Activity GPS issues after watchOS 7 and iOS 14 updates

Adding my voice this — went for a run this morning and there is no location data associated with the activity. Looking back at all my past activities, it's missing from them too. Hoping for a fix soon.

I am experiencing this problem. In addition, my 4th Outdoor Walk activity was never synced to the Activity app on my phone. And since iOS14 update on the iPhone, the Health app is not including Watch steps/distance in the overall daily total. I removed the Watch and re-synced, to no effect.

I also use HealthFit, but currently, after moving to iOS14/WatchOS7, it can't read the old workouts (shows an error).

So unless you have done the backups already, you are out of luck. BTW I often get low heart rate notifications from my watch, they are also not being loaded into the Health App. So it seems there is something borked with loading into the Health database (which Fitness/HealthFit etc read).

Exact same problem. I have iPhone 11 Pro (iOS 14), apple watch series 3 (watch os7). Problem started immediately after upgrading to ios14 and watch os 7. I have the same symptoms that most mention: ie. single pin of start location but no route info on map, sync of activity time, distance and elevation IS working, all previous workouts also no longer show route information. This problem exists both when I have my iPhone with me and/or when I only have the watch during the walk/cycling workout.

Some have said that unpairing and repairing (with restore from backup) fixed their problem. Others say this does not fix the problem. For me unpairing/repairing and restoring from backup did NOT help.

I share other's concerns that the data (dating back to 2017) may all be lost. I guess we will see.

I am surprised that this issue is not getting more attention. To me this is a critical issue.

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.

Same issue. Using iPhone XR and Series 3 Apple Watch. Tried checking all location services on as they should be. Then tried un-pairing and re-pairing my phone with my watch. Has made no difference. Guess we’ll need to wait for a further upgrade from Apple.

Be patient. Mine took nearly two hours. I’m going to check mine out in a while. My situation was the one with old routes being intact and just the new ones without map data. I’m hoping that is the difference between those that re-pairing works for and those that it doesn’t.

I’ve got an exact same issue!

I did a 25k cycle with my watch 4 and it did not sync to my iPhone at all when I got home. All rings were fully and successfully synchronised but the workout is completely omitted.

I then did a 3k cycle again to see if it’d work. After completing my workout, it synced with my iPhone but only the starting position. Both times I’ve not carried my iPhone with me.

Really really annoying considering a key feature of the activity / fitness app is not functioning properly! 😡

Same problem to me and my husband with iPhone 11Plus and AppleWatch 4 AFTER the latest iOS Updates 14/7.

I started run and walk activities with the Apple TrainingsApp on the watch with no GPS-Data at the end - only

the starting point is shown.

Furthermore, the battery life of my watch disappears rapidly (20% in one hour even without an activity!) since

the update...

I decoupled the watch and paired it newly but it did not help.

Hoping the Apple Support will fix the bugs soonest!!!

Same Issue - Gen 3 Apple Watch with watchOS7 - and iPhone 11 Pro with iOS 14

Went running and had the same image on my map - the workout distance was captured but the actual GPS map wasn't used. It also seemd to be out compared to normal.

Hopefully a Fix will be out soon. I have a virtual race on Thursday.

I have the exact same problem - even the route of my previous workouts display only the starting location. It seems to be a bigger SW problem, since other users are reporting this as well...

I‘ve tried unpairing / re-pairing, resetting / restoring (AW + iPhone) and setting up as new ( AW + iPhone) - nothing seems to work.

I guess we need to wait until Apple fixes this issue with a future SW update.

[AW S3 on wOS 7 + iPhone X on iOS 14]

Same here. Worked fine in the morning until afternoon for me. I take the bike everyday to work and I also keeping the track every day by Strava - and now saying no route recorded...

Hope they solve this issue a s a p. Frustrating.

Exact same problem. Since the update on IOS7 for Apple Watch, my workout runs and walks are not showing maps.

I've checked location services for both devices and reset fitness tracking off and on before restarting both the watch and phone but still no joy.

Exactly the same has happened to mine. I went a walk Saturday and it worked. Ran Sunday and today but not picked up my route. Been trying everything. From reading the comments it seems like its a bug!

Hope its sorted soon!

I have the exact same issue since updating tot iOS 14 en Watch OS 7. Also the GPS data of previous workouts (cycling, walking and running) before the OS updates are now missing in the app on my iPhone (7 Plus).