Your iPhone can display real-time data right on the lock screen. Check out this list to see if your favorite apps have added support for this new Apple feature in iOS 16.
Real-time information on the lock screen
Live Activity is a new iPhone feature in iOS 16.1 that helps you stay up to date with what’s happening in real time without even opening the app. You simply view the current data displayed at the bottom of the lock screen or on a dynamic island. This could be sports scores as they become available, arrival/delivery updates, etc.
But do your favorite apps support displaying real-time data on the lock screen?
List of apps that support the Live Activity feature in iOS 16.
Enthusiasts on Reddit have compiled the following list of iPhone apps that support the new Live Activity feature available on all iPhones with iOS 16.1 and Dynamic Island on the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max:
- Time is over! – visual timer
- Structured – visual planner
- Sticky Timers and Countdowns – multiple timers and countdowns
- Mango Baby – baby stuff tracker
- Coach – exercises in the gym
- Crouton meal planner and recipe book
- Sur – music player
- LookUp, a visual dictionary of the English language
- Bolt – workout planner
- Dark Noise – sounds of rain, birds, etc.
- Coffee Book – coffee tracker
- Passwords – password manager
- Flighty – flight tracker
- Forest – focus timer
- Booby Track – breastfeeding tracker
- Pestle – recipe organizer
- Paddle Logger for Water Sports – Water Sports
- Real Tasks – Kanban and To Do List
- MD Clock – clock widget
- Money Coach – Budgeting
- Focus – time management
- OffScreen – limit screen time
- FITIV – heart rate monitor
- One Widget – lock screen widget
- Fat Burn Tracker
- Carrot Weather – weather (paid version only)
- Slopes – ski and snowboard tracker
- Grocery – grocery list
- GoodTask – task manager
- Lumy – solar tracker
- PhotMob – football results
- Calzi – Calculator
- Streaks – habit tracker
- Shelf – Lock Screen Widgets
- Pi-hole Remote
- Wolt Delivery – food delivery
- FotMob – football results tracker
- Timelogger Plus – time tracking
- Liftin’ Workout Tracker
- Planny – task manager and scheduler
- Just click “Record”- to record
- Timery – time tracker (coming soon)
- smart gym
- Endel
- Thuisbezorgd / Just Eat – food delivery
- Rippple for Trakt – TV/movie tracker
- Crumbl Cookies – cookie delivery
- Subjects – student planner
- Launch lock
- Alpenglow Sunset Forecast
- Aviary 2
- TikTik
We’ll update this list as we discover more quality apps that have been updated to show real-time data on the lock screen and Dynamic Island.
How do you like live action in iOS 16?
Other apps will add support for live action on the lock screen and Dynamic Island over time. Apple has provided developers with an official Live Activity API so they can implement this feature in their own apps.
For example, the Starbucks and Lyft apps will be able to receive delivery order updates as active actions. Read: How to unsend iMessage on iPhone, iPad and Mac
You might not know this, but the Now Playing control in iOS 16 is also a live activity. In fact, you can expand “Now Playing”to fill the entire lock screen by tapping on the little album cover (tap it again to return to the default view).