Apple watch ultra showing waypoints I didn’t create and doesn't delete steps

Hi RiffVomit,

Have you also restarted the iPhone your watch is paired with? This can also help resolve minor software issues with your watch. If you have and the issue persists you can reach out for additional support here: Get Support

Take care.

Hello RiffVomit,

This article explains how you can use the Compass (and Backtrack with waypoints) on your watch: Use the Compass app on Apple Watch Ultra - Apple Support.

If these are the steps you are following and the unexpected behaviors persist, we advise that you take the following steps which could help with this behavior:

• How to restart your Apple Watch
• Update your Apple Watch

We hope this helps. Let us know if we can assist with anything else at all. Take care.

I LOVE your name Riff Vomit haha. Glad to see ya here. Apple needs to make it easier for us to navigate cities where we play these shows, eh. I about got lost walking back from a Dispo wayyyy up in Michigan because my compass seems to be inaccurate as **** in my phone, so when I turn on backtrack, even if I’m literally holding still, it starts adding in a bunch of random lines just because my phone thinks it’s moving around the house for some reason. I usually just drive waypoint on my watch, which, if I’m correct, uses the actual longitude and latitude from GPS and that’s it and it flies it to your watches Compass, which I think is a real compass and more accurate. Notice when you’re using GPS unless I don’t know maybe I’ve had bad luck my entire life with every phone, that your phone almost never really says it’s pointing on the right direction. That’s why I don’t trust the steps, and just drop waypoint along the way , like I’m dropping my own breadcrumbs instead of trusting the backtrack app to do it. Cheers in your endeavors bro (or sis, sorry can’t see a picture lol)

LOVE your name Riff Vomit haha. Glad to see ya here. Apple needs to make it easier for us to navigate cities where we play these shows, eh. I about got lost walking back from a Dispo wayyyy up in Michigan because my compass seems to be inaccurate as **** in my phone, so when I turn on backtrack, even if I’m literally holding still, it starts adding in a bunch of random lines just because my phone thinks it’s moving around the house for some reason. I usually just drive waypoint on my watch, which, if I’m correct, uses the actual longitude and latitude from GPS and that’s it and it flies it to your watches Compass, which I think is a real compass and more accurate. Notice when you’re using GPS unless I don’t know maybe I’ve had bad luck my entire life with every phone, that your phone almost never really says it’s pointing on the right direction. That’s why I don’t trust the steps, and just drop waypoint along the way , like I’m dropping my own breadcrumbs instead of trusting the backtrack app to do it. Cheers in your endeavors bro (or sis, sorry can’t see a picture lol)

Same exact thing happens to me. I start a hike I start backtrack and after it starts, it shows me some weird random points on the way as I drove to the hike before I even started the backtrack. I canceled backtrack, delete steps, restart all over again at the same thing happens. It’s very annoying. It used to work absolutely fine in watchOS 9 and I loved it a lot. Can somebody help us with this issue? thank you.