Horrific Apple Store experience, can anyone help me out here with my Apple Watch?

[dawnrazor]

This entire forum is first world problems, doesn't mean it can't be discussed.

now that’s horrific…

 

[madeirabhoy]

Well, if what you’re saying were true, then anyone who gets a new iPhone and sets it up as “new” vs transfer/restore would lose their fitness data, right?
For at least the last 4 or 5 years I’ve transferred my data from old to new iPhone so don’t have experience but if that were the case I’m sure we would constantly see posts here.
Also, below screenshot is my local iPhone storage for the Health app, 2.46GB vs 442MB in iCloud and that delta is most likely due to compression. And you can see all the fitness data is there. The Fitness app shows 2.4MB of data which clearly is not my 7+ years of data…View attachment 2181028

I’ve always set up my phones and watch as new as I also do with my Mac. Just like everything to be clean and have an unexplainable worry about preference files from older machines somehow causing crashes.


And I have all my data since 2018 despite changing both phone and watch last year.