Live soccer scores on the iPhone Lock Screen.

Notifications versus Live Activities

Push notifications interrupt: buzz, banner, gone. For a moving match they're the wrong tool — you'd need one per goal, card and period, and you'd still miss the state in between.

A Live Activity is different. It sits on the Lock Screen with the current score and match clock, and updates in place as the game moves. ScoreShare uses Live Activities for exactly this: the scorekeeper sees the match at a glance with the phone locked, and followers of a shared game can pin it too.

From kickoff countdown to final score

One match, one Live Activity, four moments:

Before kickoff — the countdown to the planned start, so nobody asks whether the game has begun.

During play — the score and the running period clock, updated as the scorekeeper records events.

Halftime — the break is visible as a break, not as a mysteriously frozen clock.

Full-time — the final score stays on the Lock Screen; no unlocking to check how it ended.

Who gets this?

Both sides of the match. The person keeping score and running the clock gets a glanceable scoreboard with the phone locked. And people following the shared game on their own iPhone can keep the same live view on their Lock Screen, wherever they are.