Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

According to Twitter iOS 14.2. should fix this bug in the description

„Workout GPS routes or Health data are prevented from syncing between Apple Watch and iPhone for some users.“

At last 14.2 has fixed the issue!

Just did a 1 hour Outdoor Walk after unpairing and re-pairing the watch and this seems to have done the trick - GPS map and everything else recorded fine. However, I did have my phone with me at the time, so will check on my next Outdoor Run (without the phone) and confirm it is also OK to sync all details once I get back home.

When I did the I pair re-pair I should have clarified that it only fixed the problem going forward. I didn’t lose my past history and now my routes are being recorded again. However, the walks and runs that I did immediately after the update just show the starting point and that hasn’t changed. Maybe check that out. I don’t think you will be able to retrieve routes that it didn’t record due to the glitch.

I have the same issue. Haven't read all the thread yet, but tried resetting cal data (did not work) unpairing, re-pairing (did not work), reset watch to factory settings and set up as new (did not work). Distances, speeds, etc. are all fine; this seems to mostly be a question of saving the route.

I am seeing 'start location' in my activities under Workouts but no routes. HealthFit has retained all my workout routes. However, all of Activities' Workouts routes have now disappeared. This is pretty bad.

I am able to record properly when I use Strava directly (AW Strava app with AW → Strava iOS app direct upload).

AW Series 4, Apple Watch OS 7.0 (18R382)

iPhone 8 Plus, IOS 14.0

I don´t want to reset everything! Don´t have time or patience for that!

I´ve tried a little walk on Strava app on AW series 3 (GPS only) and worked fine. Until Apple solves this issue i think that´s what´ll do for now!

( I am one of the lucky ones that still have all information).

Viajante_1977 wrote:

I don´t want to reset everything! Don´t have time or patience for that!

I´ve tried a little walk on Strava app on AW series 3 (GPS only) and worked fine. Until Apple solves this issue i think that´s what´ll do for now!

( I am one of the lucky ones that still have all information).

Everyone who has this problem should report it to Apple. They are looking into it (based on the report of another poster) but, the more people they know have the problem, the better.

Product Feedback - Apple

I use an Series 4 LTE watch with an 11 Pro Max. Yesterday I updated the phone to iOS 14, but left the watch at 6.x-whatever. Did an outdoor walking activity to close my circles for the 266:th consecutive day (yes, every day 2020). Everything seemed fine.

Today I updated the watch to watchOS 7. Did an hour of outdoor walking. Circles updated fine, today’s exercise is there in Fitness, it shows quite normal heart rate and distance figures but the map is just a green dot where I started...

All previous exercises have lost their maps, there is just no icon for the map at all.

Battery life on both watch and phone appear to be significantly worse than before the updates. The watch went from 50% to 40% in 45 minutes while I was just sitting still, and a 10 minute indoor walking activity left it at 28%. The phone gets noticeably warm from light usage in a way that it never did on iOS 13. Never had any betas on these devices.

I’ve now unpaired & re-paired, still no maps.

I had the similar problem then i tried UNPAIR the Apple Watch Series 4 Nike+ from my iPhone X. During the Re-Pairing process, i selected restore from the backup (no worries when and where is the backup because once you selected this option apple watch next screen will show some of backup with timeline, it should have 1 backup copy showing the time when you doing the unpair process, suspect apple watch will always do a full copy backup before it get UNPAIR). Hence, I choose the previous backup copy and let it do the PARING and Restoring process about 20 - 30 min (Yes it take time). Then after successfully rePAIRed the watch. I go outdoor try some RIDE and a RUN. Both now GPS Route is there. Viola! It solve my problem. Another bonus fixed i got after this UNPAIR and REPAIR process is the NRC APP didn't perform auto SYNC from watch NRC run record to iPhone NRC App record. It happened since 3 weeks ago and I had frustrated to manually add back the run record one by one (Lucky i always ON both NRC and Apple Native Run Activity APP) for tracking my run "It is because i donno why APPLE dont want to do Partner Integration with NRC just like GARMIN or Others partner. If I use APPLE WATCH Native RUN Activity, this activity no alternative or method SYNC the run record to NRC, the only option is I had to ON both NRC APP and Native APP to run so that NRC had my record and I can use Apple Native one to SYNC to Strava. This also another problem on NRC and i can't give up this App for my run record and shoes mileage tracking.

In short just try your luck to UN-PAIR and RE-PAIR the watchOS 7 apple watch from your iOS 14 iPhone. It works for me so far. Will keep monitor and try few more outdoor activity to confirm this is the workable temporary solution while waiting APPLE had a patches to fix this.

I followed the steps posted in the below post to a T, including restoring it from iCloud and not a computer

the problem is completely gone now, although it does not retroactively fix any of the issues that were ongoing during the issue.

Lost my streaks and some data for about a week, but moving forward, everything looks good. Some data is definitely skewed now though because of the averages taken from bad data.

the restore from iCloud was the easiest restore I’ve ever done though, no issues whatsoever.

Update* issue fixed steps I took*

iPhone 11, 14.0.1, watch 3 series, 7.

1. back up phone
2. unpair watch
3. erase all content and settings
4. set up phone from back up (step 1)
5. repair watch

Now works map with GPS route info.

You could have saved yourself a lot of work and worry by just using the Strava app on the watch instead. It 100% still records route data, I've moved over to using it after my 1st 2 runs failed.

Just as a note I don't normal use Apple's Workout app to record runs. I use iSmoothRun as it allows me to upload the data anywhere, gets recorded by Apple as an activity and has great voice feedback during runs. Unfortunately it refuses to install on my S6 Watch running watchOS 7.

I just tried it, unpairing and then pairing the watch, Apple Watch S6 and iPhone Xs Max running 7.0.1 and 14.0.1.

I set it up as a new watch instead of setting up from a backup.

This did not fix the issue for me, still no maps on historic activities.

tothe hoop - thank you. I have been able to perform the repair procedure this time using iCloud backup/restore. My routes prior to the repair still don't show in Activity but the walk I just took shows up in Activity with GPS map and all other workout detail.

Again thanks.

PS entire process took 6.5 hours.

Thanks, just went for a run and used Strava app on watch. Worked great just the route data didn’t transfer to the health app. I performed the full wipe on watch (4) and phone (8) when apple came out with this recommendation, and it didn’t work. So use Strava or other 3rd party app until apple comes up with a real fix.