Live Activities use the iPhone 14 Pro’s always-on display to show live updates from your apps.
What’s starting to be obvious is that Live Activities is a pretty great feature.
Flighty is a flight-tracking app.
Flighty
You put in your booking, and it takes care of everything from then on.
But Flighty’s best feature is its design.
Live Activities
The iPhone 14 Pros always-on display was not as well-received as one might have expected.
Flighty
Apple has toned this down in subsequent betas, which may prompt some users to switch it back on.
But despite this annoying Christmas-tree of a Lock Screen, Live Activities is still rad.
I can imagine having my shopping list show up when Im in a store, for example.
Flighty
Lets take another example from Flighty (now youre seeing why we picked it for this article).
Most flight-tracking apps stop updating when you’re in the air.
The phones GPS should work, because it requires no data pipe connection, but maps do.
A screenshot of a tweet by Ryan Jones.
And so do flight status updates, like the estimated time of arrival, etc.
But Flighty manages to update you even without the internet.
According toRyan Jones, CEO of Flighty, Live Activities uses the iMessage protocol for updates.
And some airlines let you connect to a messaging-only wifi service.
Its ingenious and gets us quite excited about the future of Live Activities.
The one downside is that Live Activities only work on the iPhone 14 Pro.
Is it worth the upgrade alone?
If onlyyou could buy one.
