Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

This is fantastic, I upgraded my Series 2 watch to a brand new Series 6 which arrived yesterday.

I normally use iSmoothRun to log my runs but it refuses to install onto my watch so I decided to use the built in workout app and I have no map data, just a start point.

After reading what others have posted here I can see that all the route data for my previous runs has gone from the Apple Activity App.

So I'll be going back to using my old watch, what a waste of money.

Have you updated your iPone to the new IOS14?

As I have an old original watch and also have these issues. Don't think that it is the watch - I sense that it is the iPhone IOS 14 upgrade that's created these problems that Apple Watch users are experiencing.

i have a series 2 & a series 4. Both are useless after upgrading the iOS 14.

The series 2 has exactly the same issues as the 4 when it comes to the debacle that is the Health/ Activity app.

Apple support don’t help & Sem to think losing all my health data is an acceptable resolution. If we have to wait a month for them to announce the new phones before an update comes I’ll be looking into trying to extract my data and move to another platform.

Apple, they care about your privacy so much they don’t even let you access your own data...

Actually the problem manifested for me only AFTER I upgraded to WatchOS 7. The activity done after upgrade to iOS14 but prior WatchOs 7 did record GPS as always. Did not notice any change in battery live with WatchOS 7.

( iPhone XS, Watch Series 5)

After coming across this post via MacRumours, have checked my data. I see no GPS data for any of my logged workouts, walk/run/ride/swim prior to upgrade date. Also noticed there is no heart rate data.

Post upgrade date I get the gps start but no route, also get heart rate.

This is on an iPhone XS and S3 cellular watch. I always walk with my phone and watch, running is normally just the watch.

mice also found that the data in the health app appears to be missing in that I walk almost every day but when I look at the year or month view under “activities” there are large patches of nothing.

iPhone SE 2 2020 (iOS 14) + Apple Watch Series 5 (watchOS 7)

First I didn't get any workout synced from my watch to my phone, so I unpaired and repaired my watch. Then workouts showed up on my phone, but without GPS. I've reset my phone's settings and unpaired and repaired my watch again, but without luck.

(I also tried resetting / rebooting both in different orders.)

Seems to me that the internal database somehow has problems, but I can't dig deeper right now.

I’m having the same issues with my Watch OS 7, Apple Watch 4, and the outdoor walk exercise. It doesn’t record the route when I have my phone or not.

Also I do not use the Strava app. I’m not see the route in the Fitness app on my iPhone 11 Pro on iOS 14.

I had no problems with iPhone 11 and Apple Watch series 4 until upgrading to iOS14 & watchOS7.

After upgrading my symptoms were:

• Health app taking high cpu cycles causing phone to get hot and rapid battery drain
• phone Activity app not showing the same stats as the watch
• No GPS data on new runs/walks
• No GPS data showing on any pre upgrade walk/runs

I tried:

• unpairing/pairing the watch - no difference
• iPhone backup / DFU reset / restore, watch reset - no difference
• iPhone DFU reset & watch reset, no restore (just re-sync with iCloud) - seems to be sorted.

My iPhone and Apple Watch are now so far behaving well, no battery drain or inconsistent data, last night's walk and this lunch time's run (no iPhone, using Apple Watch activity app) have recorded GPS data correctly, although no VO2Max stats yet.

This is not ideal and it's taken me quite a while to get my phone configured as it was before; reregistering banking apps and access tokens.

Sadly I'm now left with missing GPS data on all runs back to June 2019. My guess is this was deleted by the Health App.

I've did get in touch with Apple, they initially said it was a hardware fault (with no explanation), they then suggested I uninstall and reinstall the Health app (how?) I now have an appointment next week at the Apple Store. I sincerely hope that they can get my missing data back.

Yep, same issue here with iPhone 11 Pro and Apple Watch S3. My last running training went without GPS data. On the contrary, my wife's running training with iPhone 11 Pro and Apple Watch S5 was perfectly ok. Both of us leave phones at home, both of us run iOS 14, watchOS 7.

I updated my iPhone XS Max to iOS 14 and first and the fitness tracking and workout data was still there on the widget and app. After that I updated my Apple Watch series 5 to watchOS 7. All data on my iPhone is now gone.

Experiencing the same issues; iPhone XS (iOS14) & AppleWatch Nike Series 6 (OS7)

Native Apple Workouts started on the watch (walk & traditional strength training) only show on the watch, the workouts do not sync with the iPhone. The activity rings are, however, updated to reflect the calories burned and exercise minutes...but the workout never makes it across. Issue began after updating phone to iOS14 and pairing new Series 6 watch.

Same issue with stand hours displaying only a few bars, despite having 12+ hours of stand listed numerically.

Walk/Bike workouts only show starting GPS, no routes.

A run recorded with the NikeRunClub app worked perfectly: recorded all route/data AND the workout synced over from the watch to the phone. When I ran, I only ran with the watch... so clearly there is an issue with the apple native workouts.

I've unpaired and repaired my watch from a backup, no improvement. I've unpaired and setup the watch as new, no improvement. Numerous restarts/hard resets/toggle airplane mode/toggle iCloud health settings/etc. with no improvement.

I'm waiting on "engineering" from apple, as the numerous calls I've made to tech support have not resulted in any fix.

Problem seems to be related to iOS 14. I lost the tracking data of existing trainings although my watch was still on watchOS 6. Tried to de-/re-couple the watch in combination with resetting the watch (no restore from backup) but no improvement. Meanwhile updated the watch to watchOS 7 but this also didn't solve the issue.

Lession learned - will wait for a patch release before upgrading in the future.

I think you're missing the point, the workout app on the Apple Watch used to track route data and now it doesn't, and all the route data that was accessible on the activity app on the iPhone is now missing. I doubt that Apple would just remove this as a feature, so it's obviously a bug in either the watch update or IOS update or both. Strava on the apple has always been kind of crappy, maybe it got better, but I've always had issues with it.

I thought of using Strava app this morning but it didn’t reload in my numerous pairing/unpairing efforts at the request of support and now the watch app will not let me install Strava on the watch. Lovely.

Same issue. Spent hours trying to set and rest all privacy settings, reseting the watch and unpairing and repairing not to mention 2 hours on the call with Apple! Just found this thread and glad I'm not alone.

Workaround for time being is to use an alternative app on your watch to record the route. Strava works in my case.