iOS 16.1 introduced “Live Activities” - a new way to have information handy on your Lock Screen and the Dynamic Island on your iPhone.
Drafts’ Live Activity support gives you a way to pin an active draft when you are working on a longer project, have an active scratchpad for research, a list you are checking things off on while shopping. It’s a handy way to return to Drafts with a specific draft selected from your Lock Screen, or other apps.
This video walks you through creating and using Live Activities.
A few details:
A Live Activity is automatically created when you enter pinned mode.
You can also tap and hold on the pin button for options, and manually create Live Activities for one or more drafts.
On iOS 6.2 public beta and App Store Drafts pinning doesn’t seem to start a live activity. Start Live Activity does. Could there be latency involved in the former case?
And can I pin the latest draft? Perhaps with automation?
The live activity feature is fantastic, thanks! Down the road, can you possibly allow a user to immediately pin a newly created draft when using the share menu?
I would think the way to handle that would be to use the “Open” button in the Share/Capture window to open the draft you are capturing in Drafts, where you can easily pin it, if desired.
After I pinned one draft, I moved to the next. The pin icon, for the second draft, is still marked as pinned although that second draft does not appear in Live Activities. I feel that the second draft should not have shown a solid pin icon. Is this what you are all seeing (iOS)
Hope all is well; did we ever come to a solution to this; I would like my import drafts; house hold list/ grocery list to automatically open every morning.
Not sure exactly what you are asking, but Live Activities are full scriptable and there are Shortcuts actions to start and stop them if you are trying to setup some automation.
