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live activities

  1. J

    Bartender Menu Bar + Live Activities + Unknown Symbol

    I am running macOS 26.1 and Bartender 6.2.1. I have the Sports app on my iPhone (which is running iOS 26.1). I noticed that when the score of a game form the Sports app appears in the macOS menu bar as a Live Activity there is a white square dot in the menu bar to the left of ellipse per the...
  2. MikeMcCollister

    Fitness Live Activities Not Consistent

    I have an iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 18.3.1 and an Apple Watch Series 9 running watchOS 11.3.1. When I initiated an indoor cycle yesterday using my Apple Watch, my iPhone asked if I wanted to have a live activity for that workout and I acknowledged that that I did. That was great! However, just...
  3. T

    More controls for live activities?

    Is there anyway to get more control over live activity behavior?? All I want is a live widget that I can peek at if I want to, I don’t need my whole phone taken over. Specifically, for the Apple Sports app, it is great they have the automatic live activities…but it’s on the lock screen...
  4. H

    Removing the Now Playing Live Activities from iPhone lock screen (18.2)

    It drives me crazy if I’m watching my Apple TV this “live activities” widget appears on my iPhone lockscreen. Any media type displays here, regardless of the device it’s playing on. Is there a way to permanently remove this from my iPhone Lock Screen for media not being played on my iPhone...