TechSoftwareAppsApple Watch just got a great free update to help you get home safelyUber has significantly improved its Live Activities feedWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechSoftwareAppsApple Watch just got a great free update to help you get home safelyUber has significantly improved its Live Activities feedWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Uber has significantly improved its Live Activities feed
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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Quick SummaryUber has updated its Live Activity feed on Apple Watch, offering more information for your journey.The Uber Live Activity will now show a progress circle icon, as well as a drop off time.
Uber has updated its Live Activity feed on Apple Watch, offering more information for your journey.The Uber Live Activity will now show a progress circle icon, as well as a drop off time.
Uber has updated its Live Activity feed on Apple Watch, offering more information for your journey.The Uber Live Activity will now show a progress circle icon, as well as a drop off time.
Uber has updated its Live Activity feed on Apple Watch, offering more information for your journey.
The Uber Live Activity will now show a progress circle icon, as well as a drop off time.
It’s a big day forAppleusers, with the highly-anticipatediOS18.2 update imminent and bringing several extraApple Intelligence featureslike Image Playground with it. We should also get Apple Intelligence in UK English at last, among several other languages.
But, spare a little thought for some of the extra updates that happen in and around the bigger software releases. Uber, for example, has made its Live Activity onApple Watchsignificantly better over the last few days.
They usually mirror what happens oniPhone, and for Uber, that meant simply showing the Uber logo and the ETA, which is what you see in the compact Live Activity view in the Dynamic Island oniPhone. That’s no longer the case though, with users who take an Uber now seeing a circular progress icon, as well as the exact time you are due to be dropped off at your chosen destination.
As the driver is arriving, the Live Activity on Apple Watch will show an image of the car with the license plate too, so you know what car you should be getting into without having to get your iPhone out of your pocket or bag.
Uber discontinued its native app back in 2022, but this update goes to show that developers can still offer useful features even without a specificApple Watch app.
Your Apple Watch will need to be running the latest version of watchOS 11 and you will also need to have the latest version of the Uber app running on your iPhone for the new Uber Live Activity information to show. You will also need to have an Apple Watch Series 6 or later.
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If you tick all of those boxes however, you can enjoy a much better and richer Uber Live Activity experience on your Applesmartwatch.
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