Snoring is often treated like a joke in popular culture, but physiologically, it can be an early warning sign that something isn’t right.
Most people are unaware of their snoring patterns, which is why problems escalate silently for years. But research shows that persistent, heavy snoring has real health side effects:
- Habitual snorers have a 46% higher stroke risk.
- 1 in 3 regular snorers may have undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea.
- UK/US users average 40-45 minutes of snoring per night – but most are completely unaware it’s happening.
- Women snore less than men, but only by 9 minutes per night on average. However, they routinely under-report snoring, contributing to widespread under-diagnosis.
You can’t fix what you can’t see – but we’re changing that.
Ultrahuman’s Respiratory Health PowerPlug, powered by Sleep Cycle technology, is built on 15 years of expertise and insights from 3B+ sleep sessions.
How the Respiratory Health PowerPlug works
The Respiratory Health PowerPlug for Ultrahuman Ring AIR uses on-device audio from your smartphone to detect snoring and nighttime breathing disturbances while you sleep.
It identifies snoring, coughing, and irregular breathing patterns across the night, logging precise timestamps, duration, and intensity for each event. You can review when disturbances occurred, how long they lasted, and even listen back to specific snoring or coughing episodes for full context. Privacy is built in by design. All audio processing happens locally on your smartphone. No audio is recorded or uploaded to servers at any point
You wake up to a clear morning report, helping you understand what affected your sleep and evaluate which habits or interventions to try next.
Each respiratory event is aligned with your Ring AIR data – including heart rate, HRV, movement, and sleep fragmentation. This lets you see exactly when a snoring episode coincided with a heart rate spike, fragmented your sleep, or disrupted overnight recovery, separating background noise from events that actually mattered physiologically.
How to act on Respiratory Health data
The goal isn’t diagnosis or treatment, but visibility. When hidden patterns become visible, you can act earlier and more deliberately. This enables practical, behavior-led adjustments, such as:
- Reducing alcohol intake.
- Managing congestion or allergies more proactively.
- Trialling positional changes like side sleeping, pillows, or nose/mouth taping.
- Bringing objective data into conversations with doctors or sleep professionals.
The Respiratory Health PowerPlug enables you to spot trends that would be impossible to notice otherwise. Is snoring improving or worsening? Are disruptions tied to specific days, seasons, travel, illness, or habits?
Instead of reacting once symptoms escalate, you can observe changes early and respond before small issues become bigger problems.
The Respiratory Health PowerPlug is available now in the Ultrahuman app. It costs $3.99/£2.99/€3.99 per month or $39.99/£29.99/€39.99 per year.
