Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

I have this problem too and have tried all the suggested remedies. (Except wiping my iPhone 12 pro or Watch series 4, we shouldn’t have to do that.). Lesson learned - don’t upgrade until 14.1 or even 14.2. This is really bad.

With any luck it will be saved on your watch and when Apple release an update it will be brought into Fitness app on iPhone.

I'm waiting until Apple release a fix, many have followed Apple advice re wiping both phone and watch and starting from over again from scratch with the chance of losing past saved workouts.

Yes you’ll just need to enable it to write to the fitness app.

Settings->Privacy->Health->Strava and turn on everything.

It’s very simple. Auto uploads to Strava so you don’t have to import the data and it writes it to apple fitness.

cheers!

So, this is not working and supposedly there's a fix coming (according to the thread).

It's very frustrating! I don't see anything official on the Apple site which is disappointing. I have unpaired and paired the watch and restarted devices...

PLEASE APPLE FIX THIS OR UPDATE US!

In addition to that bull pucky, my watch has now stopped recording my heart rate. It's very sporadic and when the activity is viewed on the phone, it states "Chart Unavailable". Occasionally it will record the heart rate. This is important to me as I'm over 60 and don't want to go overboard in my workouts.

Both my watches, series 4 and 5, have become useless for what they were intended. They've know since at least the middle of September and yet the only "fix" is wiping everything and restoring and re-pairing. NOT acceptable. I have no intention of doing that, and I feel I shouldn't have to.

October 4 I followed the steps in their support article regarding this issue. However I used my Mac to back up and restore my phone as I have too much data for an iCloud back up.

After the restore the battery is better, I think, but not sure yet.

However, the map data is still missing from workouts and new workouts have no map data either.

So disappointing. Years of data lost.

In reply to WSREP223 - Well how do I get around the space limit? I don't want to have to pay apple for icloud space that I do not normally use.

For an icloud backup and restore, If I disable all my other apps for backup so that I don't go over the 5GB limit, and just leave the health app then the icloud backup would work but then when I restored wouldn't all my other apps be missing?

Ok, so you paid Apple for icloud space so you could fix their issue, did it work as expected? Did you follow the steps in the article and was your workout maps activity restored and new workouts save map data now?

Thanks for the information and advice. Since it won't restore old map data I won't pay them the money, which is blackmail anyway. I'll wait for their fix but I am guessing we will never see old map data restored. Did you also have the battery draining issue?

Ah... thanks for that tip regarding the Total Walking+Running Distance in the Health app. Mine did same, disappeared but also last full year of data is 2017. 2018 and 2010 both have just a bit of the data but most months are blank.

Definitely the lost map routes are related to this bug, by their own admission. They should make the upgrade to 50GB icloud storage free. This is actually blackmail. If you want your data back, pay us a ransom.

Time will tell if we get it back from an update but I am guessing not. I hope at least my health data historical walking+running comes back.

Can anyone from Apple confirm that it backing up and restoring from iCloud is absolutely necessary or can this be done by backing up and restoring from a Mac computer? iCloud storage is only 5GB for the free account and my backups require more space than that so need to know if there is a difference?

I am referring to the article to "fix" this SNAFU. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211865

I paid for the extra storage...but it was only $1 for 50GB. Figured I’d cancel if there were issues.

there were none. Restored perfectly and I wasn’t tethered to my computer during the restore. Absolutely worth it.

Full reset of both my wife's and my iPhones and Apple watches last week. Maps been fine but tonight discovered it wasn't a glitch in my last run, heartbeat is not showing on watch for the first (approx) five minutes of run. Then not showing on Fitness/ Health Fit and obviously Strava. Checked wives runs and exactly the same thing happening, reports heartbeat but only from between 5-8 minutes onwards. I

Any others got this issue? Never happened before this crazy update.

The missing route do not matter so much for me cause they are stored in Strava and Training Peaks.

But I do care about the missing function such as VO2 which is no longer recorded. Looks like apple has introduced new stuff such as cleaning hand and oxy, and scr*** up for older functions which was perfectly working before that ***** update