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

[MacAndMic]

The ability to follow election results similar to following sports scores. Nicely done Apple, nicely done.

 

[veeco3110]

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!

I wish America was still like this

 

[FreeState]

Yep. I will never donate again. Unless it’s happening anyway which sounds like might be the case. I’m even reporting the wrong things as junk by habit at this point.

I got all but 3 political text and I donate. I use hide my email and use a burner phone number that I erase after (any free phone app will give you a texting number )

 

[dampfnudel]

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!

So far with only two exceptions (technical issue in PA and a bomb threat in GA), everything has been going well.

 

[dampfnudel]

Why just the US ? The whole planet is holding its breath.

There are also other reasons outside the borders of the US for the world to hold its breath.

 

[briloronmacrumo]

"If you have an iPhone 14 Pro or later model running iOS 16.1 or newer"

Seems to work here on my iPhone 13 mini

 

[redbeard331]

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.

I think this is the most likely scenario, some scientists think it’s the next big step in human evolution. All of our collective Intelligence leaves the biological meat sacks we live in and moves on into mechanical ones, no more disease or need for food. It would solve a lot of problems with space travel as well as we wouldn’t need oxygen, food, or water for long trips. They wouldn’t be as susceptible to the dangers of space travel and different planets as well.

Of course, this all depends on if humans survive long enough for this to happen, and depending on what happens today, you know.

 

[Bryan Bowler]

I just enabled this for my 16PM. Interested in tracking the results now that Election Day is here! As for what others are saying about the Spam texts, I agree: totally ridiculous and unwanted. Should be actions to prohibit them from happening. I never asked to receive them and I report al of them as Spam.

 

[currocj]

Oh VERY bold to leave comments on

I expect if anyone drifts into red comments they will North Korea that commenter faster than the Apple M5 Ultra with 256GB of unified ram

 

[dannyyankou]

I turned this on earlier, but on second thought I think I’m going to disable it. I’m probably going to do a complete news/internet/social media detox tonight. I’ll check the results in the morning.

 

[Boatboy24]

Best meme I've seen: "Feels like the entire country is holding its breath waiting for the STD results." 😂

We're going to have an STD. It's just a question of which one. 😂

 

[bLackjackj]

Shame it's not available outside of the US.

It is,..just create a US account. Or you can just type in "US Election 2024" and it brings up the same bar, in a page. You can then follow.

 

[Primus84]

It's now live on Apple News in the UK.

 

[d245770q]

It's now live on Apple News in the UK.

So it is!

 

[mblm85]

It's now live on Apple News in the UK.

Yes! I'm on an iPhone 15 on the UK's EE network, no VPN, British English, not an Apple News subscriber.... works fine now.

 

[nateo200]

Yes! I'm on an iPhone 15 on the UK's EE network, no VPN, British English, not an Apple News subscriber.... works fine now.

Interesting to see "EE 4G" and the US election on the AOD lol. Cool feature I'll keep it up on my phone despite watching this election closely.

 

[Analog Kid]

I'm not usually one to accuse Apple of ulterior motives, but I do wonder if they did this knowing that about half the phones in the country are going to be upgrade candidates tomorrow due to broken screens.

Only question really is which half...

 

[willzyx]

Activated it... 20 min later deactivated. This is too much anxiety. I'd rather watch John King

 

[840quadra]

I am really happy with how this widget was produced and available to non-subscribers to Apple News.

Def would like to see more features like this. It is nice for an at-a-glance reference to the active status!

I wish America was still like this

OT . Love the Avatar, my avatar is from a CTR2 image I took over a decade ago. Ignore the pumpkin

 

[Applɘ Aꙅylum]

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

Works on 11PM.

 

[akash.nu]

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

I thought it was just me. So live activities are not available in the U.K. for the Apple News app in general then.

 

[blufrog]

The Liberal media stopped reporting, because President Trump won. The AP ticker hasn't been updated for 5 hours. It has stopped short of the update that makes Trump President.

 

[b0fh666]

best feature ever!

 

[currocj]

Trump won, but what I find fascinating is how Kamala is sitting at 66M votes a full 15M below Joe’s hard-to-believe 81M.

Thank you Apple News!

 

[currocj]

There are also other reasons outside the borders of the US for the world to hold its breath.

Now we can all exhale in relief