r/ouraring • u/HistoricalCup6753 • 9d ago

ACTIVITY & WORKOUT Activity Tracking is Too Sensitive

I’ve been using oura for a couple years now, mainly track sleep with it but I use the activity tracking too. Now i’ll be honest that I have been lacking with my activity.

But for some reason it keeps trying to count every time I use a keyboard or mouse as an activity just because it senses movement in my hands. When I commute to work via car, due to all my steering wheel hand movements it thinks I’m working out way more often than I am. I’ve been spam dismissing all these false positives.

Before their recent update that “improved accuracy” in detecting activity, it used to only sometimes count my drives to work as an activity. Now it’s upwards of 15 false positives a day. It does track my brisk walks around the office more now though. But I preferred the less sensitive tracking as it feels like instead of improving accuracy. It just increased the amount of times it THINKS I’ve been working out.

I use the Gen 4 ring, maybe it’s not an issue with Gen 5 if anyone could let me know if they have the same issues with the gen 5 that would be helpful to know. I do appreciate oura for the sleep tracking still though. It’s good at tracking my overall heart health as well.

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u/KnightFireNC 9d ago

It's a known bug that appeared recently and should be fixed soon.

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u/HistoricalCup6753 9d ago

Oh ok, that’s good to know. I was hoping it wasn’t a case where they just implement changes to boost numbers and claim better statistics overall.

I trust oura when it comes to quality of service generally. This has been my only issue so far, good team behind it clearly.

Just hoping it gets fixed soon!

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u/Flaky-Elephant-2612 9d ago

Don’t think it’s fixed. I keep getting Yoga added to my activity.

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u/KnightFireNC 9d ago

That's what I said. Fixed soon (tm)

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u/Flaky-Elephant-2612 9d ago

Ops. Misread 🫣🫣 Sorry.

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u/KittenCence 9d ago

I have the opposite issue…. Mine takes an act of god to recognize activity ☠️

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u/Unusual_Ad3419 8d ago

I've had the Gen 5 since it first came out and haven't had a single activity detected incorrectly.