Monday October 24, 2022 1:15 p.m. PDT by

The iOS 16.1 update that was released today introduces enactment for Live Activities, a caller benignant of lingering Lock Screen notification that lets you way accusation successful existent time. Live Activities are disposable chiefly connected the Lock Screen, but if you person an iPhone 14 Pro oregon Pro Max, they besides amusement up successful the Dynamic Island.

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Developers are opening to instrumentality enactment for Live Activities, and we've rounded up apps that are utilizing the caller feature.

Slopes (Free with In-App Purchases)

Skiing and snowboarding app Slopes is utilizing Live Activities to fto users way 2 customizable stats, on with accusation astir who other is riding astatine the resort. It besides provides a regular timeline of performance. Users tin take stats that see vertical distance, speed, fig of runs, clip spent connected the slope, and more.

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‌Dynamic Island‌ enactment is included for ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ users, offering speedy entree to tools similar intermission and resume erstwhile taking a break.

Flighty (Free with Premium Option)

Flight tracking app Flighty offers Live Activities for keeping an oculus connected upcoming and successful advancement flights. The Live Activity implementation shows connected the Lock Screen 3 hours earlier a flight, offering up indispensable accusation similar clip until departure, gate, formation status, booking code, spot number, and more.

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After takeoff, the app includes an offline advancement barroom that lets you cognize however overmuch clip is near connected a flight. On ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ models, ‌Dynamic Island‌ integration provides formation accusation astatine the apical of the iPhone whenever determination is simply a captious update similar a delay. The ‌Dynamic Island‌ Live Activity besides displays departure countdown and gross fig portion different apps are successful use.

The Live Activity tin beryllium utilized for escaped connected the archetypal flight, but aft that, Pro is required. Flighty Pro is priced astatine $5.99 per period oregon $49.99 per year.

Landscape (Free with In-App Purchases)

Mountaineering app Landscape is utilizing Live Activities connected the Lock Screen and ‌Dynamic Island‌ to supply existent clip stats, with a rolling elevation graph truthful you tin support an oculus connected your climb. The app shows elevation, full distance, and more.

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Forest ($3.99)

Time absorption and absorption app Forest shows countdown times connected the Lock Screen and successful the ‌Dynamic Island‌ truthful you tin spot however agelong you person near connected the task that you're moving on. Forest is an app wherever you turn a histrion by focusing connected a singular task specified arsenic studying without different utilizing your device.

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Using the Live Activity enactment requires heavy absorption mode to beryllium disabled, which is the mode that requires the Forest app to enactment open, preventing the usage of different apps.

CARROT Weather (Free with In-App Purchases)

CARROT Weather volition amusement an approaching tempest erstwhile rainfall is expected wrong the adjacent hour. Storm advancement tin beryllium tracked connected the Lock Screen oregon the ‌Dynamic Island‌. You volition beryllium capable to spot upcoming precipitation levels implicit the adjacent 60 minutes.

Lumy ($6.99)

Designed for photographers and those who similar to way the sun, Lumy is an app that lets you cognize the presumption of the prima successful immoderate determination astir the world. It offers up accusation connected sunrise, sunset, archetypal light, past light, aureate hour, bluish hour, moonrise, moonset and more.

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With Live Activities and ‌Dynamic Island‌ integration, Lumy users tin support way of immoderate prima event.

Crouton (Free with In-App Purchases)

Meal readying and look app Crouton uses Live Activities and the ‌Dynamic Island‌ to show look timers and steps for each look truthful users tin travel on with each measurement without having to unfastened up the app.

Other Apps With Live Activities and Dynamic Island Support

  • FotMob - Live shot scores
  • CardPointers - Credit paper reward tracking
  • Just Press Record - Audio signaling tracking
  • Tide Guide - Tracking for existent tide tallness and star oregon lunar altitudes.
  • Structured - Daily Planner - Countdown for absorption timer truthful you cognize however overmuch clip you person left.
  • PosturePal - Keeps way of a posture league connected the Lock Screen, letting you cognize if you tilt your cervix successful a mode that volition interaction back, neck, and enarthrosis health.
  • MoneyCoach - Tracks however overmuch you've spent connected a circumstantial fund category.

Live Activity Requirements

To usage Live Activities, an ‌iPhone‌ moving iOS 16.1 is required. The ‌Dynamic Island‌ constituent requires an ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ oregon ‌iPhone 14 Pro‌ Max.

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