Oura’s new health feature warns of early signs of sickness

When your Oura Ring tells you to rest, you rest.

The Oura Ring now includes Symptom Radar, a new feature that can spot signs of sickness.

In addition to tracking more than 40 biometrics, the Oura ring’s symptom-tracking feature also monitors skin temperature, average temperature trends, respiratory rate, resting heart rate, heart rate variability, inactive time, age, and more.

Such metrics then are used to indicate changes in a user’s body and alert them when “minor or major signs of strain” are detected. Users are then advised to take rest to recover from the indicated strain.

To see how their body is affected, users receive biometrics highlights from the previous night that show how the results may have diverged from their regular state.

Symptom Radar works by default for Oura Ring Gen3 and Oura Ring 4 users who have an active Oura Membership.

The development of Oura’s Symptom Radar started in 2020, with its introduction to Oura members. They have tested the feature and provided feedback since April 2024.

A few months ago, Reddit users who used the feature noticed that Symptom Radar was suspended.

The news prompted a discussion online with users sharing their feedback about the feature.

“It’s given me such a peace of mind with my chronic illness, and I’ve been shocked at how well it responds to my symptoms,” wrote one of Redditors.

Users who found the feature useful shared how they would get risk alerts a few days before actually getting sick.

“It definitely worked for me…alerted me of Covid and the flu before the symptoms became full blown,” said another user.

However, not all were happy with the Symptom Radar, with one Reddit user stating: “I know that my health has been up and down whilst I’ve been testing this and it’s given me absolutely nothing.”

“It never did anything for me. And when I went on rest mode to recover from a surgery, symptom radar was disabled, which made no sense,” noted another.

This feature-related feedback was shared when Symptom Radar was still in beta testing.

The company is now releasing the full feature, which should become available on December 9th.