Today, Oura announced its newest and smallest smart ring, the Oura Ring 5. Yet if you’re not planning on upgrading your smart ring just yet, I’ve got good news — the Oura ring on your finger is getting new features too.
As well as the new device, Oura has announced new features that will roll out to the Oura Ring Gen3, Oura Ring 4, and Oura Ring 4 Ceramic. These include live workout tracking, new women’s health features, and a new way to find your ring or charging case should you lose it. Read on to find out more.
Oura Ring: New software features for all Oura ring wearers
Live activity tracking
The only downside to a screenless device is no live activity tracking, but Oura’s latest update changes that. You’ll now be able to see your live data from a lock screen widget on your phone. This can track your pace and distance live during workouts like runs, cycles, and strength training sessions.
You’ll also be able to connect a third-party heart rate monitor to the Oura app, allowing you to see your heart rate in real time. Live activity tracking will be available globally on June 4, 2026.
Women’s Health updates
Oura has always been one of the best wearables on the market when it comes to women’s health (heck, my Oura Ring knew I was pregnant before I did). But today, two new features rolled out: Menopause Insights and Hormonal Birth Control.
Menopause Insights asks you structured questions about how well you’re sleeping, your mood, cognition, and daily functioning, helping Oura ring wearers to really understand how strongly they feel perimenopause is affecting their daily lives.
After the symptom assessment, users will get a personalized dashboard that translates these symptoms into an overall impact level. It’ll be easy to follow at a glance how lifestyle changes, stress, and interventions can change this data.
Also rolling out today is a new Hormonal Birth Control Feature. Oura realized that thousands of its wearers were using hormonal birth control, but that a lot of women weren’t able to collect data on how their contraception was influencing their baseline over time. This is an update to the ring’s current Cycle Insights tool, and will support pills, patches, IUDs, implants, and other hormonal methods. It will be able to help women see at a glance how their biometrics shift across hormone and hormone-free days.
Lab uploads
Oura users will now be able to import their lab and blood work results directly into the Oura App, placing blood biomarkers alongside the data Oura has collected. This will be available globally from June 30, 2026.
Locate
Oura has also updated its device-tracking experience with Locate. This allows you to connect multiple devices to the app, as well as an Oura Charging Case, allowing you to keep track of your devices in one place. Locate is available for Oura Ring Gen3 and all future generations globally on June 4.
Data control
Oura is also adding a new time-based Data Deletion capability. This allows users of all Oura ring generations to erase data stored in the Oura App from a specific time window, while preserving the rest of their tracking history. This is available globally on June 4.
It's great to see Oura continuing to support its older devices in this way and rest assured, we'll have a full review of the Oura Ring 5 coming to you soon.
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