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Apple has announced that iOS 16 will not have Live Activities at launch and instead the new lock screen display of sports and music details will come later.
One of Apple’s announced updates to the iPhone Lock screen in iOS 16 is Live Activities, a widget that allows users to update information. For example, instead of a new notification every time a football team scores, it will show a single notification with scores updated live.
The feature and its new associated API, ActivityKit, is present in the latest developer betabut it won’t ship to the public with the rest of iOS 16.
“Please note that Live Activities and ActivityKit will not be included in the first public release of iOS 16,” Apple said in a developer news update. “Later this year they will be publicly available in an update and you will be able to submit your Live Activities apps to the App Store.”
This is far from the first iOS 16 feature that Apple has delayed beyond launch. At WWDC 2022 it gave a sneak preview from Freeform, a collaboration brainstorming app that won’t be released until the end of this year.