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Work / iOS Live Activities and Liquid Glass

Payments and integrations

The order on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, updated by the server.

PalEat customers watch their order move from the kitchen to the door on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island without opening the app. The backend pushes every status change straight to the activity. Both PalEat and Al Manara adopted iOS 26 Liquid Glass for tab bars and controls, with a fallback on older iPhones.

Client
PalEat, Al Manara
Industry
Mobile
Services
Mobile apps · Product design
Platforms
iOS 16.2+, iOS 26 for Liquid Glass
Year
2024 to now
Where
Palestine

Results

Activity types
2
Update path
server push
iOS 26
Liquid Glass

What it does

What it does, feature by feature

The challenge

Live Activities are only as good as the push behind them. The server has to know every token, refresh its own credentials, and send the right event at the right priority, in Arabic and English.

What we did

Two Live Activity families, food orders and parcels, in one widget bundle. A push client of our own on the backend that sends update and end events, with a silent-push fallback. Liquid Glass applied where it helps, guarded by OS version.

The outcome

Shipped in PalEat. Orders update on the Lock Screen within seconds of the kitchen changing the status.

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