If you’re trying to connect your Oura Ring to Natural Cycles for the first time, this article will help.
Each night before going to bed, make sure you wear your Oura Ring (for more information on how to use the Oura Ring, please follow Oura's user manual).
To sync your Oura Ring with your Natural Cycles app each day, you can either:
- Open your Oura App to initiate syncing with your Oura Ring. We recommend that you close the NC° app and wait for a push notification from Natural Cycles telling you that your temperature is ready. To check if you have push notifications activated, please go to the top menu > Settings > Notifications.
- Open the Natural Cycles app and click “Sync Oura Ring” which will redirect you to the Oura App to initiate syncing with your Oura Ring. We recommend that you close the app and wait for a push notification from Natural Cycles telling you that your temperature is ready. To check if you have push notifications activated, please go to the top menu > Settings > Notifications.
It may take a few minutes for your data to be synced as the NC° algorithm is working, so there’s no need to stay in bed or keep your phone open as you wait for the Natural Cycles app to sync – this will successfully complete in the background.
What does the timestamp under my temperature mean?
The timestamp shown under your temperature reflects the time when the syncing happened, and not when the temperature data was collected.
The Oura Ring is able to distinguish between when you’re sleeping and when you’re awake. This means that the Oura Ring provides Natural Cycles with temperature trends from your sleep, which Natural Cycles processes into a single, absolute temperature value used by the Natural Cycles algorithm.
The temperature you see is reflecting the temperature converted from your time asleep, regardless of the time you sync the next day.
Fertility status
For optimal use of the NC° app, we recommend that you sync your Oura data every morning.
Once you’ve saved your daily temperature, you will see your updated fertility status for the day on the Today page of the Natural Cycles app.
It’s important to ensure that your latest temperature data is synced and saved before you check your fertility status for the day as the new data for today may update your daily fertility status.
Can I sync later?
If you skipped syncing for several days for any reason, it’s possible to sync multiple days of data at once.
Once you’ve synced your Oura Ring with the Oura App and received the notification from Natural Cycles that your data has synced, the new temperatures will be displayed when you have been excluded or adjusted by the algorithm.
Please note that adding new data on a day in the past may change a past fertility status.
Need more help?
You will find a quick guide to using Oura within the NC app in the Learn tab > ŌURA and NC°.
You can read more about how Natural Cycles works here.
If you encounter any issues with the syncing process, this article with troubleshooting steps may help.
Lastly, if you have any questions about how to use your Oura Ring with Natural Cycles, our Support team is here to help! You can reach them via this link.