iPhone Fitness app and Apple Watch Activity app not syncing

This is typical Apple bull****. I think I did something out of order and have likely lost my watch backup. Apple's "fix" is always to erase every scrap of data you have accumulated for 10 years and then "just" put it all back in place. I have rarely ever had this go well.

Mine only seems to be affected during outdoor activities (run/walk). Indoor activities (boxing/treadmill walk or run) sync just fine.

Sync of outdoor activities only takes place after phone is plugged into a power source and then I receive a message that a new apple watch has been connected to my apple ID. Maps never sync, only activity stats.

I just read in Apple News (link to BGR) that iOS 14.2 is supposed to address the problem. Fingers crossed!

https://apple.news/AY4QB7SmMQfeIK0kb99kU5w

or

https://bgr.com/2020/10/30/ios-14-2-gm-download-install-iphone-ipados/

Updated to ios 14.1 this morning.

Since then, no sync between my Apple Watch and the Activity app.

Two morning workouts (pre-update) recorded.

Two workouts (post-update) have been lost.

What's happening Apple?

So update after trying a workout:

• this seems to work now, all data got synced including the map
• all older map data - up to the date of the (unsuccessful reset/pairing) magically appeared as well

But:

• all map data pre-iOS14 update are gone and I assume lost forever

So the functionality is back - my older workouts are collateral damage as it seems.

I’ve still to try updating from 14.2, but im hearing of people still not getting their old workout maps back. The syncing issues have been fixed for me already with the prior OS to 14.2, but i still have environmental sound levels, calories, stand hours partially missing from the health app graphs.

Now, what I don’t understand is that, if this data is gone forever, including the GPS workout maps, how on earth was this data lost ? Did the bug just remove certain parts of the data for it to never be restored again. Thats a pretty serious bug, so serious it shouldn’t even be a thing. I mean, how on earth can health data randomly just vanish, despite me having backed up every day for the last 5 years to the cloud? SURELY this data has got to be in the cloud somewhere? I even backed up my health data to my macbook before all this mess happened, so if apple are saying, woops, we essentially just deleted your data by accident, that is a major major error on apples behalf. And if it can happen to health data, what else can it happen to? Decades of Photos? Music? Anything else stored in the cloud? Data is supposed to be safe and secure in the cloud, especially in a cloud service like apple, the fact that i now know that my data can one day just randomly disappear, without any fault of mines, is mind boggling.

Has anyone got a fix to this? Realised this issue a while ago but just assumed that apple would've fixed this by now...

Watch tracks all the activity, but half/some activities don't show up on the phone.

More specifically, all my 'outdoor walks' show up on both phone and watch (although map doesn't work and just shows a still pin). However, my HIIT classes, outdoor cycling etc all don't show up on the phone and health app...

Literally did a HIIT today and here are some photos depicting the issue:

Mine is now working again.

To get it to work I backed up my iPhone to the cloud. Backed up the watch to the cloud when removing it from phone. Then backed up phone again to cloud.

finally reset iPhone.

then restored both the phone and then the watch from cloud backup. Lost nothing and it now works.

this is the 3rd time I’ve had to do it since owning the new iwatch and having ios14.

Apple need to sort it out. Terrible service.

Dare I say it though my watch and phone have been working as normal since the last update too.... was incredibly frustrating for far too long though the last update helped and it appears I have all my old running / walking routes too

Same here. Phone updated overnight to iOS 14.2.1 and now activity on my watch will not sync to my activity phone app. Tried rebooting both devices, force quitting applications on both devices, and nothing. Everything was working fine before this last update. Watch is also up to date.

Mine was working fine with iOS 14 but stopped syncing with my watch when I updated to iOS 14.2 yesterday afternoon! I tried all of the different steps I saw online including unpairing and repairing my watch to my phone and that seemed to only make it worse. I haven’t been able to update my watch because every time I go into the watch app and click general to update it freezes. I’m really mad because I’ve been doing really well with making sure I get the activity badges, but since this happened it hasn’t been recording my progress at all!

I have become so frustrated with this. My Apple Watch says I closed all my rings but the screenshot below shows that the data did not sync with my iPhone app. I like being able to track this in depth on a day to day basis and check my monthly activity. Apple, please get the necessary update! I have tried all suggestions but all have failed.

I also went to the Apple store and I couldn’t get the guy to understand what was wrong. At one point he got snarky (I’m 65) and said that I probably wasn’t walking briskly which would be 9.5 mph. Both my husband and I corrected him to 3.5 mph, which I go above and he argued about it. The average running speed for men is 9.15 mph and women 10.4. Idiot.

Something that also annoys me is they don’t take height into the equation. I’m 5’2” and I promise you, a woman that’s 5’9” is going to have an easier time walking 3.5 mph than I will due to stride.

So no, I don’t think Apple is taking this seriously. I wonder if they even read this.

after The updates my watch is no longer recognized by my phone at all. I can’t even ping my phone from my watch. This is a huge problem that Apple has yet to fix. Since my phone does not recognize my watch I can’t even take updates even if they had a fix now. I have tried everything suggested and am super frustrated.

Getting something similar. If I use the activity watch app to track my run/walk/cycle and then upload it to Strava I don’t get the map image on the Strava app.