Automatic Activity Detection

Your Oura Ring offers the ability to detect your exercise, workouts, and other movement using Automatic Activity Detection (AAD).

What is Automatic Activity Detection?
How to Use AAD
Most Popular Activities Detectable by AAD
More Information

What is Automatic Activity Detection?

AAD automatically reports all detected physical activity captured by your Oura Ring—suggesting the time, duration, type, and intensity of activities you take part in.

With AAD, you have the option to edit or confirm each of the detected activities, ensuring the time, duration, type, and intensity are correct, or you can choose to dismiss activities altogether.

A unique characteristic of AAD is that the more this feature gets to know you and your movement tendencies, the more personalized your insights become. The more activities you confirm over time, the more actionable guidance you'll receive from Oura. Because movement captured by AAD comes from your real-time physical experience, this feature offers a more accurate calculation of calories burned during an activity. As you continue to use AAD and confirm activities, your detected workouts and their details become more precise as your personal movement tendencies add up over time.

No action on your part is required to start or stop tracking. Currently, over 40 unique activity types are detectable with AAD—a wider range than what's currently offered by other wearables.

How to Use AAD

There is no action required on your part to start or stop tracking activities with Automatic Activity Detection. By identifying unique patterns in your movement over short periods of time, Oura can identify particular activity types, such as cycling, soccer, tennis, or use of an elliptical machine.

Note that activities shorter than 10 minutes will not be picked up by AAD. Due to the way Oura captures your daily movement and calculates exertion, AAD is accurate to within one minute.

Any detected activities will appear in a card at the top of the Oura App's home screen — including the type, time, duration, calorie burn, and heart rate (if available).

You have the option to edit or confirm each of the detected activities, ensuring the time, duration, type, and intensity are correct, or you can choose to dismiss them altogether.

If confirmed (including after an edit is complete), the activity will be added to your full list of activities on the app's home screen. This same full list of activities is also located on your Activity screen.

Tap on a confirmed activity to view more details, including route and distance (if applicable), heart rate, and heart rate zones.

If you want to record route and distance details, make sure that location services are turned on before you begin your activity, and take your phone with you. Otherwise, you can leave your phone at home and the ring will still record your Activity Heart Rate.

To conserve Oura Ring battery life, you can turn off heart rate tracking with AAD:

Select the menu in the upper left of the Oura App's home screen
Select Settings
Select Activity
Select the toggle next to Activity heart rate
- When the toggle is off, AAD information will still be shown in the app, but will not include heart rate information.

For more information on Activity Heart Rate, see this help center article.

If you already track your activities using another device, Oura can identify when the same activity has been detected and will present it only once to prevent double counting. Manually added activities take precedence, followed by activity imported via third-party devices, and then activity added through AAD.

If you completed an activity and AAD couldn't detect it, you can add it manually using the + menu in the lower right of the app's home screen. All manual activity entries count towards your daily activity goal.

AAD will continue to detect activities even while your Oura Ring is in Airplane Mode. However, your detected activities will not be visible in the Oura App until Airplane Mode is turned off and your data has been synced. If more than two calendar days have passed since you turned on Airplane Mode, only detected activities from the current and previous day will be shown.

Edit or Delete Activity

To edit or delete an activity in the Oura App:

Tap on the activity in the Timeline on the app's home screen or from the list of activities in the Activity screen
Scroll down and select Edit activity at the bottom of the screen
Edit the type of activity, and its time started, duration, or intensity, as needed
Select Done to save changes

Activities can also be deleted from the Edit activity screen. Deleting an activity will remove its impact on any of your scores and contributors.

Activities can be added, edited, or deleted only on the current day. If the activity was imported from a third-party app, it cannot be edited or deleted in the Oura App. An imported activity can be removed or edited only through the app it was recorded in (for example: Garmin or Apple Health).

Most Popular Activities Detectable by AAD

Here is a list of the most popular activities that can be automatically detected by the Oura Ring. Please note, this is not a comprehensive list of all activities Oura can pick up. If you're unsure if a certain activity you partake in is detectable by Oura, you can test it by wearing your ring while completing your activity and then checking the Oura App home screen for an AAD card.

Badminton	HIIT	Strength Training
Barre	Hiking	Stretching
Basketball	Horseback Riding	Surfing
Boxing	Housework	Swimming
Core Exercise	Kettlebell	Table Tennis
Cross Country Skiing	Martial Arts	Tennis
Cross Training	Motorsport	Trampoline
Cycling	Pickleball	Volleyball
Dance	Pilates	Walking
Downhill Skiing	Rowing	Water Fitness
Elliptical	Running	Yardwork
Fitness Class	Snowboarding	Yoga
Flexibility	Soccer
Golf	Stair Exercise