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iOS 16.2 Beta Reintroduces Live Sports Scores on iPhone's Lock Screen
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I’m not super sports person, I like football too but never been in to most sports. But this strikes me as being for baseball fans. Baseball fans seem to like just scores and then watching the like 2 minutes of actual action later in highlights.
Omg it’s the only way. I can’t watch football live, sooooo many commercials and they are very repetitive on top of it. Plus it only takes like an hour and a half to watch a football game if you skip all the ads and halftime.
Waiting for Apple to place tiny ads for sports gambling apps next to the live sports scores
Please don’t give them any more ideas 🤣
interesting no fantasty football app whether new or existing that uses live activities. it seems like such a natural fit....
Side topic: it says iOS16.2 comes with stage manager external display support. So stage manager on iPhone when you plug it in to a screen?!
Said no sports fan ever.
But seriously, I think you might be in a minority here. I get watching Live or watching on a recorded session from your DVR. But to be honest, many sports fans, casual or diehard, enjoy getting their updates from their phones when they are out and about and not able to watch live. As to the point of watching later, there are so many sources bombarding us with information (radio, Social Media, streaming news, etc), that I would rather get updated as the event is occurring than find out later what my team did which would spoil watching it anyways. For a game like Baseball, watching later isn't all that appealing.
The solution for your use case is to turn off any such functionality (if Apple automatically turns it on). I can't tell you how many times I am out to dinner with my wife and have a MLB complication on my Apple Watch or check the ESPN or MLB / NFL app or out for the day and want to keep up with my pro baseball and football teams. Now I don't have to launch an app to get that info. Win all around!
Hi folks….just testing out Live Sports scores on the new iOS beta 16.2. I'm just seeing this for the first time but so far so good!
See the series of screen shots below I set tonight’s Bull’s game up in the TV App and then what the scoring looks like on the Lock Screen on an iPhone 13 Pro.m Note that I had previously set up the Bulls as one of my favorite "local" teams in the News App — I am not sure if this is required though??
Step 1) I invoke the TV App and see tonight’s Bulls NBA game on the Home Screen of the App.
Step 2) I simply tap on “Follow“ to enable Live Game Tracking for the Bulls game and a checkmark appears.
Step 3) Here’s what the Lock Screen looks like before the game starts:
Step 4) Here’s a shot of what the scoring looks like during the game so far.
Note the short "last score description" with the vertical bar to the right in the color of the scoring team! This is pretty cool.
Also, when you click on the Live Action scoring update, you have full access to the scoring history for the entire game which is very cool!
This is all pretty neat stuff!
Looking forward to trying this out more!
See the series of screen shots below I set tonight’s Bull’s game up in the TV App and then what the scoring looks like on the Lock Screen on an iPhone 13 Pro.m Note that I had previously set up the Bulls as one of my favorite "local" teams in the News App — I am not sure if this is required though??
Step 1) I invoke the TV App and see tonight’s Bulls NBA game on the Home Screen of the App.
Step 2) I simply tap on “Follow“ to enable Live Game Tracking for the Bulls game and a checkmark appears.
Step 3) Here’s what the Lock Screen looks like before the game starts:
Step 4) Here’s a shot of what the scoring looks like during the game so far.
Note the short "last score description" with the vertical bar to the right in the color of the scoring team! This is pretty cool.
Also, when you click on the Live Action scoring update, you have full access to the scoring history for the entire game which is very cool!
This is all pretty neat stuff!
Looking forward to trying this out more!
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Sports Alerts – live scores for MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, CFL, soccer, tennis, golf, NCAA football & basketball and more.
It's great that third party developers like Sports Alerts already support the feature.
For soccer fans out there these two also support Live Activities:
FotMob – Live tracking soccer scores from Lock Screen.
Scorespot - Soccer results on the Lock Screen.
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I actually forgot about this until last night - "Where are these sports updates!?" (thought this was in 16.1) Saw 3rd party apps, this Live Scores so far is working well - testing on WC2022, notification comes in almost immediately ....but not the UI I saw and hoping.
....so, ok 16.2 it comes out. I guess??
....so, ok 16.2 it comes out. I guess??
Get FotMob. Working great. Especially for the World Cup! Lock screens amazing and dynamic island as well. I’m not even on a beta. Check it out 🙌
FotMob - Soccer Live Scores
FotMob gives you all the live scores, stats, and storylines to keep you up to speed with the world of soccer. Personalized news and notifications make it easy to follow your favorite teams and players. And lightning-quick match updates make sure you never miss a goal, no matter where you are...
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Are you referring to Apples own Live Activies support for (select) sports games that is indeed coming in iOS16.2 as included with the AppleTV app.
As far as third party sports apps I already mentioned a couple above and as you said they have Live Activity support which works well. If you need 'regular' lock screen notifications I think you can still have those as well by turning on notifications for those specific apps in your Settings app > Notifications > app you won't to be notified by.
Yeah. I can wait for 16.2 for these notifications, dedicated UI I've been seeing. I tried the one Sports Alerts app - pictured above that worked fairly well with USA soccer, the Eagles game and Sixers on Monday night.
No idea how I missed the post above (NBA, Pacers vs Bulls game notifications), the UI, notifications through Apple TV...that's what I'm waiting for.
The TV app currently only supports MLB, NBA and Premier League matches for Live Activites. It works great when I follow Sixers games, but for Eagles games, I use Sports Alerts and that works pretty well.
Hoping Apple starts supporting more sports leagues once 16.2 is released to the public (Maybe 16.3?)
Yeah I noticed it doesn't support NFL (I'll keep the other app for that just in case..I am usually home to watch the Eagles live anyway) but the MLB and NBA Apple notifications will be cool.
Is there a way to automatically enable all games for a certain team?
On the Apple TV Apple TV app (that sounds weird lol), I can follow my favorite teams, and the TV will then make these small notifications in the top corner when interesting stuff happens with my teams (a game is about to start, a game is tied and nearing the end etc etc).
Can I follow my favorite teams on the iPhone app and get live activity without enabling the individual games?
On the Apple TV Apple TV app (that sounds weird lol), I can follow my favorite teams, and the TV will then make these small notifications in the top corner when interesting stuff happens with my teams (a game is about to start, a game is tied and nearing the end etc etc).
Can I follow my favorite teams on the iPhone app and get live activity without enabling the individual games?