Apple Sports’ new iOS widget sadly doesn’t work in CarPlay

Screenshots of Apple Sports showing tennis scores.

Now that iOS 26 is retired I’ve been eagerly waiting to spot if Apple would update its Sports app with a widget I could usage successful my car. The bully quality is that Apple Sports now has an iOS widget that tin beryllium utilized connected your homescreen. The atrocious quality is that you can’t usage it successful iOS 26’s caller CarPlay widgets feature.

The Apple Sports widget shows upcoming fixtures for your favourite teams, oregon unrecorded scores if your squad is presently playing a game. It’s present 1 of the lone escaped sports apps connected iOS that incorporates each of Apple’s latest features, including Live Activities enactment for seeing scores connected your lockscreen oregon successful CarPlay, without ads getting successful the way.

I was truly hoping Apple would marque its widget enactment connected the caller iOS 26 CarPlay widgets panel, peculiarly due to the fact that Apple Sports supports a wide assortment of sports and not conscionable soccer. While I could usage iOS 26’s caller Live Activities diagnostic successful CarPlay, it’s lone disposable successful the CarPlay Dashboard, and not wrong the caller widgets panel.

The caller widgets sheet is large homescreen-like interface for CarPlay, and it’s acold little cluttered than the emblematic dashboard UI. I could besides usage third-party apps similar FotMob, but that’s constricted to conscionable shot erstwhile I privation to spot tennis, Formula 1, and different sports arsenic good arsenic the NFL and soccer.

Alongside the caller widget, Apple Sports is besides getting much shot with the summation of leagues including the Bundesliga 2, Ligue 2, Primeira Liga, Segunda División, and Serie B; different teams and leagues person besides been added from Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain.

If you person immoderate bully recommendations for sports apps connected iOS that enactment Live Activities and CarPlay widgets, delight respond successful the comments section. I’m besides looking retired for immoderate different absorbing CarPlay widgets that are disposable acknowledgment to iOS 26.