Oura handles this better than most of the category, and the one thing worth knowing is that the export is on the web rather than in the app. Almost everyone who concludes it cannot be done has been looking in the app.
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Go to membership.ouraring.com and sign in
Use the account that owns the ring. This is the Membership Hub, which is also where regional pricing, invoices and membership controls live.
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Find the data export section
It sits alongside your account and membership settings rather than under anything labelled privacy. If you have just cancelled, it is still there.
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Request the export and wait for the file
You will be given a CSV. Depending on how long you have had the ring, this can take a little while to assemble.
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Open it before you do anything else
A download you have not opened is not a backup. Check the file has the date range you expect before you cancel or delete anything.
What you get
A per-day table rather than raw sensor traces. Daily Sleep, Readiness and Activity scores, the sleep detail behind them, and heart rate figures the app recorded. Enough to chart your own trends, correlate against anything else you track, and keep a record independent of the company.
What it is not: second-by-second data. If you want that granularity, the API is the route, and it requires an active membership.
Export versus the Apple Health sync
Two different mechanisms that get confused.
The export is a file for you. Archive it, analyse it, keep it after you leave.
The Apple Health sync is live, ongoing, and only writes a subset of metrics. It is what lets other apps read your Oura sleep, and it stops when the ring stops. Which metrics actually cross over is covered in does the Oura Ring work with Apple Health.
Doing this as part of leaving? See how to cancel your Oura membership and the Oura Ring alternatives.