Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

This works for me.

-unpair Apple Watch

-reset iPhone and restore all the data from the backup

-pair the Apple watch

This will take 2-3 hours.

Than I did an outdoor walk and finally the gps data is showing on my iPhone again.

So I happy that this workaround is working.

I hope others will also succeed.

I have the same issue, all GPS recordings since the upgrade to iOS7 (Watch) and iOS14 (iPhone 11) are lost. Strava would not find them neither.

But today I recorded my workout with Strava and the GPS worked fine. So the issue is not Strava but a bug in the upgrade of Watch iOS and/or iPhone.

Tried to un-pair and pair again but it does not work.

Other people have said resetting doesn't help. The update is 14.0.1 and I'm just rebooting now after installing.

I'll post back on whether it helps.

Edit: no difference at all, still no gps data for a run I did tonight with the Workout app, or one I did months ago with iSmoothRun.

I appreciate you trying to help but the problem is point 6, that's what's happening to all of us without resetting or doing anything different. The issue is "It does NOT sync Map route! It just shows start point.."

Yes, I realize it...That's what I stated in #6.. It just show the start point.. I think it will all show up when Apple issues a fix.. The map date is stored...

At least I have it syncing via a manual fix..

My third post: I did erase my iPhone 11 Pro and unpaired my S4 watch keeping my cellular plan. I had to do the unpair/re-pair twice, after which, all kinds of odd things happened. Gave up for the night, but just as I plugged in to charge my iPhone I had a pop up from Apple asking me to sign in because some services (not identified) needed it to continue. So I did it. Today everything seems to be ok except for the data from Tuesday and Wednesday (missing GPS mapping, 3 workouts on Wednesday 1 on Tuesday, holes in the Stand graph for Wednesday). This morning two outdoor workouts were tracked and the Fitness app shows the mapping, etc. Beats me what finally did it.

Same here-since upgrading battery life has dropped drastically; I’m having to charge in the middle of the day to make it through. Open water swim just shows starting point and I’m REALLY missing my tracking map. Why even have an Apple Watch? I’m ordering a Garmin and giving up on activity rings.

Thanks for the update. I'm still hopeful it's just an issue where Apple's own Apps are failing to request permission they need to read and write health data. That way we've only lost data it's been trying to write during this issue and restoring read access will bring back all our old data.

You resetting everything may have forced the Apps to request the permission they needed. I know I had a really strange problem with signing into my iCloud account when I 1st paired my new Watch series 6 to my iPhone.

(I've written a couple of iOS apps and Apple's security around health data is very serious.)

Update post:

Completed both software updates for the iPhone-8+ and watch-6 then went for a walk - same issues.

Finally caved and factory reset both watch and phone. Everything is back to normal. GPS is missing for workouts done since update but all old GPS data has been restored.

Just did a quick test 1 mile walk GPS data synced perfectly.

I also had MANY other issues before which included; sporadic stand bars, missing minutes from my workouts & heart rate data, lack of credit for runs/walks, issues with them not syncing to phone.

Will update tomorrow if things turn south again .....

I had been toying with getting a dedicated GPS watch, and I plunged on the purchase today. I'm enough of a runner that I'll appreciate it even when this fix is implemented :)

For what it's worth, strava apple watch app synced directly to strava app, and having strava ios app set to import workouts into Health at least provides the appropriate splits. Maps not present in health, but they show up in Strava which is the key care about for me.

UPDATE:

I reset my watch and iPhone. All the data that was missing before is now restored and workouts are being recorded. Any workout that I did from the past few days was not recorded at all. Now I'll have to wait and see if the total calories are accurate or not.

My watch has been having the same problems. Tried doing the update to 14.0.1 on my series 9 iphone and newest update for the watch 7.0.1. Went for a run after the updates were complete and my route was still not showing up on the map after I finished the run. Getting frustrated. Any other ideas?

I just updated to the latest 14.1? Abs the result still remains. I think the health app doesn’t read the route or something like that as my Strava abs Relive app are link with Apple Watch via health but still no route recorded so I couldn’t uploaded my activity to star a as there’s no route map nor my route map video to Reluve app :(. Sucks

When I did this, my past workouts all returned except for the ones that were tracked in the past week using the faulty iOS 14/OS 7. Those gps routes never showed up and I assume they never recorded properly. But thankfully everything else came back.

Well it looks like unless they've either orphaned files in the DB or corrupted it.

Exporting from iOS 14 results in broken GPX files.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<gpx version="1.1" creator="Apple Health Export" xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <time>2020-09-25T04:12:48Z</time>
  </metadata>
  <trk>
    <name>Route 2017-03-11 10:53am</name>
    <trkseg>
    </trkseg>
  </trk>
</gpx>

There should be data in that file indicating GPS coordinates etc for each data point recorded; e.g. a snippet of a valid GPX is below

<trk>
  <name>{Activity name}</name>
  <type>10</type>
  <trkseg>
   <trkpt lat="-31.9940720" lon="115.7664100">
    <ele>-4.3</ele>
    <time>2020-09-25T03:15:44Z</time>
    <extensions>
     <gpxtpx:TrackPointExtension>
      <gpxtpx:hr>86</gpxtpx:hr>
      <gpxtpx:cad>0</gpxtpx:cad>
     </gpxtpx:TrackPointExtension>
    </extensions>
   </trkpt>

Looking through the xml files exported it looks like the geo-coordinates are not included. They clearly reference the gpx files, however the GPX files are empty...

  <WorkoutRoute sourceName="Matt’s Series 4" sourceVersion="13.7" creationDate="2020-09-16 16:47:43 +0800" startDate="2020-09-16 14:33:00 +0800" endDate="2020-09-16 16:27:00 +0800">
   <MetadataEntry key="HKMetadataKeySyncVersion" value="2"/>
   <MetadataEntry key="HKMetadataKeySyncIdentifier" value="30EBE256-0CEB-4F9D-A4FA-5C4F9BB6F70D"/>
   <FileReference path="/workout-routes/route_2020-09-16_4.27pm.gpx"/>
  </WorkoutRoute>

I sure hope they just have orphaned data in there which is why the GPX are exporting blank.... otherwise I'm guessing all my data is gone...