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Title: Oura's smart ring gets better at tracking your activities

Date: Wed, 21 May 2025 13:00:12 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/wearables/ouras-smar...

Oura has rolled out activity updates to its smart ring, including a new trend
view for active minutes so that users can get a better look at how active
they are for the day, the week or even the whole month. They'll also be able
to add their max heart rate to the activity setting, and Oura will adjust
heart rate zones accordingly. Oura now allows users to add or edit activities
for the past seven days manually, instead of just for that particular day,
and it now displays heart rate data from activities imported from partner
integrations via Apple HealthKit and Health Connect by Android. Its Automatic
Activity Detection feature has also been updated to work all hours to track
movements, even for activities between midnight and 4AM.

In addition to those new features, Oura has upgraded its system to be able to
count steps more accurately. The company uses an advanced machine-learning
model to determine whether a movement is an actual step, and it says the
technology slashes average daily step count error by 61 percent. It has
upgraded its Active Calorie burn feature to be more accurate by taking heart
rate into account during exercise, as well. Oura can now also use your
phone's GPS data to show your runs and walks in more detail within its app.
All these updates are now available on iOS, but the new fitness metrics and
new trend view for active minutes won't be out on Android until June. We've
also pinged Oura to clarify which models are getting the updates.

Aside from announcing its upgraded features, Oura has revealed its new
partnerships with third-party entities. Users can now link their smart ring
with CorePower Yoga so that they can track their yoga activities, Sculpt
Society, Technogym and Open, which uses a person's biometrics to create
personalized recovery rituals for them.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/wearables/ouras-smar...
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