My monthly challenges have disappeared from the Activity app

This is very interesting. Checking in my settings I have 3 watches listed with only 1 showing any data. I had changed the name of the watch to be something different, but I'm going to update the name to be consistent with watch that is showing the data in settings. No idea if it will help, but I'll add a post if it does.

So question now is - to I bother to try and complete my monthly challenge today in the hope that Apple fix this? Decisions decisions.

My best guess is we all just get new monthly challenges tomorrow as normal, it starts recording them from that point on, but all other 2019 badges before October are gone.

I think your best guess will be accurate... I don’t expect them to fix this now. If the info was somehow in the cloud then perhaps, but I have a feeling there’s an element of locally stored data that has not been synced here!

Just some extra info - I used an iCloud backup, due to being on the upgrade programme I had to hand over my old device. My wife’s phone was destined to be sold after she’d collected her new one. So I performed a transfer “phone to phone” and all her data is there including her monthly challenges! She went from iPhone 8 to iPhone 11 Pro.

Think we’re the unfortunate ones who are goosed because of how we did our migration!

How did our migration not work? All I did was restore my iphone to a fresh start. All of my other information including the most recent data from the day showed back up. The Only thing missing is the monthly challenges and the different exercise badges. If the process of how a phone is migrated is how the badges get transferred then something is definitely wrong. The monthly challenges ever since I started from back in May of 2018 is gone all the way up till now. How did I do anything wrong if they took away not just this month's challenge but all of the monthly challenges. This is definitely an apple problem. I'm sorry I do not believe this is a user error, but rather an apple error.

What I find even more strange is that on my old IPhone 7 Plus all my activity data has been uploaded even since migration date from old phone to new phone and it says I have still hit my monthly challenge and got my badge but it’s not registering any of that on my new IPhone 11.

Literally I noticed this today on my iPhone 8 Plus when I turned it on just out of interest! was gonna post about it tonight. I have achieved my September challenge on that phone but not on my iPhone 11. It’s clear that health data does sync over iCloud so the problem must be with the monthly challenge awards having difficulty syncing.

Are you on an iPhone 11 or older device? I wonder if you restored to iOS 12 then upgraded to the newer version if they’d show up? I had all of mine on an iPhone 10 all the way through the upgrade process. I only lost them when I restore my iPhone 10 and figured I’d start over with a fresh install of the os on the phone.

I’m on the iPhone 11 Pro. I was on the XS Max and I did a fresh install of the 11 Pro. The older phone is reset to factory now so can’t check, but I remember for two days my challenges still showed there

Update: So once downgrading to iOS 12 it will not let me sync to my phone because my watch is on watchOS6. So now I'm back to upgrading to see if anything has changed as far as awards. We shall see. Having doubts now though.

24.00 (12.00 pm) update local time in Italy:

With the end of September the challenge of October appeared to me. I opened the "Activitiy" app and magically all the monthly challenges completed at the end of 2018, and all those of 2019, came back. Including the September one that I completed today but that didn't appear anyway before now.

I hope this can help and I wish you come back as it happened to me.

Good luck to all.

On 2019-10-01 midnight (about 1 hour ago) all missing monthly challenge awards since October 2018 came back. At the same time, I was awarded the September 2019 challenge and given a new October 2019 challenge. 

I guess the reason for also getting the September 2019 challenge is that I continued with it's progress as if it was still there when it first disappeared.

Everything OK again for me. Closing the ticket with Apple.

This also happened for me, all my monthly challenge badges came back (as well as my September challenge completed) and my new October challenge given to me, I am over the moon with this, hope this is the same for everyone else!!

I keep losing more and more badges. Now all of my specialty badges are gone as well as all of my workout categories badges. I’m so disappointed in Apple on this issue. Yes I’m waiting to see what happens at midnight but is this really necessary?

Had the same issue after unpairing and pairing again my Watch S3 when I switched to iPhone 11 from iPhone 7.

Fortunately yesterday I solved the issue with software update on both devices (13.1.2 and 6.0.1). It took a couple of restarts also after the updates, but now all of my previously missing achievements are back!

I hope it would solve the issue also for others.