Apple Watch collects a number of biometric data points on its own, but you can also combine Apple Watch data with data from other wearables and accessories. The Oura ring is one of the most popular options on the market, and a new update this week brings deep integration with Apple Watch.
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For those unfamiliar, Oura Ring is a popular wearable that instead counters the popular ring smartwatch form factor. The Oura ring is designed to be worn on your index finger and collect several different metrics including your sleep, blood oxygen levels, active calorie burning, heart rate, workouts and more.
Oura has always offered an iPhone app with Apple Health integration, but this week it has greatly expanded its integration with Apple platforms, specifically the Apple Watch.
The main change here is the all-new Oura Ring companion app for Apple watch. This app can show you your readiness, activity, sleep metrics, heart rate, body temperature, ring battery level and more. Oura describes it as a “mirror of the Oura iPhone app”. This means that when your Oura Ring syncs with your phone, the Apple Watch app will be updated at the same time.
Here is the full list of data available in the Oura Ring app for Apple Watch:
Ready
- Readiness Score
- Resting heart rate
- Heart rate variability
- Body temperature
- Respiratory rate
- Affecting readiness
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Sleep
- Sleep score
- Total sleep
- Sleep efficiency
- Resting heart rate
- Affecting sleep
< li>Time in bed
Activity
- Activity score
- Progress towards activity goal
- Total energy expenditure
- Walking equivalence
- Steps
- Activity Participants
Perhaps most notably, the Oura Ring app for Apple Watch also includes a suite of extensions that you can add to your Apple Watch. face. These extensions can display information from the Oura ring on your Apple Watch, including:
- Points
- Goal progress
- The ring's battery level.
- Graphs of heart rate, movement, sleep and body temperature
In addition to Apple Watch extensions, you can now also add Oura Ring extensions to your iPhone's lock screen for the first time.
The new version of the Oura Ring app is now available in the App Store. This includes a new companion app for the Apple Watch, as well as a new iPhone app with lock screen widget support.
9to5Mac Opinion
For the past year, I've been using Oura Ring with my Apple Watch, although not always. . One of the reasons for my fickleness is that it wasn't easy to see Oura Ring data at a glance, and Oura's announcement this week is about that.
The Oura Ring offers some features that I would really like. to see how Apple is implementing the “readiness score” and “sleep score” metrics on the Apple Watch, in particular. Now that Oura Ring supports the Apple Watch app with extensions, it's easier to view this data along with other Apple Watch metrics.
I'm excited to test this out and see how the Apple Watch and Oura ring can be used together. If you want to try Oura Ring, you can get $50 off using my referral link.
