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. AAD is available for:
- Gen2
- Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 with active membership
- iOS
- Android
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 and distance are available for these activities:
- Cross-country skiing
- Cycling
- Downhill skiing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Ice skating
- Kite skiing
- Kitesurfing
- Motorsport
- Mountain biking
- Nordic walking
- Orienteering
- Paddle sports
- Rollerblading
- Roller skiing
- Running
- Sailing
- Skateboarding
- Snowboarding
- Snowshoeing
- Surfing
- Walking
- Windsurfing
Pace and splits are available for these activities:
- Cross-country skiing
- Hiking
- Nordic walking
- Orienteering
- Running
- Snowshoeing
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, average pace/speed, and splits.
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
- 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
- Members using Android 11 or earlier must set Location Services to "on" in order to enable Bluetooth connectivity
