How to Use Apple Sports on Your iPhone

Key Takeaways

• The Apple Sports app offers real-time stats, scores, and betting odds for top sports leagues.
• Apple Sports is only available on iPhones running iOS 17.2 or later. It’s also limited to users in the US, UK, and Canada.
• Apple plans to add more leagues to the app over time.

Are you a die-hard sports fan looking for a convenient way to track your favorite sports leagues and teams? Apple’s Sports app has a minimalist interface to show real-time scores, stats, and betting odds. Here’s all you need to know about using Apple Sports.

What Can You Do With the Apple Sports App?

Apple introduced the Apple Sports app on February 21, 2024, to help iPhone users easily keep up with the scores and stats of their favorite leagues and teams. You can follow your favorite teams and leagues, check scores and team stats in real time, and view live betting odds, injury reports, lineup details, and their schedules.

The app displays real-time scores and stats for a few of the top sports leagues in the world, including MLS, NBA, NHL, Ligue 1, La Liga, Bundesliga, and more. While Apple Sports only supports limited leagues for now, Apple’s announcement revealed that it plans to add more leagues, like MLB, NFL, and WNBA, for their upcoming seasons.

As of February 2024, the Apple Sports app is only available in three regions—the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.

Getting Started With the Apple Sports App on an iPhone

To download the Apple Sports app, your iPhone must be running iOS 17.2 or later. If not, you can update your iPhone by heading to Settings > General > Software Update. Once you’re all set, you can download it from the App Store.

Download:Apple Sports (Free)

Launch the app after installation and tap Continue when you see the welcome page. To begin seeing real-time scores and stats, you’ll need to choose your desired leagues and teams.

Tap Get Started and tap the Favorite button next to the league you want to follow. To follow a team, choose a league and tap the Favorite (star) icon next to the one you want to follow. Tap Done once you’re happy with the selection.

If you’d like to follow a league or team later on, all you need to do is tap the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner, tap Manage, and repeat the steps above.

To view live and upcoming games and final stats and scores for all your teams in one place, tap the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner of the screen and tap My Teams. Similarly, you can view the same information for your favorite leagues by tapping My Leagues instead. If you’d like to find information about a specific league that’s not in your favorites, choose one from the list in the same menu.

If you use other Apple apps like Apple News and Apple TV, Apple Sports will sync data like your favorite teams, leagues, and athletes across these apps. However, if you’d like to disable this feature, tap the three horizontal lines and select your profile icon in the top-right corner. Then, toggle off Sync My Sports.

While Apple Sports does display a match’s betting odds by default, you can turn them off if you don’t find them useful. Strangely, you can’t disable betting odds directly from the Apple Sports app. Instead, you need to head to the Settings app on your iPhone, scroll to the Sports app, and toggle on Hide Betting Odds.

While you can find several great sports news apps on the App Store, Apple Sports sets itself apart with its clean and minimalist interface. Unfortunately, Apple Sports’s availability is currently limited to iPhone users. So, if you want to keep up with your favorite teams and league stats on your Mac or iPad, you’ll have to resort to third-party apps for now.