When Apple first announced iOS 16 in June, the company drew special attention to Live Activities. This new type of tool updates in real time for things like timers, sports scores, ride-sharing updates, and more.
But Live Activities didn’t launch with iOS 16, as Apple instead promised in a later update after iOS 16 was released in September.
With iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, capturing live activities will be an added advantage. While any other iPhone will display Live Activities as a lock screen widget, the latest Pro models will include Live Activities in Dynamic Island, that area for alerts and notifications that replaces the iPhone’s notch. As of the current beta version of iOS 16.1, you can test this with the mathematical results.
thanks for the tip!! I got this to work for the Premier League results too! pic.twitter.com/csscCo1wA3September 17, 2022
At the moment, there is only support for MLB games in the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, Japan and South Korea. Live Activities also supports the NBA and the Premier League in the United States and Canada. We expect to add more sports leagues in the future because Live Activities will work on any iPhone running iOS 16.
When the game you followed is live, you’ll see Dynamic Island pop up to show the score in real time, similar to the look of the media player on the iPhone 14 Pro. But with a long press, you can expand to see a larger scoreboard, along with elapsed time and play-by-play details.
Live sports scores from Dynamic Island
To test it out for yourself, you’ll first need to install the iOS 16.1 public beta, which repeats the same process as installing the iOS 16 public beta from this summer. (You have to sign up for Apple’s public beta program, first.) As usual, we would like to warn this by saying that running an experimental program can lead you to stability issues and errors. Public beta versions of the iOS point release tend to be less risky, though.
With that out of the way, here’s the process for watching the live scores on Dynamic Island.
Head to the Apple TV app and search for a supported game. Remember it’s MLB, NBA, and Premier League right now. Once you find one, click the plus sign (+) Icon to follow the game and keep up to date with the latest developments. Once you start the game, you should get the results both on the lock screen and on Dynamic Island (when your iPhone 14 Pro is unlocked).
Live sports scores from Dynamic Island: Outlook
If you’re into sports – and I admit I’m not – this could be a really cool feature if you haven’t been able to watch the game. We hope to see other live action features make their way to the dynamic island soon. From its sounds, we can get some really cool stuff once the developers add this feature.
iOS 16.1 is slated to launch later this year, so expect to wait a few weeks for this update to roll out. If you’re looking for more information on what a dynamic island can do, check out our explanation of a dynamic island. And be sure to head over to our iPhone 14 Pro review and iPhone 14 Pro Max review to find out everything else new with Pro phones this year.
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