India, June 16 -- Apple introduced the live activities feature a few years ago, and it serves an intuitive way to get access to important information from apps in snippet size pieces on iPhone. For instance, it could show how long it will take for your Uber driver to arrive, the status of your Zomato order, or the current score of your favourite sports team.

Over time, it has expanded to even more platforms, including WatchOS, but now, with iPadOS 26 and macOS 26, the same functionality will be available on Apple's other platforms as well.

Apple notes that by taking advantage of Apple Silicon, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 unlock the ability to perform computationally intensive background tasks. When users start a long-running process in an ap...