Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Hi TGWMO

How long does your wife's workout go back for? Which were the earliest?

My GPS restored workout maps only go back to 5th October 1 month from the update yesterday. Workouts done previous to that are missing or only had a map with the start of the workout flagged.

It's fixed!!!! Finally!!! I ran today and my mile time was back down to where it should be. I didn't even update the watch software or the iphone software yet. I wasn't expecting anything, but I got back from my run, looked at Strava, and my distance for the route was back to the proper distance (longer) rather than what it has been registering lately (too short), and since I've been running the same speed this whole time, my minutes per mile was back where it should have been all along. It's strange that it's working before I even update to 14.2 or 7.1 ... but it is!!

I´m also dissapointed...but this is not really the best place to get rid of your anger with apple - here in this discussion-forum are almost just Apple-users not Apple-officials.

Anyone who is disappointed with Apple should call / write to Apple directly to let them know your anger and the more effort that produces there, the sooner the problem and anger will be flushed up. 

Even if it may not help now, but maybe in the future they will be more careful.

As I mentioned before, I had been staying on 13.7 on iPhone 11 and had upgraded my wife from 13.7 to 14.2 with everything looking correct. I finally did my own iPhone 11 this morning, and all of my previous workouts there, and I went for a 3.9 mile walk this afternoon, and my route and all data is there. The only thing that I noticed was that my watch (WS3 still on 6.2.8) did not alert me to completing my 30 minute exercise, my red ring, and doing a full week of them. They do show that I was awarded them in the Fitness app. I just rebooted both devices and will see if I receive notification on the watch of the other awards once I get my 12th hour of standing.

My HR data has been spotty for a long time. On my morning walk yesterday I got no HR chart at all. I don't use any Bluetooth device while walking so I don't think that is the problem. I have had some luck by positioning my watch very carefully on my wrist and making sure the band is good and tight. I agree this is tiresome.

I saw it on Apple's website when they were advertising their upcoming One. Fitness + was available only on the most expensive 29.99 per month.

That was probably a couple of weeks after 14 launch. They didn't go into any details about it only to say it was coming.

I've given up on Apple, I use MapMyWalk which has more data than Fitness. I back up my workouts to RunGap app where I can view the Lap/Splits not available in MapMyWalk. I have the workout maps and workouts data on two different places which is a comfort. Also MapMyWalk syncs to my iPhone but without the route map which is a bit of a mystery why it wouldn't sync that too but I'm not worried about that.

I lost years of workout maps by depending on Apple but it's now a case of once bitten, twice shy.

There are other apps too that you can use for workouts but those are what I use.

My advice to anyone is ensure you backup your workouts and don't depend on Apple which have let us down in the past and no guarantee that the same won't happen in a future IOS update.

Everything was great before the disastrous IOS 14 update where it all went wrong.

Apple emphasis seems to be on emoji's, wallpapers and handwashing ....... oh dear, we miss Steve Jobs he'd never have let them release software that takes numerous betas and best part of 1 year after release to finally get rid of all the bugs.

I love Apple hardware but not the case with their buggy software, hopefully this will improve in the future

Next glitch: my S4 Watch suddenly stopped at 935 calories out of the 1000 my red circle is set to. Before that happened, I had done an outdoor walk which registered and synced fine.

When I saw I had a bit to go to close the red circle, I did an 10 min indoor walk around the kitchen table which recorded reasonable values for everything: heart rate, distance, time, calories, really all of it is there. But nothing was added to my circles which are still frozen at exactly the same values: 935/1000 kcal, 76/30 minutes - and weirder than ever: I have 16 blue stand-up bars (contiguous from 0700 to 2200, which is correct) but the counter says 13/12 hours...

And the all bars (red, green, blue) for activity in the watch are completely empty, while the numeric indicators show these frozen 935/76/13 values...

Both devices restarted, nothing changes...

Even did a panic update to 14.2 and 7.1 during last hour of the day. Watch and phone are STILL FROZEN at 935 out of 1000 calories. I do know what workouts I've done today and they are well beyond 1000, but this will likely break my streak, which I've maintained since Jan 1... bummer.

This is exactly what I’m experiencing! So frustrating!!! It has to be a bug that needs to be fixed! I don’t think the advice I’m getting from Apple support is the answer- recalibrate my info? The distance is correct - the map or GPS isn’t picking up the correct info!!

I have exactly the same issue. Went on a 12km walk today, recorded via the Workouts app. All the stats (distance, time, etc.) are correct, but the mapped route only shows approx half of the route I took. I had my iPhone on me during the walk, but I didn't use it at all or take any pictures on it. I'm fully updated, running iOS 14.3 on the iPhone and watchOS 7.2 on the watch.

I thought I had this figured out and yet again today on my long run 18k - and although my Apple app shows 18k the map is only 6k and that is what has been uploaded to Strava - frustrating to say the least- the fact that so many people are complaining and yet no fix after all this time - I’m done and going back to Garmin!

Facing the exact same problem... glad it’s not just me but going round in circles with support. Any longer walks seem to lose the first 7km - even an instance where my partner (stood next to me the whole time) recorded successfully but I didn’t... makes zero sense!

I used to have problems with synchronisation a couple of months ago. During that period I used strava directly from my Apple Watch 4. Then suddenly all worked fine again after a next update had been done which was good news after all. Now last night a new update has been installed automatically and my run this morning did not appear on HealthFit which normally syncs with other fitness apps on my phone. So the problem is back unfortunately. Very sad and frustrating when you ask me. Hope it will be solved soon again!

On my iPhone 12 Pro with iOS 14.4 the Fitness app doesn't open anymore since the last update (I'm not sure whether it could be something with the Apple Watch 6 most recent update too?), but on the Apple Watch the App seems to continue working except I don't get updates from my Activity Challenge with a friend.

I have unpaired and paired again the Watch, but didn't help.