New to workoutdoors after moving from garmin. Really making the transition easier. Does ios 18.1 have a few bugs for transferring maps to the watch offline? It downloads them on the phone but won't transfer to the watch despite opening the app and rebooting watch/phone.
Also are there any plans for real offline routing? big ask I know but wondering if it's on the roadmap
The app uses the standard iOS to watchOS file transfer system but that can be unreliable at times. Unfortunately there is nothing the app can do about it. Sorry about that.
The usual reason for problems is if you have another app which is transferring data (usually an audio app). WorkOutDoors then needs to wait until that app is finished. So it is worth waiting and trying again later. Rebooting can help but can also make it worse sometimes because it restarts the other transfer.
Some people have reported that starting a dummy workout on the watch can help because it gives the app higher priority in the eyes of watchOS. An outdoor activity type seems best because it makes the app use GPS which may increase its priority.
Also some people say to move the watch away from the iPhone so it is out of Bluetooth range but still in WiFi range, because this forces the transfer to use WiFi instead of Bluetooth, which may make the other transfer faster.
In terms of real offline routing, this will be in the next major version of the app. However that will not be for several months. I am just getting back into coding it now after dealing with watchOS 11 / series 10 issues for the last few months.
There may be a minor version beforehand with support for double tap and effort scores. However both features seem slightly unreliable in beta testing so I haven't decided on that yet. Double tap does not work when running, which is an understandable watchOS limitation, but one which will probably mean complaints. And the effort scores take a long time to make it to Apple's Health system and sometimes seem to get lost.
Hopefully watchOS 11.1 will help but at the moment I wouldn't want to release a version with those features as headline features. However I may include them in a "bug fix" version where they aren't mentioned in the release notes.