Deleted data sources in Health: is recovery possible from iCloud backup?

I inadvertently deleted some of my Apple Watch entries from the Data sources part of the Health app on my iPhone and I now find much of the exercise recorded for about a year is missing.

Is there a way of recovering this from the automatic iCloud backup? I've restored the phone from the last backup but these data are still missing.

Posted on Jun 21, 2021 9:56 PM

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Newnesi Author

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Jun 22, 2021 1:46 AM in response to Community User

I thought this might be the case. In theory there is an iCloud backup, but in practise it looks as though it is not complete in some sense. I will just have to cope with the loss of a year's data (and it was getting a bit obsessive anyway :-)

Many thanks.

Jun 22, 2021 1:22 AM in response to Newnesi

My wife did this a few years ago and lost 2 years of badges and awards,unless you have an icloud backup from a date just before you deleted those data sources then they are lost forever,my wife didn't and I am still getting earache about it now.

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