Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

I wiped my watch and phone and restored them both from back ups, upgraded to the latest software and reset the fitness calibration data.

The GPS map is back, as well as the VO2 max reading. I only lost the readings from the days it was not being recorded.

It is not an ideal fix, and it takes a long time, but at least things are back to normal now...

Unpairing and resetting my Apple Watch 4 with my iPhone Xs Max on iOS 7.01 got gps recording working again for me. No need to backup and restore the iPhone to/from iCloud. NOTE: backing up an iPhone before resetting and restoring or upgrading is always a really good idea. In my case, I have a recent backup of the iPhone on a Mac.

Same here - no route data recorded, just the starting point. I have my phone with me at all times, don’t use Strava, have all the privacy and location settings appropriately set, etc. It started last weekend. Hopefully the fix will come out quickly as I’m not confident in the run/walk distances without gps. Also glad I haven’t invested in a 6 yet (using series 3 now) as those apparently are having the same problem.

Backup, reset and reload seems to fix the GPS problem.

BUT.....I've noticed another small issue.

I'm a strava user....when I use Strava to import my run/walk......or Healthfit to upload onto strava, the workout will be accepted into Strava (previously it would give me a no GPS data warning). The problem I'm having is the Strava mobile app won't show the map. It has all the other time and distance data (even heartrate).

The weird thing is if I go to the Strava website and view the activity, it looks normal (Map shown).

Strange.......anyone else see this happen?

I followed these steps too, although ran into issues re-pairing the watch after the reset (Phone seemed to think it was paired to the watch after restore despite being unpaired and I got a ‘Restore failed Failed to restore with error: error Domain=NBErrorDomain code=0 “(null)”’ error - restarting both devices resolved and allowed restore).

I can now see GPS / route data for pre-update workouts and energy burn seems to be tracking again.

As others have seen, data from the past week is still incorrect (activity and active energy don’t match, resting energy way down etc) and trend data is all out of whack. EG my move trend is 80 calories under what was shown immediately prior to reset and bars seem to be showing different totals. Awards also seem to have vanished.

Hopefully data sync and reporting will now be stable and accurate from here on in.

No change after installing iOS 14.0.1 and Watch OS 7.0.1 on my XR a S5 watch. Unpaired and "re-paired" the watch (no back up / restore or shut down restart) and got the route info on a new Outdoor Walk. Didn't get the route map on walks that were done since iOS 14 install. Might wait for the XX.1 version next time.

XR and Watch series 5, updates to 7.0.1 BUT can’t update watch. I have already gone through the factory reset of phone, unpair and repair watch, etc. yesterday.

everything seemed fine all day until about 1pm. Everything on my watch looked good, closed my rings, was getting texts like normal. But also noticed I was getting notifications on my phone simultaneously...weird.

started driving home around 6 pm and noticed how my watch showed that it couldn’t “see” my phone. For a second, I thought I’d left my phone at work but the. Realized I definitely had it.

checked activity app, did not show my closed rings. In fact said I’d only gotten 8/12 stand rings, even though my watch had said I closed them all. So stopped working around 1pm but continued to notifications on my watch.

then tried to open the watch app to try unpairing/repairing. Can’t open it. Turn on/off both phone and watch. Update phone. On/off both. Disconnect Bluetooth, etc. Everything. Can’t open watch app still.

try to update watch. Asks to accept updated terms on my iPhone...but no notifications are popping up on my phone.

so can’t update my watch.

can’t open the watch app on my iPhone, so can’t unpair my watch.

WHAT IS HAPPENING??

I have a series 3 and I did the update... Its not showing the current monthly challenge. Prior to this, it wasn't updating any of my days that I knew I completed toward the challenge. Anyone else have this issue?

I am experiencing a slightly different problem. Workouts do count for the exercise ring but they do not appear like workouts on the watch or on the app. They are simply missing.

Not sure what is going on. I will be riding on Sunday and I would not like to have this problem.

The problem is not watchOS 7. I just had this happening to my Apple Watch series 2 running watchOS 6.2.8 after upgrading my iPhone XS Max to iOS 14. The problem is iOS 14. Just upgraded to iOS 14.0.1 this morning and the problem persists.

8 hours after unpairing the watch, resetting the phone etc and restoring from back up it seems everything is back to normal for me. GPS is tracking, maps are showing (apart for those associated with workouts while I had iOS 14 / watchOS7 issues) and activity, resting and other related data is tracking as it was. Trends, awards etc have also returned to normal.

Slightly frustrating to have to do that, but on the plus side, it has drawn my attention to the fact I may have an unhealthy obsession with my health data.

Same thing happens to me. I was messaging with Apple support earlier and at first they thought it was a problem on my end but after I proved that it clearly was not I was told that they are aware of the problem and investigating it. I have a call scheduled with Apple tomorrow because they want more information.

Same problem here with AW S5 and iPhone 11 Pro both running watch is 7 and iOS 14.

called Apple support and nothing helped. Activity syncs as minutes and kJ burned but no gps collection.

also on map shows start but not route with hiking.

Its very annoying and hopefully Apple fixes this ASAP.

Alex from Australia.

Exactly the same issue. Apple Watch 2 with 6.2.8, problem started after upgrading my iPhone 11 Pro to iOS 14. Waited until 14.0.1 to see if the problem would solve itself away, no luck. Today tried the unpair watch, reset phone, restore phone, pair watch dance. iCloud just finished syncing, still seeing old workouts, for which routes have been surely recorded, as only the starting point pin, so the the workaround mentioned here has not worked for me. Now I have 30+ GB of photos to sync, and I'm back where I started ...

So updated both the wiOS and the iOS to the very latest this morning and workout data syncing again. Feels like there some additional test scripts needed in the integration space but fair play to Apple dev teams they’ve resolved it in a few days so not the end of the world. Hopefully that’s the end of it, we shall see ;-)