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What the RingConn (Gen 2 / Gen 3) knows about you
RingConn, a Shenzhen-based Chinese smart-ring maker, is the subscription-free anchor of the biometric ring market and a deliberate counterpoint to Oura and Whoop, recorded in the biometric form factor. Its Gen 2 ring sells for about $279 with a 10-to-12-day battery and a charging case extending to about 150 days, pairing PPG, skin-temperature, blood-oxygen, and accelerometer sensors with sleep, heart-rate, and a deep-learning sleep-apnea screening feature, and all standard features are free for life with no membership, the core positioning of the brand; the Gen 2 raised about $4.4 million on Kickstarter and the Gen 3 launched in late May 2026 with more than $10 million in pre-orders in about twenty days. Two corrections to common priors are load-bearing. First, RingConn's sleep-apnea and apnea-hypopnea-index feature is not FDA-cleared but wellness and pre-diagnostic: the company's own launch release says it is actively pursuing clearance and carries a not-intended-to-diagnose disclaimer, and the widely repeated claim that RingConn received FDA clearance for blood oxygen or sleep apnea appears only on aggregator sites and conflates it with the Happy Ring, the genuinely FDA-cleared sleep-apnea ring, so RingConn is recorded as not cleared with its 90.7-percent accuracy a vendor claim. Second, RingConn is not subject to an active US import ban: although it was a co-respondent found to infringe in Oura's International Trade Commission case over patent 11,868,178, it settled and Oura granted it a multi-year license to keep selling in the US, so only Ultrahuman's Ring Air carries the active ban. Its clinical-validation posture is wellness-grade and claim-heavy, and its founder identity, funding, and cumulative unit shipments are not reliably verified.
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What it collects about you
Where your data goes
What you can control
What it collects about you
The data this device picks up.
Your body data
RingConn integrates with Apple Health, so the same biometric data, including heart rate, SpO2, and sleep, flows to both RingConn's cloud under Chinese law and to Apple HealthKit under US and EU law. Most users are running under two separate legal regimes without knowing it. Deleting from one does not delete from the other.
Your location
Collects your approximate or precise location with your permission for Bluetooth connectivity, device-finding, and data sync. May also estimate your location from your IP address.
Where your data goes
Who else can see it once it leaves the device.
Shared with others
China's National Intelligence Law requires Chinese companies to cooperate with government intelligence and prohibits them from disclosing that cooperation. This makes a transparency report structurally impossible for RingConn. You cannot know whether a government data request has been received.
Selling your data
RingConn's published privacy policy does not include a statement that it will not sell your data. Oura, Ultrahuman, and Apple each make this commitment explicitly. RingConn sells hardware with no subscription, creating a financial incentive to monetize data.
Sent to the cloud
All health and body data from the ring uploads to RingConn's cloud servers. Data for mainland China users stays on servers in China. International users' data is stored on servers outside China, such as UK-based AWS.
Training their AI
RingConn uses your Blood Pressure Trends Beta data, including raw pulse signals, to train and improve its own algorithm models. It says this data will not be shared with any third party for their own training.
What you can control
Your say over the data it holds.
How long they keep it
RingConn keeps data only as long as needed or required by law. After service ends, data is deleted or anonymized. Blood Pressure Beta raw signal data is irreversibly anonymized within 90 days after the beta ends.
Deleting your data
You can delete data through the app interface or by contacting support. Blood Pressure Trends Beta raw signal data cannot be individually deleted during the beta period.
The full record
- Specs
- RingConn Gen 2 (~$279) + Gen 2 Air + Gen 3 (late May 2026). Sensors: PPG, skin temperature, SpO2, accelerometer. 10-12 day battery (charging case to ~150 days). AI/health: sleep + HR/HRV + 'sleep apnea / AHI' screening (deep-learning, claimed 90.7% accuracy). SUBSCRIPTION-FREE: all standard features free for life (the core positioning vs Oura/Whoop). Chinese (Shenzhen).
- Form Factor
- biometric (biometric-primary smart ring + AI augmentation; SUBSCRIPTION-FREE)