Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

I'm with you. Not deleting, restarting blah blah blah. It's absolutely rubbish. I've had to start carrying my iPhone to record (directly in Strava) my runs. This is supposed to be the best watch for Health and Fitness and it's just a joke. For the first time since AW1 I'm seriously thinking of walking away and buying a Garmin.

Can anyone confirm that a backup and restore to icloud after unpairing the watch and the iphone did not work as expected? I followed the support article but backed up and restored to my computer as I don't want to be held hostage buying icloud space I otherwise have no use of and it did not work in restoring lost maps or creating new GPS routes. I'd like a show of hands who tired to follow the article and used icloud and it still failed to fix the issue?

I’m pretty sure that there won’t be any fix in iOS 14.1 or 14.2. Apple doesn’t care.

The outrageous erase all solution is all we get. Old GPS data is lost forever, unless you have local backups.

I use HealthFit which exports all data to iCloud Drive.

Just realised that i lost all my previous gps data, this is ridiculous!!

I will NOT delete and restore my phone with icloud. Because i will not pay for such an epic fail - shame on you apple

iPhone SE 2020 14.0.1, Watch 3 7.0.2

Bennett-- Can you tell me which workout data problem was solved after you erased and restored your phone from backup? And did you backup the phone after you noticed the missing data? Is that the backup you restored from? I have lost so many chunks of data from almost all categories, heart rate, distance, route maps, workouts, etc.

I cant believe Tim Cook doesn't have this issue with his apple watch. He works out everyday at least per his publicly accepted challenge with one of the NBA players. Even if he doesn't run outside he should have had the same issues many folks have with the health summary out of whack with the fitness app, not to mention the missing GPS data, generally erratic response of the watch with ios14. Mine was working flawlessly prior to this buggy ios14. I had the utmost trust in what Apple put out. Massive loss of confidence in apple SW updates and in general with Apple. How can they screw up the basic functionality of the apple watch as a fitness tracker so badly?????

Hey apple when is this going to be fixed? I can’t use the workout app like this. It sucks that I can see my route. And if I use Strava or adidas running I don’t get the activity saved as a workout in the fitness app. So I have no way around it. I’m very desperate and frustrated here.

Yes please, old Activity and IOS 13 everything working as it should.

A simple procedure to downgrade would b appreciated and not a long Apple rigmarole "solution"

A simple click button to revert BOTH Watch and phone.......... Sadly will never happen.........

When you mention the betas fix it, does that mean all pre-14 data is viewable, your GPS paths are visible now and everything looks like it is supposed to with new workouts? I am still on 13.7 and am hoping that 14.2 is truly the fix so I can finally upgrade.

Danke, Tom

My advice is stay well clear of 14 until it's crystal clear that all the bugs re workouts is sorted out. Going on past performance it may well be nearer to 14.5 than to 14.2 when the total mess that is Fitness app is rubbish.

I read somewhere that Apple were introducing Fitness+ as a monthly subscription so we'll have to pay a monthly fee for something that works,........ sound like Apple ....... headphone jack ........ no charger ....... of course to save the planet.

Cynical? you betcha ..... Apple used to be the gold standard ..... now nearer to rust standard 😡😡😡

Tim probably just posing for his Instagram feed ........🤣🤣🤣🤣

If he used it 'in anger' he would have immediately seen what a BOS IOS14 is.

Let us go back to 13.7 with a one touch process ..... no wiping, backing up, wiping, backing up ad infinitum ....

Then go to 14 when it goes to 14.7 ..... a good plan I think

So frustrating! Since updating my watch only shows starting point and even doesn’t show my run activities. I need it to show so that I can update to my discovery app to make my goals to get discounts. Very off putting. I’ve tried absolutely everything and ZERO helped. I’ve been a loyal apple user for the past 8 years but this is really ******* me off.

Still no solution after a month, what a disappointment. The whole advertisement campaign for Fitness is about motivating people, what could be worse than making your customers loose all their activity records? This is a HUGE disappointment apple.

Garmin never let me down, and thanks to Garmin connect all the data is saved in the cloud where I CAN ACCESS it. This is such a mess, can't say how disappointed I am.

I have the same issue, it's harder to hit your goals because we getting less points with no location or elevation data and it's been over a month now and still no fix, there was also no fix with the latest software release

It doesn’t look like 14.1 has addressed this issue for me either.

Astonishing!

If the issue was created via software, it can be fixed going forward via software. It appears that this just isn’t a priority for Apple.

Going forward it makes sense to not have all of your GPS tracking eggs, or any other health tracking, in the Apple fitness basket.

It has certainly caused me to look elsewhere for my next watch upgrade.

Keep telling yourself “it just works”