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Apple Sports, UFC notifications and spoilers: what to use instead
Score apps are built to tell you who won. If you watch fights late or the next day, here is how to get alerts before each segment without ever seeing a result.
The problem with score alerts
Score apps, Apple Sports among them, are built to tell you what happened as it happens. Live Activities keep updating on the lock screen and can show up even in a Focus mode. That is great if you are watching live, and a spoiler if you are not.
Turn the spoilers off
In Settings, open the app, and turn off Allow Live Activities. Then in Settings, Notifications, turn off the app's alerts for fight nights. Your scores stay in the app for when you go looking.
Get alerts before, not after
What most fight fans want is the opposite: a nudge before the prelims and before the main card, and nothing after. The Fightday iPhone app does that for free, with alerts before each segment, start times in your own time zone and the broadcaster for your country. Results stay hidden until you tap to reveal them.
Fight alarm apps
Some alarm apps put the alerts behind a subscription. Fightday's alerts are free, and the calendar feed is free for anyone, on any phone.