iOS 14 / Watch OS 7 Fitness and Health Apps issues

Hello - I am having similar issues after updating both my iPhone (iOS 14) and newest watch software. When using Strava for Apple Watch my bpm on activities doesn’t transfer correctly to health data. I can no longer see my workouts when using the activity app on phone that has been recorded via Apple Watch. There are a number of issues with this software. Please help!

Just chiming in that I've had the same issues since updating my XR and Watch series 5 to iOS 14 and watchOS 7 on launch day. My watch appears to be capturing all the data, otherwise steps and activity and what not would be wrong in the Fitness app. That stuff seems right, though. But for whatever reason, it's not all making its way back to the Health app, which sucks. Everything is about 30-ish percent undercounted there. I haven't unpaired my watch yet as that's a big pain, but I might give it a shot soon. The point updates last week didn't help, either.

Yes all of these issues are happening to me too. I was very hopeful that iOS 14.01 and Watch OS 7.01 would fix this- but nope. Still not yet. Ugh, I hope there’s a fix coming soon because this is major, especially since iPhone isn’t recording the workouts.

My Fitness app is now totally useless. I have the latest software updates on phone and watch. I updated on the 26th. This issue started overnight. Just noticed it this morning, the 29th. And the iWatch app on my phone only has some functionality. It freezes when I go into general settings, and some other settings as well. Not a happy camper here. Was logging fitness, heart rates, and workouts for cardiologist appointment I have next week. :(

Mine is useless, too. And when I turn my wrist to look at my watch, I have to tap it for it to respond. It’s a series 5. This latest update is completely useless. The fitness tracker is awful. It doesn’t tell me what I need to complete a challenge, it isn’t syncing accurately with my phone.

My fitness app doesn't work at all with IOS14.01. Opens, screen stays black and after a few seconds shuts down.

Also other apps have some options not working. For instance, watch app when I try to go to Geral, does not open..

Anybody with the same issues? BTW, I'm using a Iphone 11 Pro Max

unfortunate success:(

I have tried all of the suggested fixes (un-pair/re-pair as new watch, reset network connections on phone, restarts, etc) with no luck. Dropped heart rate data, incorrect workouts, no maps from workouts, momentary iPhone freezing in many core apps (phone, camera, mail ...) and no unlocking of MBP from watch.

I finally bit the bullet and burned it all - unpaired and erased watch, reset and erase iPhone. I then restored the iPhone from the iCloud backup and re-paired the watch as new. The good news - my workouts seem to be recording correctly without dropped heart rate data and with maps.To early to say if the app-freezing has gone away. The bad news: still no MBP unlock, (and this is disastrous), though my past Activity was restored from my iCloud backup, ALL of the map data from years of past workouts is gone. This is my log of lots of great hikes in the past.

I shouldn't have trusted Apple with the data.

I’m having problems too, my steps on health are so out to activity. I manually added to health and it added to activity. I un paired re paired. Did an update yesterday for bug fixes and it’s still happening

Same issues, it's a total mess. Why oh why did Apple have to mess about with a perfectly good app Activity and ruin it and call it Fitness.

The old saying 'if it's not broken, don't try fixing it'.

I get different steps on Watch, Health and Fitness for the same walk, run or cycle and no workout maps.

All my previously save route maps are now gone

Map part of Fitness not working, only shows a flag at the start of the walk and nothing else.

I see that iPhone owners from 6S to the latest are having problems so we are not alone

Updated to the 14.0.1 and WatchOS 7.0.1 hoping that it would have been sorted out but no dice.

Most reviewers praising emoji's just about sums up Apple of late

Now they are copying Samsung and other Android makers, if it was the other way around Apple would be suing Samsung.

Emoji's and Widgets that have been on Android phones for the past 10 years and Apple crow about them being 'best ever' bs as usual. Sad that the only feature that reviewers can rave on about, if Steve Jobs was still there he'd fire the lot of them

Apple Watch the same, no change in appearance since first one. Finally with 5 they caught up with competition by have finally got an always on mode. Sleep the only addition in Watch 6, give me a break!!

All the reviewers must be couch potatoes because if they used IOS 14 for even one workout they'd have seen how crappy the 'improvements' were

Not a happy camper ...... hopefully they'll sort it out in the next update but I'm not holding my breath. Maybe by 14.14.16

This happened to me and I was getting very frustrated, as trying to push for a watch software update didn't help (just kept spinning - no verification that software was up to date or that there was an update). I tried unpairing and re-pairing the watch, which still didn't work. Finally, I restarted the watch itself which worked. Hope it does for you too!

Why is there such a huge difference between calories burned pre-IOS 14 and IOS 14? Same workout duration, distance, and average heart rates but IOS14 shows over 100 more active calories burned. Doesn’t make sense that there would be that much of a difference.

Fitness is terrible, I do the same workout every day so numbers should be consistent and they were with the Activity app (Now Fitness) on IOS 13.7 and WatchOS 6. Now I get different numbers on my Watch, Fitness and Health which makes no sense.

Activity was a great app but it's replacement Fitness is totally messed up in IOS 14.0.1 and WatchOS 7.0.1

Also maps of my previous workouts have disappeared and in Fitness app only the start location of workout pinned with the rest of the map blank.

How beta testers didn't pick up on this, I can only surmise that they never did a workout to check it. All they praise is emoji's and the final arrival of widgets. It's pathetic, they should have left the old Activity app which was working perfect. It's a mess and very infuriating. No mention of an update in IOS 4.2 beta either in fact all the reviewers seem to be in the dark about the problem

On the YouTube reviews of IOS 14.0.1 I have looked I watch I mention the problems in the comments but I've had no feedback from any of these reviewers so I can only assume they don't read the comments

I would urge everyone that has the problem to spread the word about it and maybe, just maybe we might get some action on it before IOS 14.9.9 sometime next August.

Exasperating that Apple would release such bug ridden software, reminds me of the bug ridden versions Windows, I'd go back to Windows XP if I could, Windows 10 is rubbish.

So called 'progress' sometimes not for the better!!

For what it's worth, those asking about reviewers missing this in the Watch and iPhone updates -- I work for a large technology news publication and talked to multiple members of our team about this and no one else has had this issue with their updates. It's just anecdotal, of course, but I don't think this bug is happening to everyone. That doesn't make it any less annoying for those of us dealing with it, but I don't have a good handle on how widespread it is yet. Trying to find out more, and these discussions have been a great resource.

I have the same issues mentioned here, a lot of workouts don’t show up, and when they do there is no map data and no heart rate. My Apple Watch 5 is updated to 7.1 and my iPhone 11 is updated to 14.1. Unpairing didn’t work either.

This is a great point Nathan. In fact, the developer of the AutoSleep app (a very popular sleep tracking tool) has a great blog post on this topic. Apparently, only about 10% of users are experiencing these issues.

http://autosleep.tantsissa.com/ios14hrbug