Estimating sleep latency and total sleep time relies on interpreting physiological signals that can vary night to night. The Oura Ring looks at movement, heart rate, and average body temperature to determine when sleep begins. If you're lying very still but still awake, those signals can resemble sleep, leading to earlier detection. On the other hand, if there's excess movement or an elevated heart rate — especially early in the night — the ring may interpret that as wakefulness, even if you were asleep.
Because of this, your sleep latency, bedtime, or total sleep time might occasionally appear different from what you experienced.
You can manually adjust your bedtime or wake-up times if you feel they're inaccurate.
Please 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.
Edit Bedtime and Wake-Up Time
To edit your bedtime or wake-up times, follow the steps below.
- Go to the Sleep detail view and tap the adjust
icon
- Drag the sliders to adjust your bedtime or wake-up time. When finished, tap Done
Things to Keep in Mind
- 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
- Adjusting your sleep timing will affect your Sleep and Readiness insights for that day
- Editing bedtime, or shortening your awake time, can affect your recorded average body temperature, as it tends to be higher while awake
- Sleep data older than three days can no longer be edited
- 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
