Same issues with Sports app. Spoke to Apple "support" and we noticed that if I went to Settings/Notifications there was no listing for the Sports app AND if I went to the Sports app settings, there was no options for Notifications either. Deleted and reinstalled the app three times, restarted the iPhone 17 Pro each time and nada.
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Apple sports live activities notifications
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The Apple Sports app doesn't support push notifications. That's why there are no notification settings. It does support Live Activities. You can get to the activity settings in the app by tapping Home in the top right, then tapping on the gear to see your favorited teams.
I did the nuclear option of deleting all my teams/ leagues and then setting them all back up. Everything works on my iPad Pro now but not the phone/watch. What a mess. But at least one of my devices works!
I did find that having "more frequent updates" selected in the live activities settings for the sports app is the only way for any of this to work properly which is annoying.
I did find that having "more frequent updates" selected in the live activities settings for the sports app is the only way for any of this to work properly which is annoying.
This was bugging me for a few weeks. Got around to trying the beta 26.1 beta 2. They fixed it. Now I get the notifications and updates on the phones like in the past. I had to install the Watch beta too to get it working there.
Also they fixed the FaceID delay from that last update (iPhone 13).
Also they fixed the FaceID delay from that last update (iPhone 13).
So does the haptic feedback work on live activities, and do the live activities start automatically?
I noticed Saturday that the live activity started automatically for my football team and my watch made a sound and vibrated when the score changed.
Yes this has happened but only intermittently. When I disable Smart Stack on my watch my 16 PM works well. It’s only when the watch mirrors it on live activities does it fail to notify.
Yeah. On the beta it’s back to normal. Games start automatically. Watch haptics are working. Phone sounds are working.
I'm gonna wait for final release. I don't really care about games not auto-starting any more since MLB baseball is basically over. But it will be nice to have the feature working again.
Yeah I had to turn on score changes on the CBS Sports app for hockey. Hope 26.1 gets released soon.
Yes that has worked well recently. However the main issue for me still is haptics for scores when wearing the Apple Watch.
As the original poster I can confirm 26.1 fixes the live activities and haptic notifications via the Apple Watch. Thank you Apple!
Look forward to seeing if everything is working ok for me with my teams Champions League match tomorrow night.
After both the iPhone and watch update I followed 2 nhl and the nfl games last night and each score worked. Even turnovers in the MNF game gave haptic notifications.
Everything worked ok with my iPhone and Apple Watch automatically starting the live activities for my teams champions league match last night and got haptic notifications via the Apple Watch👍
The only slight issue I ran into was my with the mirroring from my iPhone to my M4 Mac mini running macOS 26.1 it didn't start automatically for some reason. I tried toggling on/off the live activities mirroring in options but that didn't work, then restarted my Mac and the live activities kicked in automatically.....hopefully it was just a slight glitch.
Just glad that it looks to be fixed now.
The only slight issue I ran into was my with the mirroring from my iPhone to my M4 Mac mini running macOS 26.1 it didn't start automatically for some reason. I tried toggling on/off the live activities mirroring in options but that didn't work, then restarted my Mac and the live activities kicked in automatically.....hopefully it was just a slight glitch.
Just glad that it looks to be fixed now.