Apple Confirms Live Activities Will Come to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island in iOS 16.1

[zapmymac]

Awesome for running, glance down and see you pace/time/distance/heart heart

Nike Run Club please

 

[NYCValkyrie]

Football season has started… so when we do get this, it’ll be mid season.

But perfect timing for MLB Playoffs!!

 

[Böhme417]

As cool as it would be, not sure what I’d use it for. I don’t keep track of sports scores or anything.

Uber/Lyft tracking is the only other thing I've seen.

But does anyone really care if you find it unuseful. Can you imagine well enough to see that many will welcome this feature? I can guarantee you that you don't like 1/2 the things I like and vice versa. It really doesn't matter, does it?

That's a bit rude. There are plenty of people who don't watch or care about sports. That and ridesharing are really the only things I've seen featured in screenshots. I'm sure there's a lot of potential, but it would be nice to know how other apps are going to utilize this. There are plenty of iOS features that don't get wide enough adoption by app developers; maybe people hope this just won't be another one.

 

[0112862]

To explain bluntly what sarcasm was trying to explain.

Here:

Once again Apple fail to deliver on time something that was announced as being available with Ios 16

Live activity
Stage whatever
Universal Control
…

 

[TracesOfArsenic]

More opportunities to be abused for ads on your home screen!

 

[kuwxman]

Tried it out tonight on the 16.1 beta w/ a baseball game. Worked great!

 

[Chevyman29]

With the AOD and now the live activities and the widgets it seems like apple has woken up to the idea that there's a whole lots of people who've been wanting things like this.

In my lifetime I look forward to being able to place icons anywhere on my home screen 😂

 

[svish]

Should be launching soon. Waiting to try it out.

 

[MayaUser]

always on display+live activities= golden

 

[JimmyHook]

Amazon, FedEx, UPS, USPS, and other deliveries will be great to track from this.

 

[buzzman]

Crypto/stock prices?

Progress on your large 3D render job?

Build process status?

Medal counts during olympics?

Amazon package tracking (6 stops away!)?


Instacart / Uber / Lyft deliveries progress?

That would all be insane. Too bad it's US only in the beginning. Hope it comes fast to Europe

 

[_Spinn_]

Thank goodness. I was worried that we might have to wait longer that the .1 release to get this.

 

[thislsmadness]

To explain bluntly what sarcasm was trying to explain.

Here:

Once again Apple fail to deliver on time something that was announced as being available with Ios 16

Live activity
Stage whatever
Universal Control
…

They had already announced at WWDC that this would not be a launch feature. But would you rather they delay iOS16 for everyone for a feature that benefits two phones? Or would iPhone 14 owners rather wait a year for iOS17 instead of a month for 16.1?

 

[macduke]

"Coming soon to Dynamic Island…ONLY ON FOX!"

That's what I hear in my head. Sounds like a reality TV show.

 

[MedRed]

Uber/Uber Eats is great. Also Google Maps in Japan when I'm navigating the trains/subways!

 

[pauloregan]

Can you set the sports ticker to be an hour behind if you're watching it a bit late on on a PVR. The pizza delivery will have to be live though.
Maybe siri could listen to the commentary, know I'm in the 2nd qtr 7.15 left and adjust as I forward the ads.
16.2 update idea right there.

 

[reasonablewolf]

ESPN App developers will have to integrate their app with the new Live Activities API first.

In iOS 16.1 beta 1, it's active with Apple TV and live sports. I was able to see baseball scores live on the lock screen today.

 

[PriestsOfSyrinx]

Tried it out tonight on the 16.1 beta w/ a baseball game. Worked great!

Which app?

 

[0112862]

They had already announced at WWDC that this would not be a launch feature. But would you rather they delay iOS16 for everyone for a feature that benefits two phones? Or would iPhone 14 owners rather wait a year for iOS17 instead of a month for 16.1?

I would rather have them organized their **** together and deliver on time. If they could stop fragmenting the Iphone it would surely help.

-Iphone 13 A14
-Iphone 13 pro A14/gpu+
-Iphone 14 A14/gpu+
-Iphone 14 A15

Seriously this is bad.

Apple is on their way to go back to pepsi era once again.

 

[Stunning_Sense4712]

Is the live activities tiles exclusive to the iPhone 14 or will some of the older iPhones get the live activities tiles?

 

[boombashi]

As cool as it would be, not sure what I’d use it for. I don’t keep track of sports scores or anything.

Wait until developers get their hands on this and update their apps. You might be surprised of the usefulness.

 

[maxfromdenmark]

It makes my life easier with waiting for Uber.

 

[jav6454]

But perfect timing for MLB Playoffs!!

Not an MLB fan, but sure... those fans will be happy.

 

[arkitect]

For me…

Crypto/stock prices?

Nope

Progress on your large 3D render job?

Err… Nope

Build process status?

Nope again…

Medal counts during olympics?

You guessed it. Nope.

Amazon package tracking (6 stops away!)?

Really?

Instacart / Uber / Lyft deliveries progress?

No, not really.

I mean this in jest, mostly.

But christ on a bike, do we really need to know all these things instantly?

Wait until developers get their hands on this and update their apps. You might be surprised of the usefulness.

True.
Early days yet and I hope to be impressed.

 

[NYCValkyrie]

Not an MLB fan, but sure... those fans will be happy.

Such an incredibly weird response.