Attention Oura Ring users: A new app experience is coming. On Oct. 20, the fitness tech brand revealed that the Oura app is getting an update in the coming weeks. But that’s not the only update. Oura is also unveiling cumulative stress metrics and a blood pressure study.
The new Oura app
Oura has not provided an exact date for the new app design. The brand has said the new design will rollout globally in the coming weeks, so don’t be surprised if you wake up to a new in-app look sometime soon.
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The Oura interface is getting a refresh, but it’s maintaining the same three tabs: Today, Vitals, and My Health. While it still delivers all the same data and health biometrics, it’ll do so in a refreshed package.
The new app design has more integrated design, Oura says. Rather than separate boxes delivering each biometric, it’ll have a better flow between categories. The background will show serene natural landscapes, adding to an overall zen-like app experience.
The tab with the biggest overhaul is the My Health tab, which now prevents an overview of your long-term health metrics at the top of the page, before diving into the specifics of your resilience, heart health, and sleep health.
An update to Cycle Insights
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One of the most popular features in the Oura app is Cycle Insights, used to track and support reproductive health. The new app design will now support a 12-month view of predicted period and fertile windows. Plus, users used to wait 60 nights before receiving personalized cycle phase data, but now it will be available after one night’s sleep.
Oura launches Cumulative Stress
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Oura measures daily stressors as will as users long-term resilience to stress, but a new metric is coming. Cumulative Stress will now monitor chronic, long term stress. The metric will be calculated from five factors: Sleep continuity, heart stress-response, sleep micromotions, temperature regulation, and activity impact.
Cumulative Stress can be viewed in a new Stress Management page where users can see it alongside Daytime Stress and Resilience.
Oura is looking for FDA-approval on blood pressure insights
While the new app design and Cumulative Stress are coming soon, Oura is just getting started on blood pressure insights. The company is seeking FDA-approval on new blood pressure features that it’s testing in Oura Labs.
Oura Labs is the brand’s hub for testing experimental features before they’ve officially launched. Users can beta test features and provide Oura with feedback before they officially launch.
Blood pressure insights will now be available in Oura Labs and combines Oura health data with information from a user questionnaire focusing on family history, medication, and lifestyle habits. Participants in Oura Labs will then receive a hypertension assessment of no signs, moderate signs, or major signs.
Oura has received approval from the Institutional Review Board to begin testing blood pressure insights, a first step in FDA approval.
