United Airlines Adds Live Activities and Dynamic Island Support for Flight Tracking

[beanbaguk]

Also to add, "App in the Air" has been doing this for over a month now. It works on all airlines....

 

[vladi]

Love this! Glad more apps are finally starting to utilize the dynamic island. It has so much potential

What potential? It's a drawback they try to put bandaid on and hope to start a trend show me your bandaid design.

 

[WWPD]

What potential? It's a drawback they try to put bandaid on and hope to start a trend show me your bandaid design.

Correct. As soon as Apple can get rid of the Dynamic Island, they will. It will be Dynamic Atlantis, sunk under the ocean. At least they are making that dead space somewhat useful in the meantime.

 

[Youth in Asia]

Just waiting for British Airways.

 

[alchemistmuffin]

Can confirm this is working. In fact, typing this while in flight. Very handy feature to have. Especially the countdown feature to tell me how long I have before they start boarding, and how long I have left on my flight. (Images edited to censored out some details)

Now if they would fix their inflight catering from stateside. (Meals on Polaris is just economy unfortunately, not worth getting the upgrade at all. And for this flight, flight completely full so couldn’t upgrade with my status regardless)

 

[k20dub]

Had this for my flight the other day. It popped up on its own and was very convenient to quickly glance down at my phone and see how much longer we had before boarding, as well as a reminder of what gate we were. Obviously these are small conveniences, but they all add up to a more efficient way to use our phones.

 

[lindros2]

Did not work for me on a flight today. Driving me nuts.
Using Flighty instead.

 

[Bsj80]

It’s working on iPhone 13 Pro with the latest public beta… Edit only after checking in…

 

[videodane]

I'm not aware of an IATA Designator of "NHCN" - wonder if its for UA devs to test app? Airline equivalent of 555 area code?

Nope, not a designator like 555, NHCN is definitely the start of a confirmation code you could be assigned.

 

[Jdalbo]

Just use Flighty.. does all that and more

Thanks United. Does work well. And Flighty is the best. Get the Pro worth it if you fly for business.

 

[sjsharksfan12]

Only if Southwest was a good airline to fly with

I just took Southwest a lot in the last few weeks and they were fine.

 

[lindros2]

Flighty works whether you're the traveler or not.
When tracking a family member (i.e. my mother or daughter), it does not work. "Track this flight" does not trigger a live action.

 

[_Spinn_]

This is great! Glad to see more support for Live Activities.

 

[darthbane2k]

Just use Flighty.. does all that and more

Flighty charge a subscription for this.

 

[iGeneo]

Flighty charge a subscription for this.

Go big or go home

 

[Gorilla'sMom]

Worked great…until it didn’t 😭. We were on a connecting flight. On my iphone 14 Pro Max, showed up on Dynamic Island and Live Activities for first flight, but not for second one a few hours later. However, Live Activities showed up on my spouse’s iPhone 11 for the 2nd flight. Have tried rebooting and a few other things but won’t work. Definitely needs some tweaking.

 

[acousticbiker]

Does the live activity start automatically a certain number of hours before takeoff or based on location at the airport or does it need to be triggered/launched manually?