One of the most visible changes iPhone 18 Pro a 18 Pro Max is reduced Dynamic Island, thanks to which he can iOS 27 show up to three Live Activities at the same time. In previous generations, it was maxI have a confluence of two activities, so Apple When introducing the new feature, he presented this change as another way to keep track of more things at once. However, as it turns out, there is one rather fundamental catch to the functionality. The third position cannot be used by any application.
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He pointed out the limitations leaker and the pdf code explorer that has been pulling out of the bowels of the software in recent weeks Applu one interesting thing after another. According to his findings, the third Live Activity in Dynamic Islandu na iPhone 18 Pro come only from the system, which in other words means that it can be, for example, the music currently playing via Now Playing or navigation, but not a third Live Activity created by another third-party application.
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Three yes, but not quite as you imagined
In practice, this means that if you have, for example, simultaneously running Live Activities two third-party applications, another similar activity already in Dynamic Islandu simply won't get it. The third place is only used if a supported system activity is added to them. So if you are after the introduction iPhone 18 Pro expected you to be able to Dynamic Islandto monitor, for example, the progress of three different events from three applications, iOS 27 won't allow you to do that, at least for now.
Apple while at the September performance iPhone 18 Pro actually promoted support for up to three Live Activities at once, but he did not explain in more detail at the time what rules apply for combining them. That is why many users only noticed the limitation now, when even after several weeks of use they were unable to combine three third-party application activities in Dynamic Islandto display.
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Whether this is just a current software limitation iOS 27 which Apple It is not yet clear whether it will remove the third position in the future or whether it wants to reserve it for the system in the long term. In any case, the new hardware Dynamic Island offers space for three activities. You just can't use it as freely as the presentation suggests. Applu might seem. However, I personally think that this limitation is not really a problem. I myself have three Live Activities or if you want live activities, I actually only used it when I tested the feature for the review iPhone 18 ProBut the real use of such a gadget is quite small in my opinion.
