{"id":355866,"date":"2026-03-30T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355866\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T22:41:10","slug":"ios-26-5-adds-live-activities-support-for-third-party-accessories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355866\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.5 adds Live Activities support for third-party accessories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/live-activity-third-party.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple is working on support for Live Activities in third-party accessories with iOS 26.5 in Europe, according to new code seen by 9to5Mac. Here are the details.<\/p>\n<p>iOS 26.5 is shaping up to be a busier point update than usual<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, we reported that the system includes a new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/30\/ios-26-5-adds-new-apple-maps-feature-for-trending-places\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Suggested Places<\/a>\u201d feature on Apple Maps, and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/30\/ios-26-5-might-add-new-in-app-options-for-subscriptions\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new App Store options for in-app subscriptions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, we can confirm that Apple is working on introducing support for Live Activities in third-party accessories.<\/p>\n<p>Based on new code introduced in iOS 26.5 beta 1, Apple will release a framework called AccessoryLiveActivities, which will allow accessories to receive and display Live Activities from an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Like the notification forwarding feature, this will only be available to users in the European Union, as part of Apple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/03\/19\/eu-order-apple-interoperability\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">compliance with the EU\u2019s Digital Markets Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To enable the feature, users will be prompted to grant an accessory permission to receive Live Activities from their iPhone. The system will present an authorization dialog explaining that Live Activities may include \u201capp names and app content, which may contain personal information such as your health data, location data, and purchasing history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"682\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/live-activities-setup.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1045824\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>From there, users will be able to choose which apps will be allowed to share Live Activities with the accessory, or grant full access, which the company warns will apply to all current and future apps installed on the device.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not yet published documentation or announced the feature publicly. While it\u2019s unclear which accessories will support it, those that adopted notification forwarding may be among the first.<\/p>\n<p>Worth checking out on Amazon<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767635228_26_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767635229_987_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4rDvqMk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1044137\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774910470_692_750x150-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is working on support for Live Activities in third-party accessories with iOS 26.5 in Europe, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-355866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}