Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Out of curiosity, has anyone tried restoring from a pre-iOS 14 backup and seeing if that fixed the problem? For my part, I sent a Tweet to Apple and have had two phone calls from support. Both times involved lengthy process of sending them the analytics from my phone and watch. The phone worked successfully once, but the watch has refused to connect and repeated attempts for the phone have also failed. The case will be reviewed by their engineering dept.

AM wrote:

"The biggest disappointment for me is not the bug. Software developers know that things can terribly go wrong.

It is the lack of helpful information from Apple. Just a ridicolous „Erase all“ solution.

Nothing about a fix, a release date."

Couldn't agree more!! This isn't the Apple I have known. And absolutely not the Apple I want to see in the future!

/Ulf

Yes, Apple have lost their way since Steve Job died.

If Steve were alive he'd have sacked all involved in this debacle and wouldn't have launched until it was fixed.

Now it takes nearly a full year after launch for Apple to get rid of the majority of bugs.

They had 10+ years of watching Android Widgets and couldn't even get that right

Now it's big news if they add a few emoji's FFS it's very annoying

Lets hope they sort out this in the near future but I'm not holding my breath

@MayoTom you do realize that the first iPhone was not even ready to be de led on stage when Steve Jobs presente it and they have several models on standby as the software was not ready either. Complaining here will not fix anything

Did a long run this evening and used the Strava app. Didn’t record my run properly at all. Absolutely fuming and very fed up now... think it’s going to have to be a Garmin purchase ! 🤬 it’s ridiculous how they’re not fixing this !

Resolved the issue of new workouts not recording GPS routes by unpairing and repairing the watch (S3 and iPhone XR). This also fixed an issue with elevation min and max and the last km in splits for run workouts not showing up.

I did the full reset of both devices for my wife’s phone and watch about a week. All worked fine for under a week and the bug has reappeared today! She did a walk this morning with gps, then tonight did a run and no gps. Just the start shows. Very, very disappointing after all the effort of the full resets.

I tried that but it didn’t resolve the issue (this was on a S6 with iPhone X). Can I ask?, When you repaired did you set the watch up as a new watch or restore from backup? I did a restore and as mentioned, it didn’t work. Wondering if repairing as a new watch makes a difference?

I restored from backup as well. I did also download apple maps on the phone before I did the unpairing-repairing, because I read somewhere that it might help resolve the issue, but I don’t know if it made any difference..

The picture in my mind of the Apple engineers responsible for the fitness app is the complete opposite to the person who actually uses the fitness app and all its features and how it interacts with the Apple Watch, otherwise if they actually had completed some activities they would know they have crippled the app for most uses. A very disappointed Apple customer.

The same issue here (Watch Series 3), for me everything work perfectly around two weeks ago and stopped after the update to iOS 14. Update to watchOS done few days ago and still the same issue. I already tried to unpair and repair of the watch, reset of the watch, setup as a new watch and still nothing - I can only see the starting point of my training. My previous recorded trainings are fine and availale

Had the same issue. Fortunately, I still had my old Series 1 Watch, which I re-paired and did a restore from the last backup I made on that watch. Did the trick, because now all my data has been restored. It even put the medals & achievements back that were lost. Hope this helps.

I am having the same issue. First it started off as whenever I did a work out, if my battery was 50% 10 mins in my watch would be dead. I unpaired and repaired with no fix and now even though I have done a workout my move, exercise and stand rings have not moved.

This issue needs to be fixed asap. This is why I don't update usually

This problem has gone on way too long. This is the time of year many people try to get points from a workplace health app so they can get $$ for their HSA accounts. I can't get my normal points to earn my $$ because my workouts are not recording properly. In addition, I'm trying some new meds for my insomnia and I'd like to get data from Autosleep that I can show my doctor but that is not working either. I have tried everything suggested and all that did was waste my time. Apple, you have failed.

No, it happens will all Watch models that could update to 7 and with all iPhones from 6Plus to the latest

IOS 14 which is a complete BOS

What's Apple up to lately? releasing such buggy software

Battery life too is terrible, you'd have thought they'd have learned from Android how to do Widgets but no they are very problematic too.

Apple seem to have lost their way and not the first time since Steve Jobs left