Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Sad to hear that this issue still exists on newest hardware. This really makes me think if I should upgrade from my Series 4 to the Series 7 this year. APPLE, THIS IS A DEALBREAKING ISSUE.

Also I have been using the App GPSdiagnostics in order to see whats wrong with the iPhone's location data while a workout is active. This confirms that the phone's location API is seriously broken and simply stops updating the location regularly when working out on a connected watch. This is a stupid API error that is super obvious!

I mean, look at this mess!

I ran the Great North Run today (half marathon) taking care to switch Bluetooth off before leaving my phone in the car.

I set off on the first mile at a decent pace, but my watch was showing me running at 10:30 miles which couldn’t possibly be correct. I got to a course mile marker and yet the watch was only

showing 0.8.

a long story short, HealthFit shows the ****** thing didn’t get a GPS signal for 9 minutes so must have been using the accelerometer/pedometer to guesstimate.

Luckily I ran out of steam and finished in 2:04 so it didn’t matter anyway, but my Strava version is absolutely trashed and shows as something like 12.4 miles. Absolutely infuriating.

The only thing I can think of is that even with Bluetooth off, when I’ve started my other runs, the watch would have been within range of my home WiFi.

Beyond fed up with this and disappointed to read the updates haven’t fixed it. Is it happening on newer models too?

I’ve just done the Manchester half, strangely low pace numbers to start and low and behold, HealthFit shows it took over an hour to get GPS lock. That’s despite me bringing my iPhone out with me this time to try and mitigate it

Sadly I have the same issue, but until now there is no solution for that.

The map only shows the START and not the route nor the stop.

The software for both my phone and watch stink. Try sending a new message from your phone, you have to create the message then HOPE they send it to the right person, not good, I cancelled my new watch because they clearly hire a bunch of old Microsoft engineers who change things to make them more complicated so they can continue to work on a new version to fix it. But on point,,,same issue no fix

iPhone Xs updated to v14, S4 Watch updated to watchOS 7.

Did a Outdoor cycle open goal workout today and after getting back I noticed exactly the same issue :(

As a matter of fact, I went on the ride with my father and his S3 watch (also updated to WatchOS 7 just this morning) experience the same issue.

Only start point being recorded on map, rest of the metrics (like heart rate, speeds and distances seem OK though).

Same problem here w/ iPhone 11 (iOS 14) and Watch 3 (WatchOS 7).

Today I completed an outdoor run today w/ watch and no GPS data. Looking at historical I see that GPS data is missing from ALL recorded workouts.

Same here with a iPhone 11 Pro Max and Apple Watch 5.

3 times contacted the support and after reset of the calibration the fitness app shows no training.

Tommorow it will be the 4th time contacting the support.

Having the exact same issue with my S4 & XR. Thought un-pairing and re-pairing would fix it, but that's seemingly only made the issue worse. Not only is the GPS data from my two outdoor activities since re-pairing non-existent, but the activity itself won't sync over from the Activity app on my watch (where I can see it recorded) to the Activity app on my XR (where there are no activities to be found).

SAME ISSUE. Called Apple support, told them that location isn’t recording, my activities aren’t being synced with the phone and that data is corrupted so that third party apps can’t read it. They told me it’s strava’s problem.

Same Problem since iOS 14 and watch OS 7! iPhone X and Apple Watch Series 3, using Apple fitness app to track my cycling which has worked flawlessly for the last year. Very frustrating! Unfortunately even repairing the watch (restoring from Backup and all) did not solve it for me.

Same issue here. Very first activity after upgrading to ios14 and watchos7 had gps data but nothing since then. Just the starting point shows up. Not great when you are trying to do virtual races! iPhone 11 Pro and watch series 3.

Exact same thing here. Upgraded to OS14 and 7 on my watch S4 and my first outdoor run didn’t even sync to phone and my outdoor walk only had the starting point. What a mess! My S6 watch are wives on Friday and same issue. I almost bought a Garmin instead and I’m regretting sticking with Apple.

The same issue here with iPhone 11 Pro and Watch Series 5 after updating to iOS14 and WatchOS 7. All data (distance, splits, HR etc) transferred across OK after a run this morning - apart from the GPS map and weather conditions. Maps from older runs don't seem to be affected and still show routes. Have just unpaired/re-paired and will go for a walk to see if this works, but hope a fix will be released soon.

My first run after update shows up on watch but no workout entry on phone.

What's really weird is the minutes of my run were added to the green ring as well as calorie burned to red.

What's even more weird....my stand hours show 14 hours standing, but only 3 bars on the stand graph show up.