How to use Apple Sports on your iPhone

With the Apple Sports app, you get real-time sports scores, schedules, stats, and betting odds. You can customize your scoreboard and quickly sync your favorite teams and leagues with the Apple TV app and Apple News app through My Sports.

Apple Sports is available on iPhone in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Download the Apple Sports app

  1. Update your iPhone to the latest version of iOS.

  2. Open the App Store and search for Apple Sports.

    The App Store preview page for the Apple Sports app.
  3. Tap the Get button.

  4. Double-click the side button on the right side of your iPhone to complete your purchase. If you use Face ID or Touch ID to unlock your device, glance at your device or touch the Home button to authenticate the download. You might need to sign in to your Apple Account to complete the download.

Set up your favorite teams and leagues

After you install the Apple Sports app, you’ll be prompted to set up and sync to My Sports by choosing your favorite teams and leagues. Following your favorite teams and leagues is how you customize your scoreboard.

  1. Select the button in the top-right corner of your screen.

  2. Select Edit, then scroll through the list of teams and leagues, or enter the team or league in the Search field.

    An iPhone with the Apple Sports app with the settings pop-up expanded.
  3. Tap the Favorite buttonthe Favorites button next to the league or team you'd like to follow, then tap Done.

When you add a team, all games for that team appear in the My Teams view. This view shows the final scores, live games, and upcoming games for all of your teams in one place. When you add a league, all games for that league appear in the My Leagues view. This view shows the final scores, live games, and upcoming games for all of your leagues in one place. To navigate to views specific for each supported league, tap the button in the upper-right corner, then tap any league name.

Turn on Sync My Sports

  1. Select the button in the top-right corner of your screen.

  2. Tap the Account button or your photo.

  3. Select Sync My Sports.

  4. Tap Done.

When you add or remove favorites through My Sports, they also update across the News app, Apple TV app, and other supported apps, and across your other Apple devices that are signed in to the same Apple Account.

Turn Live Activities on or off

If you want live scores and plays automatically on your Lock Screen, turn on Live Activities for the teams you follow.

  1. Select the button in the top-right corner of your screen.

  2. Tap the Manage Live Activities button.

  3. Turn Live Activities on or off for each team.

  4. Tap Done.

To change the update rate of Live Activities, go to Settings > Apps > Sports, then tap Live Activities. You can change the update rates, or turn Live Activities on or off.

Turn off betting odds

  1. Open the Settings app.

  2. Go to Apps > Sports.

  3. Select Hide Betting Odds to turn the setting on or off.

    The Sports app settings screen on an iPhone. Hide Betting Odds is turned off.

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