Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Actually the problem manifested for me only AFTER I upgraded to WatchOS 7. The activity done after upgrade to iOS14 but prior WatchOs 7 did record GPS as always. Did not notice any change in battery live with WatchOS 7.

( iPhone XS, Watch Series 5)

In my case, neither outdoor walk nor outdoor run activities pass any GPS route info to Strava if I record them with the watchOS Workout app.

If I use a a different watchOS app (WorkOutDoors) to record my activity, then export to Strava, the correct GPS route data is included.

iPhone SE 2 2020 (iOS 14) + Apple Watch Series 5 (watchOS 7)

First I didn't get any workout synced from my watch to my phone, so I unpaired and repaired my watch. Then workouts showed up on my phone, but without GPS. I've reset my phone's settings and unpaired and repaired my watch again, but without luck.

(I also tried resetting / rebooting both in different orders.)

Seems to me that the internal database somehow has problems, but I can't dig deeper right now.

I’m having the same issues with my Watch OS 7, Apple Watch 4, and the outdoor walk exercise. It doesn’t record the route when I have my phone or not.

Also I do not use the Strava app. I’m not see the route in the Fitness app on my iPhone 11 Pro on iOS 14.

In addition I can’t get Strava to start on my watch. It struggles to load but when it finally does tapping an activity, such as outdoor ride results in no further action. It doesn’t advance beyond that menu item. Map My Run is acting similarly.

Yep, same issue here with iPhone 11 Pro and Apple Watch S3. My last running training went without GPS data. On the contrary, my wife's running training with iPhone 11 Pro and Apple Watch S5 was perfectly ok. Both of us leave phones at home, both of us run iOS 14, watchOS 7.

Experiencing the same issues; iPhone XS (iOS14) & AppleWatch Nike Series 6 (OS7)

Native Apple Workouts started on the watch (walk & traditional strength training) only show on the watch, the workouts do not sync with the iPhone. The activity rings are, however, updated to reflect the calories burned and exercise minutes...but the workout never makes it across. Issue began after updating phone to iOS14 and pairing new Series 6 watch.

Same issue with stand hours displaying only a few bars, despite having 12+ hours of stand listed numerically.

Walk/Bike workouts only show starting GPS, no routes.

A run recorded with the NikeRunClub app worked perfectly: recorded all route/data AND the workout synced over from the watch to the phone. When I ran, I only ran with the watch... so clearly there is an issue with the apple native workouts.

I've unpaired and repaired my watch from a backup, no improvement. I've unpaired and setup the watch as new, no improvement. Numerous restarts/hard resets/toggle airplane mode/toggle iCloud health settings/etc. with no improvement.

I'm waiting on "engineering" from apple, as the numerous calls I've made to tech support have not resulted in any fix.

Problem seems to be related to iOS 14. I lost the tracking data of existing trainings although my watch was still on watchOS 6. Tried to de-/re-couple the watch in combination with resetting the watch (no restore from backup) but no improvement. Meanwhile updated the watch to watchOS 7 but this also didn't solve the issue.

Lession learned - will wait for a patch release before upgrading in the future.

Same exact problem. IPhone 12 pro, Watch series 3, all upgraded to 14. Cannot see the maps inside activity app. I sincerely hope this is just a UI bug and they have not lost the data. Just finished my run and realized Activity AOP doesn’t show the route on the map

I think you're missing the point, the workout app on the Apple Watch used to track route data and now it doesn't, and all the route data that was accessible on the activity app on the iPhone is now missing. I doubt that Apple would just remove this as a feature, so it's obviously a bug in either the watch update or IOS update or both. Strava on the apple has always been kind of crappy, maybe it got better, but I've always had issues with it.

I thought of using Strava app this morning but it didn’t reload in my numerous pairing/unpairing efforts at the request of support and now the watch app will not let me install Strava on the watch. Lovely.

Same issue. Spent hours trying to set and rest all privacy settings, reseting the watch and unpairing and repairing not to mention 2 hours on the call with Apple! Just found this thread and glad I'm not alone.

Workaround for time being is to use an alternative app on your watch to record the route. Strava works in my case.

Since I updated to iOS 14 on my iPhone11 and WatchOS 7 on my S4 with cellular, something even weirder is going on. The first outdoor run which I did 4 days ago after the update had recorded all activity correctly (HR, calories & all) but as you all said no route information (GPS missing). When I went back home and tried to sync with Strava, noticed that it is showing that the route info is missing and in distance wise, it was showing only 2.4miles even though I ran 6.1miles. Then I went to health app & noticed that within Health app, the walking + running distance activity was showing that same 2.4 mile even though within the same Health app, the workout section was showing full 6.1mile. When I go to Activity app, it showed the full 6.1mile distance but saying no HR chart available as didn't get enough data even though the avg HR is showing correctly with what I saw on my watch after finishing the run.

After this the next day, I did a strength training with the watch and this time no data showing up either in Activity app or in Health app though today's activity showing correct exercise time & calories burnt in the 3 ring sections at the top. Same thing happened again today, when I did the run and every thing showing correctly and recorded in the watch but both the Activity app and the Health app not showing any of that run. In between, I'd unpaired & re-paired my watch yesterday and did that again today. But this problem is still there.

Reading the thread, it seems it's a known issue to Apple and they are trying to fix it. I guess I need to wait for the fix to come. It really sucks. Please let me know if anyone else has similar issue?

I’m having the same problem, Sunday morning bike ride recorded fine, rode again in the afternoon and the issue popped up out of nowhere. iPhone 11 Pro with iOS 14 and S2 watch with watchOS 6. Clearly the bug is somewhere in iOS as my watch is too old to upgrade.

I tried updates and repairing then resetting to factory settings and repairing. This locked up my watch and I had to keep restarting and keep charging until it paired. Apple was going to have me send the watch in so be careful as this can really lock up your watch.