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?

iPhone XR

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 26, 2020 11:12 PM in response to tom164

Does the restored data include the data recorded by Apple watch but not synchronized to the iPhone? For example, the environmental volume, such as the resting energy, heart rate and other data lost after the upgrade can be successfully backed up and restored to the phone? I feel that if the phone does not receive the watch data, how does the iPhone back it up?

Dec 15, 2020 6:44 PM in response to ERHAU175

Exact same problem. Was kind of excited to see the cardio fitness thing but when I look at the sources it’s all older past pairings of my Apple Watch it looks like. But my watch is properly paired because everything else works fine so I’m hesitant to re-pair it or do anything else and screw everything else up. Hoping Apple fixes it on their end with some future update. Everything is reflected properly in the Activity Monitor but not the Health App. Makes no sense. The Activity Monitor has had issues in the past which is why I’m hesitant to mess with it.

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