Track 2024 U.S. Election Results Live on Your iPhone Lock Screen

[Populus]

Wow, this is quite useful, but it is sad it’s only available for U.S. users, because U.S. politics affect the rest of the world.

By the way, I have a question for all the USA citizens here on MR: Would you like it to be more than two alternatives to vote for?

Here in Europe we usually have several parties (some are more liberal, others more conservative, and others are in between), and I’m glad we can choose from more than two candidates/parties, even if they have to form coalitions. But at least there you can vote for the candidate you want for the Republican Party or the Democrats, as in some countries like mine, you can just vote for the only candidate of a given party. Candidates are usually chosen by the party itself, which I think is a flaw on the system.

 

[erihp]

why do you need to have an iphone 14 for this to work?

 

[WarmWinterHat]

Honestly, political ads are better than the constant ads for ED, vag dryness, vag odor, PE, you name it, we have a commercial for it. ALL. THE. TIME.

And random-ass prescription drugs! I'm a pharmacist, and I often see commercials or ads for a drug before I've even heard about it from a journal or rep.

 

[lanomds1]

Thanks! Whew. This is going to be one long as night watching Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada.

Good luck to both candidates!

Best of luck to planet earth as the world's biggest and most influential economy heads to the polls. This is going to be decisive not only for America, but for the whole world as the climate crisis is not getting any good.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

The only question is which half?

The World knows...

 

[MNWildFan]

I don’t believe a 14 pro is a minimum. I enabled it on my 13PM.

I think 14 pro is a minimum for the dynamic island component of live activites

When I had a XR, I could do live activities there even but of course no DI

 

[Crowbot]

Wow, this is quite useful, but it is sad it’s only available for U.S. users, because U.S. politics affect the rest of the world.

By the way, I have a question for all the USA citizens here on MR: Would you like it to be more than two alternatives to vote for?

Here in Europe we usually have several parties (some are more liberal, others more conservative, and others are in between), and I’m glad we can choose from more than two candidates/parties, even if they have to form coalitions. But at least there you can vote for the candidate you want for the Republican Party or the Democrats, as in some countries like mine, you can just vote for the only candidate of a given party. Candidates are usually chosen by the party itself, which I think is a flaw on the system.

There has been some serious talk here in the US about ranked voting.

 

[ghostface147]

Wow, this is quite useful, but it is sad it’s only available for U.S. users, because U.S. politics affect the rest of the world.

By the way, I have a question for all the USA citizens here on MR: Would you like it to be more than two alternatives to vote for?

100%. The issue is that we don’t have any data on 3rd party candidates and what they can do when elected. There are no 3rd party mayors, governors, judges, city council members, nothing. If you want a serious 3rd party, you have to start locally, then move up to state and then federal. Educated voters want to see data on what a candidate has done. So to be a viable 3rd party candidate, you need a political history in office.

The only 3rd party candidate who did something, as minor was it was, was Ross Perot. He made it on stage against Bush and Clinton. No one before and since has.

 

[MNWildFan]

How the f do you need a 14 pro to use something like this?!

I think that's only for the dynamic island component

I had a XR prior to the 15, and it was able to do live activities fine

 

[GermanSuplex]

Actually a neat feature I’ll use this evening. Apple News isn’t talked about a lot, but I do like the app quite a bit.

 

[DEMinSoCAL]

There has been some serious talk here in the US about ranked voting.

What's ranked voting?

We need to retire the EC. It's been manipulated past it's usefulness, and the fact we constantly have a handful of swing states that decide the election because of the EC, is proof it's not working. Popular vote. 1 person, 1 vote, then count them. The candidate with the most, wins.

 

[jedimasterkyle]

Pass.

I'm taking my melatonin and benadryl tonight so that I can dream of the giant asteroid that has our name on it and will sleep soundly through the night.

In the morning, I'm taking my anti-anxiety pills, taking a GIANT hit of my anti-anxiety oil and putting everything in airplane mode for the next week.

Yes I voted but I'm also not above burying my head in the sand.

The one thing that is keeping me sane throughout all of this is knowing that Earth is such a tiny, infinitesimally small grain of sand in the ocean of the cosmos and ultimately, nothing we do, good or bad, will amount to a single solitary thing of impact when it compares to the known universe. We're born. We live. We die. Nothing on this planet is permanent and everything is constantly changing.

 

[Fuzzball84]

The biggest tracker, the best tracker. People couldn’t believe it. But it’s true.

 

[CausticPuppy]

No thanks, I'd rather avoid having panic attacks delivered straight to my phone.

 

[DelayedGratificationGene]

Hahah, absolutely not! I don't need this kind of stress in my life and there is nothing I can do at this point.

After work today (230ish), I'll be logging off and not using the internet, my phone, nor watching tv/streaming until tomorrow morning. I'll do a nice trail run, re-hang the gutters on my barn and my wife wants to transplant some blueberry bushes.

Wow blueberry bushes…nice!

 

[HobeSoundDarryl]

I was amazed to find out about the constant political TV ads you guys have, they would completely do my head in. Is it always like that?

Always within the last 3-6 months of an election: basically drug ad with many very undesirable side effects, medicare advantage ads, ambulance-chasing lawyer ads (including ads wanting to sue drug companies for the drugs (with undesirable side effects) they were promoting 5+ years ago) and political ads. Over and over and over again.

Last night, I sat down to watch the big Football game wondering if there would be any time to show the game or would it perhaps be relegated to a picture-in-picture-like rectangle down in the corner while those kinds of ads ran non-stop in the rest of the screen. Fortunately, that did NOT happen (else, I would have just turned off the TV)... but I have to admit I would not have been completely surprised.

The political ads are typically isolating smallish things each candidate supported/said (in or out of context) at some point in their lives (including long ago) and generally- but not always- blowing it wayyyyyyy out of proportion. By Election Day, it can feel like one is voting for "least worst" person in America than "who is best for very important jobs?"

The original concept was to elect "best man for the job" which evolved over a LONG time to "best person for the job" but then devolved (in perception anyway) into "least worst person for the job." That seems well beyond "backwards" but things are as those we elect choose to allow them to be.

 

[bigjnyc]

There's nothing I hate more in this world than ***** politics and what it does to people.... Nothing annoys me more than political zealots on both sides of the aisle.... I am so annoyed already with all the crap on social media from supporters of both sides.... Sadly it won't end after tonight, because whichever side loses is going to spend the next god knows how many months crying about fraud and coming up with all kinds of conspiracy theories. politics is evil poison.

 

[victorvictoria]

This may be interesting to some folks, but not to me. My vote was cast 2 weeks ago, via drop off, and I got an email confirmation that it was received and will be counted. Beyond that, why spend all day/evening stressing about it when I have no say in what's happening? And since I'm a citizen of Illinois, my vote has no effect on the outcome, since IL is a solid blue state not matter what I do (happily for me, I'm in line with the outcome). Time to eliminate the electoral college and actually let citizens decide by majority.

 

[hobspain]

Disappointed this is just for US users...

Actually it can be configured overseas. Just use a US appleid and configure your device to US in regional settings. I just did from Italy.

 

[Devyn89]

Sounds like a great way to keep yourself super anxious all day, regardless of which party/candidates you support.

 

[Populus]

The one thing that is keeping me sane throughout all of this is knowing that Earth is such a tiny, infinitesimally small grain of sand in the ocean of the cosmos and ultimately, nothing we do, good or bad, will amount to a single solitary thing of impact when it compares to the known universe. We're born. We live. We die. Nothing on this planet is permanent and everything is constantly changing.

Well, to my knowledge, there is one thing that could last from our civilization and expand over the universe: AI.

If the current AI race continues, and we develop super intelligence able to develop even more intelligent machines/beings, they will probably be able to leave this planet and expand beyond the limits of our system, galaxy, or even cluster.

Time is not a problem for AI, as it doesn’t age. The silicon components may, but I’m sure super intelligent AIs will find a way to build and maintain servers for millennia, unlike us that build a machine expecting it to break after a few years to incentivize consumption.

 

[WilliApple]

The best use I have seen for live activities.

 

[UliBaer]

It's a pity, this is not available elsewhere, f. e. in Europe.
Elections in the USA are always a very good time to make money from nothing at the stock exchange. 👍

 

[Yptcn]

If anyone finds out a way to turn this on in the UK let me know

Change your phone to US and you will get the News app

 

[Chungry]

Oh god why