Lost all my Apple Watch Activity history after broken iPhone.

doublewillow wrote:

The FULL Backup does not include “Activity Data”.

It certainly does, as long as it's encrypted. I have Activity data going back to whenever it was first offered. That was a least three phones ago (there was a warranty swap involved).

A FULL backup with encryption certainly does include Activity Data. A few weeks ago I got a replacement phone under warranty, restored my iTunes encrypted backup, and I have all of my activity data back to the beginning of the time I had a phone with the health apps.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

supercala riccardo wrote:

It is my decision to encrypt or not data.

That is absolutely, completely true. And, it's Apple's choice to only save Health data in encrypted back ups.

Or, of course, in iCloud backups.

The FULL Backup does not include “Activity Data”.

doublewillow wrote:

iphone just lost all my activity data since 2 years ago. I am so angry about it. Maybe this is the time to move on and say good bye to apple.

Why can't you restore from your back up?

It is my decision to encrypt or not data. This is not your business. Every time I restore my iPhone because your messy update do not work I lost all my activities. How is this possible that Apple didn’t finind an easy way to reconnect my Apple Watch without deleting everything. This is ridiculous. Then you can replay... blah blah blah but it is still ridi

I know I have a different story and am not in the same situation that you are responding to, However, I DID have an encrypted backup of my iPhone on my iTunes account specifically for that reason, yet when I used my encrypted back up and re-paired my apple watch with my new iPhone, I still got NUTTIN, NADA, ZIP. My entire 2 1/2 year activity data with tons of achievement badges is now empty.

I’m in the same boat. Apparently it doesn’t matter to Apple. But hey my Fitbit surge hasn’t been used for over a year completely powered down dead, charged it up and good to go. And Guess what, my stuff all still saved on the Fitbit app, even after three full restored backups because of defective iPhone 6s Plus. Maybe I should have just stuck with my surge?!

The system is so arrogant, my phone completely crashed so I lost 2wk since backup, now I also have to lose 3wk of fitness data oof my watch, as I can't link with my phone without a reset, how fn ridiculous, typical apple, it's FMEA (failure mode and effect annalists) is bad, I must admit I'm trying to hit the apple watch move goals, but now just completely deflated as I have to wipe all previous achievement, Thanks Apple for building me up just to chop me down.

No replaceable battery and this, see ya, hello android

The SYSTEM is so arrogant? How about the USER who doesn't do more frequent backups? Apple makes it as easy as possible to do automatic nightly backups that there's no excuse for not using this feature. Talk about leading a horse to water...

WIG1 wrote:

So if your phone dies the data is just gone.

This is precisely the reason backups are so important. Backups are the remedy for this, not an Apple Watch.

Storing health data in a backup requires the backup to be encrypted if you use iTunes.

How to back up your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support

iphone just lost all my activity data since 2 years ago. I am so angry about it. Maybe this is the time to move on and say good bye to apple.

supercala riccardo wrote:

It is my decision to encrypt or not data.

That is absolutely, completely true. And, it's Apple's choice to only save Health data in encrypted back ups.

Which, of course, are encrypted back ups! So, once again, Apple is removing supercala's freedom of choice by forcing them to use encrypted back ups if they want to use iCloud. Oh, no!

Lawrence Finch wrote:

The SYSTEM is so arrogant?

Such an odd choice of words. I assumed non-native speaker. Even our AIs having quite reached arrogant.