Apple Health Integration – Oura Help

Oura offers the ability to sync your data with a number of third-party apps. Apple Health integration is available for:

Gen2
Gen3 or later with active membership
iOS only

Setting Up Apple Health
Data Synced with Apple Health
Prioritize Oura for Steps
App Integration Troubleshooting
More Information

Setting Up Apple Health

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.

In the Oura App

Tap the menu in the upper-left corner of the Oura App's home screen
Tap Settings
Under "Data sharing," tap Apple Health
Enable the following parameters
- Connect to Health
- Save Mindful Minutes to Health
Sharing settings can be adjusted by going to your phone's Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Oura

On Your iPhone

Once your Oura App is connected to Apple Health, you can adjust what data is shared between them at any time:

Open Apple Health
Tap your profile picture in the upper-right corner of the Apple Health app
Under "Privacy," select Apps
Select Oura
Select which categories you'd like to share between Oura and Apple Health

Data Synced with Apple Health

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:

Exported from Oura to Apple Health

Active Energy: activity burn calories, excluding your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR)
Heart Rate: in one-minute intervals
Height
Mindful Minutes
Respiratory Rate: average nighttime respiratory rate
Sleep
- Sleep Duration
- Start Time
- End Time
- Sleep Stages
Steps
Weight
Workouts: manually added, recorded through Activity Heart Rate, or added with Automatic Activity Detection
Workout Active Calories
Workout Distance
Workout Duration (Start time and End time)
Workout Type

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.

Imported from Apple Health to Oura

Date of Birth
Heart Rate
Height
Sex
Weight
Workout Routes
Workouts
- Workout Calories
- Workout Distance
- Workout Duration (Start time and End time)
- Workout Type

Your sleep stages and heart rate graphs may appear differently in the Oura App compared to Apple Health. Apple may apply slight rounding or display data graphs using different time intervals, which can result in variations between the two views.

You can find more information about Oura & Apple Health on our blog.

Prioritize Oura for Steps

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.

Open the Health app on your iPhone
Select the Browse tab in the bottom right corner
Select Activity
Select Steps
Scroll to the bottom and select Data Sources & Access
Select Edit in the upper right corner
Under Data Sources, press and hold the icon next to Oura
Drag Oura to the top of the list

If 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.

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.

App Integration Troubleshooting

If you are having trouble syncing data between Oura and a third-party app, please try the following troubleshooting steps.

Reset Integration

Please make sure your phone is on the latest version of its operating system, and follow these steps:

Open the Oura App
Tap the menu in the upper-left corner
Tap Settings
Scroll down to "Data Sharing" and select the appropriate app integration
Turn all the settings switches off and then turn them back on

As a final step, turn your device off and on again before trying to import another activity through the integration.

Reinstall Oura App

To backup and reinstall the Oura App:

Open the Oura App
Select the menu in the upper-left corner
Tap Settings
Scroll down to "Account"
Select "Back up all data"
When the backup is finished, uninstall and reinstall the Oura App

Other Troubleshooting

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.
The Oura App might not import data from integrations if both apps were not opened before midnight, if "Background App Refresh" is disabled on your phone, or if "Lower Power Mode" is enabled. Open both Oura and the integrated app at least once a day to prevent this.
If you have trouble syncing your activity data, verify that "Date Added" matches the date on which the activity occurred. If the imported activity includes calorie data, try editing the calorie info through the app used to track your activity.
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.

If you still require assistance after trying these troubleshooting steps, please contact us.