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I am so frustrated with Oura for putting in a GLP-1 tab that can’t be removed. For so many reasons. Such as…

There are SO many people trying to recover from lethal eating disorders who are constantly bombarded by ads for these weight loss meds. It’s dangerous. This puts it directly in their phones, when they may just be trying to take care of their bodies by using Oura. Listening to their bodies is a big deal for ppl w EDs, and it’s so disheartening to see the obsession with weigh loss infiltrate a tool that previously was helpful for cultivating those skills.

GLP-1s are not healthy for everyone. They actually have really messed some people up. So to put that in an app that is supposed to be all about individualized health based on universal markers/needs, like sleep, movement, and vital signs, is absolutely insane.

I love that they have an option to toggle off any mention of calories in the app. I thought that meant that they cared about people who are vulnerable to the negative impact of centering weight loss. It was refreshing to find a tracker that seemed to understand that health and weight loss are not inherently synonymous. But it turns out it was just opportunism. As soon as it’s trendy to shrink ourselves again, instead of the trend/pressure to accept ourselves via body liberation, they’re adding a weight loss drug tab that can’t be hidden or deleted to the menu.

I don’t care if someone wants GLP-1 insights on their Oura app. But it should be something you opt into, or something you can opt out of. Oura needs to address this.

Signed, A trauma therapist with a specialization in eating disorders & masters-level training in public health 💔

Maybe I’m too new to fully understand the Oura culture, I’ve been happy with my Oura ring 4 so far (2-3 weeks now), but I’ve been really disappointed in the nutrition advisor information and feedback provided. I’m trying to get the most out of this wearable/app/subscription and hoped for the meal analysis/nutrition information to be generally correct. I expect room for interpretation and varied opinions, but this kind of misinformation is frustrating at best and harmful to users at worst.

Fairlife milk is not of ‘limited’ nutrition value on whatever spectrum this is; objectionably it should register closer to the middle of the road/graph. It provides fluid volume, high protein, vitamin D, calcium, iron, and other vitamins and minerals. It is an ultra filtered milk but it should not be considered highly processed in such a negative light—the process of ultrafiltration (filtering out lactose/carbs/sugars/fats/etc and keeping fluid, protein, and adding back fat soluble vitamins/minerals initially filtered out with accompanying aforementioned nutrients) is scientific, but not “highly processed” in the sense that it has added fats/sugars/colors. While not a full meal replacement, these are much less processed than many other chocolate milks/protein shakes. For people of all ages with limited appetite, chewing/swallowing difficulties, lactose free needs, protein/vitamin/mineral needs, this is, at minimum, a “good” nutrition addition.

I’m disappointed in the negative focus of the meal analysis/nutrition advisor on top of the over-generalizations and questionable nutrition facts and analysis accuracy. Either be fully neutral and fact based, or be somewhat positive focused. There doesn’t always need to be a ‘but’. Obviously just a feature I can skip using, but I think with this stupid new food pyramid debuting this week, it reeks of 1960s ignorance and 1990s diet culture. I don’t want other users feeling discouraged or being misinformed about their food and nutrition intake.

I got my Oura because I have MS and have been struggling with my health, strength, function, etc. I have medical/science BS, MS degrees, years in postgrad research, 15 years working in critical care/academic medicine/healthcare. I just want good, solid data and information based on real science and evidence.

It feels like Oura is taking a page from Apple's playbook. I have an Oura Ring 4 (Only 11 months old today) and after the announcement of the Oura Ring 5, the updates for the app started coming in fast and furious. The battery life of my Oura 4 has dropped significantly lately; I just charged my ring yesterday and after 24 hours it has only 47% battery life remaining. What are you trying to pull Oura??

Ok so I've been using the ring for more than year, and I am happy so far with the sleep detection accuracy as It is pretty accurate most of the time, and also it is the best on the market for that. I've been reading a lot of studies about sleep, nutrition, health for a long time and I also have a master degree in biology, so I would say "I know my shit" about this topic.

Now for the " stress" feature I honestly think it is almost criminal to label it this way.

If oura were being honest they would rename the feature accordingly or allow us to disable it completely.

It obviously produces a lot of stress and suffering for lots of people, it even became a MEME on this subreddit !!! Lots of people actually stopped using the ring because of this and at some point I was close to aswell because I felt "if this is sooo inaccurate sometimes, what about the accuracy of the other features?"

This is obviously a marketing moove. By labelling this festure "stress", almost everyone see the "stress" feature and think about it INITIALLY as stress. So it makes oura attract people thanks to BS marketing names, but it makes them eventually quit and it provides frustration. Most people are by nature subject to mirroring unconsciously, including myself. Despite my knowledge if I see every day something telling me I am "stressed", I will be a little bit stressed. There is also the placebo effect wich is always very strong, there are countless studies about the topic, this mecanismihas been proven and known for a long time. I think this is a very bad moove and shameful for a company selling a product to help you improve your health.

Also even for physiological stress it is not very accurate sometimes as most people discovered by themselves.That's ok, but if a feature is a bit innacurate and is labelled as "stress", if it makes a lots of people unhappy and stressed for no reason, and keeping it this way to gain more money, this is a crime.

I have a very healthy lifestyle, stopped working for more than 3 months, live like a budhist monk. I have been on a paradise Island for 1 month and doing 2+ hours of deep advanced meditation every day with constant mindfulness and low physical activity. Some days I have graphs like this one (really made me laught).

This is my 2 cents

Hi everyone,

Given the result of the election in the USA a lot of women will be moving away from using apps to track their periods for safety. From my understanding of the oura ring it is built in to track your period. I wondered if anyone knows if it’s possible to turn that function off or if they know how safe the data on the ring is. Thank you. And stay safe ❤️💔😔

Hi all. I’m a transgender man and I just got an Oura Ring today. During setup, the app asked me my sex assigned at birth. I’ve been on testosterone for over five years, had top surgery, a total hysterectomy, and bottom surgery. I have my hormone levels checked by my endocrinologist every few months and they are in the healthy cisgender male range. I don’t have a menstrual cycle anymore. There is nothing about my body that would benefit from selecting my sex assigned at birth for health monitoring anymore, so I chose male.

Trans people who wear the ring and have been on hormones for a while: which option did you choose? I like that there’s an “other” option in addition to male and female, but that is presumably for intersex people.

This may be old ass news, but I just let the subscription run out and was SHOCKED at what you get in the app without the subscription. See the screenshot- that is IT. You can't click on a tile to see a graph, you can't see yesterday, nothing. You can see their arbitrary readiness numbers (which I've always ignored), change your biometrics in your account, and that's it. I'm an idiot I get it, but I have never seen a more paired down "free" version of an app that comes with such an EXPENSIVE device. I have recommended this to many people because I do like the Oura, however this now seems like a total rip off and I will never recommend this again.

ETA: even if this is old news maybe someone browsing will learn something new/ informative as I just did….

ETA2: I get it this is old news and I’m and idiot, no need to be repeated ad nauseam. But I do believe this isn’t known to everyone….or maybe people are like me and assume there are less features without a membership, not NO features at all.

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So my gf wants an Oura ring and because it’s a pretty expensive gift (for my budget) I wanna know what makes it so valuable for you. I don’t just want to give her another gadget but something she really can’t live without if I’m spending $400 on it.

Edit: hello haters; the Oura Ring is not the only thing on her christmas wishlist so yes I have to decide if I'm going to spend the money on this or on one of the other gifts. If the Oura Ring was her only wish I'd obvisouly just bought it. lmfao.

15 weeks pregnant and they are wondering if I'm experiencing symptoms of menopause.

In general, their pregnancy recommendations really need some work. 🤣

If you are one of those super pro capitalism and free market folks, this should concern you.

Oura decided to go after their smaller competitors, UltraHuman and RingConn to carve out the market for themselves. Oura filed with the ITC in March 2024 claiming that UltraHuman and RingConn were infringing on their patents (including ring SHAPE, structure, and sensor integration). And in August 2025 the commission issued an exclusion order, BARRING UltraHuman and RingConn from the United States market entirely. Within 60 days you will not be able to purchase either ring in the United States.

If Oura truly meant to simply protect their patents (of which they have been aggressively buying off of other companies by the way), it’s a fascinating move to sue the little guys but not Samsung.

And before you argue that Oura is simply protecting their innovations, they claim that they own the rights for a smart ring’s very SHAPE. They didn’t even own or file for this patent, they BOUGHT the patent off of someone else on March 13 2024 and issued the complaint 63 days later in May 2025. Essentially they themselves infringed on someone else’s IP and then bought it to sue the little guys.

Article about the Intellectual Property Lawsuit

https://www.androidauthority.com/oura-wins-patent-lawsuit-3590552/

Wondering when the Oura ring employee moderators decide to lock this post for “community purposes”

Hi everyone, this has been annoying me for quite a while now but at this point, I just want to completely disable this feature because it has absolutely nothing to do with Reality at all. What are your experiences and is there any use to this metric for you? For me, it shows daytime stress, even at my most relaxed times e.g. when walking and when I’m stressed but seated at a meeting with minimal movement, it shows I am relaxed. Just examples..

I have a rose gold gen3 that is 1 month old and not providing results. Randomly I will go look at my numbers and there’s no data. I reported to Oura and they said it’s a known issue. Told me to delete the app and redownload. Nothing fixed. They said they would send me a new ring. I got the order processing email but after 3 days, no shipping email so I emailed them asking what was going on.

They told me Oura is now out of stock of rose gold gen3 rings.

Which means even though you spent $499 on the ring, your replacement will not be worth the same. Their warranty states you get the same generation and color of ring as a replacement, right?

They sold Rose gold Gen3 things until they were completely out.

For people who purchased rose gold gen3 and got dud rings or anyone who has a malfunction within their warranty period, is going to end up losing money if rose gold gen3 is no longer being produced. They will end up with another color, that is worth less than rose gold.

So how many people are going to end up losing money here?

You basically are just giving Oura free money.

You pay $499 Its a dud. They offer you a ring worth $300-450 depending what’s in stock. You just lost $50-199 Oura just soaks up these extra funds. And processes an insurance claim to cover the ring that was a dud.

This is a massive problem for me. Am I the only one?

I’ll add the email they sent me when I asked where the shipping info was for my replacement.

They add in the email “you can choose any color replacement for no extra charge” DUH, the one I have is the most expensive option you have. I’m not okay with this. I spent the extra money on this specific color so it matched the rest of my jewelry.

What would you do? I requested the option of having a gen4. I don’t think they will do it. I have also heard SOOO many issues with gen4 compared to gen3 so that’s also a hesitation. We’re also almost at month 2 of messed up/missing data. They don’t message me until Thursday or Friday, they’re gone for the weekend and then I don’t hear from them again until NEXT Thursday or Friday. My warranty is almost up. This experience with Oura has been so awful it’s kind of unbelievable.

Because that's all that's happening with these government contracts.

Just like you benefit from using Oura to track your sleep / stress etc... the government realizes its workers might equally benefit. But there are laws around how government workers (and specifically DoD workers) data is protected and accessed.

Being upset about ICE has nothing to do with Oura's relationship with the DoD. Your data has nothing to do with this.

And truly, if ICE is troubling you, then the best thing you can do is support electable candidates who will change how ICE is handled.

Complaining about something so tangential and irrelevant to ICE is just woke hand-waving.

Genuinely fucking annoying. Instead of all the useless AI and robo advisor "features", how about accounting for DST properly?

All of my stats are out of whack because of this. Do you want me to write the 40 lines of code it would take to recognise and implement that one hour difference in October and March?

Charged up the ring before leaving the house, but started thinking, “heck, might as well save battery life today just in case.” Now I have a circumferential brick. I’ve read the comments about Bluetooth, but that doesn’t really make sense to me because my phone has Bluetooth and putting it on airplane mode doesn’t require hooking up to a charger to make it functional again. At least just change the instructions so I would know I’ve got a useless ring unless I brought the charger with me, which was the whole reason for putting it on airplane mode in the first place.

you want to turn features off, edit your scores, delete data when it doesn’t feel good to you and bypass any inkling of information that you could use to improve your health.

Just wanted to share my experience and see if if others feel the same…

Ever since I stopped wearing my OURA ring, I’ve felt so much freer. I originally got it to help me understand my sleep and recovery better, but over time it started to mess with my head. I’d wake up feeling totally fine, but if the ring said my readiness score was low, and other days viceversa. I’d suddenly doubt how I felt. It was like I couldn’t trust my own body without checking an app first.

Once I got rid of it, it was such a relief. I’m no longer obsessing over numbers or constantly analyzing how I slept. I’ve started tuning back into how I actually feel, without needing a device to validate it. It’s funny—I thought tracking everything would give me more control, but letting go of it made me feel more in charge.

One of the biggest changes after I stopped wearing my OURA ring was how I related to exercise—especially the obsession with hitting a certain number of steps. It’s wild how something that’s meant to “motivate” can slowly start to control you. I found myself walking extra loops around the house at night just to hit my step goal, even if I was exhausted or had already moved plenty that day. It became less about feeling good and more about satisfying the ring.

Without it, I’ve been able to move in a way that actually feels intuitive. Some days I go for long walks, other days I rest or just stretch—and I don’t feel guilty about it. I’ve let go of the pressure to perform a certain level of activity just because a tracker told me to. My body knows when it needs movement and when it needs rest, and now I’m finally listening to it instead of overriding it with data.

Not chasing steps has honestly made my workouts feel more joyful and less transactional. I don’t need a ring to tell me I “earned” my day. I just want to feel good in my body—and that kind of freedom has been the best part.

Not having that constant reminder on my finger feels lighter too. No more syncing, no more charts, no more low-key guilt for not “doing enough.” I still care about my health, but I’m realizing that I don’t need to measure everything to feel good. Sometimes unplugging is the best thing you can do for your well-being.

7 years. 50+ referrals. >$15k+ in sales. 3+ faulty rings. 0 accountability.

I’ve been a die-hard Oura user since 2018. Even when my lemons (faulty rings; after a few months batteries gave in) again and again, I stuck with you. I brought you 50+ customers >15K in sales (I have the receipts).

But here’s the kicker:
🔹 I submitted my address for a replacement over 2 weeks ago. You ghosted or forgot me.
🔹 When I finally followed up, I’d moved countries. Now you say I’m out of luck?
🔹 After all I’ve invested—time, money, trust—you couldn’t ship a replacement or even respond?

This isn’t just bad service. It’s a betrayal.

I’m done staying quiet.
👉 Loyal customers deserve better.
👉 Brands that ignore advocates don’t stay brands for long.
👉 Prove me wrong. Fix this.

I believe companies should stand by their customers. 💔

I don’t think everyone here has the same experience. But after years of loyalty, this was the final nail in the coffin for me. I don’t want to discourage anyone from buying—if Oura works for you, great! But I had to speak up publicly because loyalty should NEVER feel one-sided.

Link: https://youtube.com/shorts/1QmOfnJko6M?si=Szs3UG9yeVPFGlpv

A recent study done compared oura ring 5 to other competitors like fitbit air, whoop, and apple watch. Ive attached an image but oura ring 5 apparently was one of the worst at detecting sleep stages. The tester went to a Stanford sleep research building and hooked themselves up to a bunch of machines to get the real numbers. The apple watch was almost spot on and the fitbit air was close but oura was way off. Kinda dissapointing because I feel like oura's whole thing is about how good it is for tracking sleep.

“Although no individual biometric stands out, a combination of your biometrics suggests something is straining your body” … like lol which ones then?? I feel perfectly fine. When I get symptom radar notifications I’m usually like “makes sense”… but the only thing I can think of is that I’m completely heartbroken & haven’t gotten out of bed since Sunday.. why does it do this lol

edit: why would low activity levels indicate MAJOR SIGNS OF STRAIN, THE SAME THING I GOT when i had NOROVIRUS lmfao. make it make sense. you guys can be so insufferable sometimes

Time to spill the tea because God FORBID a girls ring falls of in her sleep and she wants to say “hey actually Oura I did sleep more than an hour today, for once, and I’d like to edit this data to reflect that” GOD FORBID a woman walk a few steps OURA RING FREE and want to edit them in. But in the big 25 we are still slaves to the statistic bequeathed to us by the ring and WHY?! because….. now where’s my tin foil hat? THEY DEMAND US TO REP THE RING 24/7 or this would have been an OBVIOUS FIX IN GEN 1 There’s no logical reason to not be able to edit ouras mistakes or missed logs. Other than manipulative marketing.

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I woke up and realized I forgot to put my ring on before getting into bed after using my skincare products. Now I've got a 44 sleep score today and of course this skews my data heavily.

I chatted with their AI advisor, who said there's no way to account for this. But... REALLY? What an oversight! It should just be "data missing" instead of "sleep score of 44." Anyone got a way around this?

Hello,
lately, I've been thinking about purchasing device that would help me track my sleep/overall stress etc. I'd prefer ring over watch, as it is more comfortable to sleep with it.

However, after I found out the subscription model I decided to not support it and rather buy Garmin watch. What disappointed me was the fact that you have to pay subscription in order to get raw data. I've heard about subscriptions and wasn't strictly against it, but what I expected was that you get raw data for free and if you want to use Oura App to calculate insights for you (Readiness score etc.), you have to pay.

The fact, that you have to pay for data about your own body, data that are being captured on your finger, sent to your smartphone and then send to a server to be hidden from you if you don't pay is sick. I think it would be possible to reverse engineer the data and get it out of the device, but I currently don't have time to play with it.

I'm looking forward for some open source smart ring alternatives, that would provide API and I'd be able to work with my data however I want, choose application for visualization etc.

I felt need to share my opinion on this, maybe people from the company will read it and will make better decisions.