As the tournament kicks off, fans around the world can be informed about statistics, results, and everything about their favourite teams on all their Apple devices.
Football fans can follow the World Cup on Apple devices and services
Siri adds football information for Brazil, Russia, Denmark, Finland, Malaysia, Turkey, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Israel, in addition to the 26 countries for which Siri already provides sports information. Siri users can ask for results, timetables, line-ups and how the ranking is going.
The user can ask Siri questions like these:
When does France play against Australia?
Which teams participate in the World Cup?
What players are in the English national team?
Who won the football match between Argentina and Iceland?
Throughout the month, App Store editors will choose their favourite apps and soccer games and give tips on how to take a perfect picture during a game and how to keep up to date with everything that’s happening in the world of soccer on social networks. In addition, the App Store will include apps and games related to football for fans to enjoy the tournament to the fullest, such as the official apps of TV channels such as FOX NOW or BBC Sport and games such as FIFA Mobile and PES 2018.
The Apple TV app for iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV brings together all your favourite series and movies. In the USA and Canada, where sports facilities are available, users of the Apple TV app will be able to keep up to date with everything that happens in the World Cup thanks to FOX NOW in the USA; and on TSN and RDS, Bell Media’s French and English language apps for Canada. Fans can choose their favourite teams and watch their matches on Up Next or receive notifications on their Apple devices when their teams are playing or about to play.
The News app makes it very easy to follow everything that happens in the tournament with updated results and schedules, a table of the qualifying crosses and profiles of the main players in the tournament, information provided by the publication Eight by Eight. News users will be able to keep up to date with everything that happens from a single site that brings together the most rigorous sources.
Apple Music will include playlists for each of the 32 participating selections with the most fashionable artists chosen by publishers in each country.
Apple podcasts will include a selection of content called “The Beautiful Game” where users can listen to podcasts such as “Game of our Lives” by Jetty or “We Came to Win” by Gimlet, which talks about the best moments of football, as well as sports podcasts set as “Men in Blazers”.
The iBooks collection will also be called “The Beautiful Game”, and will review the interesting history surrounding the world’s greatest sporting event, looking at the teams that won despite the difficulties, the heroes of each selection and the most exciting finals in history in the form of memoirs, biographies and essay books.
Fans can show their love for the ball by creating videos using the app Clips with new soccer-themed graphics, such as animated stickers, labels, and customizable text posters.