Overview of Live Activities for the Yahoo Fantasy app on iOS

Live Activities allow you to view real-time, live updates for your team's matchup on your device's Lock Screen or Dynamic Island. Live Activities can be enabled for up to 5 matchups at one time and the order of your matchups is determined by your iOS system. The order is based on relevance and the most relevant activity is displayed on top. Live Activities are currently only available for Head-to-head Points leagues using the Yahoo Fantasy app on iOS. You'll need app version 10.51.5 or later and iOS version 16.2 or later to use them.

Turn Live Activities on or off for a matchup

To see the Live Activities option for your matchups, make sure you have Live Activities toggled to on in the Yahoo Fantasy app's settings.

  1. From the Yahoo Fantasy app, tap the team you'd like to enable Live Activities for.
  2. Tap Matchup.
  3. Tap Start Live Activities at the top right to turn them on or tap End Live Activities to turn them off.
    • Depending on your league's settings, you may need to scroll in the header of your matchup to see either option.
    • You can also swipe left on the Live Activity on your device's lock screen and tap "Clear All" to turn it off at any point.
  4. If you're enabling Live Activities for the first time, your iOS device will prompt you to tap Allow on the Lock Screen.

Turn Auto-start for Live Activities on or off

Auto-start will automatically launch a Live Activity for any matchups you've previously enabled it for.

  1. From the Yahoo Fantasy app, tap the Settings icon Image of the Settings Icon at the top left.
  2. Tap Settings.
  3. Toggle Auto-start Live Activities on Image of the 'toggle settings on' icon. or off Image of the 'toggle settings off' icon..