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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
