NBA App Now Shows Live Scores on iPhone's Lock Screen and Dynamic Island

[MacRumors]

The official NBA app for the iPhone was updated last week with support for Live Activities, allowing live scores of games to be viewed at a glance.

Live Activities is an iOS 16 feature that makes it easier to stay on top of real-time events, such as a sports game or a food delivery order. During an NBA game, a banner on the iPhone's Lock Screen shows the live score, quarter, time remaining, and other relevant information. The score is also shown in the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro models.

Apple's TV app already offered Live Activities support for NBA games, and now the functionality is available via the NBA app. The official MLB app was also updated with Live Activities support earlier this month, and it was announced last week that the NCAA March Madness app would be adding support for the feature as well. Other apps like Sports Alerts offer Live Activities integration for multiple sports leagues.

The Dynamic Island is rumored to expand to the standard iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus models later this year. Users can long press the Dynamic Island to open an expanded view with additional information for Live Activities.

The NBA app is available on the App Store. Apple has allowed third-party apps to support Live Activities since iOS 16.1 was released in October.

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[anshuvorty]

Finally!!! Good bye Sports Alerts!

 

[Justin Cymbal]

That’s awesome!

I’m a Boston Celtics fan and I’m really looking forward to the playoffs this year

I’m glad that I’ll now be able to use the new live activities on the NBA app to keep track of scores when the playoffs start

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

Does anyone know why I must manually start a live activity? I wish that live activities would just show up for any game a team I'm following plays in. That isn't a thing yet, right?

 

[oofio2461]

The alerts are nice, but are the notches now considered "Landlocked Islands" now?

 

[manofthematch]

Impressive.

 

[Princejb134]

Does anyone know why I must manually start a live activity? I wish that live activities would just show up for any game a team I'm following plays in. That isn't a thing yet, right?

In Sports alert it alerts me when the game has started on the lock screen. If you long press on the notification you can click start live activity straight from the lockscreen.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Oh man. This is such a nice feature. 🌟

 

[cocky jeremy]

I wish ESPN would hurry up and add this.

 

[dannyyankou]

A lot more detail than MLB's live activity. They don't even show who's batting or pitching. Or the previous play.

 

[everybodylovesramen]

Only six months since launch and were finally getting apps for the dynamic island

In hindsight maybe i should’ve waited for the 15 - but - i think the pro & pro max will be getting good trade in or secondary market values

 

[Apple247]

Meanwhile still nothing from Starbucks, one of the big showcased examples in the Live Activities announcement.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

NHL is too lazy to have something like this.

 

[Shasterball]

I cannot, for the life of me, understand how to enable these live updates on these apps.

 

[Mousse]

The alerts are nice, but are the notches now considered "Landlocked Islands" now?

Dynamic Peninsula. Come on, Apple, make it happen.

 

[dumastudetto]

Dynamic Island is the killer iPhone 14 Pro Max feature i cannot live without. It's so good and such a seamless experience that i find truly captivating.

 

[maxrest]

Man I wish ESPN TC could incorporate this for march madness!!

 

[Mr_Risin_Mojo]

Well that's kinda cool but more impressive would've been a deal on the NBA streaming rights...

GO PISTONS(this year for the #1 pick I guess 😂)

 

[The Game 161]

And works great enjoying to so far. Certainly for somebody in UK

 

[thomasjpr]

I wish ESPN would hurry up and add this.

Haha, ESPN doesn't even support Home Screen widgets. I'm not holding my breath!

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

In Sports alert it alerts me when the game has started on the lock screen. If you long press on the notification you can click start live activity straight from the lockscreen.

I guess that's slightly better than having to go into the app, but I'd rather not have a notification for when the game begins. I'd rather it just start the Live Activity.

Thanks for letting me know.

 

[mediacomposer]

I want this for the NHL and a favorite team widget as well

 

[DaPizzaMan]

In Sports alert it alerts me when the game has started on the lock screen. If you long press on the notification you can click start live activity straight from the lockscreen.

Is Sports Alert an app?

 

[Octavius8]

I don’t follow sports. Any app, not related to sports, for this function that anyone has seen so far?.

 

[Böhme417]

Meanwhile still nothing from Starbucks, one of the big showcased examples in the Live Activities announcement.

While I am impatiently waiting for this, I don’t know how well it will be utilized. Currently, I get notifications of my order being ready hours after the fact.

I cannot, for the life of me, understand how to enable these live updates on these apps.

Yeah, it’s definitely not intuitive.