Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

this has nothing to do with Fitness+ subscriptions. Its simply a bug (which has deleted years of personal activity records for me and for most others in this thread) and abysmal handling of the situation.

Apple advertises data protection as a major strength. Now i wish i had imported my activities into an external application such as strava, where it would have been safely handled. Or Garmin connect, where i have records dating back 10 years. Cant imagine they would mess up like this. Lesson learned.

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.

Same issue. IPhone XS Max, Apple Watch S5. Seems like 50% of workouts are not recorded, although the miles and calories are. Started happing when upgrading to IOS14. Continued happening after updating to Apple Watch OS 7.

The only thing that worked for me was restoring my whole phone and watch from the latest back up that seemed to sort mine though I did do before the latest update as I was too impatient to wait and I’m running everyday so needed the maps! I did try just resetting my watch but I needed to do the phone too. Hope that helps.

Thought my applewatch (series 5) was the problem and bought yesterday the new one (series 6 A2376 version 7.0.1 18R395). Same problem. Today I started an activity (running outdoor) and got the same situation: after the workout my iPhone (11 pro software version 14.0.1) shows the starting point on the map but not the track. awesome .... grmpf

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

Haha, I have to revisit this thread. Back in September when iOS 14 came out I updated my 11 pro max and S4 watch to the first official releases, and promptly all **** broke loose, like for so many others in this thread. Randomly missing gps tracks, whole exercises not syncing to the phone, and mayhem in the blue bars for standing up. I went like that for a week and then restored the phone from iCloud backup. Everything went back to normal, including historical gps tracks back to 2017. Only lost stuff like gps tracks and some missing workouts done during that week, which is something I can live with.

Haven’t touched anything since September - but suddenly, yesterday I had several missing blue bars again in the phone, but 15/12 hours registered in the watch. Funnily enough, the total of 15 hours still synced to the phone, but not all the bars...

And today I went out biking. Rode for 40 minutes, then paused to check the watch - lo and behold, 0 (zero) kilometers and 0 (zero) calories recorded. W. T. F.

That workout was synced to the phone and it has an average heart rate and a pulse diagram, but nothing else. No map, no calories. And the time did not count towards the green circle.

I rebooted my watch and started a new workout for the rest of the ride home, and that seems to have recorded everything properly (knock on wood). I also had to manually enter a biking activity in the Health app to get everything in order (important to keep the streak of currently 342 days going :) )

Actually it is fixed. The run that didn’t track was my fault, I accidentally did an Indoor Run, so that explains why didn’t track gps. Everything is working good now with the IOS 14.2. The only thing I did after the IOS update was unpair/pair the apple watch.

My watch’s map tracking is still not working as of today’s outdoor walk. However, I have not restarted my watch to know if that fixes it. I will restart it today and hope it is fixed for the next walk.

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.

I then unpaired and re-paired the watch.. not sure if it that's what did it, but with less than 8 minutes to spare before midnight, all circles suddenly caught up and my 346-day streak is preserved - for now.

I experience the same thing with my iWatch 4 and I have updated it to 7.1 and I have a iPone 11 PRO and have updated it also, now to 14.2.

When I tock a walk this morning and used the APP on my iWatch for outdoor walking it gave no data in my IPhone as usual so I could see how long the walk was👎🏻😡

I’m also using the Apple activity app - and although it shows my entire run distance - the map portion only shows the 2nd of my run so when I upload to Strava it’s using the ‘map’ and showing I ran 10k when I actually ran 20k - very frustrating! This is since November- I’ve contacted Apple 2x and nothing is helping. Really frustrating!

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!!