Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Yes I’ve experienced the overheating on the phone too. Battery on the phone is also draining faster. I use my iPhone to track my strength workouts and listen to music. Before the iOS 14 update I’d drop from 100% down to around 92%-90% after an hour workout. Today during my workout it went from 100% to 68%. Resting heart rate is also out of whack...it’s jumped 10-15 bpm since the updates to my watch and phone. Something’s not right.

Same problem with my Apple Watch Series 3 and iPhone 7. All good with GPS data but then, firstly, I upgraded my phone to iOS 14 first and completed a run with my watch still on 6 and the GPS data didn't transfer. Makes me think the problem may be the phone iOS, not the watch. Now that I have updated my watch as well, the problem persists. Scrolling back through my runs on my phone, it looks like all of the GPS data has disappeared. For a company that prides itself on its fitness app, this is not a good look; very frustrating.

What annoys me more than anything is the mish mash of response from apple. I've spoken to 3 different people on the phone. 2 initially said nah there's no reports.

The first guy said I was the first person to report it - which was a flat out lie.

The 2nd person was as difficult as anything and said there was an issue would provide any information and said "why did i upgrade, I should have waited" then the phone dropped.

The 3rd person was okay, she took ownership of it and immediately identified existing issues and pulled more info.

I've got no response from apple via their twitter support - it's as though they've blocked me or something.

This was a public release and the quality control is appalling... But hey I guess Tim Cook & other management are too busy have stupid activity ring competitions with NBA players to care about the fact they've nuked huge amounts of data.

Having the same issue.

Noticed when I transferred my activities to Strava that tracking data was not present.

WatchOS 7 (AW Series 3 GSM) and iOS 14 (iPhone11 Pro Max).

All my previous Activities still contain the tracking map.

Issue occurs with and without my phone present during the activity.

The new activities have a correct distance, which agree with other runs/walks I have made over the same track. Watch also beeps at me when reaching KM milestones, so the Watch seems to be tracking distance OK.

Please fix!

Same issue for me except it also happens even when I do a workout with the phone on my person as well. When I go to sync the workout with Strava I get a warning that the workout doesn’t contain any location data and then the workout info is all messed up. This morning, my 5 mile run in 38 minutes synced as a .64 mile run in 60 minutes. Help!!

i have the exact same issue. switch off and on is fixing for a day or two and again it is back. i have to do the same thing, it is not even pinging my phone. i did unpair and pair as well but still i have this issue. i never has this issue even once before updating to watchOS 7.

I'm using Apple Watch Series 4 Nike+ version and with iPhone X. Both running latest OS version which is iOS14 and watchOS 7

I have the same problem also. It happen to me when i did an hour Cycling following by 30 min running. Both GPS Map also stay at starting point and there is no GPS Route Map. Any alternative to fix this while waiting the patches from APPLE? Because the 40th RACE is on this coming 4th OCTOBER London Virtual Marathon. I need to submit the virtual run result with the GPS Route Map on my workout/activities. Need to sync to STRAVA and need to show at NRC also.

Future runs only show the startingpoint and previous runs show no GPS-data at all. Very frustrating! Heartrate’s also not showing for future runs while previous runs still show this data. This is going on for almost a week now. How can the richest company on earth make such a big mistake.

I have this same issue with my Apple Watch Series 4 (non-cellular) and an iPhone X; no GPS data for outdoor workouts except for the start location. I’ve been taking my watch and phone on all workouts. I do not have Starva installed.

Same issue using Apple Watch S5 and iPhone 11 Pro. Importing data to Strava is a real mixed bag. Just come back from a 10km run and only 160m was logged, though distance on Workout Activity spot on. Not sure if it’s linked to privacy settings with Health app which seems to act as a bridge between Apple Apps and 3rd Party apps. Within Heath > Activity > Options > Data Sources & Actions there’s a data ‘Apps allowed to read data’ string where you can specify apps that can use the data. This is currently set to ‘None’ no matter what I or an Apple rep could do we couldn’t get Strava on this list.

This is fantastic, I upgraded my Series 2 watch to a brand new Series 6 which arrived yesterday.

I normally use iSmoothRun to log my runs but it refuses to install onto my watch so I decided to use the built in workout app and I have no map data, just a start point.

After reading what others have posted here I can see that all the route data for my previous runs has gone from the Apple Activity App.

So I'll be going back to using my old watch, what a waste of money.

Have you updated your iPone to the new IOS14?

As I have an old original watch and also have these issues. Don't think that it is the watch - I sense that it is the iPhone IOS 14 upgrade that's created these problems that Apple Watch users are experiencing.

Tried resetting and unpairing my watch which seemed to work. I went for a 5k run and gps is now tracking but I’ve noticed vo2 max is nolonger being recorded.

I have no idea what else is missing/broken, I’m amazed watchOS 7 was released, it seems unstable.

i have a series 2 & a series 4. Both are useless after upgrading the iOS 14.

The series 2 has exactly the same issues as the 4 when it comes to the debacle that is the Health/ Activity app.

Apple support don’t help & Sem to think losing all my health data is an acceptable resolution. If we have to wait a month for them to announce the new phones before an update comes I’ll be looking into trying to extract my data and move to another platform.

Apple, they care about your privacy so much they don’t even let you access your own data...

Iphone X and watch 5 post iOS 14 upgarde no GPS/Route info for workouts!!!!!!!!!! Urrghh all the beta testers advised it worked a treat but clearly not. I knew I should have waited for 14.01!!!!!!!!!