Location Services for Activities – Help Center

Oura includes route, distance, and pace/speed insights for certain Automatic Activity Detection (AAD) entries, manually added activities, or activities imported through third-party app integrations.

What Are Location Services?
How to Use Location Services
Things to Keep in Mind
More Information

What Are Location Services?

By enabling location services on your Oura App, you'll gain access to a greater diversity of activity data, including route, distance, speed, and pace — depending on the type of activity you engage in. Setting up location tracking with Oura will help to improve the quality of your activity predictions over time. With more insights, you'll also gain deeper awareness into your daily activities and how they influence your sleep, recovery, and overall well being.

These new metrics will be included in the "Activity Details" view of any confirmed activity to which route, distance, speed, or pace apply. You can access these after your activity by tapping on confirmed activities where they appear in either your home or Activity screens.

Metrics include:

Route: View a map with your start, end, and the exact path you've followed
Distance: See the exact distance of your activity, in miles or kilometers
Pace or speed (depending on activity type): Observe your average pace over the course of your activity and see your split times

Automatic Activity Detection Metrics

Route, distance, and speed are available for:

Downhill skiing
Ice skating
Mountain biking
Outdoor cycling
Rollerblading
Snowboarding
Surfing

Route, distance, and pace are available for:

HIIT
Hiking
Horseback riding
Nordic walking
Orienteering
Outdoor cross-country skiing
Rowing
Running
Walking

Distance is available for:

Cross-training
Outdoor climbing

Note: You must have your phone on you while you work out in order for any location-based data to appear. Your Oura App must also be open and running in the background on your device before you start your activity. Your location will never be shared outside of Oura, and you're free to revoke access at any time via your device settings.

How to Use Location Services

To Enable Location Services

Update your Oura App to the latest version
The app will display an information card after your next automatically detected activity
Tap Continue to enable location tracking, or tap "No thanks" to opt out
If you tap "Continue," your operating system will ask you to confirm activating location-based features on your Oura App. If you have an Android device, you may need to select "allow access to location while using the app" in your location settings

To Manually Enable or Disable Oura's Location Services

Select the menu in the upper-left corner of the home screen
Tap Settings
Beneath "General," tap Location permissions
Toggle Oura location features
Open your device's Settings
Select Privacy
Ensure that Location Services are toggled on
Scroll down and select Oura
Tap "Always" beneath Allow location access

Collect & View Activity Data

Your next confirmed activity will surface in the home and Activity screens. Tap "Show activity details" on the reward card to get more information. If you miss your reward card, you can view your activity details from your Activities list in the Activity screen.

Your new activity details will vary based on type, but can include: route (with a visual map), distance, and average pace/speed.

Please note that not all of these metrics will be accessible following the detection and confirmation of an activity with Oura. Only certain activities have applicable location data.

Things to Keep in Mind

As a best practice, we recommend setting Location Services for Oura to "Always on." In order for the feature to work optimally, your GPS location must be accessible from the very beginning of your activity. If not, you may end up missing your route and visual map. Note that this may result in higher phone battery consumption
Your location data will never be shared outside your Oura App, or with a third party without your consent
Route data and visual maps will also be available for manually added activities and activities imported through third-party app integrations, if your Location Services with Oura are established as "Always on," your phone is with you while you work out, and you open the Oura App on your device before starting an activity
If you force quit your Oura App, location tracking will stop until you launch the app again