Lost all my Apple Watch Activity history after broken iPhone.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but the https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204518 page is a little confusing. Do all of the iPhone iCloud / encrypted backups include the Apple Watch data, or only the backups done when the Apple Watch has been unpaired from the phone?

If it's the latter, that's obviously not great. Who wants to unpair/repair their watch constantly just to get a complete backup?

Also, it'd be wonderful if they'd fix the iCloud backups. The whole thing is moot since I didn't know about the encrypted/unencrypted difference in backups, and I didn't have the option to use the iCloud backup! I'm seriously not pleased about losing 4 months of Activity data. Though at least it wasn't a couple years' worth.

When I've unpaired my watch ( I got a new phone ) a backup was created and when I went to pair it with the new device I was offered every backup that had been done for my watch so I picked the latest one. You can delete the older ones but apparently they are all stored somewhere.

I later had to perform a restore of my phone for various issues. All Health and Activity data from when I first got my watch was restored in the process. So you will get all your data back without worrying about the watch backups.

Also when when I first got my new phone and set it up by a restore from the previous phone's backup all the existing Health and Activity data both from the phone itself as well as any sourced from the watch was now on my new phone.

I just had to reset my iPhone. Had a "back-up" in iTunes. Got all of my information back except for the Activity Ap History. Lost all that fitness data from May 2015 till now. It would be a good idea to let people know of this gliche. That's an awful lot of fitness information to have lost. Shame on Apple for not letting us know about this.

I also lost all my activity data. I only use iCloud for backup, so it's not the encryption issue. I had to restore my phone when the iOS 10 update failed (1st hour issue) and restored from the last iCloud backup that normally occurs each night.

So for someone moving from one iphone to another, the only way to move Health & Activity data to the new iphone is:

1. Backup and restore from icloud. May be cost prohibitive if you can't backup and restore selectively
2. Backup and restore from itunes WITH encryption turned on

Now that I already did an un-encrypted restore and have 3 new days of data, are my only options the following?:

1. Do an encrypted backup with my old iphone (I still have it) and restore to the new iphone and lose the most recent data, OR
2. Keep the last 3 days, and lose all my previous data

Yes, those are your two options.

I received an iPhone 7 last week and do not encrypt my backups. So I started afresh with my Health & Activity data. I realized I don't really ever look backward at the old data, and feel like I'm missing nothing at all.

It is very frustrating that Apple Activity data is only stored in the phone and backups. It is not scalable, it is not usable.

If Apple claims it can be a player on fitness applications market they should study experience of existing leaders such as Garmin or FitBit.

So far the Activity and Health applications rather look as poor attempt. I hope they will be significantly improved.

Unbelievable! Same issue happened to me right now! I lost everything 😟 And even Unique Thanskgiving 5K Run Achievement

Apple must keep Watch data in the iCloud separately from an iPhone. Apple does not care about customers and their data! I spent on Apple Watch $1200 (3 items) and lost data. Very disappointed!

There is no way if you don't have access to the old iPhone.

Unbelievable, how Apple take care of your problems. The company knows about this problem more than a year and does nothing.