Workout maps gone in iOS 14?

I agree, we'd normally be getting this sorted out in 14.2 (since 14.1 is 'reserved' for iPhone 12s and the new iPads), but given how big this is getting — even RunGap's site has a post about this, claiming that it's corrupting Health's database for good — I would hope that Apple's working on some emergency release of 14.0.1 or something to address this.

It's appalling that it's doing this even with Apple's own "internal" apps and nothing else. Personally I'm not a runner, I just track my walk workouts with my Watch and only use iOS's Activity/Fitness app (RunGap is read-only for me), but to completely lose hours of data isn't exactly encouraging.

Hi pal.

There are so many people not experiencing this issue (like us).

Beta 1 is out and I don't think it fixes this issue at all.

I reckon, try reseting your phone and restore from backup.

Someone in this forum tried this and it fixed the issue.

I'll probably give this a go later tonight.

I'm with you - this is frustrating and painful, one big mess from Apple.

Well thank you all for the insights, glad I am not the only one experiencing this frustrating issue. I do think all of the measurements from the "outside walks" yesterday are correct, other than the map. I will monitor this through the day. I get worried about resetting the phone, even with back up, but will probably try that tonight, if no progress and does not record today. On a side note, since this update, my Apple watch has been really sucking the battery, but I suspect that is for another forum.

I made a local backup before installing 14.0, but that wouldn't really work I think. I can restore from the latest iCloud but it's from last night, so data was already corrupt them. I think I missed the train for getting to a valid state via a restore!

I've tried the full reset of both phone and watch with subsequent restore from backup.

No help for me. I still have the workout problem, and my watch (OS 7, Series5 GPS) still burns through battery much faster than when I was running OS 6.

I have seen on another thread that people that have previous map route data still there but missing from ios14 onwards doing a watch unpair and then pair again resolves issue.

could someone confirm if this is the case?

That didn't work for me, unfortunately. I still have them in RunGap (prior to Sept. 1 anyway; as I said in this thread, my watch stopped recording gps tracks with iOS 13.7, but I only noticed right before updating to iOS 14!), but I can't access any maps in Fitness. Not sure if it's because the Health database is corrupted or it just can't access them.

I have the same problem and raised it with Apple Support. They have responded with a Twitter DM saying that they are aware of this being an issue, there is currently no solution, but to keep checking for updates.

Not a great help to you or anyone I know, but they have acknowledged that this is a bug.

I have been having all of the following issue. The good news is that I am working with an Apple Support Specialist and they called me back yesterday asking to pull logs from my iPhone.

It seems that Apple is not only 'aware' of the issue, but they have developers assigned to the investigation.

1) Some workouts not syncing to Fitness App

2) Heart Rate Data has large gaps

3) Map missing from workout PRIOR to the update

4) Map only showing starting position on sync'd workouts POST update

5) Activity Bar Timeline not showing all data (Easily seen with the stand timeline)

6) Data MANUALLY sync'd from iPhone to Strava is only showing about 60% of the distance

dwebb66 wrote:

I have been having all of the following issue. The good news is that I am working with an Apple Support Specialist and they called me back yesterday asking to pull logs from my iPhone.

It seems that Apple is not only 'aware' of the issue, but they have developers assigned to the investigation.

Yay! This is what happens when people report things to Apple!

People need to keep reporting this to Apple, either through customer support or the feedback page. The more people who report, the larger the pool of data Apple will have to draw from if they need to.

Well I did carefully unpair and the re-paired my Apple watch to the iPhone (both had been updated to latest IOS, took a 6 mile walk and the MAP WAS BACK! Thank you all for your help. Oh yesterdays still just shows as a dot on map but all the stats are ok! :)

No workout route (map) after doing an unpair / re-pair. Hopefully the Garmin Forerunner 235 still works.

It's amazing how much time most of us probably spent trying to figure out the settings that changed on us trying to fix their issue.

Thanks, I did that last night to no avail so who knows what the root cause really is.

I did however stop having gaps in the bars (or so it looks anyway) by ensuring that the “current” watch is the first in the list of data sources for activity in health, as i described above. That’s enough for me personally but I can understand rather frustration of losing maps for those who actually put effort into training!

So I took my time today, unpaired and wiped Apple Watch, backed up iPhone to both iCloud and locally and restored it.

I guess it is now syncing with the cloud and everything so I'll give it a couple of days to recover.

Just went out for a walk and tracked my progress with the Workout app. Came back home and it didn't make it to the Fitness app (as of now), maybe it'll get there overnight, will keep you posted.

As of older workouts – still no route on the map. Again, will give it several days to get through.

Got another bug – all my music from Music app disappeared. Turning off/on the music sync didn't help. Will check again tomorrow morning.

actually and unfortunately it is definitely a severe bug in the fitness app of Apple Watch 7 and iOS 14

All the maps are not shown any longer AND even OLDER trainings I did some weeks and months ago ARE LOST, no maps shown any longer,,,

Without the maps the whole Apple Watch 5 and the fitness App is absolutely useless for me!

I really cannot understand how APPLE can make such a big severe mistake and even not mention it anywhere as a severe bug...

‘incredible!