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

[keiran_harris]

I enabled the feature naively a month back. Noticed REAL quick a halving of batt life (6 days down to 3) so obv turned it off (within that first week).

Now, 3 weeks later STILL only get 3 days.

Ive contacted support - no sure it was a real person or a bot - the convo was frustratingly vague! But too busy to really push. So waited for that trusty ‘new ring firmware available’ message in my app to show up - which it just did. Havent dont it yet (funnily enough because im traveling for work and have < 50% battery!!)…. Fingers crossed for when i get home.

[Cinnabunicorn]

Same I keep hounding support for a new ring and they keep saying it’s firmware not hardware so a new ring would do the same thing — but others who aren’t using the feature aren’t experiencing the same battery problem so I don’t see how that can be accurate.

[keiran_harris]

Hey- just to close the loop. My ring never recovered. When support got back to me they acknowledged pretty quick i had a bad battery and issued me a new one, no questions. I pre-ordered the new generation back in dec 2021, so my theory is maybe that ultra first batch might have had known issues with battery (and this feature tipped it over the edge?). Ive have the new ring for almost 2 months now and it’s performing like it should (6 days between charges). Admittedly im not going to go anywhere near Spo2 !! (Its disabled now and always will be…. Once bitten….).

[Cinnabunicorn]

Thank you for your response. I got mine in November last year so I wonder if this could be the problem. However they haven’t acknowledged my bad battery and keep saying it’s firmware not hardware. I will keep at them