iOS 14 / Watch OS 7 Fitness and Health Apps issues

So, I have a couple of big issues with Apple Watch (Watch OS 7) and iPhone (iOS 14) and the Fitness and Health Apps:

  1. Workouts that I record on watch don’t transfer to iPhone Health App anymore. The rings in Fitness App on iPhone do reflect the workout, but the workouts themselves don’t show up anymore. Worked perfectly in iOS 13, function is dead since update to iOS 14.
  2. Fitness App on iPhone does not correctly sync to Health App on iPhone anymore in iOS 14. Example, steps at the end of the day in Healt App on iPhone are 30 to 50% below what Fitness App on same iPhone shows (Fitness App on iPhone though is in line with Fitness App on Apple Watch).
  3. Fitness App on iPhone shows wrong information. Example, I have Stand goal now at 10 of 12 hours which Fitness App on iPhone Shows correctly, however only 7 of the turquoise bars are highlighted.
  4. In iOS 13, resting energy was estimated and recorded in Health even if Apple watch was not worn, eg at night. In iOS 14, Health records resting energy only when watch is worn, which results in a wrong overall number for the day (this causes other apps like LoseIt to work incorrectly).

Anybody else with similar issues?

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Posted on Sep 20, 2020 12:12 PM

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Posted on Oct 1, 2020 4:22 PM

So this appears to be the official solution for now:


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211865


I did the entire reset of both my iPhone and Apple Watch as detailed above. As time consuming and inconvenient as it is, it appears to have corrected all of the issues I had with the flow of health data from my watch to my health app and onward to other apps such as LoseIt and AutoSleep.

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Oct 1, 2020 4:16 PM in response to ERHAU175

All the same issues.


Additionally, because Support had me re-set calibration twice, my calorie tracking is janky now, except for (ironically) the workouts that aren’t being saved to the apps.


Oh, and super small, but the Stand bars only work sometimes now. I still get credit for the Stand hours, but the blue bars actually appearing is hit and miss.


Spent 2 hours on the phone with Apple last week, but only found out these were Known Issues after coming here.


I wrote my Support person the other day, linking one of these posts. She seemed a little more aware that it was an issue and said there was a troubleshooting procedure that she couldn’t share with me via email and could only be shared over the phone.


As that sounds like opportunity for only more unintended consequences, I passed.


It had been years and years since I jumped on a major new update so quickly, because of just this sort of thing. I needed to re-learn that lesson apparently.

Oct 1, 2020 4:23 PM in response to tthepsouvanh

Ha. No chance I’d do all that.


I simply unpaired and repaired and nothing tracked for hours. Thats when I finally called Apple and spent two hours doing all the same things I tried myself. Including un-pairing and re-pair.


After two hours, everything on my watch and in my app was still frozen where it was when we started.


What “fixed it”?


Midnight. For whatever reason, as soon as it hit 12 midnight, it started tracking back at the broken level it had been previously.


Enough of their guessing and asking me to risk losing even more of my data.

Oct 9, 2020 8:35 AM in response to DarrenG7480

Yup, did the complete iPhone/Watch erase and reinstall. Everything appeared well, maps now showing up, but over two subsequent days it has dropped 2 workouts from the red ring. The exercise minutes are correct and if you look at calorie totals in Health they appear correct. I hope this gets fixed fast. The main reason I have the Apple Watch is for fitness

Oct 21, 2020 8:45 AM in response to evo1974

I just installed 14.1 and I don't see any change. Going to my Health App and looking at the "Show All Data" under Heart Rate I see all the data points briefly, then they all go away. I do not see any history in the Activity app for previous workouts. I did not see anything listed under the More Info for this install. I do not think 14.1 is addressing any of these issues.

Oct 22, 2020 5:25 AM in response to vibe4film

Updated to 14.1 Tuesday evening

14.1 even worse than 14.0.1

No workouts for past 2 days since 14.1 update show up. They are there on the day of the workout but next day have disappeared.

No maps of workout route

Health records 20% + less than watch

Standing time inaccuracies

Really crap battery life

List goes on and on


Instead of fixing BUGS Apple have made things WORSE



Sep 21, 2020 8:33 AM in response to ERHAU175

Glad I’m not alone, here are some further issues and it’s all related to Fitness and Health not syncing correctly on the same iPhone (yes, that is on the same device):

  • iPhone Fitness yesterday 12 stand hours, iPhone Health shows only ten. Number in Health on iPhone is consistently below number in Fitness on iPhone since iOS 14 upgrade.
  • Yesterday, one of my two(!) workouts actually made it from the Watch to Fitness on the iPhone, however the heart rate chart does not show because of insufficient data points during the workout. That can’t be correct, as the Health App on iPhone during the same timeframe shows a consistent reading.


Minor issue: Exercise type “Paddling” does not record the track on the map, like eg an outdoor run does. Paddling is an outdoor sport (as in Kayaking or Canoeing) and therefore a track should be recorded. This is probably mixed up with exercise type “Rowing” which if performed on an indoor rowing machine does not need a track recording.

Sep 27, 2020 1:30 PM in response to ERHAU175

Yea, looks like Apple is using it's customers to find the bugs for them. Thought it would have been fixed in 7.0.1 but no dice. They said that there were some bug fixes but obviously they hadn't found this one. Maybe their beta testers are couch potatoes ...... otherwise surely someone who uses it for workouts would have picked it up.

Hopefully they'll have it sorted in the next update ..... fingers crossed

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