Oura provides a personalized bedtime recommendation to help you wind down at the ideal time for your body. This suggested time window is designed to support better recovery, deeper sleep, and a more consistent routine over time.
Bedtime Guidance is available for:
- Gen2
- Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership
- iOS
- Android
What is Bedtime Guidance?
How to Use Bedtime Guidance
Troubleshooting
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What is Bedtime Guidance?
Oura's Bedtime Guidance analyzes your highest Sleep Scores and lowest resting heart rates to determine which sleep patterns work best for you. Using your typical wake-up times and the recommended amount of sleep, the Oura App will notify you when your ideal bedtime is approaching.
Remember, Bedtime Guidance is just a recommendation, and missing the suggested window won’t directly impact your Sleep or Readiness Scores.
Bedtime Guidance is also different from the Body Clock, which offers sleep schedule recommendations based on your chronotype. Bedtime Guidance is dynamic, responding to recent sleep patterns and signals from your body. Your Body Clock, on the other hand, reflects your natural circadian rhythm, which tends to stay more stable over time.
How to Use Bedtime Guidance
The Bedtime Guidance card will display at the top of your Today tab an hour before the recommended bedtime window. For the rest of the day, it can be found in a collapsed form farther down on the tab.
Tap on Bedtime Guidance to see more details, including your upcoming ideal bedtime window, your previous night's bedtime, and a graph of sleep times from the past several weeks.
Note that bedtime recommendations are automatically determined and can't be manually edited.
For more insights, you can view your bedtime trends by day, week, month, or year in the app's Trends:
- Tap the menu
in the upper-left corner of the Today tab
- Select Trends
- Select Sleep > Bedtime
We also recommend turning on Bedtime notifications to be alerted when your ideal sleep window approaches:
- Tap the menu
- Select Settings
- Select Notifications
- Toggle Bedtime notifications on
Troubleshooting
The Bedtime Guidance card appears only on the current day of the Oura App.
Bedtime Guidance requires two weeks of consistent data before it can show recommendations and insights. An irregular sleep schedule or consistently low Sleep Scores can also affect Oura's ability to provide Bedtime Guidance.
If you do not see a Bedtime Guidance card, continue wearing your ring and try to follow a more regular sleep schedule over the next week or two.
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