovulation, as many factors can cause a rise in basal body temperature", "chunk_id": 22, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Your Fertile Window And The Daily Temperature Graph", "chunk": "- Once ovulation has been detected, your confirmed ovulation day will be marked on the bottom of your temperature graph with a solid white icon of an egg\n- In addition, your “Chance of conception” will be marked as “Ovulation detected.”\n- After ovulation has been detected, your Fertile Window will shift from “estimated” to “confirmed,” and the dates of your Fertile Window will be set for the remainder of your cycle", "chunk_id": 23, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Your Fertile Window And The Daily Temperature Graph", "chunk": "- When you scroll back through previous days in your cycle, your confirmed Fertile Window days will be represented by a dot icon beneath the temperature line on your Daily Temperature graph, and the span of your fertile window will be highlighted with a white background\n- In addition, you will find \"Chance of conception\" marked as \"High\" for these days, next to an icon of a meter with a high reading", "chunk_id": 24, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Your Fertile Window And The Daily Temperature Graph", "chunk": "- After ovulation has been detected, days outside of your Fertile Window will have no accompanying icon on your Daily Temperature graph.\n- In addition, your \"Chance of conception\" will be marked as \"Low,\" next to an icon of a meter with a low reading", "chunk_id": 25, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Support", "chunk": "If you cannot access the Fertile Window feature or if you suspect a malfunction, please follow the steps below:\n- Familiarize yourself with the instructions in this manual\n- Contact the Oura Member Care Team", "chunk_id": 26, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Incident Reporting", "chunk": "Serious incidents involving Fertile Window should be reported both to Oura and to the competent authority in your country. A \"serious incident\" means any incident that directly or indirectly led, might have led or might lead to any of the following:\n- the death of a patient, user or other person\n- the temporary or permanent serious deterioration of a patient's, user's or other person's state of health\n- a serious public health threat", "chunk_id": 27, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Accessing The Instructions For Use", "chunk": "For comprehensive instructions and information about Fertile Window, you can access this manual through the Education View at any time.\nNavigate to the Education View by tapping the icon in the top right corner of the software interface. Then select \"User Manual.\"\nIf you would like a paper copy of the User Manual, Oura will send you one, free of charge. Contact the Oura Member Care team. Paper instructions for use are provided within seven calendar days of receiving the request.", "chunk_id": 28, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Performance specifications", "chunk": "Fertile Window can predict fertile days in a regular cycle with an accuracy of 70% or higher. The software can forecast ovulation up to 6 days in advance, with a Mean Absolute Error of up to 3 days.", "chunk_id": 29, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Symbols", "chunk": "CE Mark\nManufacturer\nRelease date\nUser Manual", "chunk_id": 30, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Medical Device", "chunk": "Unique Device Identifier\nSW version", "chunk_id": 31, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Manufacturer", "chunk": "Oura Health Oy\nElektroniikkatie 10\n90590 Oulu\nFinland", "chunk_id": 32, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Version and date of this manual", "chunk": "FD-LDS2 version 6\n12/2024", "chunk_id": 33, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Fertile Window User Manual", "section_title": "Unique Device Identifier", "chunk": "The Unique Device Identifier (UDI) of Fertile Window is comprised of the UDI-DI (Global Trade Item Number) and the UDI-PI (software version).\nUDI-DI for Fertile Window iOS: (01)06430060159990\nUDI-DI for Fertile Window Android: (01)06430060159983", "chunk_id": 34, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/30561106990227-Fertile-Window-User-Manual" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Pregnancy Insights is part of the growing suite of Women's Health features and allows members to acknowledge pregnancy, track gestational age, learn more about maternal physiology, and provide feedback. The feature is available to active members.\nHow to Use Pregnancy Insights\nHow to Remove Your Data\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Pregnancy Insights", "chunk": "There are two ways to enable Pregnancy Insights:\n- Tap on the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen. Select Settings > Women's Health, and toggle on the feature. Once Pregnancy Insights is turned on, cycle-related sections will be hidden, and you’ll be prompted to onboard\n- Add the \"Positive Pregnancy Test\" tag, which will prompt you to learn more and onboard", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Pregnancy Insights", "chunk": "During the onboarding process, you can read more about privacy and set your estimated due date. If you don’t know your due date yet, you can input your last period date and menstrual cycle length and an estimated due date will be calculated. To enable the feature, you must complete the onboarding slides and set an estimated due date in order for your gestational age to be calculated. You can go back into your settings at any point and change your estimated due date, and this will also recalculate your gestational age.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Pregnancy Insights", "chunk": "Once enabled, you'll see a Pregnancy Insights shortcut and card in your Today tab. The card will show which trimester you're in, your gestational age, and your next milestone.\nTapping on the card or shortcut will take you to the detail view, which will include a weekly message about how the maternal body changes during pregnancy, additional educational information, and an opportunity to provide anonymous feedback about your experience with the feature and what you’d like to see next.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Pregnancy Insights", "chunk": "To turn off Pregnancy Insights:\n- Tap the Settings icon in the upper-right corner of the detail view, then toggle off the feature\n- Tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen. Go to Settings > Women's Health, and toggle off the feature\n- You can also use the tags \"pregnancy loss\" or \"birth\" to automatically turn off Pregnancy Insights\nYou can continue to track your temperature trends through the Body temperature graph.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "How to Remove Your Women's Health Data", "chunk": "Women's Health data may include information about your cycles, such as your latest period start date and cycle length, women's health-related tags (such as positive pregnancy test, ovulation, positive LH test, etc.), period prediction settings, reproductive hormone answers, pregnancy information, and fertile window. Your data is collected, used, and protected in compliance with Oura's Privacy Policy.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "How to Remove Your Women's Health Data", "chunk": "You can remove your data from the app at any time in the Settings menu under Women’s Health. Removing your data will disable all Women's Health features in the Oura App. If you would like to delete from Oura’s servers completely, you can choose Delete account and all data in the Settings menu or through Oura on the Web. See How Oura Protects Your Data.\nRead about our commitment to reproductive health data privacy on The Pulse Blog.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Pregnancy Insights", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Cycle Insights\nNatural Cycles Integration\nOura Privacy Policy\nPregnancy Insights: Track and Learn More About Your Pregnancy With Oura\nOura’s Commitment to Prioritizing Women’s Health", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/25889225853587-Pregnancy-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Cycle Insights highlights which phase of your cycle you're in, allowing you to learn more about how your body changes within each phase.\nWhat is Cycle Insights?\nHow Cycle Insights Works\nHow to Use Cycle Insights\nCycle Phases\nPeriod Prediction\nFertile Window\nHow to Remove Your Women's Health Data from the Oura App\nHow to Turn Off Cycle Insights\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "What Is Cycle Insights?", "chunk": "Cycle Insights allows members to better understand their full cycle by tracking the two main phases, follicular and luteal. Cycle Insights allows members to predict their period and also provides information about how the full cycle impacts the entire body. The feature is available to Gen3 members and newer.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Different hormone levels in each phase contribute to natural temperature fluctuations in the menstrual cycle. Cycle Insights uses these temperature deviations to accurately track, predict, and visualize your monthly cycle. Readiness Score also takes into account natural biometric fluctuations during the menstrual cycle.\nThe feature is designed for individuals who have a menstrual cycle and a natural hormonal cycle.\nCycle Phases", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "The menstrual cycle has two main phases, the follicular phase and the luteal phase. During the follicular phase, which is from the first day of menstruation to ovulation, rising estrogen levels may cause your average body temperature to decrease. During the luteal phase, from ovulation until the next menstruation, rising progesterone levels usually elevate your average body temperature. You'll need at least 60 nights of data in order for the Oura Ring to learn your unique cycle phases.\nPeriod Prediction", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Oura uses your nightly average body temperature, along with other biosignals like HRV, to make your multi-day period prediction window. Your period prediction windows are created from comprehensive data that builds over time, not single intakes. Historically, most period tracking solutions rely on the calendar method, which uses your last period start date and a user-inputted cycle length to predict the start of your next cycle. However, periods can change from cycle to cycle and be impacted by various factors like stress, diet, and illness.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Cycle Stats\nCycle stats show your typical cycle length, cycle variability, and period length. These are each based on the medians of the cycles you've logged over the past six months.\n- Cycle length is defined as the time between the first day of your period and the day before your next period begins. Cycles that last between 21 and 35 days are considered regular.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "- Cycle variability refers to the differences in the length of your cycles over time. Cycle variability of +/- three days or less is considered regular.\n- Period length is defined as the time between your first and last day of menstrual bleeding. Periods that last between two and eight days are considered regular.\nYour cycle stats rely on your period tags for the last six months, so it's important to log your period start date and each day of your period to get the most accurate data.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Many factors can contribute to changes in cycle variability, and a single instance of an irregular cycle variability is typically fine. However, if you're experiencing consistent irregularity in your cycle length, or have questions about your cycle in general, consult with your doctor.\nFertile Window", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Fertile Window will provide you with more information on your chances of getting pregnant throughout your cycle. When using Cycle Insights, you will now have a view of your estimated peak fertility, chance of conception, predicted ovulation day, and when ovulation has been detected.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "The Fertile Window is the time during your cycle when you're most likely to conceive. It spans from five days before ovulation to one day after, making it a total of seven days, including ovulation day. This estimate is based on your physiological data—such as cardiovascular metrics, temperature trends, and respiratory metrics—as well as the cycle information you provide.", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "In some cases, people may have cycles without menstruating. If you don't have a period during a cycle, wait until the end of your luteal phase when your temperature drops, and log a period with \"no flow.\" The ovulation and Fertile Window cannot be predicted if periods are not logged accurately.\nYour Estimated Ovulation Day", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Within your estimated Fertile Window, one day will be highlighted as your estimated ovulation day, marked by a solid white egg icon. This day represents the time when ovulation is most likely to occur.\nTracking Your Fertile Window\nIn the Predictions section of the app, you can see either your Fertile Window (marked with white circles) or your next expected period (marked with red circles). To view all upcoming cycle events, tap View calendar.", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Your Daily Temperature graph shows you how your temperature rises and falls each day compared to your baseline throughout your cycle.\nBefore Ovulation is Detected\nBefore ovulation is detected, Oura creates estimates for your ovulation day and Fertile Window.\n- The Chance of Conception will be shown as \"High\" during this window\n- Outside the Fertile Window, the chance is marked as \"Low\"\n- Your estimates may change as new data is collected, but they should not be used as a form of birth control", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "After Ovulation is Detected\nOvulation is confirmed when Oura observes a consistent rise in your basal body temperature or you tag \"Positive LH Test.\" Once ovulation is detected:\n- Your confirmed ovulation day will be marked with a solid white egg icon on your temperature graph\n- Your Fertile Window will shift from \"estimated\" to \"confirmed,\" with high conception chances marked for those days\n- Days outside the Fertile Window will have no icons, and the Chance of Conception will be shown as \"Low\"", "chunk_id": 14, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How Cycle Insights Works", "chunk": "Because the Fertile Window is a regulated feature, it's available only in countries where the regulatory process is completed. See the Feature Availability list here.\nYou can find the Fertile Window User Manual here.\nFor more information, see What is the Fertile Window? on The Pulse Blog.", "chunk_id": 15, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Cycle Insights", "chunk": "Members new to Cycle Insights will see a home card about the feature and be guided through an onboarding flow, which includes a few questions on your cycle, including when your last period started, how long your cycle typically is, and whether you use hormonal contraceptives or other hormones.", "chunk_id": 16, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Cycle Insights", "chunk": "If you use hormonal contraceptives or hormones, your natural temperature deviation may be impacted. You can still use Cycle Insights, but you will only see period predictions and not cycle phases, related insights, or Fertile Window. You can update your answer to the hormone question at any time in the Settings menu.", "chunk_id": 17, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Cycle Insights", "chunk": "In order to see cycle phases, you must confirm the start date of your period each month by using the \"Log period\" button via the Cycle Insights home card or detailed view, or the + button on the bottom right of the app. If you change the date of your period start, or log it retroactively, your cycle phases will update.", "chunk_id": 18, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Cycle Insights", "chunk": "As you continue to accumulate more temperature data by wearing your Oura Ring 24/7, and confirming or logging the exact start date of your period each month, your predictions will become more accurate.\nUsing any tags (for example, \"Positive LH test\") will not indicate when new cycles begin and, therefore, not display cycle phases.", "chunk_id": 19, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Cycle Insights", "chunk": "You will see Cycle Insights in the Today tab. Tap on the Cycle Insights home card or shortcut to find additional information about your temperature and your cycle history. In the detailed view, you'll be able to see the below data:\n- Average body temperature metric from last night\n- What phase you're currently in (blue for follicular phase and purple for luteal phase)\n- What day of your cycle you're on\n- Educational information related to your current phase\n- Estimated next period start", "chunk_id": 20, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Cycle Insights", "chunk": "- The ability to log every day of your period, as well as your flow levels\n- An option to click to the calendar view\n- Cycle stats such as typical cycle length, cycle variability, and period length\n- Chance of conception\n- Additional resources about the menstrual cycle\n- A shareable report of your last six months of data for cycle length, period length, temperature variation, cycle phases, and symptom tags\nTo delete a period entry:\n- Tap on the Cycle Insights home card to see the detailed view", "chunk_id": 21, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Use Cycle Insights", "chunk": "- Under the temperature graph, you can log or edit your period\n- You can use the Calendar view to edit or delete (logged period dates will be highlighted by a red circle on the calendar)", "chunk_id": 22, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Remove Your Women's Health Data from the Oura App", "chunk": "Women's Health data may include information about your cycles, such as your latest period start date and cycle length, women's health-related tags (such as positive pregnancy test, ovulation, positive LH test, etc.), period prediction settings, reproductive hormone answers, pregnancy information, and fertile window. Your data is collected, used, and protected in compliance with Oura's Privacy Policy.", "chunk_id": 23, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Remove Your Women's Health Data from the Oura App", "chunk": "You can remove your data from the app at any time in the Settings menu under Women’s Health. Removing your data will disable all Women's Health features in the Oura App. If you would like to delete from Oura’s servers completely, you can choose Delete account and all data in the Settings menu or through Oura on the Web. See How Oura Protects Your Data.\nRead about our commitment to reproductive health data privacy on The Pulse Blog.", "chunk_id": 24, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "How to Turn Off Cycle Insights", "chunk": "You can choose to turn on or off the Cycle Insights feature at any point in time. Tap the menu icon in the upper-left corner of your home screen > Select Settings > Women's Health.\nYou can use the toggle to turn off the entire Cycle Insights feature. Turning off Cycle Insights will pause period predictions and hide all cycle-related data.", "chunk_id": 25, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Wear your ring on a consistent, 24/7 basis, and sync it to the app regularly, to help build a robust temperature data profile\n- You need 60 nights of temperature data to display cycle phases. Without 60 days of data, you will only see your period prediction based on the calendar method\n- The calendar view in the Oura App will only show logged period dates, period prediction windows, and Fertile Window. It currently will not show cycle phase data", "chunk_id": 26, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- If you're currently taking a hormonal contraceptive or are pregnant, because your body's natural temperature variation is impacted as a result, Cycle Insights may not be able to accurately assess the timing of your period (if you still menstruate under these circumstances) or show your cycle phases. This is because regardless of the hormonal contraceptive being used, your cyclical variations, overall cycle length, and bleeding tendencies are all likely to deviate from your body's natural patterns", "chunk_id": 27, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Using the tag \"positive pregnancy test\" will automatically disable both Cycle Insights and period predictions. You can go into your Settings at any time and reenable the feature\n- Medical factors such as infertility and fertility treatments, endometriosis, pregnancy, breastfeeding, overtraining, weight loss, stress, etc. can also have an impact on the key biosignals. If any of these apply to you, this may impact Oura's ability to accurately and consistently predict your period and cycle phases each month", "chunk_id": 28, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Only one period can be logged per calendar month, and data integrations from other period-tracking apps such as Apple Health or Clue are not currently available", "chunk_id": 29, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Fertile Window is intended to help women who are trying to conceive understand their cycle better and see their ovulation predictions, detection, and chance of conception. Fertile Window is complementary to our partnership with Natural Cycles. Natural Cycles is FDA-cleared as a Class II medical device, which means that it can be used as a reliable birth control method in the US, and has a conception mode to aid in trying to conceive. We encourage our members to select the feature set that is right for them based on their goals and preferred user experience. See our How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura for more information", "chunk_id": 30, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "Cycle Insights", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "What is the Fertile Window?\nNew to Oura: Cycle Insights\nNatural Cycles Integration\nNatural Cycles Powered by Oura\nOura Privacy Policy\nHow Your Menstrual Cycle Impacts Your Entire Body\nHow Oura Can Help You Manage Perimenopause", "chunk_id": 31, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410663885331-Cycle-Insights" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "You can use your Oura Ring with Natural Cycles (NC°), the first FDA-cleared birth control app. Oura Ring members can sync their temperature trend data collected overnight into the Natural Cycles app each morning, which will then be analyzed using Natural Cycle's algorithm to calculate daily fertility status.\nSetting Up Natural Cycles\nData Synced with Natural Cycles\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Natural Cycles", "chunk": "The integration is available to active members and Gen2 users. You must have a Natural Cycles subscription to use this integration, and Oura members get access to an exclusive Natural Cycles discount here.\nThere are no changes in the Oura App. The Natural Cycles app is available on iOS or Android.\nOura members need to use their Oura account email address when pairing their Oura Ring to the Natural Cycles app.\n- Open the Natural Cycles app", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Setting Up Natural Cycles", "chunk": "- Tap the top menu > Settings > My device, and follow the in-app instructions to connect your Oura Account\n- Wear your Oura Ring to bed\n- In the morning, your temperature trend data from Oura will be synced with the Natural Cycles app once you open the Oura App\nFor additional questions, please check out the resources on the Natural Cycles website or contact Natural Cycles Support through their help center.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Natural Cycles", "chunk": "Temperature trend data collected overnight from the Oura Ring will be synced to the NC° app every day to help calculate your fertility status within the Natural Cycles app. The temperature sensors in the Oura Ring generate 1,440 data points each day, and are validated to measure temperature changes as precisely as 0.13°C (0.23°F).", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Natural Cycles", "chunk": "If you're a current Oura member but a new Natural Cycles user, only the temperatures recorded after the earliest period you entered in the NC° app will be used by the Natural Cycles algorithm. Note that this only applies if you indicated during setup that you haven't recently used hormonal birth control or been pregnant.\nThe NC° app doesn't receive any period data from your Oura App, so you always have to log your period directly in the NC° app. Natural Cycles also syncs with Apple Health.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "Data Synced with Natural Cycles", "chunk": "See How Oura Protects Your Data in this article, and for more information about the Natural Cycles integration, see the FAQs here.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827" }, { "article_title": "How to Use Natural Cycles with Oura", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "About Oura and Natural Cycles\nNatural Cycles FAQs\nData Privacy\nReproductive Health\nBody Temperature", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/10785345623827" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "The Explore content within the Oura App is a growing multimedia catalog of resources for members. It includes guided meditation sessions, educational videos, and health and wellness advice from Oura's leading experts. You can browse over 50 guided audio sessions from Oura's own world-class instructors and leading partners, including Headspace, Doze, Oak, Aura, Frequency, Yogaia, and more.\nHow to Use Explore Content\nMeditate and Breathe\nSleep\nLearn\nThings to Keep in Mind", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "How to Use Explore Content", "chunk": "Active members can access the Explore content from the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen.\nGen2 users and inactive members can use the Explore tab in the bottom-right of the Oura App.\n1. Choose a recently played session, or view your full session history, by selecting Recent sessions\nOR\n2. Choose from the full library, divided into four categories (Meditate, Breathe, Sleep, Learn)\n3. Select See all on any category to find all available content for that section", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "How to Use Explore Content", "chunk": "4. Tap on any selection to start your session or video\nSessions with the icon offer post-session biofeedback, such as heart rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate (RHR), and skin temperature variation.\nMeditate and Breathe", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "How to Use Explore Content", "chunk": "Meditate and Breathe sessions can be used with background soundscapes. All guided meditation and breathwork sessions have a set length, which can be ended early. If your selection offers post-session feedback, you’ll need to remain still for at least five minutes to receive results. If you move too much during your session, Oura won’t be able to accurately collect your body signals. Your ring and app must also be connected throughout the session duration (Airplane Mode must be disabled).", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "How to Use Explore Content", "chunk": "If you’re taking an unguided session, you can manually choose any desired length from 1-180 minutes, or choose to do an open-ended session with no time limit. You can start an unguided session by hitting the + button on the home screen or directly from the Meditate library.\nSleep\nThis category contains a variety of meditations and stories to prepare yourself for sleep, which can each be used with background soundscapes. Soundscape and spoken word volumes can be adjusted independently.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "How to Use Explore Content", "chunk": "Once you start your story or meditation, you can:\n- Pause at any time\n- Scrub back and forth through audio using the slider bar\n- Skip back and ahead by 15-second intervals\n- Control all playback from your device’s lock screen and outside your Oura App. Be sure to not force quit the Oura App while your session is playing\nNote: Sleep story content is only available in English at this time.\nLearn", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "How to Use Explore Content", "chunk": "Science-backed education and guidance, with an evidence-based approach to learning about sleep, recovery, and your body. We’ll share quick tips and advice with you along the way to help you understand your data. The end of each video or slideshow includes related resources so you can keep learning more. Video sessions include closed captioning.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Meditate and Breathe content will offer post-session feedback, which can include heart rate variability (HRV), resting heart rate (RHR), and skin temperature variation, depending on the session\n- Your ring and app must be connected during your meditation or breathwork session to receive feedback afterward (Airplane Mode must be disabled)\n- Sleep and Learn content does not currently feature post-session feedback", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Explore Content", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Completed meditation and breathwork sessions are automatically tagged and visible in your Trends view\n- Using Explore content may drain your ring's battery faster than normal. Check out the Charging Your Ring & Best Practices article for quick tips on when to charge your ring for optimal daily battery performance.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410672624019-Explore-Content" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Unguided sessions are part of Oura's suite of mindfulness and meditation features. An ever-growing library of guided meditation programs, sleep stories, and other multimedia can be accessed through the Explore content.\nHow Unguided Sessions Work\nHow to Use Unguided Sessions\nThings to Keep in Mind", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "How Unguided Sessions Work", "chunk": "Unguided sessions provide a timer and an optional soundscape for use during your meditation practice. When you start an unguided session, all of the sensors in your Oura Ring activate on a continuous cycle. This provides biofeedback insights at the end of each session so that you can see the benefits of your mindfulness routine.\n- 1-2 minute sessions will show your lowest resting heart rate (RHR)\n- 3-5 minute sessions will display your lowest RHR and your average heart rate variability (HRV)", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "How Unguided Sessions Work", "chunk": "- 5+ minute sessions will show RHR, HRV, and skin temperature trends\nLower RHR values, higher HRV, and slightly increased skin temperature variation are generally indicators of positive effects on your body. Increased skin temperature variation may be a sign of relaxation response activation: as your heart rate lowers and your blood vessels open up as a result, more blood circulates through your skin, leading to a slight increase in average body temperature.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "How Unguided Sessions Work", "chunk": "Unguided sessions can be useful in managing stress and anxiety, relaxing before bed, and releasing body tension.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "How to Use Unguided Sessions", "chunk": "To use an Unguided Session:\n1. Tap the + in the lower-right corner of the Oura App's home screen.\n2. Select Unguided session\n1. Select your desired session time. Open-ended sessions will run until you manually stop them, up to a maximum of 180 minutes\n1. Unguided sessions come without voice instruction, but you can select an optional soundscape, adjust volume, and toggle the session end chime on or off\n1. Select Start", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "How to Use Unguided Sessions", "chunk": "2. You can end timed sessions at any point by selecting End early. Open-ended sessions can be stopped by selecting End session\n3. Select an answer to the \"How do you feel?\" questionnaire\n4. View session results. You can send this data to Apple Health or Health Connect by Android if you've enabled sharing with third-party apps\n5. Previous sessions can be viewed from the app's Home screen under \"Timeline\"\n6. Sessions can be deleted by selecting Delete session at the bottom of a \"Session details\" card", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Try to remain still during unguided sessions. Excess movement can interfere with the ring sensors' ability to take accurate measurements and may result in incomplete data.\n- You may need to charge your ring more frequently because unguided sessions use all of your ring's sensors continuously. Read more about ring battery tips.\n- Your ring and app do not need to be connected during a session. To see your post-session data, simply sync your ring and app upon completion.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Unguided Sessions", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "You can use a separate audio app while taking an unguided session. Simply start a session without a soundscape, then launch an audio app of your choice. Make sure you do not force quit your Oura App, or your session will not be recorded.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360025584753-Unguided-Sessions" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Restorative time is the amount of time your body has spent in a calm and restored state.\nRestorative Time is not available on Oura Ring Gen2 or older.\nWhat is Restorative Time?\nHow Restorative Time Works\nHow to Use Restorative Time\nGet the Most Out of It\nThings to Keep in Mind\nMore Information", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "What is Restorative Time?", "chunk": "Restorative Time represents periods during the day when your body and mind are recharging. Health is all about balance, and part of benefiting from an active life is making time for recovery, too. With the help of your readiness data and insights, Oura notifies you when your body might be experiencing additional stress. By staying mindful of your Restorative Time, you can see whether you're giving your body the rest it needs to recover.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "How Restorative Time Works", "chunk": "Restorative Time is recorded when your ring detects that your heart rate variability (HRV) is up. In general, higher HRV is associated with rest-and-digest, general fitness, and good recovery.", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "How to Use Restorative Time", "chunk": "From the home screen, you can tap on the 24-hour heart rate graph to view it in detail.\nTap on Restorative Time to see when, how often, and how much you've experienced moments of relaxation throughout your day. Your Restorative Time is highlighted in green on your main graph and timeline.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "How to Use Restorative Time", "chunk": "The timeline view under the graph covers your day from the moment you wake up until midnight. Each green dot represents 15 minutes of Restorative Time, while larger clusters of green indicate longer, continuous periods of rest. These green dots and segments on your timeline correspond with the vertical green bars in your main heart rate graph, making it easy to see when your body has entered a relaxed state.", "chunk_id": 5, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "How to Use Restorative Time", "chunk": "Pay attention to when and where your clusters of Restorative Time appear, and how they’re spread out across your day. This can help you reflect on when you’ve allowed your body and mind to unwind and think back to the activities or moments that may have contributed to those restorative periods.", "chunk_id": 6, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "How to Use Restorative Time", "chunk": "You'll also find Restorative Time highlighted in the Restored zone of your Daytime Stress graph. This zone reflects moments when your body is shifting away from stress and into recovery. Tap on the Restored box, and you can view your daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly trends.\nIdeally, you'll get Restorative Time throughout the day. If you only experience calm near bedtime or early in the morning, you may not be optimally supporting your ability to recover, learn, and perform.", "chunk_id": 7, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "How to Get the Most Out of Restorative Time", "chunk": "Restorative Time can help you manage stress and support recovery. By regularly checking your heart rate graph, you can see if you're getting enough Restorative Time throughout the day or if you need to prioritize more moments of rest. At the end of each day, you can also reflect on whether you had enough moments of relaxation distributed across your waking hours.", "chunk_id": 8, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "How to Get the Most Out of Restorative Time", "chunk": "Everyone's needs for Restorative Time are different. Your ideal amount of rest will depend on your lifestyle and daily routines. Over time, you'll learn what works best for you, helping you find a balance that supports both your physical and mental well-being.\nTry to take short breaks between your daily activities. Sit down for a cup of tea, read, or catch up with a friend or family member—anything you find relaxing or rewarding.", "chunk_id": 9, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- It takes approximately 30 days for Oura to calibrate to your 24-hour heart rate averages and overnight temperature deviation to start receiving fully accurate measurements. You'll still see your Restorative Time during this calibration period\n- Any completed meditation and breathwork sessions from Explore will be incorporated into your total Restorative Time\n- Unconfirmed and confirmed naps are not considered Restorative Time, nor incorporated into your total", "chunk_id": 10, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- If you previously used an Oura Ring Gen2, you may recall seeing Restful periods reflected beneath your daily activities. Restful periods are not the same as Restorative Time. Restorative Time takes a more holistic and refined look at your daily rest and recovery, though the general approach to tracking Restful periods is still taken into consideration\n- Restorative Time is not the same as Recovery time or Recovery index, which are both contributors to your Activity and Readiness Scores", "chunk_id": 11, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "Things to Keep in Mind", "chunk": "- Turning on Rest Mode does not impact the amount of Restorative Time shown in your data", "chunk_id": 12, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restorative Time", "section_title": "More Information", "chunk": "Heart Rate Graph\nHeart Rate Variability\nHow To Increase Your HRV (Heart Rate Variability)\nExplore Content", "chunk_id": 13, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410641295763-Restorative-Time" }, { "article_title": "Restful Periods", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "This feature only applies to the Oura Ring Generation 2. It has been replaced by Restorative Time for newer generation rings.\nRestful Periods include naps, meditation, and breathing exercises, among other activities. Whenever Oura senses that you're resting, it logs a restful period. Restful Periods can even include lying on the sofa, watching TV, or reading a book.", "chunk_id": 1, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045501254-Restful-Periods" }, { "article_title": "Restful Periods", "section_title": "Introduction", "chunk": "Restful Periods can be a major complement to your overall recovery and allow your body to repair and recover during the day. Because Oura only tracks one sleep period during each 24-hour segment, Restful Periods are meant to serve as an opportunity to give yourself added time to unwind.", "chunk_id": 2, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045501254-Restful-Periods" }, { "article_title": "Restful Periods", "section_title": "Restful Periods in the Oura App", "chunk": "Oura uses several measurements, including decreased movement and average body temperature, to detect Restful Periods. Restful Periods aren't taken into account when your Readiness Score is calculated.\nRest reports include your lowest resting heart rate (RHR), along with your average heart rate variability (HRV), otherwise known as the two key pillars of recovery. Here is how you should expect to see your Restful Periods on the Oura App home screen:", "chunk_id": 3, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045501254-Restful-Periods" }, { "article_title": "Restful Periods", "section_title": "Restful Periods in the Oura App", "chunk": "Noticing RHR and HRV scores in your rest reports that resemble those captured during your sleep are positive signals that your Restful Periods are serving you well. Naps and other forms of rest throughout the day can help you relax, reduce fatigue, and increase your alertness. However, be wary of taking naps in the afternoon past 3:00 pm, as these can interrupt or delay your sleep.", "chunk_id": 4, "link": "https://support.ouraring.com/hc/en-us/articles/360045501254-Restful-Periods" } ]