About a week ago, Apple released the new operating system for the Apple Watch to the public. Along with the Apple Watch series 6, the new functionalities are already underway in all watches since series 3, yes, except for example the ability to measure blood oxygen, because as you know you need special hardware that only the new watch has. What should be a joy, is not being for some since they see how your GPS is not working properly.
Several Apple Watch owners who have upgraded to watchOS 7 are reporting an issue related to missing GPS map data after logging exercise in Apple's Workout app. Several readers of the analysis page, MacRumors, have reached out to highlight the issue, which was first noticed in a thread in the Apple Support Communities by a user who upgraded their Apple Watch Series 4 to watchOS 7.
Later, I went for a walk. I used the Outdoor Walk activity on my watch, but this time I didn't bring my iPhone. When I came back and tried to upload the activity to Strava, I got a warning that no route or GPS data. I checked the Fitness and Health apps and sure enough, there was no route on the map, just the starting point. I spoke to someone from Apple Support and they suggested that I disable / re-enable a couple of related privacy settings. I have since tried another Outdoor Walk activity, without the phone present, and the problem persists: no GPS / route data. My wife also tried the same tonight, after updating her iPhone X and S4 Watch as well. She had the same results, that is, with just the watch, no GPS / route information was saved with the activity.
The problem is that currently and after many comments, they have been informed Similar problems with GPS on 3, 4 and 5 series models.
In most cases, users record a workout on their watch while leaving their iPhone at home, but when they later look at the Activity app, it only shows the starting point of the workout on the GPS map, and nothing else. Some users also report sync issues with Strava and issues with additional training statistics, including heart rate information.
It is not clear what is causing the problems, but Apple is apparently aware of them, so hopefully there is a fix on the way in watchOS 7.1, whose beta version was sent to developers last week.