This Is the Best, Most Anxiety-Inducing Way to Track Election Results on Your iPhone

For folks who privation to enactment connected to the elections each infinitesimal of the day, Apple News is rolling retired a caller diagnostic precocious Tuesday (via Apple Insider). It’s integrating the Live Activities diagnostic for predetermination results, truthful users volition beryllium capable to spot the electoral number for each campaigner alteration successful existent clip connected their iPhones. This volition amusement up connected the Dynamic Island and arsenic a unrecorded widget connected your fastener screen.

To alteration Live Activity for the elections, caput to Settings connected your iPhone, scroll down to Face ID & Passcode, participate your passcode, and scroll down to Live Activities. Enable the toggle if it isn’t already. Then, unfastened the Apple News app and prime the “Follow the 2024 predetermination live” enactment connected the location page. You tin cheque nether Top Stories oregon caput to the paper to look for “Election 2024 Special Coverage” if it’s not there. Once you pat connected that, you’ll beryllium notified that Live Activity is enabled. If you privation to intermission oregon disable it, click connected the banner again successful Apple News.

Note that you’d need an iPhone 14 Pro oregon aboriginal to bask the afloat Dynamic Island experience, arsenic older iPhones don’t athletics the feature. But if you’re connected an older generation, you’ll inactive beryllium capable to spot the unrecorded widget connected your fastener screen. Apple Watch users tin besides way predetermination results successful real-time with the widget displaying unrecorded enactment connected their wrists, arsenic agelong arsenic the Watch runs watchOS 11.

Alternative ways of tracking predetermination results see downloading definite apps connected your iPhone. While that’ll get the occupation done, it requires somewhat much effort to instal the app and past look retired for propulsion notifications from it or, successful immoderate cases, unfastened the app to person the latest updates.

The Dynamic Island makes overmuch much consciousness for an enactment similar this. It’ll let you to show the results adjacent erstwhile scrolling done Instagram. Apple has antecedently utilized Dynamic Island for activities specified arsenic sports and music, but predetermination results are interesting. Some people, specified arsenic my coworker, mightiness find this highly anxiety-inducing, but you can, of course, ever crook it disconnected oregon instrumentality a break.

It’s communal for apps to introduce limited-time, peculiar election-focused features oregon offers. Uber, for instance, is offering discounted rides to polling stations today. You tin get 50% disconnected up to $10. Lyft is offering a similar discount connected rideshare, bike-share, and scooters.