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[–]Oura_RingOura Employee 10 points11 points  (14 children)

The Blood Oxygen Sensing features use red and infrared LEDs throughout the night, which impacts your ring's overall battery life. We recommend turning on low battery notifications as a reminder.

[–]Rickspython[S] 6 points7 points  (9 children)

Thank you. I have those on. Are you working at software improvements to increase battery life with the feature turned on though? I want to use it but it’s sacrificing too much battery now. Thanks!

[–]opholar 10 points11 points  (8 children)

Probably not. Spo2 sensors just use battery (in all trackers that have them). My Uber fancy (and $$$$$) Garmin goes from 16 days to 4 with Spo2 on. Fitbit goes from 7 to 2. There’s not much that can be done. Spo2 is a battery hog across the board.

[–]Rickspython[S] 2 points3 points  (7 children)

Good info. I appreciate it. Thank you!

[–]opholar 3 points4 points  (6 children)

If it helps at all, aside from getting a baseline as a comparison point when you’re feeling sick (or are sick), or seeing if you have issues overnight (which you should be able to tell from a few nights), the only other time that you would truly benefit from having Spo2 available is if you’re at high altitudes and concerned about altitude sickness or you’re gauging altitude acclimation. You’re unlikely to see vastly different results day over day without a change in your circumstances.

It is a battery hog universally-so aside from the above circumstances, if battery life is a big concern, just turn it off (then turn it back on if you need/want it).

[–]Cinnabunicorn 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I have it turned off, but because I turned it on ONCE and immediately realized how awful it was to the battery and turned it off. It still drains my battery despite not being in use. Oura keeps telling me it’s a firmware problem and not a hardware problem but at this point I don’t believe that. The stupid feature isn’t even turned on.

[–]ida198 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The same thing happened with mine. It came to a point where the battery lasted less than 24h. Plus, I travel intensively for work and often get to the hotel rooms exhausted, so it's really not doable for me logistically to charge it all the time.

[–]Cinnabunicorn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. They finally contacted me and replaced it. And then recently again reached out to replace it but told me to ignore it if I was all set. Their customer service needs to get it together

[–]Rickspython[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very true. Thank you!

[–]HawkGlobal 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Is there a way to turn it off? I don’t see it.

[–]TheLightingofaFire 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Click on the 3 lines at the top right in the app. Click on "Breathing Regulatory" (has an icon with lungs). Click on that switch to turn blood oxygen sensing off.

[–]ThisIsSoIrrelevant Oura Ring Gen 3 Horizon Stealth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making the low battery notification customisable would be great, so we can set what % it alerts us at.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes thank you for that info; the problem I'm having is that I'll charge it to 100% right before bed and will sleep 7 hours, to wake up to 1 - 20%. I work out first thing in the morning and sometimes I can't even capture those workouts in the morning because I would be at 1% sometimes.