New Value Live Activity for Your Lock Screen

Live Activities now support a new activity type: value.

Use value to track a single number on your Lock Screen, such as revenue or temperature. The value appears in large text with a title above it.

Start a Value Live Activity

Use the same managed stream endpoint as other Live Activity types. Send type: "value" with a title and value.

The value field accepts a number such as 42, or a formatted string such as $1,240 or 23.50°C. Strings keep the formatting you supply, including decimal places and leading zeros.

Add an optional icon, badge, or subtitle to give the value context.

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await activitysmith.liveActivities.stream("revenue-today", {
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  content_state: ActivitySmith.contentState({
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    title: "Revenue",
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    type: "value",
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    value: "$1,240",
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    color: "green",
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    icon: ActivitySmith.alertIcon("dollarsign.circle", { color: "green" }),
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    badge: ActivitySmith.alertBadge("↑ 18%", { color: "purple" }),
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  }),
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});

Call the same PUT /live-activity/stream/{stream_key} endpoint again whenever the value changes. ActivitySmith updates the Live Activity on paired devices.

When you no longer need to track the value, call DELETE /live-activity/stream/{stream_key} to end the Live Activity.

Add an Action Button

Value Live Activities can include optional action buttons, like other Live Activity types. Use them to open a related page, run an Apple Shortcut, or trigger a webhook.

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await activitysmith.liveActivities.stream("revenue-today", {
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  content_state: {
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    title: "Revenue",
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    type: "value",
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    value: "$1,240",
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    color: "green",
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  },
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  action: {
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    title: "View Dashboard",
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    type: "open_url",
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    url: "https://example.com/dashboard",
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  },
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});

Other Notable Additions

Three new app icons

Choose from three new app icons: Black, White, and Inverted Default. Open Settings → App Icon in the ActivitySmith iOS app to change yours.

Open apps from Push Notifications

Push Notification redirection and actions now support app deep links. Tap a notification or an action button to open an installed app or specific content within it.

• Spotify: Open a track with spotify:track:6rqhFgbbKwnb9MLmUQDhG6.
• Claude: Open the Code tab with claude://code, or a specific session with claude://code/SESSION_ID.
• Termius: Open the app with termius://.

Availability

Available across the API, SDKs, CLI, and MCP server.

This feature is available in the ActivitySmith iOS app version 1.15.0 and newer.