Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Other people have said resetting doesn't help. The update is 14.0.1 and I'm just rebooting now after installing.

I'll post back on whether it helps.

Edit: no difference at all, still no gps data for a run I did tonight with the Workout app, or one I did months ago with iSmoothRun.

Greetings all,

I have discovered a quick fix for WOS7 & iOS14 syncing issue. (It’s a band-Aid until Apple issues a fix?)

1. After I finish my workout using my watch I take a screen shot(hold watch crown & side button simultaneously) of the workout as a backup image.
2. Do not open the “Fitness App” to view if the workout was synced !
3. Hard rest the iPhone (I have iPhone 11ProM). To hard rest press the Volume + then press volume -; then press and hold the side button (power button) until it iphone resets.
4. Hard rest the Apple Watch (I have W5CL) by pressing the crown & side button simultaneously until the watch resets.
5. Now open the “Fitness App” on the iPhone and you’ll see the synced workout.
6. It does NOT sync Map route! It just shows start point..

Note: 

It’s worked with Cellular & bluetooth when I’m not connected to Wifi or when I arrive home and I’m connected to Wifi and bluetooth.

I HOPE THIS HELPS FOR NOW…

Gilbert

I appreciate you trying to help but the problem is point 6, that's what's happening to all of us without resetting or doing anything different. The issue is "It does NOT sync Map route! It just shows start point.."

Yes, I realize it...That's what I stated in #6.. It just show the start point.. I think it will all show up when Apple issues a fix.. The map date is stored...

At least I have it syncing via a manual fix..

My third post: I did erase my iPhone 11 Pro and unpaired my S4 watch keeping my cellular plan. I had to do the unpair/re-pair twice, after which, all kinds of odd things happened. Gave up for the night, but just as I plugged in to charge my iPhone I had a pop up from Apple asking me to sign in because some services (not identified) needed it to continue. So I did it. Today everything seems to be ok except for the data from Tuesday and Wednesday (missing GPS mapping, 3 workouts on Wednesday 1 on Tuesday, holes in the Stand graph for Wednesday). This morning two outdoor workouts were tracked and the Fitness app shows the mapping, etc. Beats me what finally did it.

Same here-since upgrading battery life has dropped drastically; I’m having to charge in the middle of the day to make it through. Open water swim just shows starting point and I’m REALLY missing my tracking map. Why even have an Apple Watch? I’m ordering a Garmin and giving up on activity rings.

Thanks for the update. I'm still hopeful it's just an issue where Apple's own Apps are failing to request permission they need to read and write health data. That way we've only lost data it's been trying to write during this issue and restoring read access will bring back all our old data.

You resetting everything may have forced the Apps to request the permission they needed. I know I had a really strange problem with signing into my iCloud account when I 1st paired my new Watch series 6 to my iPhone.

(I've written a couple of iOS apps and Apple's security around health data is very serious.)

I had been toying with getting a dedicated GPS watch, and I plunged on the purchase today. I'm enough of a runner that I'll appreciate it even when this fix is implemented :)

For what it's worth, strava apple watch app synced directly to strava app, and having strava ios app set to import workouts into Health at least provides the appropriate splits. Maps not present in health, but they show up in Strava which is the key care about for me.

UPDATE:

I reset my watch and iPhone. All the data that was missing before is now restored and workouts are being recorded. Any workout that I did from the past few days was not recorded at all. Now I'll have to wait and see if the total calories are accurate or not.

When I did this, my past workouts all returned except for the ones that were tracked in the past week using the faulty iOS 14/OS 7. Those gps routes never showed up and I assume they never recorded properly. But thankfully everything else came back.

For me helped to delete iOS completely (settings and data) AND Watch (unpairing) and restored it from iCloud backup. My GPS data is back from pre iOS14 and tracking after the delete. Between the data is still gone.

I talked to Apple Support and I made a complete bug report for them (installed profile and sending the logs, screenshots etc.). It took about 30 minutes, but maybe it was helpful for them.

I'm using Watch S5 and iPhoneXS.

Same issue, no routes on activities (outdoor walking and outdoor cycling) with the following devices:

• iPhone 11 (iOS 14.0.1)
• Apple Watch Series 3 (WatchOS 7.0.1)

Very frustrating, it should be a key functionality of the watch.

Yes, I have had to search this issue and so it becomes apparent that it's down to the developers. My IOS14 (7) drags the data from the health app on my Watch (3) IOS6 and everything looks fine, only the steps are but a fraction of what is logged on the watch.

My gripe is that this costs me money, I have taken out a series of purchases/rewards that step counts are paramount & the 'lender' states this isn't there issue, therefore I am liable for all payments!

Apple seriously need to pull their finger out on this issue and as of 25/09 there's no sign of that happening, that's a WEEK and still nothing. Shameful.

I have just downloaded the 14.1 upgrade on phone and 7.1 on watch. I have 11 pro and watch 5 still missing GPS data for walks & runs. Went a run today and used strava and that recorded on strava app and activity app but not going to health at all. followed all the instructions that apple care gave me and did not work. i do workouts as well using the apple watch and since 2 days ago they are not getting recorded anywhere, just showing on the watch.

Same issue with iPhone 11 Pro Max to S4, S3, and the new S6 I got my wife. Unpaired our watches 4 times along with resting our phones and no luck. I tried a fix posted on this feed and it appears to work when I tested it doing a walk workout, afterwards the map came up like it should.

the fix was

1. Unpair watch
2. Backup ALL data on iPhone (make sure your Health data is backed up too)
3. Erase All Content and Settings
4. Let that erase, then restore iPhone from backup
5. Then pair the phone to the watch from your latest backup

While unpairing the watch, remember to keep your cellular plan if you have one.

Be aware this takes a good while to do (Took me about an 1.5 hours).

This fix is a pain, but it worked for my S4 and 11promax. I still have to see if this works for my wife’s 11promax and S6. Honestly if it doesn’t I’ll return the new watch and keep the S3. Seeing we got the S6 so that the battery would be new and it SHOULD survive the entire Houston Marathon but if it won’t map the marathon a new watch is worthless. (Deep breath runners, we share the pain of Apple Watch battery aches for long runs...let’s not go there now) But anyways I could spend less on a Garmin, get the data we want , and not worry about battery life. Instead of spending over $500 for a watch with no gps map for a workout.

Apple, sorry but y’all dropped the ball here. I can deal if it’s 3rd party app not working. But this is your own native workout app. How can you focus in on the fitness industry and overlook this MAJOR bug? Doesn’t help that the 14.0.1 and 7.0.1 didn’t fix the issue either.

Apple dig deep in that code, because I’m sure the error is the watch passing the gps data to the health app and the new ‘Fitness’ app instead of the ‘Activity’ app.