Ahead of the NFL and school soccer (NCAAF) seasons, Apple introduced updates for its sports-focused app, together with Live Activities for all leagues, a brand new “dynamic drive tracker” that visualizes the place the ball is on the sphere and assist for play-by-play of soccer video games.
Launched in February, Apple Sports is a free iOS app for sports activities followers that gives real-time updates, scores and all of the stats they should keep updated with the 15 hottest leagues, together with NCAA basketball, MLS, MLB, NBA, WNBA, NHL, Premier League and others.
Apple extra not too long ago added assist for the NFL and NCAAF earlier than their seasons begins.
The most notable new characteristic is Live Activities, which is able to arrive alongside iOS 18 and watchOS 11 this fall.
Live Activities on the Sports app offers customers the power to rapidly look at dwell scores on their lock screens whereas additionally by no means lacking a play-by-play. Currently, followers get Live Activities for video games by way of the Apple TV app. Once iOS 18 rolls out, these will routinely carry over to the Sports app.
The dynamic drive tracker is one other useful addition to the Sports app because it lets soccer followers simply observe alongside and see precisely the place the ball is on the sphere at any time. Similar to different leagues, NFL and school soccer followers will even see betting odds, which replace all through the sport.
Apple additionally improved dwell play-by-play to assist soccer followers observe all of the motion. This features a filtered view particularly designed to focus on scoring drives, guaranteeing that followers by no means miss out on crucial moments of the sport.
Additionally, the corporate introduced that the Sports app will obtain an replace later this yr, introducing a brand new drop-down navigation for the principle scorecard views and enhanced search performance. Apple additionally talked about that extra leagues might be added quickly, beginning with the Champions League and Europa League through the league section in September.
Apple Sports is obtainable within the U.S., the U.Ok. and Canada.
