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Apple Suggests Restoring iPhone and Apple Watch to Fix Excess Battery Drain or Missing GPS Data
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- Your workout route maps are missing in the Fitness app on iPhone for previous GPS-enabled workouts from your Apple Watch.
I wonder how often I should do this -
- unpaired an AW3, restored to new AW6 on launch day,
- repaired the AW6 when workouts wouldn’t show up at all,
- ended up setting up the AW6 as new watch when workouts still wouldn’t show up.
I have an Apple Watch Series 5 and after upgrading, had both battery drain and loss of route tracking. I followed the online advice to first try to unpair, backup and repair my Apple Watch. However, although backing up successfully, I was unable to restore from backup. Terrible experience.
But it didn't end there. I then set up my Apple Watch as a new watch, and then my watch would not track anything (activity, exercise or stand time), even with all the settings correct. One oddity with stand time was that every hour, it would delete the earliest hour of the day and add it to the end. It was a complete mess.
So I just left it and thought I'd attend to it the next day. Later, the watch reminded me to stand, and when I did, all of a sudden everything started working!
What a great example of Apple's "everything just works" mantra...
But it didn't end there. I then set up my Apple Watch as a new watch, and then my watch would not track anything (activity, exercise or stand time), even with all the settings correct. One oddity with stand time was that every hour, it would delete the earliest hour of the day and add it to the end. It was a complete mess.
So I just left it and thought I'd attend to it the next day. Later, the watch reminded me to stand, and when I did, all of a sudden everything started working!
What a great example of Apple's "everything just works" mantra...
People are going to try this and not correctly back up their photos from their phone and are going to be very, very sad...
Can anyone that's tried this verify that their asinine solution restores three year old GPS data wiped out by iOS 14? I don't fancy restoring my iPhone if it doesn't fully fix the issue.
I wouldn't mind un-paring and re-pairing my Apple Watch. But...wipe both my Watch and iPhone and restore from back up? No way.
A general troubleshoot in Apple Support documents is to restore your devices and most people can do this at home, and not have to wait 6 hours for a walk-in appointment or an actual appointment days later at your Apple Store.
good luck! I’m on a S4 that I upgraded to 7 and a X I upgraded to 14 and I have 0 issues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ there’s probably things I don’t notice
good luck! I’m on a S4 that I upgraded to 7 and a X I upgraded to 14 and I have 0 issues. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ there’s probably things I don’t notice
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I've got 5 years of data that's pooched. Because the bad data has already been backed up to iCloud it restores the bad data on to the phone.
That's what I expected, unfortunately. Why they would tell users to back up and restore bad data is beyond me, especially if they (apparently) have no idea what caused the issue. I really hope Apple finds a way to fix the problem soon, without losing old data. This is a pretty serious glitch, even if it's only affecting a small number of users.
All Apple services run on 100% clean energy
I never understood why some people don’t back up their data. I feel like we are at a day in age where I hope people knowingly back up their data the same as they would know to plug in their phone to charge it
I back my phone and iPad up once a month like clockwork...recently I've done it 2 times in the past 2 weeks (Through iTunes it just frees up insane amount of GBs when I do it)
Doing this - IF I update to 14.0.1..and if I have problems...and if this is the solution for now, fine, Guess I'll try that. (it would be a first, thats for sure)
But yeah...its a major hassle and a fail right now on Apple's end.
Just tried unpairing and re-pairing aaaaaaaand there's no watch backup. This is just swell.
No issues with my Apple watch but my iPhone turned into a hand warmer yesterday and burnt through 75% of the battery in a couple of hours. Was fine after doing a quick reset though. I will probably do a full reset/restore at the weekend if it does this again. Not the first time I have had weird stuff happen after going from beta to final on the same device.
Update: I had to restore it this evening as it was in thermal meltdown mode again. Will see if that has resolved the issue.
Update: I had to restore it this evening as it was in thermal meltdown mode again. Will see if that has resolved the issue.
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I’m missing health data from 2015 onwards - so this solution will potentially delete 5 years worth of health data?? Great...
I did that whole unpairing-pairing game a couple of times with the iOS13 / watchOS 6 dumpster fire. Since then, I have multiple AppleWatch and iPhone devices in my health app as input devices and they're all called the same.
Furthermore, they're sorted in a way, that I don't like (watch first, other devices after that) and the health app is so bugged that I cannot change that order. There are several complaints about that in the apple forums:
discussions.apple.com
discussions.apple.com
Furthermore, they're sorted in a way, that I don't like (watch first, other devices after that) and the health app is so bugged that I cannot change that order. There are several complaints about that in the apple forums:
Apple Health Data Priority - app reverts … - Apple Community
Apple Health Data Priority - Reverts Back… - Apple Community
After a huge battery drain on Tuesday evening (going to sleep with 47% battery left and waking up with a dead AW) I recharged it completely and now it is behaving properly again!
so my advice: let the battery die completely and then recharge it completely. It fixed the drain for me! I charged it yesterday morning completely and 22 hours later it sits at 51%.
so my advice: let the battery die completely and then recharge it completely. It fixed the drain for me! I charged it yesterday morning completely and 22 hours later it sits at 51%.
This solution brought back the 4 years of missing health data which I’m delighted about. It also appears to have resolved my problem where the watch wasn’t sending data back to the phone randomly, it would look like I had the watch off random hours during the day.
This solution HAS NOT restored the GPS routes from previous workouts. All only show starting point.
This solution HAS NOT restored the GPS routes from previous workouts. All only show starting point.
I fixed the excessive battery drain on my iPhone by deleting all widgets. Battery immediately went back to normal.
Thank you beta testers, you make it so easy for me. I keep saying it, the yearly releases need to stop for a while or have features and functionality spread out over months. Fit and finish one year, feature focus the next year. Most of Apples operating system platforms so independent now, there is no need to have this artificial dependency requiring similataneous release. Make iPad OS be a March release, iOS and Watch OS fall, tvOS Winter and maybe macOS or when its ready.
