I want to make a app that indicates that the app is recording in the background using a indicator on the dynamic island or on the top of the phone screen but i can't figure it out on Xcode. Saw a guy do it by making live activities true but can't seem to find that option in background mode in capabilities. any ideas?
Dynamic island on a ios app
You don't need any special "capabilities", you only need WidgetKit. "Live Activities" are part of the WidgetKit. So use it to create a Widget Extension in which you would then implement the widget for the "live activity". Basically the WidgetConfiguration decides whether the widget is a live activity or a normal widget.
Within your App you need to use the "ActivityKit" to communicate with the live activity widget (activate the live activity, tell it which data it should show etc)