Workout maps gone in iOS 14?

In my case it's really Health.app choking on its database and using so much CPU that the OS kills it; I included a log file showing just that in my report to Apple. :|

At this point, in my case (and I suspect many others), the only hope is Apple releasing 14.0.1 / 7.0.1 soon with some housekeeping routine for Health. I can't see any other way out.

It did not work for me either. The only thing i hope it fixed is my fast battery draining issue. The next update better have the fix for this. I am one of those that bought an AW for their fitness tracking specifically.

Just did another ride and it recorded properly again with GPS.

This time, I didn't start Strava on my watch. Only the activity in the native app.

And my HealthFit imported it to Strava and Strava shows the GPS route as well.

Hard to really rely on it now for a big ride, but for short commutes, I'll keep using it.

I really did a full restore on both - never unpaired though.

But that didn't fix the problem right away. It took a few days for me to try again and find it working.

Maybe it had to reprocess old data? But my feeling is that Apple did something on their side.

I already give feedback to Apple and also had a support guy looking into it : for now no solution....

iPhoneX and Watch 4 Nike GPS + Cellular.

I already did : unpair of watch, restore from backup, setup as new watch...same procedures together with an iPhone Restore through Finder as well as downloaded the images.

Every try makes it more worse.....

Unpairing watch and restoring iPhone : there I already have no maps at all in the Fitness app.

After pairing the watch it is not syning workouts to the iPhone any longer, or heart rates are completely missing. In every case there is no map.

So only thing here is : HOPE, Apple will fix it soon and will bring back all the lost maps etc...

Do nit want to loose hundreds of workouts from the last four years ....

Did the IPSW install as mentioned earlier in the thread and the routes are still not there. The maps and weather info is back but just with a pin. Will give it a couple of days to process the data and then see.

Does anyone know if third-party apps are able to record the GPS route whereas the Workout app can’t? Wondering if it’s just a Workout app issue or something else.

So I decided to go to Apple support today with the issue. I spent the better part of the afternoon backing up my iPhone 11 Pro, unpairing my Series 3 watch, erasing my phone, set it up and used last back up, re-pair the watch and wait...and wait for all apps to be reinstalled. It did not work so the tech scheduled a call to “escalate” the case. The tech on the phone wanted to do the same thing. After declining he said it was a known issue that would be addressed in the future. Tonight I took a walk and...the route was there! None of the past routes (years worth) are back but it is a start.

I'm not an Apple engineer but I had noticed the watch missing from there (in my case I have a few "older" watches from previous restores, but not the "current" ones after watchOS 7 / iOS 14). In my humblest opinion that's a big part of the problem: routes are not saved because the watch is not even registered as a potential data source for that.

That shouldn't affect older routes as they're theoretically saved in Health, but I wouldn't be surprised if the upgrade just accidentally wiped those out due to some race condition or other glitch.

I still get a high CPU usage by Health.app despite the restore from backup of both iPhone 11 and Watch 4 (my health database is probably seriously broken, unlike others who got things back), resulting in the device becoming burning hot and the OS killing "healthd", the d indicating that it's a daemon (background service). With that failed and not restarted until later on, it would explain why sometimes we get gaps. The watch just pushes that data once to the phone, always expecting that it succeeds, and never tries again because it just doesn't know it failed.

At least, that's my take on it. Fingers crossed Apple sorts this out soon, because it's really frustrating. I don't care much about my routes, though the botched data does irk me. It just feels like the whole ecosystem suddenly became extremely flaky and unreliable.

If anyone wants to see if the Health background service also gets killed on their phone, go to Settings - Privacy - Analytics - Analytics Data, and search for "healthd.cpu_resource-..."). If it's there, it will probably say something like this:

Event: cpu usage

Action taken: none

CPU: 90 seconds cpu time over 139 seconds (65% cpu average), exceeding limit of 50% cpu over 180 seconds

CPU limit: 90s

Limit duration: 180s

CPU used: 90s

CPU duration: 139s

Duration: 139.01s

Duration Sampled: 137.67s

Steps: 174

I have iPhone XR and a series 3 watch.

My workouts (runs and walks) are being recorded accurately (distance, duration, splits etc) but the map is not working - just a pin on the starting point.

I tired unpairing and re-pairing my watch and when doing this, selected to set up the watch as new (ie did not select to restore).

Sadly, it did not fix the problem.

I sure hope Apple fixes this soon. I now ha ea week of workouts with no maps which breaks RunGap’s ability to compare similar activities.

Today I used the Watch Strava app to record my run. Almost everything worked. The watch app synched with the iPhone app and the iPhone app sync the strava website and I could see my run on the map and all my segments were there. Looking at the fitness app I see that my move ring reports the calories from the run and also the exercise minutes. What is missing is the actual workout does not show on the fitness app.

I know everyone seems to be getting different results but all is back to normal for me! Yesterday my run didn’t even upload at all. Fed up, finally decided to reset just my iPhone and restore from backup. I ran today and it uploaded AND the Map is there!!! Even historical maps are back!! For a while after the recent up date- no map, then the map came back with no data just the starting point, then nothing at all! So this was a fix for me!

I didn’t unpair my watch first as I forgot. I simply followed Rick’s process of

1) ensuring phone was backed up to cloud

2) downloaded 14.0 file on Mac and plugged phone in to reset it

3) when phone was back I restored from cloud backup

as part of this my watch was also restored as the apple logo appeared on it whilst it was on my wrist and the running track around the outside.

everything now works and maps show except for 2 days after the update and before the fix. Pity as one day was a 60mile ride but it’s not the end of the world

This does not work for me. I tried but when the iPhone is back with the latest backup, my watch didn't do anything. When opening Watch app on iPhone it asks me for pairing a watch. ****. At this stage even all maps are still missing in all workouts from the last 4 years.

Well now suddenly I not longer have the heart rate chart on my activity summary....says chart unavailable due to possibly not enough data.....what the h- - - is next with this watch.....gotta love iOS 14 and iOS 7....NOT!!

Hi

After clean install I restored from the latest backup as I did not want to lose any data from any app.

I did unpair my watch before, then allowed the restore to fully finish before re-pairing my watch and with the latest backup.

Chris