Live NRL scores on Android with Live Updates
Lock-screen live scores used to be an iPhone thing. Android 16 changed that with Live Updates - a purpose-built way for apps to pin a live, progressing event to your lock screen and status bar. Footy is exactly what it was made for.
What Live Updates are
A Live Update is a special class of Android notification for things that are happening right now and changing as they go - a delivery on its way, a ride arriving, or a footy match. Compared with ordinary notifications, a Live Update:
- Is designed to stay visible as one ongoing notification for the life of the event, subject to Android's promotion and notification settings.
- Can show as a status-bar chip - a compact live element that supported devices can promote for access from another screen.
- Updates in place, silently. The score changes; your phone doesn't buzz forty times a game.
You'll need a phone running Android 16 or later. Live Updates arrive as part of the OS, so availability depends on your phone maker's rollout schedule rather than any app setting.
Setting up NRL scores as Live Updates
Six Again for Android supports Live Updates for every NRL and State of Origin match:
- Install Six Again from Google Play (Android 16+).
- Follow your teams once - no account needed.
- For an eligible followed match, the Live Update can start shortly before kick-off and stay until full time when lock-screen scores are enabled. Or follow an individual match with a tap.
Everything else comes along too
The Android app is the full Six Again experience, not a port: the live ladder with the No Byes view, the complete season draw, score worm, scoring timeline, player stats, lineups and Avoid Spoilers mode. And like everywhere else in Six Again, there are no betting odds and no gambling ads.
Lock-screen live scores are free for your first 3 matches, then need Six Again Premium at $9.99/year (AUD/NZD; other currencies vary). In-app live scores, the ladder and the draw stay free.
Footy on your Android lock screen
Live Updates for every NRL and Origin match, with auto-start available for eligible followed matches.
