Manually add activities within your Oura App to ensure you receive credit for all of your daily movement. The app supports a wide range of activity types and allows you to add custom activities as well.
What Is Manually Add an Activity?
How to Manually Add an Activity
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What Is Manually Add an Activity?
Most activity recognized by your Oura Ring is automatically recorded within the app, and counts toward your Activity Score. Activity is one of the key components of calculating your Readiness Score through the "Previous day activity" and "Activity balance" contributors. Capturing all types of movements helps improve the Oura activity detection algorithm and provides better insight messages.
However, the app does not automatically detect some unsupported activities, activities under ten minutes in duration, or activities you undertake while not wearing an Oura Ring (unless imported from a third-party app). Manually adding an activity provides a way to fill in these gaps.
How to Manually Add an Activity
To manually add an activity:
- Tap the "+" button in the bottom-right corner of the Oura App
- Select "Add an activity"
- Choose an activity type
- Your three most recent activities will be displayed at the top. (If this is your first time manually adding an activity, these choices default to "Running," "Walking," and "Cycling")
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- Select "More activities" for a searchable list of 50+ options
- Select "More activities" for a searchable list of 50+ options
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- If you don't see the desired option, select "Other" (at the bottom of the list) and enter an activity name for it
- Add "Start time," "Duration," and "Intensity" details
- Select "Done" in the upper right-hand corner to save your activity
- Confirmed activities appear on the home screen of the Oura App, and under "Activities" on the Activity screen
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 "Today" 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 or duration 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 manually added, edited, or deleted at any time on any day, including previous days. Note that activity imported from a third-party app can only be removed or edited through the app it was recorded in (for example: Strava or Apple Health).
