Captivate your users with Live Activities

Get in front of users with Live Activities on their lock screens—even when your app isn’t open—available on iOS. Launch quickly with OneSignal’s API and SDK support for push-to-start Live Activities.

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Get your brand on the lock screen

Stay at your users’ fingertips with Live Activities, real-time, at-a-glance app experiences visible on their iPhone lock screens and Dynamic Islands for up to 8 hours. Live Activities remain visible even in Focus and Do Not Disturb modes—meaning you won’t lose your users’ attention.

From our State of Customer Engagement report, apps that use iOS Live Activities have 23.7% higher average 30-day retention rates.

Live Activities use cases

Delivery & rideshare

Track order status and see when the driver is near

Sports

Broadcast live, in-game scores and key plays, countdown to a game

Fintech & crypto

Follow gas fees, exchange rates, and stock prices, show trade and wallet updates

Fitness

Follow a group workout feed and leaderboard

Gaming

Share live events, challenges, and leaderboards

Travel

Track flight, train, or subway statuses and progress

Watch our Live Activities walkthrough

Discover why Live Activities go beyond traditional push notifications to boost user engagement. Learn how to create a sticky user experience unique to your app.

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Build customer loyalty with delightful app experiences

Become one of your users’ favorite apps by making it easy for them to follow the things they care about—broadcast game scores, give users a play-by-play of their delivery, and more. Sustain engagement over time by presenting real-time updates in a cohesive and personalized way, rather than sending a series of static messages.

Realize results faster and save developer time

Building Live Activities from scratch requires months of development by a team of engineers. Instead of building your own solution, leverage our prebuilt tools to implement Live Activities for iOS devices in a matter of hours. Plus, always stay ahead of future industry changes, thanks to our teams’ ongoing releases.

Speed, scale, and reliability in an easy-to-use API

Save dev time without compromising on speed with OneSignal’s battle-tested API. Our industry-leading throughput will handle the real-time delivery for you. Every day we help over 1 million global customers deliver billions of messages at just the right time, all with over 99.95% uptime.

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