iPhone Fitness app and Apple Watch Activity app not syncing

Hi all one thing I have realized in past couple of days is all the workouts are getting captured in activity app on iPhone along with the bar graph of stand hours if the iPhone is held in your hand while you stop your workout activity. In such suituation the workout is immdly reflecting in activity app on iPhone. Yesterday I walked 4.5 Kms indoors and closed the workout on I watch while keeping the iPhone on charging and the workout didn’t register in my iPhone but steps and Kms are promptly recorded. Today morning I repeated the same workout same location and while closing the workout on I watch I had the iPhone on hand and the workout is displayed promptly on activity app. I will continue doin so till Apple comes out with corrected debugged software update as I don’t want to go through the pain of erasing and repeating my iwatch and iPhone

Hi everybody! Here is what I did yesterday evening: unpair the watch, erase and set up as a new One ... then full encrypted backup of the iPhone via iTunes/finder .... then restore iPhone . And guess what? My morning training got transferred with no issue. Hope this is for good!

Nothing works until apple fix this in a future update. Tried everything and the only workaround is before you end the workout in the watch open the health app in the iPhone. Then end the workout and it syncs to the app. For me is the only think that worked

But it is the only solution. And it works. I had the same issue as I had posted before. My wife later noticed the same problems with her phone and watch. Erasing and restoring to an iCloud backup fixed the issue. Before doing it I had the same thought as you. It seemed a hassle and quite annoying. Afterwards, I wonder to myself why I resisted.

ok updated watch (series 3) to watchOS 7.1 and iPhone 11 to iOS 14.2 and now the workout maps are appearing on the iPhone, even older maps that were made prior to 14.2, that was my main problem

I unpaired, rebooted both and paired back. Now they sync and i could select a backup (probably from icloud) and i have all past workout and rings.

already recorded a outdoor walk and looks good

Same here. Unpaired the watch then reset the phone completely, restored from iCloud. It seems to have worked. The steps are syncing. Didn't workout today so will know more tomorrow.

Prior to doing the above steps, I tried all the other things like unpairing the watch, updating settings, nothing else had worked.

I’m struggling with the same issue. Tried multiple restarts, network settings reset, etc. - no luck. Installing 14.0.1 did not solve the problem either.

However, I might have found a workaround which works for me recently: after completing an outdoor workout do not close the workout summary dialog immediately, get back to the iPhone (make sure Fitness app is running in the background and your watch is connected), then click ‘Done’ on the watch.

This works for me in 99% of the cases, I can see the workout record in Fitness app, but no GPS data is still available. Better than nothing though.

Hope this helps.

Had same issue - erratic phone calories compared to watch (iPhone XS Max, Watch 6, latest OSes). Even resting energy was 2 times less than usual. So above procedure worked for me, just one minor thing that GPS data for older workouts (outdoor run) are not showing (just starting point). After this procedure it recorded outdoor run properly, active calories are same on watch and phone, resting energy is fine. I didn't lost any awards or previous workouts. So this worked for me (sorry to repeat)

1. backup phone to iCloud
2. unpair watch (during unpairing backup of watch is made)
3. erase phone (total wipe)
4. restore from iCloud
5. pair watch and restore from backup

It all took more than hour but now for 3rd day it's working flawlessly

watchOS 7.0.2 looks to have fixed my issues. At least I can set a workout and it loads to my activities when finished. Will see tomorrow when working out.

Some progress it seems at least. I didn’t wear my watch for 2 weeks as it was useless to me

As I have stated in previous thread, wiping the phone clean and restoring from back-up corrected the problem for me...workouts not being captured, heart rate not showing up, etc. It shouldn't have to be that way, but worth it for me.

After updating both the watch and iphone the workouts now sync and with maps yey! However, maps from previous workouts only show back to october 13th. That might be the day I unpaired and repaired the watch, but with a backup so it should still show. It only shows the starting point. I've tried a hard reset on both iphone and watch, it didn't work. And even older workouts doesn't show the map at all.

But it seems to work fine from now on though.

Hi

I had to reset both my phone and watch and now all is working!

make sure you’ve backed up both first!

I cleared both watch and iphone re download off the cloud and paired ......... both work fine now

I can only report what others have done as a workaround - namely, open the Fitness app on your iPhone and then end your workout on your watch. That worked for me this morning.