Find My Ring

I am a college student living in a dorm with a lot of clutter. I tend not to lose too many things but when I do they disappear for a while before randomly showing up. However, I had gotten my ring to track my sleep cycles in order to force myself into better habits, so when it went missing I was unable to just let it be until it showed itself. This app helped me locate it inside my roommates suitcase that he keeps under his bed (never fully closed) after I somehow flung it across the room into it. I used other apps first but all of them only showed an arbitrary percentage that could mean anything, and when those percentages were compared with other Bluetooth device percentages it just confused me more. After opening this app I realized immediately that it was going to be more helpful because it gave you a measured value of the signal strength of the connection rather than a percentage, and after walking my room dozens of times this gave me the most accurate readings by far. Dropped a $10 tip because this saved me a ton of stress and maybe even the price of a new ring if I had never decided to look inside my roommate’s suitcase all because this was giving me the strongest readings near it. Will definitely use it again the next time I lose my ring.

I live in a tiny studio apartment so I’m always in a panic when I can’t find my Oura ring and it won’t connect to the app…I’m usually very careful to only put it down in one of three places (table, desk, or countertop). I never have the location turned on for it either, since it doesn’t seem really useful to know where it was the last time it connected to the app if I only open the app at home anyway. I must’ve spent 20 minutes checking if I had knocked it onto the floor somehow, even looked in my in-sink garbage disposal and couldn’t find it. The Oura website’s chat assistant recommended this app, and I walked around for 5 minutes trying to get a connection…no luck. Started to lose hope. Then in the kitchen it connected for the tiniest of moments! Then it immediately lost the signal again…3 minutes of frantically waving the phone around the kitchen later I decide to hold my phone over the sink drain and bam, 5-bar signal! I couldn’t find the ring by eye, I literally had to stick my hand in the garbage disposal and feel around until I found it. For me, my phone had to be about 2, 3 feet from the ring before it was able to detect a weak signal, but maybe it had to do with interference from all the metal. Anyway this app is a godsend and saved me a ton of time, stress, and money!

Tl;dr: Find My Ring did exactly what it claimed. The app did in 10 mins what I couldn’t do in 10 days!!! I removed my Oura ring along with my wedding bands to do something around the house. When I got ready to go to bed upstairs, I noticed all my rings were missing. I’m so forgetful and instantly panicked because we just had our one year wedding anniversary, and I thought I’d already lost my rings. I searched the jeans I was wearing, found the wedding bands, and could breathe again. My Oura ring wasn’t there, though. I searched around my closet where I thought the ring could be but no luck. I searched a little bit more every night for about a week and was starting to give up hope. Then I got the low battery notification in the Oura app and was surprised to see the last known location was my house 2 hours ago. So it’s here somewhere but where??? For days, I was losing my mind to know that it was IN the house but no additional detail and that my chances of finding it were dwindling with the battery level. I searched and saw Oura’s rec for this app. The instructions were very easy to follow, and in 10 mins, I’d found my ring in my closet finally. I was so relieved, I wanted to cry. Thank you, Find My App!!