Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

No change after installing iOS 14.0.1 and Watch OS 7.0.1 on my XR a S5 watch. Unpaired and "re-paired" the watch (no back up / restore or shut down restart) and got the route info on a new Outdoor Walk. Didn't get the route map on walks that were done since iOS 14 install. Might wait for the XX.1 version next time.

XR and Watch series 5, updates to 7.0.1 BUT can’t update watch. I have already gone through the factory reset of phone, unpair and repair watch, etc. yesterday.

everything seemed fine all day until about 1pm. Everything on my watch looked good, closed my rings, was getting texts like normal. But also noticed I was getting notifications on my phone simultaneously...weird.

started driving home around 6 pm and noticed how my watch showed that it couldn’t “see” my phone. For a second, I thought I’d left my phone at work but the. Realized I definitely had it.

checked activity app, did not show my closed rings. In fact said I’d only gotten 8/12 stand rings, even though my watch had said I closed them all. So stopped working around 1pm but continued to notifications on my watch.

then tried to open the watch app to try unpairing/repairing. Can’t open it. Turn on/off both phone and watch. Update phone. On/off both. Disconnect Bluetooth, etc. Everything. Can’t open watch app still.

try to update watch. Asks to accept updated terms on my iPhone...but no notifications are popping up on my phone.

so can’t update my watch.

can’t open the watch app on my iPhone, so can’t unpair my watch.

WHAT IS HAPPENING??

I have a series 3 and I did the update... Its not showing the current monthly challenge. Prior to this, it wasn't updating any of my days that I knew I completed toward the challenge. Anyone else have this issue?

The following radical solution solved it for me:

• Unpaid Watch
• Backup
• Reset and erase all iPhone content
• Restore iPhone backup
• Pair and restore Watch from backup

The whole process took around one hour, plus a few hours until all the iCloud data downloaded and synced. No major problems doing this.

The fact that this works seems to indicate that all the maps and Health app data is safe and sound in iCloud. However, while you’re experience the bug, workouts won’t save GPS data, so you won’t recover the routes of any workout after the bug appeared and until it’s fixed. You can easily notice this if you export Health app data. No workout map data is saved after the bug appeared.

if you’re confident your all you data is backed up and saved, I recommend going for this solution because who know when a fix is coming. Otherwise, it’s not possible to use the Workout app to track routes and a third party app is needed.

The problem is not watchOS 7. I just had this happening to my Apple Watch series 2 running watchOS 6.2.8 after upgrading my iPhone XS Max to iOS 14. The problem is iOS 14. Just upgraded to iOS 14.0.1 this morning and the problem persists.

8 hours after unpairing the watch, resetting the phone etc and restoring from back up it seems everything is back to normal for me. GPS is tracking, maps are showing (apart for those associated with workouts while I had iOS 14 / watchOS7 issues) and activity, resting and other related data is tracking as it was. Trends, awards etc have also returned to normal.

Slightly frustrating to have to do that, but on the plus side, it has drawn my attention to the fact I may have an unhealthy obsession with my health data.

Same thing happens to me. I was messaging with Apple support earlier and at first they thought it was a problem on my end but after I proved that it clearly was not I was told that they are aware of the problem and investigating it. I have a call scheduled with Apple tomorrow because they want more information.

So updated both the wiOS and the iOS to the very latest this morning and workout data syncing again. Feels like there some additional test scripts needed in the integration space but fair play to Apple dev teams they’ve resolved it in a few days so not the end of the world. Hopefully that’s the end of it, we shall see ;-)

Same issues here.

Obviously it comes from iOS 14. When I use Strava app or NRC app with my AW S4 cellular the GPS route is well recorded and I can export them in Strava or Training Peaks via Rungap app. All data are well recorded (HR, pace, route etc...) BUT, even with all the permissions turned on, the run workout increase move and training rings, but the Strava workout does not appear in the Fitness App.

The new Fitness App is the worst update ever. Very upsetting problem, and by the way all my previous GPS route have vanished too. Hopefully I also recorded them in Training Peaks, Garmin Connect, Strava and Movescount.

The unpair / re-pair solution did not work.

Hope Apple dev will fix this bug ASAP !

Vector from France

I’m on iPhone 11 and watch series 3, did a live chat with support.

I backed up my watch and phone then erased both. Restored phone from back up then paired my watch from the back up. All working again

I have had exactly the same issue and now confident it is fixed. I think it is an os14 issue rather than the watchos7 isssue.

back up both watch and phone to iCloud.

factory reset phone

restore phone from iCloud back up

wait for around 2 hours for all data to restore.

all seems good now.

GPS data before restore lost unfortunately. However all other elements now seem to match ... steps exercise minutes etc.

just did a walk and left phone at home. Check and all data has now synced including GPS.

hope this helps

from all of the posts it seems that backing up and restoring from iCloud fixes the problem BUT backing up and restoring from Mac/pc does NOT fix the the problem. I tried the full reset/restore from Mac and it did not work. I am not really all that interested in trying again using iCloud. It took long enough from pc (my iPhone has over 300Gb of data on it). The thought of pushing this all to the cloud and pulling it back down would take even longer. I suppose I could get desperate and try this but I would want more assurance than a few lucky people before I invested in that project.

Tried:

Unpair Watch

Reset all settings (phone & watch)

Boot & sync back up (both)

Result: Walked without handset, logged steps upon return. Later that day, walked again but this time on return it logged the exercise (rings etc match on both devices) but steps haven’t moved an inch on the handset, over 10,000 steps out on the watch.

I will now try the ‘factory reset’ making the handset as if it’s been taken out of the box for the first time. This is crazy.

Iphone 7 & Apple Watch 4, both bang upto date with operating systems.

If you are gonna erase the phone, make a back-up using your mac/pc and make sure to encrypt it. I didn’t when switchen from my Series 1 to Series 5 and lost 4 years of data!!!! iCloud doesn’t store ‘health’ as it is personal data.

iCloud does back up health data (you have to toggle it on), most of mine has synced all the way back to 2017, but from mid-august until yesterday there is no data after restoring my backup. Don’t know what happened.