Live Activities

Overview

Live Activities display up-to-date content from your app, such as event and task information on the Lock Screen or in the Dynamic Island. Additionally, Live Activities appear in CarPlay and on a paired Apple Watch or Mac. To create Live Activities, you use WidgetKit together with ActivityKit.

Topics

Essentials

• Developing a WidgetKit strategy
• Creating a widget extension

Live Activity setup

• Displaying live data with Live Activities
• ActivityKit
• Creating a widget extension
• Emoji Rangers: Supporting Live Activities, interactivity, and animations
• ActivityConfiguration
• DynamicIsland
• NSUserActivityTypeLiveActivity
• ActivityPreviewViewKind
• ActivityFamily

See Also

System experiences

• Widgets and watch complications
• Controls