I have a Live Activity on iOS. Love it.
However, that Live Activity via remote hosting (I'm not building for other targets) shows the Live Activity on watchOS, macOS and CarPlay.
disfavoredLocations are for widgets, but I don't appear to have a method to limit or provide exclusive locations the live activity should appear.
Thank you for your post. I must admit that I am not entirely clear on your question regarding creating a Live Activity for a remote hosting environment. I believe I may have misunderstood your inquiry. Could you please provide me with additional details to clarify your objectives? As currently, Live Activities are designed primarily for iOS devices, and they appear on the Lock Screen and Control Center.
December 16, 2025 Updated guidance for all platforms, and added guidance for macOS and CarPlay. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/live-activities/
If you want to bring Live Activities to Apple Watch:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2024/10068/
Including the documentation for the live activities guide. The widget configuration api to position a widget: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swiftui/widgetconfiguration/disfavoredlocations(_:for:)
Thanks,
Albert Pascual Worldwide Developer Relations.
Albert, thanks for the reply.
Remote hosted Live Activities I believe is a iOS 26.x system feature → No developer adoption.
My steps:
Preparation: Make sure iPhone and Mac (and/or Watch) are signed in with the same AppleID
New iOS Project
New Widget target, using standard template (In the new target UI also check that you want the live activity)
Build and run to a physical iPhone
Notice Live Activity exists on iPhone, Mac and Apple Watch
[Example: From macOS, iOS Live Activity appears]
In this case, I haven't built for any other platforms at all. I believe this is a feature, but I'm attempting to understand what I need to do to make it stop showing up in places that don't make sense for this app.
Just made a simple project using the Xcode templates provided, then start the live activity on app launch.
https://github.com/ioloro/LiveActivityWillTravel
Thanks,
John Marc
Turns out this is not a feature at this time. Filed a Radar: FB21986015
[@John Marc](https://developer.apple.com/forums/profile/John Marc) Thanks, yes, where from Apple did you got the documentation about Remote hosted Live Activities we got your FB number. This is an enhancement request? Thanks!
Albert Pascual Worldwide Developer Relations.
