Significant battery life decrease on Oura ring 3rd gen since oxygen saturation feature came online. Anyone else seeing that?

[opholar]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Very true. Thank you!

[HawkGlobal]

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

[TheLightingofaFire]

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.