Watch to phone backup/restore
Activity data like Awards were part of data backed up to iCloud but didn’t get restored back to watch when upgrading to new phone. Bummer! This problem has been present as early as iOS 12!
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Thanks for responding! I had, indeed, backed up everything to the cloud, and did restore from the backup.
As it turned out, the real problem was my own impatience: knowing that it takes a while for all of the apps to go through the "waiting-downloading" steps, I assumed that when the "Fitness" icon was complete, that meant that all the associated data was also complete. MY ERROR. The associated Awards and Challenges badges showed up about a day later. They were up there in the cloud all the time, just waiting for more important data to download first.
