Are workout maps gone in iOS 14? I used to be able to view a map of bike rides, walks, etc. in previous versions of iOS. It was one of my absolute favorite features in the Fitness app!
Please tell me it isn’t so! I would be so disappointed 🥺
iPhone 11 Pro
Since I updated to iOS14 (iPhone 11 Pro Max) and WatchOS 7 (Watch Series 4), the day it was released, I've experienced the following issues:
What have I done?
What's the fix (may not fix it for everyone):
I've now fixed this, this is what I've done (there is no risk to this, providing that you have backed up your iPhone via iCloud or iTunes/Finder):
All my historical Outdoor run/hike/walk maps have reappeared. Any workouts since the iOS14 update does not appear and the 5-7 days Health data is all a mess for when I was experiencing the problem. Maps and routes are now being displayed in Fitness and the workouts are syncing. The Health data is all accurate and in sync. The phone is no longer heating up and the battery is back to normal - 93% since 6am!
I agree with people that we shouldn't have to do all this as Apple have completely messed this up - this is a bug and a serious issue with their Health and Fitness integration. I don't have the patience to wait for the fix, as it will take weeks (in my opinion) and I just want my Health and Fitness all back to normal. The biggest issue was the battery life and the phone heating up.
It's up to you all if you want to do this - do it in the evening, or whenever you've got time, there is no risk as long as you've backed up your phone.
Like some others, I reinstalled OS14 fresh on my iphone then restored from backup. Everything seems fine now - my old and new GPS maps are back and the missing data from the health app is there again.
I have an iPhone se 2020 paired with a series 3 watch. When I in-paired and re-paired, I restored from the latest backup (the one from when I just unpaired). Maps prior to iOS 14 were there. The ones from after iOS 14 prior to “re-pairing” only had the pin. After the re-pairing, the new workout maps worked.
properly.
I think that’s it now. I realised within minutes of the iOS update that there was a problem and have been communicating with the engineers ever since. After 14.0.1 came out the ‘fix’ was to reset and wipe your phone - just your phone - and reinstall from the last back which you were advised to do before the reset. This had to be to the cloud not a Mac. I get not everybody wants to do this, however it’s the only fix and decisions I guess have to be made as to what’s the most important.
it worked for me. GPS data on workouts appeared. Only new ones and I honestly think at the moment that old workouts will not come back
By doing this I lost the ability for heart rate data to be stored. It was recording it but just not storing it. It did appear in other apps but just not in activity/health.
The latest watch update has fixed this
Back to normal but historical data is lost
Any problems I had I just called support and asked for the medical app teams they collated reports from my watch and phone so they can see on a one to one basis what is happening
Well just did the 14.2 update and maps along with heart rate chart are all back...even the old ones that i thought were lost...one thing they did not come back immediately but over the course of about 12-15 minutes!!...I’m have to admit I am actually amazed!...hopefully everyone has the same results!
There have been numerous posts on apple related subreddits on Reddit, news articles on 9to5Mac, MacRumors and posts on their community forums too.
You can see if the GPS data for workout maps has been lost forever by exporting your health data from the health app and opening the resultant .gpx files with a text editor.
Workout files with maps will have line by line entries with latitude and longitudes. Affected workout maps are missing all this data.
People rising to Apple’s defence on this are pathetic. A bug causing data loss should never have made it to public release but I can’t say I’m too surprised given macOS 10.15 wiped countless users’ Mail.app archives last year.
I just unpaired watch and re-paired. I didn’t do anything to my iPhone. It all works now.
I have an Apple Watch series 3. Like I said, I just unpaired and re-paired my Apple Watch and everything worked again. I didn’t touch my iPhone (I did not wipe my phone). Good luck!
I had the same issue since ios 14. Today I installed the 14.2 ios software update and my maps are back tracking when i do a bike ride or a walk.
So for me the IOS 14.2 worked!
I updated to iOS 14.2 today and it finally fixed it!! Maps are shown in a new walk I just did, as well as one from this past weekend, with my full GPS lines like it used to do.
I did the Apple suggested fix (backup, unpair, backup iphone, erase, restore, pair-2.5 hours wasted) All old GPS maps are now visible with the map icon and a green start point, but no route (and the start point is in the vicinity of the start but not in the correct location)
this mornings workout tracked properly and displayed the map correctly.
so I’m glad new workouts are going to be ok, but very disappointed about the loss of all my old workout maps:(
Apple please fix!
I did the unpair, then paired again from backup created by unpair, then new maps started showing. VO2 Max did not work for my workouts for about 5-6 days after, then started working again. Not sure if watch update after original update helped. It was strange that it took so many days for it to work. My watch was not listed as source for VO2 Max while it was happening, now is listed as a source.
I installed iOS 14.2 and watchOS 7.1 last night. When I immediately checked fitness after the restart, my missing maps were still missing.
This morning (after a single overnight), I went for my morning walk as usual. After this, fitness had the map of the route. In addition, older maps were restored. And there had even been entire workouts not on found on the phone that were now back. I still have a few missing from early October 2020. But it seems that the rest were restored in the background overnight. So maybe those still missing might show up eventually.
Note that I never did a wipe and iCloud restore - I only updated from 14.1 to 14.2. I'm not using any betas - only the public releases and the standard way to update/install. Overall, it does seem that 14.2 is a big improvement, getting us back to where we were in 13.7 and prior.
This appears to have been fixed following the latest iOS update.
However, all of my pre-iOS 14 workout map data appears to be gone. As someone who likes to go for hikes and keep and record of previous routes, this is incredibly disappointing.
Is this data irretrievable???
I did the update to 14.0 on September 22nd and the wipe and restore October 5th. Since I only did a restore from iTunes, and not from iCloud I still only got start flag maps. Today I did the 14.2 update and immediately after got complete maps for workouts after October 5th, but still only start flag maps for workouts between September 22nd and October 5th. Workouts from before September 22nd are still missing maps. Hopefully they return as for j_in_spain after waiting overnight. Otherwise it is possible that the wipe and restore removed the old maps permanently.
Glad to have backed up all of my workouts to RunGap, however. I would really recommend doing so.
This is just awesome!
I had given up any hope of getting my maps back. After trying the "wipe and restore"-fix without success I was one of those for which the 14.2 update did nothing. My suspicion was that the fix was what nuked all my pre 14.0-maps, but lo and behold – a couple of hours after doing the 14.3 update I checked and found all my maps going back to 2016 now being restored.
Workout maps gone in iOS 14?
