Really hope some app supports Live Activities/Dynamic Island for the upcoming World Cup in November!
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Apple Confirms Live Activities Will Come to the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island in iOS 16.1
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How does the Live Activity interact with Dynamic Island? Isn't one a large view, and one a very small view with limited conveyable information?
What sports app do you use? Or was it iOS itself pulling from different sources?
And did it show all games or just teams you follow?
Same with every 14 Pro thread. There's always someone complaining about AoD. Then don't use it! And why is it the little phone lovers saying there should be no big ones. Obviously the sales proved people want big phone. I never see a big phone user saying there shouldn't be little ones. Choices are good.
Currently, you have to 'follow' a single game manually from within the AppleTV app. Would prefer it to be automatic, but doesn't look to work that way at the moment.
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Live activities i believe will always be a large view but you should be able to see the same view from DI by press and holding on the appropriate icon on the DI as well.
Ahhh that makes sense. I also did just go into Apple News to follow my local teams, so maybe that'll make it automatic.
Awesome. Do you know if the NHL will work? Preseason starts soon, and I'm stoked to think I could see my Habs scores so easily on my phone.
It could be useful for a few things like any incoming deliveries like parcel or even food, news updates on topics, rideshare apps (if you use those), and there are probably plenty more that I cannot think of right now or maybe some really off the wall helpful ones that devs may think of
I'm fairly certain a couple of those that were announced at WWDC had the caveat of "available later this fall". Which means they didn't promise it at launch. With that said, I'd rather a feature be "late" and good than "on time" and buggy.
Edit: Apparently I only read the part about features being late and missed the mentioning of sarcasm, oops!
Only app I think in Uk which will use this quickly for sport scores will be sport alerts and Forza football
This person is just sharing their opinion. As it stands it wouldn't be useful to them, but they didn't state it wouldn't be useful for others.
I imagine that there will be a new tab in General Settings to allow which apps can access lock screen. Then widgets will let you add from there. I cannot imagine a lot of apps constantly showing up on our lock screens. Gonna have to cap it like the static widgets.
Wont be upgrading to any iPhone 14 Pro until it is clear that Live Activities can be clearly DISABLED, preferably globally. It sounds horrendously obnoxious, invasive, and intrusive, even more so than endless irksome push notifications. No thanks.