Elevation gain not showing in Outdoor Cycle

Never mind. I fixed it. I found the solution in this thread.

On the iPhone, in Settings > Privacy > Location Services, find Apple Watch Workout, and turn Location Services on for "While Using the App."

Thanks for the reply, travelbug23, but I think you misunderstood my problem. It wasn’t that the elevation reading didn’t show on my watch; it showed up just fine. It was that it always showed a reading of 0, no matter how many feet of elevation I climbed.

Turning on Location Services in my iPhone settings for Apple Watch Workouts solved the problem. Now the elevation readout on Outdoor Cycle shows a number after I have climbed a hill.

(And I wasn’t having a problem with the compass, but with Outdoor Cycle.)

No no, the Elevation metric is already added to my screen for Outdoor Cycle. It's there, but it always shows a value of 0, no matter how many hills I have attacked.

I don't need to add it, I need it to display a number other than zero.

I did the reset as you described. It did not fix the problem. Apparently the altimeter on my Apple Watch 4 does not register elevation gain.

I wonder whether anyone else has had this problem? Everything else about the AW seems to read and register data just fine (at least in the activities I do). Outdoor Cycle gives me a pretty accurate miles-traveled reading, just no altitude.

Huh. Yes, it makes sense, but it's really wild the way these two completely different fixes repaired what seems to be the same problem. Obviously they're not the same problem, they only look like it.

These constellations of phones and watches are really funny, sometimes inscrutable things, eh?