Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Same here.

GPS worked fine on the watch when it was on WatchOS 6 and the iPhone on iOS14, data was gathered and synced to Activities on the phone. Since updating to WatchOS 7 no GPS data!

Pretty big feature for a smart watch, this one shouldn’t have slipped through the net.

I have a AppleWatch series2 with watchOS 6.2.8 and iPhone7 now updated to iOS14 from 13 (latest version). The series 2 cannot update to WatchOS 7, so the only update I have made is going from iOS13 to 14 on the iPhone. So I think the problems depend on a bad iOS 14. I don't know if it would be even worse if the watch had WatchOS 7.

I bought a new AppleWatch series 5 yesterday, but I dare not unpack it. It can´t (now) work well with my iPhone with bad iOS 14 and for it self probably will load with WatchOS 7 when I start it. If I can't unpack it and use it in 14 days I have to go back to the shop for return. Then I get my money back.... and considering buying a Polar or a Garmin for running.

Hey F_E_C_V - in my case after the watch and phone restore, all workouts showed afterwards and things like awards, move streak / days closing all rings etc continued without an issue once health data had fully downloaded. Under reported data (like resting energy and active energy) recorded during the impact of the bug remained however.

I just got off the phone with someone on their "health team" - apologies if this was updated in here somewhere but it's too many replies to read through.

there "instructions" they have given engineers to tell us is the backup to icloud, unpair watch, wipe phone, restore from backup, etc...

i explained i only had the free plan. they don't have an answer yet if a local itunes backup would suffice (im old school) but he will go back to the engineers and get me an answer.

I also asked if the icloud free plan would hold a full backup if the majority of the 5GB of space was free. He seemed to think yes (i didn't want to delete all my photos in icloud (i do have them saved on my home PC)....so that might be an option for some of you too.

i am waiting to hear on the itunes backup answer...and am happy to update people as needed.

It's iOS 14.

Same thing is happening to watches that are not capable of running Watch OS 7.

The past routes missing is exactly what a lot of people are having. I've got ~5yrs worth of them all gone because of it.

The moral of the story, don't update to latest version of IOS until at least 14.5 15.5 etc as after 6 months or so Apple should by then have sorted out their buggy software

Not the Apple of old, if Steve Jobs RIP was around he'd have fired the lot of them.

Thousands of users have this problem as I have myself

I'm sorry now that I updated so soon, NEVER AGAIN,

This is one my my 'Lessons Learned book' 😡😠

did the whole process on Friday October 4(unpair watch, reset phone, restore from iCloud and pair it again) my watch is an series 4 cellular and the phone is an iPhone 11

today I did a bike ride and after I finished the. Workout all that is there and transferred to the phone ( heart rate and map). Still maps on previous workouts before the upgrade to iOS 14 just show the starting pin

On your iPhone go into Settings, General than IPhone Storage and note how much space your health data is saying it’s using. On my 64GB phone it says 1.61TB!! Some people are reporting space being used is more than many petabytes, weird!! So once you spend 5 hours doing what Apple suggest check first here if your health data is still saying it is using huge amounts of data nothing has changed and you have wasted your time.

I have the same problem on my iPhone XR and Apple Watch Series 3. After upgrading to iOS 14 and watchOS 7 I lost all maps on my workouts and new workouts didn't display a full map (only an empty map with a green starting point dot). I followed the instructions from Apple and reinstalled both my iPhone and Apple Watch. This restored my post-upgrade maps, but all historical maps are still gone.

This data loss is absolutely unacceptable. Hopefully the data is still available somewhere in Apple's data centers and will be restored by Apple asap.

I restored from backup as well. I did also download apple maps on the phone before I did the unpairing-repairing, because I read somewhere that it might help resolve the issue, but I don’t know if it made any difference..

commedianorwich, how many times did you go through https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211865 to get to the point where routes and heartrate charts show up for new workouts? I am still debating whether to go through this or wait until the next iOS update. Thank you.

Or any number of other apps. I’m using Cyclemeter. I obtained a spare phone that still had iOS 13.5.1 and restored my pre-iOS14 backup to that. I’m slowly importing my workout history from AppleHealth into Cyclemeter, but unfortunately you have to do them one by one. But I’ll eventually have an archive of workouts, routes, heart rate data, etc. I can move that to my iOS14 phone at some future point.

Apps like Rungap and Cyclemeter can also write to AppleHealth so theoretically that might be one way to get the lost GPS data back into AppleHealth when (if??) Apple ever fixes this bug. I say theoretically as when I tried on iOS14 the GPS data from Cyclemeter did not import — not surprising as the GPS/route part of the iOS14 health database is clearly corrupted.

Disappointed to hear early reports that iOS14.1 doesn’t fix the bug. It is absurd that Apple, who always emphasizes ‘privacy, on-device data’, would say the only fix is to send your data off-device to the cloud and then back again. Even more absurd is that a company with such high health & fitness ambitions didn’t catch this bug beforehand and appears to be in no hurry to fix it, if they intend to at all.

I have been getting this issue - and by the look of it quiet a few users. Is there an offical Apple response? Circa 4800+ users getting issues probably more.

I get all the location data if i use the Strava App on Apple Watch but not if i use Health. The other observation is that the Strava app really drains watch so i would prefer to use Health.

Apple Watch S2 now on Watch OS 6.2.9 and iPhone XR now on iOS 14.2 has solved my mapping problems.

All previous maps using the Workout App are sadly gone but for me this is not an issue as I upload from Workout to my Strava account so they are all there anyway. As many other have said they did, while I was waiting for Apple to fix it I used the standalone Strava app (not a fan, it’s sometimes flaky) or on days when I took my phone I’d use Walkmeter Elite for GPS tracks and used the watch to stop and start the run or cycle, as well as gather HR data. Walkmeter Elite also uploads to my Strava account, just a shame that you have to carry your phone with you to use it as it’s a brilliant app for £8 a year.

I’m glad it’s fixed and working properly again to map activities - no more wondering if the Strava app will save my training.

I then unpaired and re-paired the watch.. not sure if it that's what did it, but with less than 8 minutes to spare before midnight, all circles suddenly caught up and my 346-day streak is preserved - for now.