Add Live Activities to your iOS app in 4 steps

Enhance user experience and real-time interactivity with Live Activities on iOS

If you haven’t already incorporated Live Activities into your apps, it’s time you consider their powerful potential.

Live activities constitute a dedicated UI that seamlessly appears on both the lock screen and the dynamic island for compatible iPhones. By leveraging this feature, you can maintain essential interactions with your users even when they navigate away from your app’s main scope.

We can send updates or show live information without the need to send them push notifications. And the best part? It’s incredibly easy to add it.

Here is how to do it.

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We’ll be implementing live activities for the Coffee Demo App from my previous articles. We want a live activity to show the user the current state and progress of their order once it has been placed.

Step 1 — Define our Live Activity content

The very first step is to define what information we want to show in our Live Activity. Given the limited space available, we need to focus on the most important data for our users.